HI GUYS! =]This was probably my 3rd time going through the land is life ED and every time I go through it I always get something different out of it. I always thought that being a third generation Filipino-American made it super hard for me to connect myself back to the Philippines, because most if not all of my closely related family is in the states, and I have never seen anything beyond the borders of California (barely any of Nevada). In some aspects it actually is a little harder for me to make those connections to back home, but not as hard as I was making it seem. This workshop helped a lot with that whole process of thinking about the reasons why people leave the Philippines. Both my Grandfathers were merchant marine chefs who came to America around the Manong era. So I guess you can say my family has been displaced for a super long time. But like everyone else they left the Philppines to persue the "American dream" and also to help their families back home. So thats how I ended up being here. Its always interesting to wonder what your life would be like if your parent/grandparents didn't make the choices that they did. How would I be living my life in the Philippines? Sometimes its scary to wonder too. All I can say is that I am thankful for everything in my life even more so than I used to be. I know I have so many luxuries that people back home have never even had a taste of.
With all that said, my general thoughts about how the workshop went are good. Whenever we do this ED though, i always wish we could go a little further into detail about the three basic problems because i always feel like we are rushed through them in order to finish on time. Maybe some handouts might help? =D But other than that, i enjoyed it!
so on the creative tip-
I decided that because I liked drawing and doing the first tag so much, that each reflection blog I'm going to make a new tag/drawing. This weeks tag is "Land is Life" and I drew some things I though related to the words. Water, plowed land, rice terraces,a coconut tree, and those thing on the right side of the flower are supposed to be sugar cane stocks. (YEAH I"M NOT THAT GREAT OF AN ARTIST HEHE. oh! and I wanted to explain the flower- I drew a sampaguita flower because it thought it represented the natural beauty of the Philippines well.
hope you likes.
-MOO
Melissa Anne Fiel
With all that said, my general thoughts about how the workshop went are good. Whenever we do this ED though, i always wish we could go a little further into detail about the three basic problems because i always feel like we are rushed through them in order to finish on time. Maybe some handouts might help? =D But other than that, i enjoyed it!
so on the creative tip-
I decided that because I liked drawing and doing the first tag so much, that each reflection blog I'm going to make a new tag/drawing. This weeks tag is "Land is Life" and I drew some things I though related to the words. Water, plowed land, rice terraces,a coconut tree, and those thing on the right side of the flower are supposed to be sugar cane stocks. (YEAH I"M NOT THAT GREAT OF AN ARTIST HEHE. oh! and I wanted to explain the flower- I drew a sampaguita flower because it thought it represented the natural beauty of the Philippines well.
hope you likes.
-MOO
Melissa Anne Fiel
sampaguita flowers are my favorite because, like what you said, they represented the natural beauty of the Philippines--and its people!
ReplyDeleteand yknow what? i might've said this to you already, but i never had a friend who's third-generation Filipino-American.
for some reason, i never thought i'd get along with you because i assumed that you might be disconnected from the Philippines.
but hanging out with you was like a slap in the face, because you're Filipino to the bone!
that's why you bring me hope, moo!
- Faye