Dear Mom and Dad

Letter Home Response

This was another assignment I ended up really enjoying, when we were first presented with it, I wasn’t really sure what to write. I talk with my parents on the phone and via text close to every day, and I wasn’t sure how to write an interesting letter with information they hadn’t necessarily heard. While constructing what I was going to write I realized, quite honestly it didn’t really matter what I did because anything that I sent back to my parents, they would really appreciate, this allowed me to take a step back and look at the assignment just as it is. This past summer when I was in Greece and Spain with a friend I wrote a blog type email back to my family each day, summarizing our day. I wanted to approach this letter in a similar fashion, trying to make the letter very enjoyable to read, and not too serious. In my family we love joking around, laughing and having a good time, and I felt like this would be an opportunity to go back to that.

In my letter I tried to briefly summarize different aspects of my college experience that I know they had heard before but I still tried to make it enjoyable. My handwriting is pretty awful so I had to spend extra time on it. After finishing the 2 and half hours I spent physically writing the letter down while reading what I wrote from my computer I was very happy with the results. This of course was after I realized how much my hand hurt from writing that long, but I think my parents will enjoy it, and that’s really all that matters. I ended up writing well over the desired length because I could picture my parents reading it, and the joy it would bring them. They have given me the opportunity to come to a great school like Syracuse; the least I can do is spend a couple hours writing a letter.

This was another example of my earlier inclinations with academic writing and “finding your voice.” Since day one in this class I have strongly voiced my opinion in my writing that writing can be very enjoyable if you like the topic, and this assignment was no different. I obviously had different motives than with other assignments but this was another one that I really felt passionate about, which allowed me to enjoy the process of writing it.