Getting Outside the Comfort Zone

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Keeping our discussion of cultural connection to place in mind, I want you to choose an unfamiliar place somewhere in the city. You just did a blog post on a place with which you connected, a place that felt familiar; this second place should feel foreign, strange, and unrelated to you. I want this place to be somewhere that does not resonate with you culturally, where you feel a little out of place. Again, please pay very close attention to your word choice and work toward creating a vivid picture of the place using detail and description. Use 150 words at minimum. In your paragraph, you must include the following:

1. One overheard conversation or snippet as seen here or here
2. One smell
3. A bodily reaction (ie adrenaline rushing through your veins and making your heart beat fast, goosebumps, a nervous feeling in your stomach, sweaty palms, etc)
4. A list of three things

Don't forget to comment on two classmates' blogs and leave me a comment with their names!