Feedback Focus

These feedback strategies were useful in their own way. I enjoyed getting to try out different feedback styles, but some were not my favorite, while others I found a better and more suitable option for myself. My least favorite feedback option was the reading for 10 minutes. While I found it helpful in my focus, I am terrible at keeping focus anyways so I lost focus, even when taking notes. So this option made it hard for me to continue to read and stay focused. My second favorite was the copy and delete option. This option was helpful for me to get a better idea of what is happening, but I did not care for it as much because I just didn't like the notes I was taking from them. The best option for me was the reading out loud, I liked this option because it always helps me to understand what I am reading and what I have gone through, so this was helpful to get a better picture of the story. I wasn't too surprised when this is the option that worked best for me, because I have done it before and it worked great then too. I will continue to try to read out lout in later feedbacks, because it helped me out very much in my practice and in the past. I have no other recommendations, because reading out loud is the best one I have done in the past. I enjoyed reading the Wax Crocodile story. This story was good to me and I loved getting to read it.

The Wax Crocodile

Reading Notes: The Ramayana, Sita Sings the Blues

For my reading assignment today I watched the video of “Sita Sings the Blues”. I thought this video was incredibly funny and all around a great illustration of the Ramayana. I have seen this video partially before, so I was excited to get to watch the whole thing. Knowing that this video is about a group of people who are retelling the story in the ways they have heard it before, it is funny to watch it because they contradict each other so many times. I enjoyed this video a lot for that and just to see how people in India understand the Ramayana. I enjoyed listening to the dialogue between the three friends trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle of the story. It was interesting to me to see how none of them mentioned that Lakshmana ever took part in the wilderness. So hearing it this way made it interesting, because I was thinking that it would have been hard for Rama to have done everything that he did without Lakshmana. It was also fun listening to all the songs that were sung in it. All of Sita’s songs were fun to listen to and to hear more of her thoughts, whether they were real or fake. Also the song that Rama’s children sing about Rama, was super catchy. Getting to have a different view point from many different people along with having the vision of the couple that moved to India was also helpful. These two different views of the story told in different lights were helpful in understanding what the story of Rama is all about. Because of the two different stories that I have been able to read and watch, I have been able to learn more than I have ever been able understand what the story is about. 

Sita Sings the Blues

Link to Photo

Source: "Sita Sings the Blues" by Nina Paley, 2008

Link to Story