Silfee+Reading+Response+1

While reading //My Freshman Year// I found it very odd to consider what it would be like to see a fifty plus year old woman walking around the dorms here at Bloomsburg. If my neighbor happened to be a woman of around that age I feel like I wouldn't be quite sure how to approach her. However, I would be curious as to what her experiences overseas were like and would probably try to get to know her a little bit just to listen to some of the stories she probably has to offer. I find that I like to talk to more experienced people about their experiences in order to sort of expand my own knowledge about certain activities that I haven't yet and possibly never will get to experience. I found it interesting that none of the students at her school seemed to be interested in what she did overseas. It seemed as though they weren't interested in getting to know her at all. While reading //On Ethnography// I felt as though it was a little more difficult to get through. Not that the information in the book as a whole won't be interesting, but the information in the first chapter was just really quite boring and the twenty-six pages seemed to drag on. However, the information in the first chapter must not be the most important of the book or the author wouldn't have included the line that says to skip the first chapter. I found it a little difficult to compare the two readings because they're written very differently. //On Ethnography// is more like a non-fiction novel that just provides information about ethnography; the terms used by ethnographers, what they do, and how. Whereas //My Freshman Year// seems more like a fiction novel even though it's actually not. It's written more like a fiction novel because it's telling a story. It's also more relevant to college students because they can relate to it more than they can to //On Ethnography//.