Week 7 Review

My favorite post from the weeks announcements was the one for Friday and Saturday.

Cat

Source:Online Course Announcements

I especially like this post since we lost...even though we didn't win maybe the team learned something. Maybe they learned to not go into the game thinking they have it in the bag and then play like crap and get beat. 

Famous Last Words Week 7

So this week my reading did not go so well, and that is probably my fault. Instead of looking for something I was actually going to like I went with the shortest one I could find since I knew I was going to have a busy week. The stories I was reading were so hard to read, and they barley kept my attention. I definitely won't do that again because I didn't even write my storytelling post. Now I am trying to do some extra credit to make up for not doing my storytelling. Other than that I had a pretty good week in some of my other classes. I had my first real exam in one of my classes, and I scored pretty good on it so that did make me feel better. Recently I started a new job and was worried I wasn't going to learn it very easily, but I have surprised myself, and everyone around me. My goal for these next few weeks is to get as much work in this class done as I can since we are going to have a lot of visitors at our house. No one wants to hangout with someone who is always doing their homework, so we will see how that goes. One sad note about this week was OU lost to Texas. How is that even possible? I hope we can turn it around next week, because I sure cant take watching another beating like that. Kansas State didn’t look to bad against TCU so we better come prepared! I cant believe the semester is almost half way over, and at the end of this month I will be enrolling in my last semester of college. Hoping I can finish the semester our as strong as I started it!

Minion

Source:And then...The Fun Began

Extra Reading Diary: Nigerian Folk Stories

Nigerian Folk Stories

Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King:

• The whole town wanted to kill him, and he didn't know about the witch
• Sounds like the king is a creeper
• She cut his head off and took it with her, how morbid
• Guess they caught them by surprise

Why the Bat Flies by Night:

• Weird names 
• Boil your self in the water your food goes in...weird
• The rat didn't tell her how the soup would be so good so how did she know to blame the bat
• I like when stories give reason to why things are how they are

The Disobedient Daughter Who Married a Skull:

• I like that the girl didn't marry just any old person her parents wanted her to
• How can people lend body parts
• Some of these stories are too irrational 
• What a coincidence that she fell in love with him
• Lots of lessons on not marrying strangers

The King who Married the Cock's Daughter:

• The king had wives, so more than one 
• Of course the other wives were jealous
• The king is dumb for making her leave for doing what she was supposed to do
• What horrible parents

The Woman, the Ape, and the Child:

• Weird they have to pay for their wives
• At least the truth came out in the end 
• Jealously always gets the best of people

The Fish and the Leopards Wife:

• No way fish ever lived on land 
• How would a leopard live in a bush
• Glad someone told on the fish

Why the Worms Live Underneath the Ground:

• All these stories people are having feast, I love me a good feast 
• Poor worms no one likes them
•  I would hide too 

The Elephant and the Tortoise:

• I picture an elephant with really big eyes
• I feel like men and animals are still friends 
• I laughed at the picture in my head of the elephant with little eyeballs
• I never really thought of how small elephants eyes were

Why a Hawk Kills Chickens:

• You would think the hawk would just eat the hen without marrying it
• And the parents shouldn't have to pay a dowry 

Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky:

• Thats a nice friend to build a new house just for them to come over
• Don't really like the reason the sun and the moon are in the sky in this story

Why the Cat Kills Rats:

• The king had a store?
• What can angry cat, could have just punished the rat
• It was all for love

Cat

Source:UnTextbook

Reading Diary B: Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories

Goat on the Hill-Side / Duckano Tree

• I like how this story had a meaning behind it
• Why the goat stays up on the hill-side instead of coming down 
• Still hard to comprehend what is being told
• I feel like I am reading a bunch of words, and it is impossible to follow

Anansi and the Tar-Baby / The Yam Hills:

• I wonder why they spell his name differently sometimes
• He is a mean person
• Tough guy was crying
• Such a trickster he is
• The monkey is a smart guy!

