I want to reflect on both classes as we are nearing the end of the semester. I missed quite a handful of days, which I regret missing. As Rachel said at the start of the semester, a part of writing is to be vulnerable. For some of the days that I did show up to the classes, my favorite parts were reading articles from both classes, reading the poem from Morgan Parker in Comp II and looking at the digital maps from my Ethnography class and comparing countries, which made me realize that Russia is way smaller than I thought. Despite missing days due to both mental and physical health, I have learned a lot from both classes; how to be a good writer and how to not let colonized practices define how we see the world. After reading “Decolonizing Ethnography: A Reimagined Framework for Teaching Radical Ethnography” I have learned about my culture, and through writing and reading I hope to continue to learn how to use my voice.