Well,
it’s official. I can start making tours. Even though my German is
understandable I was much more confident that I should do the English tours and
I spent most of this week trying to memorize the script. At first, I was going
to have the test on Tuesday but then Lena (my other boss) told me that we
should move it up to Friday. I was concerned as I didn’t think I had properly
memorized anything to say the least.
I
spent most of the week just staying at my desk either studying the script for
the tours or for working on my paper on industrialization. The information I
collect for the industrialization paper will eventually be used to create a
theme tour through the museum. Thus, I want to collect as much useful
information as possible before I am done. For the most part, researching for
the entire time can be incredibly strenuous and boring. However, I hope that I
will soon be done with the industrialization paper so that I can move on to
other activities.
In
many ways this project is like any other paper in my history classes. I have to
research a topic and then present the information to form an argument. Unlike
my history papers, I have to be conscious about making sure the information can
be consumed by a general audience. This poses some difficulties as I want to
make sure I get practical information…but it is easy to get distracted as well.
Since German industrialization is a large topic as well and delves into large
political and economic issues, getting just the right amount of information
while at the same time avoiding rattling on about other issues is difficult to
say the least.
I
hope I will be done with this paper soon.
Your work sounds interesting but also some what class-like, which can be hard! I think you've found some good strategies to make sure you produce strong content for your industrialization theme.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you had to study and work is impressive to me; that takes dedication to memorize a whole script! Good for you sticking to it.
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