Reflection about the course

This course on pop culture helped me understand a lot of things about my life here in America. Mostly he helped me to stop fighting with my reality. Sounds confusing? I will explain. We have a wonderful life here in America. My husband has a thriving career, my daughter is in excellent day care, and we definitely live a comfortable life. However, I did keep a very great effort not to mingle with the local culture. I did not refer local holydays and customs, and most of my friends were of course Israelis. I told myself all the time that we do not belong here. We are guests who enjoy the options that America can offer. I can say the last two years I'm going through the process of acceptance, acceptance of the new culture which in many ways has become my home. This is of course related to the fact that my daughter has grown and understands more, and we cannot ignore what is happening around us. We have to go out of our bubble. And I opened up. I have American friends ,and I am very unconcernedly everything that happens around me. We of course continues to celebrate the Jewish holidays but also making room to the local holidays. And it feels good. We will always be foreigners here but the feeling of temporariness in our life has passed. This is our home now. And we take the good things of both worlds and give place to new things. At the beginning of the course we talked a lot about this subject, and I searched all the time where the text relates to my life, what it is that I can identify with. There were a lot of things. The text that most touched me was “Home at Last” by Dinaw Mengestu Ethiopian author. I have not experienced the things he talked about them since I came here as an adult with a family, but I really identified with his pain. When you talked about the stages of culture shock it really took me back. I went through them all! I identified with each step there. The name of the book is accurate and symbolic of our life in America. I enjoyed reading the texts in the book, and wishing I had time to read more. Throughout the course I looked at the process I'm going through and I was glad to see I'm not alone in many of the processes. In ssues with which we began the course I had more interesting than the units on movies and music. Of course you can learn a lot about pop culture through music and movies, but the issues that we focused less talked to me. The technological projects in the course was very significant and I got lost. It's really not a subject I am good at, and I'm probably not not going to improve in the near future.... I prefer to focus on reading and writing and not waste so much time on technology. Maybe it's a bit outdated but it is definitely one of the things I know for sure that I'm no good at them. In conclusion, I know that I was not an outstanding student, and I apologize for that. It was hard to fit the interaction of class and a lot of little issues I lost interest. I'm sorry mainly on the fact that I feel I have missed you as a teacher and as a person can learn a lot from him.