The Final Task

Q1. How do you like the weekly writing prompts? Are they interesting or boring? Inspirational or weird? Are they related to your life? Can you suggest anything better and give some examples?
A1. At first, I really felt that such tasks dear Doris asked are extremely tedious and burdensome. I couldn't understand why I had to complete these assignments even though we had been told to write weekly journals. After I knew these tasks could be counted as parts in journals, I finally accepted them. And when I started to write the comments on these unwillingly, I found that these articles and questions were truly entertaining and informative indeed. I little bit regretted that how come I didn't start to write them early and make my comments meaningful and proper in my ample time. The fact is that I pretty like to write my feelings and outlooks in English; yet, I would always be laidback before beginning to write. Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple. But while beginning writing something I have plenty of views to say, I can hardly to stop, especially in a good mood. These articles and questions on tasks could arouse the reflections on my own experiences. They might not merely motivate me to writing down my feelings in English but make me introspect myself and rethink the events happening in my life as well. Thus the tasks really meant something to me.

Q2. Do you like the two-way online discussion with your keypal? Or do you think we should have more people (like 3~4 students) form a group blog to exchange ideas? Why or why not?
A2. I like the two-way online discussion with my own key pal, because we can try to understand each others more from the comments we leaved. Sometimes we could share our feelings and reflect our lives. However, I think if such task were formed in a group, it could be like an argument to me because there would be too many viewpoints online and they might make me repellent.

Q3. Have you encountered any difficulties during the semester when using blogs to discuss with your keypal, e.g., computer problems or anything?
A3. In fact, one of the reasons why I didn't post my comments on blog is that the task is online work. I am not a technical guy at all. I always reject working with computer, and such work makes me lazy. Therefore I wrote down my comments on previous five tasks in my notebooks, and trying to type them at a time. Here I have to apologize again that I let James wait for a too long time and made him respond to himself. How irresponsible I was...

Q4. How do you like the project website? Are they friendly enough? Have we left out any important content? How do you like the layout/design?
A4. The website is designed delicately, showing how hard-working our teaching assistance(s) is(are). I am grateful to all of these.

Q5. What have you gained from this blog activity?
A5. I could learn how to express my feelings and viewpoints in English from the tasks, comparing and sharing them with my key pal.

Q6. If you had an opportunity to start over, would you have done anything differently? If so, how?
A6. I might start to leave my comments early or be on time on James' blog, trying to avoid making James respond to himself all the time. Sorry, James.