I am writing the preface for my anthology on my WordPress web-log because I do not have a Microsoft Word or an AppleWord installed into my computer.  So I will type it here for now and then I will e-mail it to my yahoo account and print it from there.  I figured I could kill two birds with one stone by doing this.

The topic I chose for my anthology project is, “things that make me think.”  All of the articles I did research on are based upon things that make me think, which is how I came up with the topic, along with the help of Mrs. Skotnicki.  All of the articles I have done anthology cards on relate to my life.  Whether I have done them at a certain point, or tried them, or just wondered about them, they just make me think in my mind.  Without some of these things I would have nothing to wonder or think about.  Life could be very boring without some of these things.

Some of the pieces that I have collected have very strong relationships with one another.  For example I chose to do my two multicultural pieces on Kielbasa and Pasta.  The are similar because they are both foods and both of their names rhyme.  More importantly the both resemble my two heritages, Polish and Italian.  Polish people love Kielbasa, which is sausage if you did not know, and Italian people love to eat pasta.  Personally, I am a huge fan of them both.  I love going to both sides of my family and eating the two very different types of cultural devised food.  These two pieces were highly related to each other and a perfect fit for my anthology because I think about them all the time when I am hungry.   I also took pieces that are based upon hockey, which is my favorite sport.  I think about hockey a lot because I play it all the time with my friends and teammates.   I also chose pieces that were based upon things that I do not have a chance to experience but things that I wonder about sometimes.  Things such as the ozone, soy milk, and the Cold War.  I have never had a chance to have experience with any of these things but I have thought about them once or twice before.  I also added in some random pieces that have no relations to each other at all, and yet I still wonder about them sometimes.  Such pieces have topics that include the movie License to Drive, which I think about because I hope to get my license soon.  My friend’s math homework, which makes my brain go into overdrive when I think about it, usually giving me a headache.  Along with a cell phone battery ad, which I think about because I need one for my phone.  Add in some random web sites such as yahoo, msn, and wordpress and you have a whole pot of soup on all these different types of things that I think about. 

I really did not learn anything to special about myself.  They only thing this anthology project did for me is it put all the things I think about into an organized perspective.