Final Post

Hello,
This is my final post for collouqium, summer A 2010. Initially I was annoyed by the fact that I had to take this class. I thought I already knew what the class was supposed to teach me. The truth is the class made me reflect on issues that I already considered important, but due to being extremly busy with other aspects of my life, such as graduating next spring, I had neglected considering this aspects.
The discussions about ecology, wildlife and the environment were intensified due to the fact that our class took place during the oil spill in the gulf. This tragic disaster made all of us who were participating in colloquium take the environmental discussions in a very serious manner. The thing that struck me the most is how many different opinions existed around the issues discussed in class and how opened we all were to listen to other people's opinion. I think that we had a very diverse class and this definitely enriched the class content. I did learn a lot not only about Florida and its surroundings (colloquium did give me a sense of place), but also about other cultures. In our class we had people from Africa, Russia, Mejico, Argentina and Puerto Rico. I am sure I am forgetting some of the colloquium foreigners. The fact is that this definitely added color to the class. Colloquium was not hard, at times it was tedious, a lot of work, but most of all it was different. It exposed me to a variety of different quotidian and not so quotidian aspects of life that one way or another relate to Florida. I learnt and I love learning, about anything.