Sometimes, it seems that all my reflective letters written for Marlen are the same only because I love him so much. There is no way I can create any other kind of it. First of all, the class worth me dropping classes of my major because I was feeling that Marlen is preparing something special again. Though I did not know that it will be so different from my previous class of “College Writing.”
On the first class I was surprised by the entire structure. The only idea of writing poems drove me crazy at that time. I never did it in my life. Additionally, I was pretty confident that I can never do it, particularly in English language. Though, Marlen is the person who can influence the way of my thinking. He is the person who can make me think that I can overcome any difficulty in the life. I have no idea where this influence comes from. So, the process of writing poems and the idea that I can do it was my “first journey” in the class.
The first time when Marlen had introduced class’s main topic, I had different interpretation of word “hero.” Yet the discussion in the class, the reading and explanations made me think in other way. Hero appeared me like a big and strong man that had done something unusual and supernatural for people around him. But now even the idea about the same definition will seem ridiculous for me. Humanities Literature class led me to thoughts that everyone is hero in his/her life. It concerns girls and women too. Heroic behavior is visible in everyday actions. Any people like me could be a hero. The fact of being a person makes people heroes because of difficulties and hardship that life is full with. So, the idea about heroes completely changed through entire class of Humanities Literature.
I was happy by the way that this class was organized. But I had experienced some difficulties in the second part of semester when the structure was changed. I really get used for different format at first and switching was not as that easy but it did not take me much time to get the main idea of differemce. Mostly, the reading was an interesting process. At first, reading of Odyssey was boring but then watching its movie was incredible. I loved “ The Color Purple” and “Watership Down” because they were easily readable for me. Books was really good. I loved the fact that I had an opportunity to read literature of many cultures. The diversity makes the reading attractive.
I consider myself like a expert of blogs by now. I feel that I get used to it as that much by doing it whole academic year. I can tell it is good way of communication among classmates and familiarization with their thoughts. My single suggestion will be watching as many movies as possible after every book. It is very interesting to watch the way that the heroes can look in reality. Of course, they are usual people like me who try to find the place in their lives or just to be a happy.
Dear Marlen, I know that by the time when you will be reading this letter, I will be probably back in my country. There are no words that could describe all my feelings to you as to the best professor that I ever had. You are the person who helped me to believe in myself and not to be apprehensive in different maters not only in the college but in the life too. Humanities Literature class was one more way to perceive the life in other way. It helped me to understand my nature and take myself as a hero that I would never even think about before. Thank you so much being such an awesome man. I hope we can meet in our big journey with name “Columbia” one day. I will always remember you, I promise.
