Short description of who I plan to write about.

This is in a way, the beginnings of my essay. For my essay, I plan to interview Vicki Butcher, who was the advisor of Kappa Phi last year and lives in Athens. This is a description of her from my point of view, before I interview her.

Vicki is a person who reminds me a lot of my grandmother. She is patient, kind, and loving toward all of her Kappa Phi girls. Maybe that's why we call her "mom", because she cares about us as if she were the mother of our whole group. Vicki is somewhat short, wears glasses, and dyes her short hair a shade of brown. She lives in Athens, but I don't think that she has always lived here her whole life. I know that she has kids. I forget their names, but she talks about them all the time. I remember every week at chapter meetings she would sit quietly in the corner of the room in what we all called "Vicki's chair", which was an old rocking chair that was painted black with gold detail. She would just watch the meetings, just smiling and keeping to herself as us students discuss details of our service projects ad socials. I really only knew her for one semester before Michelle, our new advisor, took over. However, even though I only knew her for a short time, I was sad just like the other girls when she announced to us that she was retiring. She comes back every now and again to see how we are doing, and Michelle is a wonderful advisor too, but all of us miss "mom". 

It is very obvious that I need to gather more information and perfect this... a lot.

Review of Gary Smith piece.

This one was much better than the last, no crazy ranting review here! I must say I actually kinda liked the bitter-sweetness of this essay, with Takes Enemy's basketball fame to hitting rock bottom to rising up again was certainly more uplifting than the piece about cannibalism. I also enjoyed how the author makes a contrast between the past and the modern age of the Crow tribe, as well as his explanations of the expectations that are present for those in that community. I do think though, that while basketball is certainly a central theme here, I think that Smith relied a little too much on this one aspect to tell a story that was much bigger.

Response to the Piers Paul Read Piece

Okay, okay, okay. This piece I am just not okay with. Just visualizing this cannibalism stuff in my head in all of that detail was flat out disgusting. To be quite honest, I couldn't even finish reading it. I tried, I really did, but I just got too queasy at the thought about 4 pages in and I just couldn't do it! I do have to appreciate the author's very detailed descriptions that paint a very vivid picture, so he did his job well in that department because believe me, the picture in my head was VERY vivid. It is really gritty non sugar-coated facts, and honestly I think that is what bothered me the most, knowing that it actually happened and knowing all of the details of it. I also must give the writer props for being able to write about it without being too disturbed, that would take some talent. Overall, Alicia's review here says that out of all of the survival stories that I have read, this one was not the best, I mean, I couldn't even finish it and the whole thing was about cannibalism. Maybe I just couldn't see the deeper meaning because I was so grossed out, I don't know.  1 out of 5 stars.