Is this real?
You pinch yourself.
Yep.
This is it. The moment you've been dreading all month. Last day of french school in the beautiful Cote d'Azure.
You give your roommates one last hug before you all go your separate ways. Emails have been exchanged, and you cross your fingers as your promise to Skype each other once often. You hold hands, teary eyed. You grab your things and make your way to the front office for check out.
Is this real?
You sign the last of the paperwork, are are directed towards the van to the airport. You step in and w a i t.
Wait to leave the place you've called home for the summer. Leave the plethora of memories, and all the people whom youve met; your little family.
You look out the window as the van heads out.
One last look
You tell yourself to take this ALL in. Capture everything you are looking at. The shade of , the intense blue hue of the Mediterranean. I can connect with this town and leave the past behind me, making a web of new experiences, touching every edge of this place.
Is this real?
The silent hum of the van breaks you from your thoughts.
A harsh reality.
After what seems like an eternal ride, you arrive to the airport. Now, you're on your own until you meet Dad in Paris.
You walk up to the check out counter
No turning back
"Good afternoon" a lady greets you in perfect French behind the counter
No turning back.
You hand her your passport. Check in, head for security.
You are scanned, and "x-rayed".
No turning back.
After waiting, your plane finally begins to board.
Is this real?
You sit in your assigned seat. Your heart is beating.
No turning back.
Yep.
This blog project has taught me so much about how texts relate to one another,and how to connect stories based on themes.
ReplyDeleteI chose to write about my summer away in France because I felt it was one of the most significant experience I had as a teen. I chose specific moments through this experience to expand on.
The most difficult part of this project was being assigned a random blog to integrate into my own. Sometimes, that blog had nothing to do with the theme that I was going for, but you have to make it work. Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus "Introduction: Rhizome" refers to some books being "root books". With this, I picture my blog being a tree, and all the blogs I had to refer to (which are used to expand on things; kind of like a backbone) are the branches. And those blogs and the other ones THEY had to refer you just keep branching out.
Eventually, everything connects and intertwines. Most of the novels we have read in class have, for the most part, referenced back to another text for more support. Now, I see that authors are very crafty with using this, because the reader can grasp the theme of the novel more if you refer to some other text they are familiar with.
In "Exit through the gift shop" we see intertextuality not only exists in books, but in art as well. We see most of Banksy's art is referencing something else, as a sort of "tip of the hat" to other art, and also social issues.
Overall, i feel this project was super interesting, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Not only was the creative writing aspect a breath of fresh air, but the challenge of intertextuality was interesting as well.