A New Book and a New Chapter- April 07, 2010

Today we had our presentation about the Global Perspectives program to the grade 11s, just as the last year’s group did one for us last year. The presentation started out awesome! The video was really well made; nice job video team especially Katrina! I thought we did a pretty good job with our presentation even without any rehearsal time.

It makes me sad that our group will soon be replaced by the grade 11s and that our year is coming to an end. But that’s all the sad news. As Mr. Matheny said, our journey has really just begun; there’s still the rest of the year to look forward to and there’s no one stopping any of us from continuing to do good in this world. A lucky and deserving bunch of 30 grade 11 students will soon be accepted into global perspectives and begin their own journey. I wish the best for them and I hope they realize how great of an opportunity they’ve come across. I’m excited for the next group, I can’t wait to watch over them and see how they do !

Each trip is like a book, and every chapter represents an event or moments of the whole Global Perspectives journey. Today a new book for the grade 11s have already begun its first chapter. As for us grade 12s, we’re also beginning a new chapter; though a chapter nearing the end of the book as to the beginning.

Today we were given a new assignment; our final project. We’re supposed to find ONE picture from our journey that “represent something significant from [my] experience” and also one “that has brought change to your life.” I think this will be our hardest but most meaningful assignment we’ve done in class. This is one of those assignments that we really have to think about; it’s hard to find just one picture to represent everything. All those things aside, I think this will be a really fun assignment to do yet serious at the same time. I’m looking forwards to hearing everyone’s presentation and seeing which picture they’ve chosen.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel like this year’s gone by so much faster than any other years. I mean it’s already April! As much as I want the last two months for the class to go by really slow, I don’t think it will. I feel like I’ve really opened up more with my classmates and after the trip I feel that much closer to everyone. When I came back from the trip; the depression hit me too. Everything I was doing seemed so “useless” compared to what we were doing in Mongolia. And now I realize how truly privileged we are to have education like this.

With my point from the 3rd paragraph, it seems like this book is being read too fast. It’s usually near the end of the book when the reader is really hooked on the story and just wants to finish it. But whoever is reading; they need to slow down!

Where does the time go?