Assignment 5c

1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?
Carly Overlid, Component 4a, "The nicest person in California" by Derek Powazek

2. What is something this classmate said about the choice that relates to any of the assignments in projects 2-3?
This story talks about a persons first trip outside of his comfort zone. Derek, at the age of seventeen, planned his first trip to San Francisco, to encounter all the diversity in the great city. The trip, as he soon realized, was not all that he thought it would turn out to be, he encounters a lot of trouble in the big city, and the only nice person he meets is the ticket counter person.

3. What is something different this classmate said about their choice that you did not realize before when you completed projects 2-3?
In this persons story, they talk about how everyone is angry and mean in San Francisco, I know that its a busy city, but i would not think that everyone is mean. In my experiences there in San Francisco i have met a lot of grumpy people, but the majority are average people.

4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? For example, you went in thinking one idea, your classmate had a different idea. What new idea emerged from this process?
I thought that every city had about the same diverse crowd, Carly thinks that the whole city of San Francisco is full of angry people, so i realized that maybe because of all the chaos, traffic, and work going on in the city, if this was the reason behind all the madness in the city.

5. How has project 2-3 helped you with the readings of the textbook?
The assignments in projects 2 and 3 helped me learn about San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and other major cities in California. Learning about these cities helped me with the readings, in understanding the dynamics in each city and the diversity in each. Learning about the places before the readings of them helped me to understand the readings better, and made the readings easier.