You Have Scarred Me For Life

     Thank you, Ms. Mosh, for I have truly learned a lot in your class. I have to admit, though, that I was beginning to think I was in a nutrition class rather than an English class. But, I did learn quite a bit in both areas.
     Let's start with the presentations. Those were really informing, and I thought it was really interesting to learn about to learn about the different countries, how they ate, when they ate, etc. You might think, "Okay, we all pretty much eat the same way, right?" No, that is not right! For examples, some countries don't really snack they way that we do. France is one of those countries. And thats probably why they are so much skinnier than we are. (Hmmm, just saying.) Also, the presentations exhibited the countries' different food-related holidays that they celebrated. An example of this would be that France has one day of the year that they eat crepes all night. They believe that the crepes will allow for their wishes for the year to come true. Really interesting. "Clarence, why are you only talking about France?" Well, my presentation was on France, and I feel like I should talk more about it. It is definitely not because I don't remember the other presentations.
      Our paper topics for this semester was about food. And the assignments were all about food. So naturally, if you were in the class, you had to learn something about food. The students in our class had different food topics. Some were about obesity, others on dietary supplements, and even one on hospital food. Now, I guess my teacher wants to know if I'm going to be more conscious of what eat. Yes, definitely. I already am. Will I eat better? Absolutely not.
     Most memorable food related moment in class... Hmmm. I guess it would have to be when LD was telling Ms. Mosh that he is struggling with his topic. The reason it was so memorable was because he was so funny when he was talking about it. I don't know. He's a funny guy. And his topic had to do with dietary supplements so it counts.
     I'm going to end by saying this. This class did not ruin eating for me whatsoever. I eat what I eat how I eat. C'est la vie!

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The Final Draft

     The final draft. This is the paper where it all counts. How do you get to the final draft? Well, first you do the research, of course. You type out your first draft, and then you make corrections. Boom! There's your final draft! But wait. It's not always that easy, is it? There are obstacles that could make the process more difficult, especially to those who halfway know what they're doing (i.e. me). I guess I could give a few examples of what I'm worried might impede me from writing a great final draft. For starters, one word: sources. The internet is so great, and I am glad it was invented. There is some great, reliable stuff on there. But along with the great, reliable stuff come bullshit. And we all know about bullshit; it's like half of the papers we turn in. But more seriously, sometimes it's hard to find credible sources on your topic. You find a lot of articles and blogs, you won't have ANY problem finding those, but how many of those are actually saying something... what's the word... true? Another thing I am concened about it reaching the final paper page requirements. However, I am doing great so far. Don't know how, but I am. I think a lot of students' worries when they write a paper is having enough information to fill up the page. At least that's one of my biggest worries.
     Now, not all of it is hard. If it was, I may have had to drop the class. The easiest thing about writing my final paper is the actual argument part. I use a lot of my words and thoughts and ideas. Along with some research, of course. Also, now that I have properly learned how to do it, citing sources in the text is not bad either. I actually have never done it until I got to college. I know... it's hard to believe. But I went to Cordova, so it's kinda not.
     I think I still have quite a bit of research to do in order to finish the paper. I mean, there are two more parts so... yeah.

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