Journal 49

     I finally finished my UC’s prompt 1 essay. I spent a lot of time to work on this essay because the topic was hard to development. The topic was: Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. I had no idea what should I write when I first time saw this topic, so I researched some information about how to write this essay online. Majority of analysis said that the key words of this topic were “or” and “dreams and aspirations”. We couldn’t provide more than one background information instead we could only pick one from family, community, or school. If the writers focused more than one of them, they might definitely out off topic. I thought very carefully before I started write this essay. I used a personal story in for this essay. My cousin, Jhe-Yu, was the main point in the story. Jhe-Yu was diagnosed as an autistic kid in his early childhood. Compare with other cousins, I didn’t have a close relationship with him before deeply knowing what Autism was. He only followed his own thought and did whatever he wanted through his disability to control his emotions and behaviors. Sometimes I felt tired of his restricted and repetitive behaviors, so the time I spent with him was less than other children.