Final Impressions

I truly enjoyed my experience taking the University Colloquium. It taught me to rethink about all my actions and how they might be affecting our plant. I also learned that times are changing and because society is making the change so are our children. The life that I once knew growing up, able to run around without my shoes on and play for hours outside is no longer. My question is still why? As I look back, I remember many of my friends that grew up in a full structured neighborhood and how they could not relate to how I grew up. I remember wishing how much I wanted to be rich like them and live in a bog house and have nice things. BUT as I look back now after taking this course I realize that my life was awesome!!! I may have not grown up rich with money but, my experience cannot be replaced!!! I was able to enjoy things that many generations before me never experienced. Truly, I was the lucky one! I was able to connect with nature and have fun outdoors. I got dirty and loved playing with animals. I was never bored, never; I found endless ways to occupy myself. I thank this course provided me with the acceptance that I was not robbed because I was not rich I was blessed!!!!! Really I was.

Through this course I learned how important recycling really is and because of this new knowledge I bought special bags to start the process in my household. My eyes were opened as to how much water we use every day for nothing! I watched movies that showed me how other countries do not even have sufficient drinking water, yet we Americans waste it on an hourly basis. They truly that the saying going through it like water to heart.

I loved doing the Wiki project with my group, one person in particular. She and I really came together and researched ways to provided energy for the world instead of using our current ways that are polluting the world and causing global warming. I truly did not think that global warming was real! I knew of it but the impact of it really never concerned me. I now know and share how real it is. I think that is the key to this class, learning and then sharing what we have learned.

I wanted to reconnect with nature through taking this course. I don’t think I will ever have the connection I once had although the memories are strong and loved. I wanted to share with my children my experience as a child, but that too I must say will not happen, although through many of the fieldtrips I took my children and they enjoyed their experience. Thank you!

Autumn Barionnette