I don’t have many comments about Phase 2 since we started it recently. However, so far, I like it. I’ll admit that someone writing a Peer Profile about me isn’t new since I have been exposed to it. I think that doing a rhetorical analysis and peer profile about a classmate is a good way to know each other better. We can learn about our journey with language, but there are many personal details that we know and have to write about our peers. Having the opportunity to interview my peer was a fun way to start a conversation and we told fun anecdotes, some weren’t about our narratives, but it was better to remain in an uncomfortable silence. However, I feel pressured because I wouldn’t like to write something about my peers that would make them uncomfortable, so I review the profile to make sure that everything is in order.

Writing is a way people can express their feelings and ideas without explicitly speaking them. For me, writing is the way I feel more comfortable and confident in expressing my feelings and ideas openly. Contrary to when I speak, I tend to contain most of them. I feel that writing also gets us exposed to ideas that aren’t our own. Through writing, we can get a grasp of other people’s ideologies and sentiments. In some cases, we might identify ourselves with a way of thinking or a particular feeling. But in a more personal use, writing can help us keep track of events and emotions that we have experienced. For example, journaling or having a diary. I used to have a diary. It was a gift from my mom for my 12th birthday and I wrote positive and negative things about numerous events. I wish I had kept it.