Assignment # 7 Author's Note on your personal memoir

I woke up in the middle of the night sweating and nervous. I know for sure that something wrong was happening between my mother and father. I went to see my little sister Belen that in that time she had 13 years and was sleeping. I moved her arm and I said “Belen, I can’t sleep” she open only one eye and she answered me “Giovanna, go to sleep don’t stress me” I suddenly said “listen I know that something wrong is happening in this house”. She fall sleep again and I stood awake until 3am thinking and thinking about what could be the reason why my parents are acting weird. Next morning I went to school very sleepy but in the car I asked my mom “Mom, why are our maids not working with us anymore? And she replied “because I am looking for another team that can cook, clean and fix our house faster than the old staff”. That day my mom didn’t wear makeup and it looked like if she didn’t have any sleep. During two weeks I felt that something bad was happening because as a family we used to eat dinner together and for approximately 14 days I ate alone with my sister. My father was too busy at work and also my mom. One day I came from school and I saw our passports behind a lot of papers in my dad’s office. I was shocked because it wasn’t time for our vacations as of. That day I also went to the kitchen to eat something and for the first time in 17 years I saw our refrigerator empty and suddenly I looked at the kitchen and it was empty too, it had only a few plates, glasses and napkins. Right away I called my little sister and she came down from the third floor screaming “sister, sister I don’t have my bed anymore and my room is empty” I was shocked again; I told her that the kitchen is empty too. Then I called my mom at her job and she told me that my aunt was going to pick us up in about 30 minutes and I asked her why were our kitchen and my sister’s room empty? And she replied that “at night we were going to talk”.
What inspired me to write this memoir is the feelings of sadness and loneliness that I went through at the age of 17 years old. I wrote this memoir because it was very hard for me to leave my customs, culture and country when I was a teenager. In that moment of my life I saw how desolation and darkness came into my life. I was very sad and desperate but now that I am young adult woman I realized that everything happened for a reason. Now I remember the day I came to the USA like a great opportunity to succeed. When I was reading Sharon Solowitz "Abracadabra" I got inspired to write my memoir. I definitely will use this paper for my final portfolio and I will be revising the grammar again with my dictionary. I have always been writing journals because I have my personal diary in which I write every single day. That's why it was easy for me to write this memoir. Definitely I get outside myself while I was writing this memoir. I felt more comfortable now that before when someone in my family talks about this topic. It helped me a lot to write and remember. In that moment I felt sad and I cried but at the end of the piece I just felt relaxed. I revised my piece in a word processor and in my smart phone.

Blog Assignment # 6 Midterm Reflection

It's half of the semester and when I look back to the day I registered for ENG274 I still remember all the questions that came into my mind about the meaning of creative non-fiction. I had so many questions running in my brain like what it's creative non-fiction about ? what I should have to write? how long time I will be reading and what kind of reading I will perform ? all kind of questions came into my mind but once I got into the course I realized how fun and interesting creative non-fiction become in my life. My definition of creative non-fiction have expanded during this half of the semester. While I was reading the publications of creative non-fiction writers I have been learning the different kinds of examples and models that this subject offered to the public. I have been always writing essays, journals and some poems but definitively I have enjoyed more writing and sharing personal details and being creative instead of regular type of writings. I think that creative writing offered me a unique experience. However there is not only creative writing what matters; writers without reading are not writers. I enjoyed reading writings like Michael Pollan who offered his writing to make people think about what we are eating every day of our lifes. I like his writings because in a certain point he changed my mind about what I should eat and now on I am eating more healthy and avoiding meat. He changed my mind and probably the mind of many more people.Since I was in elementary school I have never been writing and reading such an interesting subject like creative non-fiction. I can say that writing personal memoirs and sharing what I feel what I think it makes me feel now more comfortable even with my own lifestyle. Writing makes me express and put all what I think and feel in a paper. Now I am more relax than before when someone talk about what I went through in life. I will never forget this great experience.the blogger helped me a lot to see what other students writes and thinks. It's very helpful and is more interesting than Facebook or twitter because I can express what I think without gossip.