Blog #10

1. Our documentary is going okay..We have got all the filming done, started editing and it looks pretty good. The fact that it has to be done on Monday kinda freaks me out. Since Julias group also uses the same editing room as we do, the have reserved it for the days we wanted..So we basically only have Thursday after school and Sunday..I really wish we could have Friday and Saturday...hmm so this will be interesting! I hope it will turn out good! Cross your fingers and wish us luck, we'll need it!

2. "They'll Say, "She Must Be from Another Country" " By: Imtiaz Dharker

With this reading  it sounds like this girl is quite different from all the other people where she lives. The people sounds really conservatives and seems like they think that everything she does that is different is wrong. To me they seem quite parochial, and this girl really differs from them. When they say "She must be from another county" I feel it's like an insult. She just doesn't follow the societies norms. I can kinda relate some to this girl. Cause I'm foreign the norms differs from places, counties, countries etc. Some everyday sayings or acting are really different from here and home. But it's all about adjustments.Try to adjust to the culture, learn from it, take up some good norms and not take up the norms and traditions that are not as great. It's all about taking the best from both worlds, right?

Blog #9

1. Finally our filming is all done! We went to Jazz 88 station, got three interviews done, and filmed a bit around in the studios. We also got an interview done with the daily producer/director, the woman that is the boss of everybody! People seemed to be a bit scared of her, but turned out that she was really nice, and fun that we got her on camera! On Friday we're going to start edit and we're also editing on Sunday. So we will hopefully be ready for the ruff draft! I'm excited to start editing and see how it all turns out! Just two more weeks left..so we better get this done! :) Otherwise everything is going good, Zoe and I are good friends, fun to work together!

2. "Defending Freedom and Freedom of Speech" by Luis Aguilar

When I read this, the first thing that came to my mind was "How would it be like to live in Cuba without the right of freedom of speech and not be able to express your opinions?" I can't even imagine what that would be like. Here in the western world we are used to have the freedom to express our thoughts, opinions, minds in every way we want to. That is one freedom I really hope will be a right for everyone one day, the sooner the better. One of the quote in this reading was "I thoroughly disagree with what you say, bit I shall defend to the death your right to say it." -VOLTAIRE I think this is a really good sentence that express how it should be. In this reading they also mention that even though we here in America have the right and freedom to express ourselves, most of us are too afraid of what others may think and how society will look on you to say what we mean. This is truly sad when the ones who has the freedom doesn't use it as much as we probably should.