second day of geooooo! WOOOO.FINALLY, after that long first day of being introduced to the whole course outline and having that anticipation of how it will all come together, we have started our first unit and are starting to become more familiar with what geo is really about. I feel like, even after two days of being in this class, people have started to become closer as a group and become more friendly to one and other which is a GREAT feeling! As i am writing this blog about how geo is turning out thus far, i am realizing how much we are able to learn and accomplish in one full day. its AMAZING how much more productive we can be staying in one room as a group. That reminds me again about one of simmers goals for this course: to prove that 4 different courses being integrated into one for a single class is a lot better than individually learning from books and stuff. I am already convinced that this type of learning is a lot more intriguing and fun to be around. anyways....
SOOO... to start off the day we wrote a, what i would call a pretty easygoing quiz on the manual that we were given the previous day. I thought the quiz was useful because it helped us remember to know about our whole course and everything that we will be doing. THEN simmers introduced the course on sustainable development. personally the topic of sustainable development really catches my interest because it is clear that in this world we need to become a lot more involve in sustaining our economy, environment and socially or it will all fall apart. I saw that the lorax movie really emphasized the importance of sustainable development. We also viewed a powerpoint on it as well as debated on which part of the environment was the most crucial to maintain. we learned that our population is the most important part to sustain. My group: christy, dunlop, tom and me argued for population and we ended up being right which was kind of funny cause we all bailed on it at the end! Looking forward to learning even more about that the next few weeks!
After lunch we had our careers class with andrychuk. We learned more about our true colours and that everyone has a certain amount of every colour in them which i thought was pretty interesting. We also were introduced to our first task which was the "me bag". You have to show the class who you are as a person by picking different things to put in your me bag. It took a bit of thinking but i thought of some good things that represented me.
For 5th period, Simms got us to do an exciting outdoor activity which involved groups from the class working together and leading each other through each of the games. I took a few falls for the team which was kind of funny but oh well i was going hard :P This activity really brought us together as a class. I thought it was cool how i took on a leadership which i usually have not done in the past.
Overall i am really enjoying the geostudies course and i cant wait for tomorrow! excited to see what sojourn is going to show us tomorrow :) anyways, thats all for now. PEACE!! :D
CAILEAN TW
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