Radio Chthulucene 87.9 FM

Upon reading about this project at the onset of this course, I was completely at a loss of where to even begin. I had taken LTWR 113 in the Fall quarter and had expected many of themes and approaches to overlap but the radio project threw me in a total loop. Where on campus do I have a connection to? What will I even write about? Does my writing and the location have to have a connection or should I try to be somewhere with a lot of foot traffic? I spent the first two weeks of the quarter going round and round without taking a moment to breathe and see the project and this course for what it is. 

I was walking to my apartment the other day (I live in transfer housing on campus) and found myself in a daydream of all the times I have walked the same path these past two years; each time, I am a little different. On this path I walked to my classes in silence, I gossiped with my friends, I cried on the phone with my mom, I had the courage to approach my boyfriend for the first time. I have changed so much these past two years but the path I walked has always remained the same. I thought about how this path could relate to the course and it immediately drew me back to all the conversations I had along it and how language and code-switching was essentially the basis of all of it. Because it is a path, there aren’t really outlets anywhere but I was considering going to the Lodge in Pepper Canyon as it is an end point of the path I always walk.

Understanding the Chthulucene, translanguaging, and the other themes of the course are pretty challenging and I hope as we continue I can use my knowledge of them and apply it to my life. I am not set on my location but I definitely hope to pick a place that is personal to me to perform the final project to the best of my abilities. 

Below I am adding other things that I have seen on the path to the transfer housing that have also contributed to making it seem endearing in my memories!