Student’s Journeys to UW: Recent Episodes
Lela Hughes
Freshman at the University of Washington discuss their journeys to college and relate their stories to some of their class material from their first quarter.
This podcast features the four members of our group, including Ally, Lela, Eli, Melody and Meghan. We will be talking about our roles in the podcast series as well as a brief introduction of ourselves.
Featuring Lela, Meghan, and Melody, this podcast brings this series to a close, capturing the main idea that we took away from reading these Scandinavian texts and the similarities we see in today’s world. Melody talks about her journey to UW, being an international student and talks more about the different factors that have helped her to succeed. We feel that this episode provides some insight into the idea of a journey and how while it may be different today than it was many years ago in Scandinavia, it will always act as an opportunity to start a new beginning.
This podcast episode features Melody with moderators Eli and Ally. Melody, as an international student, finds herself connected the most with a medieval text called The Saga of Erik the Red in all the texts taught in course HUM 101 provided by University of Washington. The Saga of Erik the Red is a text about Erik the Red being banished to Greenland and finding settlement in a whole new environment. The text also details events like Son of Erik the Red, Leif Erikson, preaching proper Christianty to Greenland. The recurring theme of settlement has captured Melody’s attention and she, herself is finding settlement in a different country far from home and also transiting to the college community. In this podcast, she will be sharing her journey to the University of Washington as well as the connection to the saga.
In this episode Eli and Lela are featured with Meghan being the moderator. Lela and Eli discuss why they decided to go to the UW with both wanting something very different from what they were used to. Eli and Lela go on to talk about how Covid-10 has affected their college learning and social experiences. After their discussion on Covid, Lela and Eli compare and contrast their very different road trips to the UW. Lela mentions how long her road trip was from New York and how diverse the United States was while Eli said his road trip included a lot of mental preparation and build up to living by himself. Lastly, Eli and Lela compare their journeys to that of Saint Brenden from Norse tales.
In this episode Meghan Weber is featured with Lela and Ally moderating. They reference the Scandavian story “The Tale of Audun of the West Fjords'' where the main character Audun is invited to sail with a Norwegian captain to Greenland in return for Audun helping him. Starting in Norway, Audun then embarks on a journey where his strong will and luck helps him survive. A pivotal moment during Audun’s journey in the story is when Audun decides to spend all his money on a treasure (a bear) to give to King Sweyn. Auduns strong will is shown when Audun encounters King Harald and refuses to give the bear to him despite this putting his life into jeopardy due to the king's opposition to each other.