Rottura Di Molla
So for my next project I made a video about my spring break trip to Italy. Going to Italy for me was a really big deal for two main reasons The first being I had never been to Italy before and it was something I have always wanted to do since I was a child. Since coming to UT Austin I have been taking Italian courses just in case I ever got to go. The second reason going to Italy was important to me was I had never been out of country by myself, no family, no friends, just myself, my wallet and a prayer to Jesus for safety. I was very afraid of traveling alone and I ended up navigating Venice for two days by myself as a friend I was meeting and staying with in Venice had to work. The trip taught me so much about myself, 1)I learned a sense of direction (something I’ve never had), 2) I learned to trust myself to take care of myself (no one really thought that I would be able to survive going abroad by myself, friends jokingly made comments about me being so small and nice trusting that people are generally good in the world. I don’t think of myself this way and after going to Italy I really know for sure that I can take care of myself in any situation despite being really small. I did get lost in Venice but I was able to make wise decisions and figure out how to best handle the situation and I took directions in Italian.) 3) I gained a different perspective of the world seeing how other people in another country live. (I think this is really important in understanding other cultures and just how other people think differently than yourself).
Another reason I really wanted to go to Italy was I am part Italian. My family is a giant melting pot, my grandmother on my father’s side is chinese, my father is guyanese and on my mother’s side my grandfather is Italian. Every christmas eve my family has an Italian style christmas eve and a guyanese new year. It’s really different and without my grandfather really being alive to share more about Italy and my family culture and history there I felt like apart of my Identity was missing. And going to Italy helped me understand myself and part of my culture a little better.
All of this applies to pedagogy because rather than having some formal structure tell me who I am I learned about myself and identified more about myself through experience and meeting other people. Rather than being told outright I was able to define by doing.
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