Hello and welcome to my blog!!! Today, I will be telling you about what I’ve been working on for the past few weeks; and how it went.

Now, in humanities we’ve been doing tons of research on WWII. That be about all the nitty gritty bad stuff, but since that’s not what this post is focused on; I’d invite you to take a look at my other classmates work to get an insight on what happened.

After watching like 3 documentaries, we were told that we would have to create an essay about a WWII-relevant topic by the end of the semester. We would build up to this by doing smart brevity (which I didn’t even know was a word until a week ago) and writing drafts. Overall, we were required to write an essay in a specific format; alongside a “zine” which would just be the essay in a different format with pictures.

We were tasked to answer the driving question of our project: What role of the conflict of WWII contributed to Canadian identity?

My answer to that is; women all around the world would not have as much choice, freedom and rights as they do now if it wasn’t for WWII. With working becoming a norm for women, even being encouraged, was just opening the floodgates for women working in Canada.

Now, usually people would think the writing part of essays is hard. You are WRONG!!!!!!! Writing a 2000 word essay is EASY, it’s the formatting that’s the problem. I don’t think I’ve ever had to do the most goofy revisions ever in my life than with this essay, it’s ridiculous… but I digress. I should get into what I did well on and what I would do better on in the future!!

Now, did I do good on the essay? Personally, I think so; but there are a lot of parts of the process that I would change.
One issue I had was procrastinating. I was obviously not excited to write an essay nor do classwork at home, so I didn’t. But that was a mistake, since I was extremely stressed for the last week of the project; just barely getting it in on time. In fact, I am still stressed out!!
Another thing I would change would be my enthusiasm on this project. Now I know that you cannot change how happy you are to do something you don’t want to do, but school is just a bunch of crap that you don’t want to do all the time. You need to learn how to cope with the crap you don’t want to do; and try to see the bright side of it, such as an aspect of the project that you may enjoy; etc etc.

When it comes to things that I am proud of, I am definitely surprised at my determination to finish the project. Once I got out of the bust of not wanting to do it, I got into making time for the project at home and focusing better at school; acknowledging that it was very important. This came as a surprise to me while reflecting, as I would usually be in a slump about being behind on a project; but it was quite different this time, and I have to give myself credit for that.

Overall, the project went okay. It wasn’t super amazing, but it also wasn’t super bad; and that’s all I could ask for quite honestly. Thank you for reading this blog post, and I’ll see you next time.

Essay:
WWII essay

Zine submission:
Zine Check