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Week 1 – Introductory Blog Post

Hi! My name is Michael and I am a second-year geography student. I am relatively interested in romance studies and am looking forward to taking this course. To me, the subject is complex and multifaceted. Generally, it can be defined as a discipline that studies romance languages and anything associated with them. However, the definition […]

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who am i??

Hi everyone!
I’m Deeba, and I made this blog for RMST 202 where I’ll be putting my reflections and thoughts about the books I will be reading for this course. 
In the course introduction it was made clear that the Romance World isn’t a real thing, and therefore it belongs to nobody and everybody at the same time. There also is no indication that the texts will be centred around romance in the feelings-y way either; hence the URL “Romance but not really.” Truthfully, I find the grading structure of this course quite interesting and I’ve always wanted to make a blog but never really had anything to focus it on, so hopefully I’ll be able to take the bull by the horns and carpe diem (insert all other vaguely-romance-derived phrases).
By the way, I’m in first year, hoping to major in International Relations and minor in Commerce. I didn’t want to take a class in English Literature because that’s what I’ve already studied before, and I chose this class because I like the breadth of the novel selection. 
My intentions are to read as many of the books on the list as I can, paying special attention to those that focus on the Spanish Civil War or its aftermath since I find that area of history very interesting. Among the themes that I expect to encounter through reading these books, I think the ones that most pique my interest are globalisation, colonialism and postcolonialism, revolution, and power. 
Going back to Romance Studies, I was very glad to see this course on the literature requirement list because as I said, I like the breadth of the text backgrounds. Having grown up in the UK, and done a couple years of high school here in Canada, I’ve mostly studied texts written originally in English. I imagine that this course will offer some insight into the gateway of translation and how important it can be in expanding your horizons in the literary sense. Either way, I’m definitely looking forward to what this term holds in store.
I hope to write something here worth reading, but realistically I’ll look back in a few years and laugh 🙂

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who am i??

Hi everyone!
I’m Deeba, and I made this blog for RMST 202 where I’ll be putting my reflections and thoughts about the books I will be reading for this course. 
In the course introduction it was made clear that the Romance World isn’t a real thing, and therefore it belongs to nobody and everybody at the same time. There also is no indication that the texts will be centred around romance in the feelings-y way either; hence the URL “Romance but not really.” Truthfully, I find the grading structure of this course quite interesting and I’ve always wanted to make a blog but never really had anything to focus it on, so hopefully I’ll be able to take the bull by the horns and carpe diem (insert all other vaguely-romance-derived phrases).
By the way, I’m in first year, hoping to major in International Relations and minor in Commerce. I didn’t want to take a class in English Literature because that’s what I’ve already studied before, and I chose this class because I like the breadth of the novel selection. 
My intentions are to read as many of the books on the list as I can, paying special attention to those that focus on the Spanish Civil War or its aftermath since I find that area of history very interesting. Among the themes that I expect to encounter through reading these books, I think the ones that most pique my interest are globalisation, colonialism and postcolonialism, revolution, and power. 
Going back to Romance Studies, I was very glad to see this course on the literature requirement list because as I said, I like the breadth of the text backgrounds. Having grown up in the UK, and done a couple years of high school here in Canada, I’ve mostly studied texts written originally in English. I imagine that this course will offer some insight into the gateway of translation and how important it can be in expanding your horizons in the literary sense. Either way, I’m definitely looking forward to what this term holds in store.
I hope to write something here worth reading, but realistically I’ll look back in a few years and laugh 🙂

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Howdy!

A quick introduction about me! My name is Andrew How (yes, How), and I’m a 3rd-year exchange student from sunny Singapore! I’m doing a degree in social sciences at the Singapore Management University and will be studying at UBC for the winter term. Having decided that coming here was an opportunity for exploration, I opted […]

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你好！这是何眺盛！

你好！我姓何。我叫何眺盛。我叫Yoshi用英语。我的名字是桥口毅用日本语。我是日本人。我是千叶人。可是，我在加拿大现在。我是UBC的学生。我是二年级。 The reason why I take this course is that this could be a help in several ways. First, I have a couple of Chinese friends from my first year at UBC and one from my high school! So, if I could communicate with their language even a little bit part of the conversation, that […]

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