Famous Last Words : Week 14

Welp, I finally finished the class! It's bittersweet knowing that this was one of my last major classes that I took at OU for fun. This whole week was a wild journey of potentially "last moments" as a college student! Earlier this week I was in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico for an incentive trip that I won with Southwestern Advantage. We funded a local library for the community and helped with some painting and landscaping in the community of Leona Vicario. I hung out with some of the best friends that I had made through that program for one last time as an associate with that company and had a blast. The last night was a misty-eyed conversation with my room-mate and we talked about the inevitable changes that happen as a result of growing up. The conversation was positive.
Next, I may have had my last Thanksgiving Break as a student of the university! Thanksgiving isn't as widely celebrated in my family, but the spending time with family and loved ones remain the same though. I talked to my dad and mom about life and hung out with my cousin and best friend.
Up next to finish this semester off is a 10-page paper for my Roma class! I’m writing about how the Meme of the Romans parallel to the USA today including how it affects citizenship and census! Currently, I have like no extra sources to support this but I have a few ideas of resources to look up!
After that, I will be going full time into hitting the MCAT again! I’m ready to finish up my last few sessions of major studying for this exam and move on with other aspects of human living! I'm excited for life after this semester and what opportunities are ahead!

Sloshball tournament champs

Week 14 Lab

Man it's been a wild ride this whole semester. I am adding one more story to my storybook before I go though! I will end it with Patrick reaching his home. I'm going to reread Fagles's version of Odysseus's encounter with his father and skip a few scenes to when he cleans out the suitors from his house. The story will be the end of the 'nostos' journey and will focus on how he achieves that in 3 distinct scenes: The scene with his nurse who recognized Patrick's scar, the scene with his father who was crying and beat himself up, and the scene with his wife as they recognized and tested him over the source of the tree bed!

Bibliography:
The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles

the nurse recognizes and realizes it is Odysseus

Reading Notes Week 14: Part B

That ending is terrible! Southpark totally ripped an episode from the Decameron unit where the lady ate her lover's heart! In some ways, these stories have an interesting contrapasso or maybe that's the wrong word to describe it, but there is a nice twist for the mora crimes that the characters permit. The stories are both funny and tragic at the same time. I think this is achieved because it mixes in an element of surprise with humor so you never expect what is happening. And then once you start to suspect it, and your beliefs confirmed, it makes it even worse. These Decameron stories are hilarious.

Bibliography: The Decameron by Boccaccio, translated by J. M. Rigg (1903)

Lady eats Guillaume de Cabestaing's heart

Reading Notes: Week 14 Decameron Part A

The stories in the Decameron remind me of Aesop's fables. Most of the tales told in these formats have some type of moral message to it and is neat seeing how this one blends Catholic religious morals and fables. The language in these stories is very catholic, specifically the story about Ferondo and he's going to Purgatory. The only other reading of purgatory that I've ever read was Dante's Purgatorio. Nonetheless, I am glad I chose the Decameron because the tales are interesting and funny.

Bibliography: The Decameron by Boccaccio, translated by J. M. Rigg (1903).

Ferondo cuckolded by his wife and the Abbot