Travel Writing

'Allo. Well today was my second day of my Travel Writing class. The first day I felt so overwhelmed. There is quite abit of reading and writing. The format is simple. We have a packet of travel stories and then we have two actual books to read. Each day we discuss what we've read and how the techniques presented are effective for travel writing. We also have a thirty minute creative writing exercise per day. This is where I stuggle a little bit. On the first day we had to write about an experience that we've had while exploring London. I had only been in the city for two days and hadn't had many experiences yet, so my work was not particularly good. However, some of my fellow classmates have already been here three weeks, so they have plenty of things to write about. And boy can they write! There is one guy named Joshua, who is a acting major and claims that he can't write so well, and yet his work is amazing.

After the first day I felt a little intimdated, however today I felt more confident. After discussing he stories that we've read we got to the creative writing assignment, which was to rewrite one of the stories but from the point of view of another character. I couldn't decide which character to do, and so after a while I decided to be adventurous and write from the pet pig's perspective. I still couldn't write well, at least to my satisfaction, but I did it and read it out loud to the class.

Tomorrow the class is going to meet at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which only a few streets down from the Atlantic House. As an assignment we have to complete a worksheet. This is one of three assingments outside of class, other than the readings, that we have to do. The second one is where we read one of two stories and then do a ten minute presentation about it. We have to talk about the author, the techinques and so on. I'll be a little nervous about this one cause I don't like presentations, but I'll live. The third assingment is the largest. We have to keep a journal during the session, pick a style we want to write in, such as thrid-person narration, sci-fi, gothic, and so on. We turn this journal in at the end of the session along with a typed explaination of why we chose the style to write in and discuss any problems there might have been in doing so. At the moment I don't know which style to write in, but I'll think of one soon. Do you have any suggestions?