Guinea-Chick / Horse and Anansi:

• Anansi loves to eat other people after he pretty much kills them himself
• His tricks didn't work this time, he is the one who dropped dead
• I am starting to like when Anansi loses

Anansi in Monkey Country / The Fishes

• I am starting to like the monkey more
• Killing those poor fishes mom, and then they didn't even get revenge 
• He sure isn't a picky eater

Anansi, White-Belly and Fish

• I wish I could be fitted with wings and be able to fly that easy 
• Haven't heard of cousins till this story
• I can't blame Anansi, fish is really good

The Rain/ Fire and Anansi:

• The first story didn't really have a point, or I did not catch it 
• He should have listened to his wife...
• I thought they were good friend why would he try and fool him

Spider Marries Monkeys Daughter:

• Spelling "brother" like "bredder" makes me laugh like medder did before
• The monkey was a user
• I like how the lizard was on the spiders side!
• Why would you kill the babies father

Lizard

Source:UnTextbook

The Chain of Victims:

• Anansi is persuasive
• Being mean to the people who were nice to him again
• There are no points to these stories

Why Tumble-Bug Rolls in the Dung / Why Joh-Crow has a Bald Head:

• The word dung makes me laugh
• Makes sense why nasty bugs are attracted to poo
• So at his wedding now one even his wife wouldnt be at the table? Makes a lot of sense
• I like when stories at least make some kind of sense 

Anansi and the Pig Coming From Market:

• Wee pig is a cute name 
• Anansi is so greedy
• I wonder if people in Jamaica really write like this
• It does not seem proper at all

 

Reading Diary A: Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories

Tying Tigers:

• Hard to comprehend what they are saying
• Um I have no idea what I read at all, I do not like the writing 

The Gub-Gub Peas:

• The watchman should have known better since he couldn't read and his master knew that 
• Watchman does not follow instructions very well
• Anansi is kind of smart, but I am glad the lion got away 

Tiger as Riding-Horse:

• I like how the story was wrote with sentences all spaced out
• Stories are to hard to read, I do not like how they are trying to sound African
• I know how Africans talk I do not need it to be that altered in the writing

Tiger Catching the Sheep-Thief:

• An' confuses me on who's talking
• I liked the humor in this story
• Reminds me some of the other stories I have read since the tiger was able to put on she eps skin

Tigers Breakfast / Tigers Bone-Hole:

• Anansi is spelt like Hanansi this time
• Anansi and the tiger eat breakfast together, but Anansi is not as generous as tiger is and pays for it in the end
• Anansi was doing things he wasn't supposed to be doing again
• This time he got away with it by scaring the tiger

Eggs and Scorpions / The Christening:

• Anansi tried to steal his egg back that he gave to the tiger for the sheep
• Short story with no point
• Always trying to do things for his wife, so he says
• Why did he want to wake tiger up to watch him

Eating Tigers Guts / Monkey and Anansi:

• Sometimes they put Brer in front of the names sometimes they don't 
• At least Anansi kids are better than he is
• He took the tigers guts to eat, how gross
• He loves to mess with the tiger
• At least he is good to his so called friends 

Sheep and Anansi / Rabbit and Anansi:

• How could the sheep fall for something so stupid 
• Hes teaching the rabbit a lesson now, how nice of him
• Showed him how to survive day time trouble

New Names:

• I like the word "mother" as "mudder" made me laugh while reading
• Why would you eat someone for not knowing the name changed, especially the one they gave you
• What fancy new names Anansi came up with these guys
• How mean he warned his mother instead of killing her and eating her like the others did to their own mothers
• Hadn't heard of a parrot before until this story

Parrot

Source:UnTextbook

Long Shirt:

• The shirt could talk, how cool
• The goat smells because they forgot to wring his beard, kind of odd
• Master had a wooden leg, random

Shut up in the Pot / House in the Air:

• Why would he want to cook his friend so he could eat them
• Changed Anansi name again to Nansi 
• Anansi is smart I guess
• My least favorite thing from all the stories was the way they were written
• My favorite thing was the humor