By Aakerman

Reflections

Charlotte Aakerman — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:53:20 +0000

New reflections on life.

Have you ever considered that it isn’t the rest of the world that is weird and you’re not the only normal one. Maybe everyone else is normal and you are weird?
It sounds deep. It is. It’s not like I haven’t always referred to myself as weird, but It’s a new conclusion I’ve made, maybe that is the grand theory.
Life is a little hard at the moment, I was in a dark place to begin with because of my grades, pathetic or not. The project I’m involved in at the moment just isn’t helping much.

Wreck this Journal #3

Charlotte Aakerman — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:44:49 +0000

A couple of days ago I did another entry in my journal, I did the “draw fat lines and thin lines – pushing really hard with the pencil”, here we go:

Wreck this Journal #2

Charlotte Aakerman — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:43:16 +0000

Photos from the other day as promised

Relaxed day

Charlotte Aakerman — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:11:01 +0000

It’s been a relaxed day. Woke up late, walked my dog, went to the store with my mom. Had some noodles for lunch, read a bit.. That is sort of it actually. I don’t know where the day went, but it doesn’t matter too much. It’s good sometimes to just chill out, healthy

Tomorrow will be a very long day, getting up at 5 to be at work at around 7 and then I’ll leave Copenhagen at 18 or so. In between work in the morning and afternoon, I’ll be at school with my fieldwork project, doing an interview etc.

Yesterday evening I did another task in Wreck this Journal on the page which asks you to poke holes through it. It turned out pretty well in my own opinion, I’ll upload the photos tonight or tomorrow!

Wreck this Journal #1

Charlotte Aakerman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:50 +0000

I couldn’t help it. I simply had to start on the journal tonight!
I filled out the page where you write your name in white, illegibly, with tiny letters, backwards, faintly, with large letters and what not. Besides this I also carried on adding my own page numbers to all the pages, ended up with 184! Ouch. Then I scribbled numbers in colour across that specific task page. Moved on and cracked the spine of the book like I was told! Photos for you:

Wreck this Journal

Charlotte Aakerman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:24:52 +0000

I ordered a package of books from Amazon. It’s so cheap compared to buying books at home, it’s a bit ridiculous! So I got myself The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead, The Gift by Marcel Mauss and Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski. Lots of anthropological goodies and classics!
Besides that I thought I’d try this new idea, well honestly, it’s not very new. I looked at this book quite a lot of time ago, but the girls of a few blogs I’m reading, are now playing around with it. So I got excited about it again, so I ordered one as well! It’s called Wreck this Journal. I’m thinking it will be a lot of fun, it’s a book with a ton of tasks that requires you to push your boundaries and not be too much of a perfectionist, which I certainly am.

University life and grades

Charlotte Aakerman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:41:10 +0000

I’m an anthropology student of Copenhagen University. I’m also passionate about anthropology, I love it. I have no doubt in my bones, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. Besides this I work harder than I ever have before and the fact is daunting, I only JUST passed my first two exams at the end of the spring term.
It’s very hard for me to accept, because I have always received a grade corresponding to the effort I’ve put into a class or course. Which means I’ve always worked my ass off, otherwise I wouldn’t be where I am now. I’m fortunate enough to share my course with 85 other Danes, with some of the highest grade point average in the country. It’s not easy getting into Anthropology and I only got in on standby, had a year off to travel because my grade point average was borderline.
Fact is: I did my absolute best and it ended up in a very poor grade.

I’ve been processing this for the past week and a half or so. It’s still hard, but I won’t accept it as a slap in the face, I’d rather tell myself it’s a kick in the butt and then do something about it! It’s also nice to know it’s not because of my anthropology or my brain, it’s apparently because I write very poorly. It can be learned of course, but it is certainly going to take a while and a lot of effort. I don’t know how, but I will learn this. I have to.
Writing is the way we communicate and spread all the data that we gather, so obviously it is very important. I have no doubt that I will become a good anthropologist, but the means to achieve my goal is to write, so that is what I will do.
How do you practise writing? This certainly isn’t academic, but I’m figuring it can’t hurt, like reading a lot can never hurt. So here we are.

Current thoughts on life

Charlotte Aakerman — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:01:30 +0000

Life isn’t always as easy as I’d like it to be, but that is life, isn’t it? You can’t get what you want all the time. That is fair enough, I understand. I just get upset and annoyed because I feel like it’s been a struggle all along. Now I’m finally doing something that I love, it’s not a pain, even though it’s hard and still, still I have to fight every single step of the way.