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Personal Narrative: Origami

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Origami occupied three years of my childhood. I got my hands on an origami book when I was in fourth grade. The book, as I recalled, had a pink cover. The book was special. It was the not the first origami book I had; however, it was a lot more understandable for a kid than the other two yellow-covered origami books. The yellow books taught me to fold dinosaurs using long paragraphs and complicated geometric point naming, an approach that was beyond my intellectual capacity. The pink book only drawings, arrows, and a minimal amount of words, but I produced jumping frogs, fighting sumos, and throwable Shurikens. Having finishing folding everything in the pink book, and I started over. I improved some instructions. I managed to make a flock of ten canes in one piece of paper. Gluing small flowers together, I to make a huge globular flower. …show more content…

I was a fifth grader, losing direction without my origami encyclopedia. I did not possess the intelligence to continue origami without a guide. Therefore, I quit. It was quite satisfying to recollect those good days. In my opinion, the overall experience of folding origami is a unique type of puzzle. In one aspect, there are experience-based skills that are similar to one gained from working with the origami many times. For example, there were many people having a problem with a step that requires knowledge from another instruction presented early in the book. It was frustrating to go back to some previous instruction to find a supposedly standard move to achieve the leap in the current instruction. Hence, a book can make an origami puzzle hard by incorporating many

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