Saturday, August 29, 2015

Kim, Matt, Amber and I's Creation Story

I think it's safe to say my group took a decent amount of influence (with our own twists) from the Aborigine's (Australian) creation story that was apart of our reading last week.  We decided to use two deities, which we thought was fairly different since most creation stories/religions in general that we knew about revolved around one god or many gods.  I'm pretty sure we are going along the path that our first god (a male) ends up creating the second god (a female) with stuff happening in between (not wanting to give too much away). After researching a little bit, it seems like there are a few other creation stories (specifically from Egypt and Mesopotamia in this link http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistoriesResponsive.asp?historyid=ab83 ) that involve two deities at the start. How ours differ from these seem to be that here is less/no conflict with our gods while their gods have a lot of conflict between them. 

Monday, August 24, 2015

My Travels (or lack thereof)

I want to give a quick autobiography of myself before I go in-depth of my travels.  My name is Alan.  I am majoring in Business/IT here at Middle Georgia State University.  I've been living in Warner Robins ever since I was four years old.


I was born raised for the first four years of my life in Tucson, Arizona (toward the southern border of the state near Mexico).  Sometime during that summer, we ended up moving from Tucson to Warner Robins over the course of a few days by driving the whole distance with a few breaks in between.  I honestly remember very little from the whole experience, which is a shame in the grand scheme of my travels.  Other than that lengthy cross country trip, my feet have been firmly planted in Warner Robins except for an occasional trip to Florida to visit family.  My travel has been limited, at least when it comes to school trips for band or an honors classed in middle school, due to my severe peanut allergy I have had since I was two years old.  Since my allergy is much more manageable as a responsible adult (and, in my opinion, has also gotten less severe), taking trips will be much easier and more of something i would like to do.  Hearing about trips from friends who went on them throughout school has motivated me to travel more once I'm a little older and have more time on my hands.