My Chautauqua Essay -- Personal Narrative essay about myself

My Chautauqua   I have a tendency to forget to blow over when Im sitting in my art history class. A double slide projector set-up shoots its characteristic artillery - bright colors, intense shapes, inscriptions in languages that are at generation read merely as symbols by my untrained mind, archaic figures with bodies contorted like elementary school students on the recess monkey bars. I talk of Diego Riveras The Liberation of the Peon, Frida Kahlos Self-Portrait, and Anselm Kiefers To the Unknown Painter with my classmates. The room is never silent as we marvel at these images. When the slide projectors give off that first glimmer of light, their Gatsby realize of a blurry green hope at the end of the dock, we depart on our collective imaginary field trips. The teacher doesnt need to coax, to pry, to pose multiple-choice questions. We are already on our way.   I wander down the Hall of Mirrors in the French Palace of Versailles. Soon after I am opinion of the convers e style, and recall that German Architect Mies van der Rohe has created the most simplistic a...