Shelbee

Please do not work on this assignment at home. Wait until I give you instructions in class during my presentation on Thursday. Thank you.

Based on one of your favorite group discussions, write a memo summarizing all the ideas. You may choose to write a memo and later draw a diagram on the group discussion. You may write a memo on your study abroad experiences or draw a visual representation to share in class.

One thing that i found useful about the memo process was being able to have a small log or journal to store thoughts when I was out and about with my participants while they were studying abroad. One example of this was the free weekend. I ended up becoming friends with some of the participants and they would invite me to go places with them after classes and tours and on the free travel time as well. I was interested in seeing the way that there perceptions were changing as they were immersed in the new culture so I would jot down meaningful conversations and things that I found interesting or indicative that perceptions were either changing or being formed a new. I remember the free weekend being especially significant because several of the students went to a place called // **Montepulciano.** //// I remember taking out my journal and writing down memos capturing the level of excitement students felt for going to that place. I tried to isolate the reasons and motivations behind their interest in the city so I just jst kind of let them tell me about it and I noticed a lot of... // // "OMG!!!! Twilight was filmed there, are you crazy, that is reason enough....riiiiiiight?!?" // // "can you imagine Edward probably ate pasta at this very same place" // // "I want to be able to track and go where the cast went and experience it like them!" //