10/3/2016 0 Comments Hiraeth Writing Process ReflectionFor my hiraeth assignment I worked mostly on my own, however I got a lot of helpful feedback from my classmates. This helped me a lot because they gave me ideas that I could use for the piece to make it longer. That was something I struggled with when writing my hiraeth because although I had an event that I was writing about I didn’t know exactly how I was going to make it longer. I wrote my hiraeth piece very last minute at my house. This was defiantly not a good approach because I felt like I could have made it a lot better if had started it earlier. I decided to write about my grandmother old house, specifically about spending Easter there with my whole family. This was a good topic to write about because it represented a home that I could never return to. I remember many events from my life being there so I knew I could create a good piece that would represent a hiraeth the best. Going forward with this project I know I need to make some changes to the way I go about my writing process. I need to stop procrastinating my work and not wait till the night before the deadline. I plan on working on this by working on it throughout the week into sections. This will help me because I wont be crunching all the work in one sitting and it wont make me feel overwhelmed.
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9/19/2016 0 Comments Hiraeth Project Discussionblog #3
The term for hiraeth means a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home to which never was, nostalgia, the yearning, and the grief for the lost places of your past. I have never heard of this word until recently. When I first heard the word hiraeth I had no idea what it meant. Now that I’m familiar with it now I can relate so much to it. There’s many ways you can describe hiraeth. It can mean something that you experienced that you can never return to. For example, a first kiss or the first time you got to drive a car. It could also mean something that you never got to experience but you wish you had. For example, I never got to experience going away for college unlike a lot of my friends who did. Sometimes I think of how my life would be so much different if had gone away. I relate the most with the term hiraeth when I’m reminiscing with my friends about all our crazy experiences we shared together. We always say how much we wish we could go back to the time when we had no responsibilities and lived carefree. Now that were “grown up” there’s no way we’d get away with half the shit that we did back then. There are many moments like this one that Id like to write about for my hiraeth assignment. Our assignment is to talk about a place that I yearn to go back to that I once considered to be home. I have a few Ideas that pop into my head the most. For example, my grandmothers old house that I spent a lot of time at when I was younger. Another place I once considered home was my old cheerleading gym where I spent the most time at growing up. I was probably there more then my actual home. I loved the people I got to see there everyday. I considered them my second family. If I could go back to anytime time in my life it would be that part of my life and I wouldn’t have changed a thing about it. |