I dont even know when the post is due this week, with rewrites of papers and all, but I am really appreciating this class more and more as it goes on. I dont know if I really enjoyed Written on the Body as a story, but I did enjoy it for what it was, and how it made me wonder the entire way through it. I am having a hard time deciding what to do my project on, but I am looking forward to the book being put together from all of our papers. That will be great! Have a good weekend!

I have become much more open about myself and this body I live in. My vagina paper was very diificult for me for several days, but I decided to try this open minded thing one more time and came up with an unexpected collage. I began with a comparison and continued with poetry. The poetry was the unexpected part because I'm not very good at writing poetry, but this assignment was better done through emotional poetry than blatant writing. I'm glad that we have all had such good experiences via this class. See you on Monday!

I'M so sorry for this late post!! I totally forgot about it due to the holiday.I woke up feeling like something was very wrong. I could not put my finger quite on it, then I saw the Vagina book and I thought OH SHIT!!.Anyways, I did have the same problem as many of you I spent a total of five hors trying to come up with something creative and unquie to write about our wonderful Vagina. Finally, I made up a story of my Vagina went on an F.B.I mission and saved the world from great terror.I also wrote about some of my personal taboos, that I finally threw this class have changed and grew from my fellow classmates.I have really tried to keep an open mined to this class and some of the topics we have discussed.I can say I really like coming to my Jr. English class.I hope everyone is having a great and safe weekend. SEE YA GUYS MONDAY!! Stay safe and have fun!

Dammit, I totally have been caught up in the holiday spirit of travel and have been without a computer, so I hope this late post counts. But this class is more about critical thinking than grades, so I really don't even care. My Vagina Monologue wasn't really a monologue at all or what I thought a monologue should be. It was a simple story of how much I love my girlfriend and her vagina and how she had been hurt before me. Maybe I didn't think enough or try to burrow into my own hidden vagina, but the story I told was pure and truthful and will have to suffice. Through no fault of anyone, I wind up feeling left out in this class due to my gender. I don't like being a boy sometimes. My roomate said she didn't like living with two boys because she feels she can't express some of her emotions around us, like sadness and giddiness. I told her even boys have emotions and that I cry all the time. She just hit me on the shoulder and said that I didn't understand. Hmmm.
   To Kat and Cassie(?): why didn't you ask the guy you saw why he dropped the class? Everyone seems to think this class should be mandatory for students, but I don't think everyone could be as open as us. Just a thought.

this paper was so hard for me to write. all i have been thinking about is my vagina for the past week. i brought the book to work the other day and everyone gave me these weird looks, but then i made them read a couple passages and now almost all my coworkers have read the entire book and loved it. i definitely want to make a book out of all of our monologues. keep spreading the word about vaginas!

I am so glad to hear so many people that are feeling free to talk about vagina without embassasment. Someday I might be able to join you. I don't mind talking to people I know about the subject but not people I don't know. So this paper has been and is really hard for me. I'm actually nervous about other people reading it not just because of the subject matter but the fact that I am not a very good writer.

I agree with all of you that this project has been really difficult, but fun. I decided to make my own "book", but its only a few pages, and is like my own personal vagina monologue. I used stories my friends have told me, asked people questions, wrote my own stuff, ect. So anyway I had a good time putting it all together. It was so funny, today i was in the computer lab typing up some stuff for it, and in the text were huge bold words like, "cunt" "pussy", ect., and one of my guy friends walked in and as we were talking he noticed it, and was like,"erin what are you writing!" I explained i was writing about my vagina, and vaginas in general, which sparked the intrest of the two other guys sitting around me, and they all kept asking every few minutes "now what are you writing about your vagina?" quite an experience. Happy 4th of July!

I am still struggling, but I decided my paper will be more like a dialogue among me, my vagina and my boyfriend. It may seem weird to add in my boyfriend; but if you were me, you would understand - I really got no idea about what to write. Like Danielle, I sat there for more than ten hours total but nothing came up. Then I started talking to my boyfriend about the paper...
Anyway, I need to finish my paper. Happy Holiday! :D

I have to say I am really getting into this woman thing now. It's really becoming fun! I feel like all the shame and embarrasment has lifted off of me. And now I'm free. Corny, but true.

My paper is open to anyone who wants to read it. And if we decide to put it in book form I'm for that too. I agree with you girls that said that everyone should have a class like this. It has helped me tremoundously! I hope that after the class is over I will be able to continue feeling like I do now.

Vaginas Rule!

I just finished my paper and they are kicking me out of lab. I hope my paper does The Vagina Monologues justice. I finally finished the book, and loved it. I felt really great most of the way through it. It gave me great new perspectives.

Me too...all for the book. I think it could help a lot of people. And I agree about getting too know the classmates....amkes me want to get to know my friends, even my best friends more.
And I just wanted to say how nice it was to tell my guy friends, when they asked me to go out last night, that I couldn't because I had to finish my vagina paper. Um, ....your what? They asked. My Vagina paper I said...talk to you guys later ;-)

I definitely agree with everyone who thinks that our monologues...excuse me VAGINA monologues(I'm not afraid to say that anymore) should be bound together. I feel that within these past 2 weeks, I've learned more about the people in this class then I know about some of my good friends. It has taught me to not be afraid of being open, and to express what i think and feel. So I would love to read everyone's monologues now that I feel like I know you all a little more. Hope everyone has a great Fourth of July!:)

so,i've decided to do mine dear diary style. It is really interesting to look back at my old journals. man i was weird. but anyway. i went to big lots last night because i wanted to get a little girl's diary to write my paper in (for effect) well anyway i found the neatest one. I was rolling in the aisle when I saw it. It is green and fades to pink (made me think of the my vagina was my village) it has little swirls for a border ( i thought of pubic hair) and a big fat cat holding a flower!. (do you get it cat/pussy) hahaha. It even has a little lock on the outside. I dunno, for 89 cents I thought it was funny.

For the longest time, I sat here at my computer asking myself what does my vagina want to say. I just kept saying, Vagina, Vagina. Nothing came to mind. So, I just started typing, writing whatever came to me. THen all of a sudden, I opened a flood gate and things kept pouring out that I wanted to write about. (no pun intended ;) ) It is amazing how the littleiest things can affect you and shape you into the person each one of us is today. I am also amazed to how open I have become about talking about my vagina to other people. At first everyone is shocked that I brought it up, but then everyone starts to talk about some really insightful things. My guy friends have started to read the book. They were hesitant at first, but now they cant put it down!! THis class and this assignment has really showed a lot to me, and I appreciate everyones input!! Thank you.

So..Kathy stole what I was going to talk about...the boy in the bar last night who use to be in our class. I called him deer in the headlights boy. Anyway it was nice to talk with him about the class. Of course I think everyone should hear about the class. These vagina mon are killing me. I had to write my autobio of my body three times before I got it right...I don't know if I can get this mono right??? It's harder than I thought it was going to be. I just don't feel like my mono do the original mono justice.

Well, i have become so much more aware of my body and y self image in just the past three weeks. i am nto a confident person, in terms of my appearance, but this class is allowing me to see that i take the steps nec to accept my looks and body.
i have to tell u all this...annie and i were at the bars last nite, and one of the guys who were in our class originally approached me. somehow he remembered me...he asked how the class was and it was at that moment that i realized just how much i am getting from this class. i told him everything we were doing and what we were accomplishing..in terms of our writing styles and ourselves.
i agree with othni and latoya, i would love to read the monologues....i just wish mine was as good and creative as othni's!! :)