Monday, December 14, 2009

Our Class = Julie & Julia ?

I watched Julie&Julia this afternoon. Well, for the ones that have not watched the movie yet, I will introduce. Julie is a secretary from a government office who loves to cook. She used to be a writer, but she quit her job. No body wanted to publish her book. One day, her husband suggests her about making a blog, a cooking blog. She thought it was a good idea, so she decides to blog about her cooking recipes from Julia Child's cookbook in 365 days. Julie becomes famous through her blog and end up publishing a book, Julie&Julia. Later, the book was made into a movie. As we all know, Julia Child the French cook is famous for her cooking shows and cookbook. Through the movie, I learned so many facts about her. The movie starts from when Julia moves to Paris. She used to be a secretary at government office just like Julie. Since she came to Paris, she did not have anything to do. So, she decides to find her a profession. Julia tries hat making, poker....etc. but fails to find something that she like. At the end, she finds that food is what she is passionate about. She starts to going to a cooking school, became a decent cook. Later, when she meets her two friends who were working on creating a cookbook for American. Julia joins them to create a French cookbook for American housewife. After numerous rejection from the publishing companies, Julia Child ended up publishing her cook book.

This movie reminded me of my English class so much. First, our topic was food. Second, we had our own blog just like Julie. Third, we produced owr own cookbook just like Julia Child did! What a coincidence. I think I can convince many people that our class idea came from this movie or a book, Julie & Julia.

In the beginning, I did not like our topic.
'English class with food as a topic? What is this?' was my reaction.
I also did not understand why we had to explore such a different type of writing. They were so much different from what we did in high school. I do not know about other people, personally, I never had to write a restaurant review or never had to write a weekly blog post.
As I look back, I learned so much through this English class. If I am to write something that does not need to be formal, I would include pictures, I would change the font, I would change the color, I would change font sizes, I would bold few words, I would underline few words, I would highlight few words....etc. I would do so much to deliver what I intend to say in the most effective way.

This English class not only changed how I write. I think it also changed my perception of food. I am sure it did change yall's too. I am no kidding. Easiest way to find out is going to a grocery shopping. Whenever you pick up something, you'll find yourself looking at the nutrition facts !

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