In motion...

Hi there, Bernecia from Monica's group here! I can relate to the hyphenated life. I myself am of mixed heritage by blood. My parents both are from Guyana, South America, although describing my heritage as Guyanese seems to be an inadequate way of explaining who I am in terms of race. I can relate very easily to the whole idea of the Hyphenated Life, and I love how our short stories, such as "Broken Teeth," demonstrate the gap between the first generation Canadians and the previous generation. Personally, I think because of the amazing diversity Canada contains within its borders, the cultural diverseness defines our national identity as Canadians.

Heart to Heart

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Oh yes, I fell in love. How I suffered! Driving down with John to dinner and driving home again. My greatest joy and misery too. I loved him for seven years of my life, and it was wasted, wasted. I'm proud of it now, not everybody could do it!

-Topaz Edgeworth

Ethel Wilson's "The Innocent Traveller"

Perhaps we're all funny like that... all these preconcieved ideas! There seems to be more mixing-up of people here than in Ware, and I like it. And it's so beautiful...

-Topaz Edgeworth

Being In-Between

The main issue we are presenting in this blog is the seemingly anonymous way of living we are having in this genre. Some are, what we can coin, as 'in-betweens" -people wallowing in the recesses of their roots (various roots)....
Personally, I call myself as a Filipina, and yet, I'm also half Chinese and half Spanish by blood. With these ancestral hodgepodge, I was able to live and grow, pleasing every category, living each expectation from each culture and belief. We chose this topic to emphasize the brilliance of some literary minds and their stories that touches this multi-faceted denominator of life nowadays.

HYPHENS

For the next entries, me & 3 of my colleagues will be tackling "living a hyphenated life" -in accordance with our english101 class... further compositions will be interesting, thought provoking and very realistic. Further elaboration on our chosen topic will be posted this weekend.