Reflection

These past three weeks have not gone by as fast as I had hoped. I learned a lot about my self while completing this task. I learned that I hate doing my laundry by hand that’s for sure, but I know that if I had to I defiantly would be able to do it on my own. After doing this task I have much more respect for the no impact man and I know how hard it must have been for all of his family. I noticed that I criticized Colin’s wife because I saw that in the video that was shown in class, that she slipped at one point with her weakness which was I believe Starbucks Coffee. Now after having gone through this myself I completely understand why she would allow herself to do this at one point. The no impact summative was only up to three things for our class ( that we offered to give up) Colin’s wife had her whole life turned upside down when her husband decided to take out everything that he thought some how made an impact. Like I said, much more respect for this woman and her family. To a certain extent I enjoyed this summative because I really got to see like how my life would be without these machines that help me in my day to day life. I know I did a pretty good job, although I failed at one point, with keeping with doing laundry by hand. My parents were pretty impresses (as was I) because to be honest, I didn’t think I was going to be able to do this myself. So will I carry on this no impact? Well telling the truth here, I don’t think so. I think I will defiantly keep this up to a certain extent though because I know that I can. Like for example, during the summer my family plans to actually use the clothes line that we have purchased during the summer months only. My parents like that we made such a good investment and we will continue this. I think this would be the part I like the most, because I really isn’t that hard to do. All I would have to do instead of placing all the clothes in the dryer is to bring them outside and hang them. And it’s not like I would have to do them all by myself, I could have my family help me out on this part since it would be all our laundry at this point. To conclude my summative, I’d like to say that this was truly a summative that I would remember down the road. I know now that if everyone tried to eliminate one thing that does make an impact to our planet, we would have the confidence that our planet would be able to sustain life for many more years to come.

Tenth Blog

This is the last day! I didn’t have to wash my clothes today because I totally have reduced the amount of washes I do. So much easier to wash a bunch of really dirty clothes rather than half dirty clothes. So I wear clothes more often and I also rotate my clothes so they don’t get as dirty as fast. I know for a fact though that my parents are exceptionally happy that these three weeks are finally over. I totally am too, not going to lie; they have been a long three weeks. And I have been miserable all three weeks too, so I don’t know if it was worth it or not yet. But I defiantly made a lot of progress.

Ninth Blog

Yay, almost done! It will soon be over. And that is what I am mostly thinking about at the moment. Haha. I am finally getting the hang of totally getting all the absorbed water out before I dry my clothes. Also the weather is still pretty good, so like I am able to use the clothes line as well. Other than that the only problem is that my clothes don’t smell as good as I would hope. I am used to that fresh sent when your clothes just get out of the dryer. But I don’t get that. And I also noticed that when I dry my clothes outside there are not only so many bugs on my clothes, which is SUPER gross, but also my clothes seem to be abnormally harder. Like it is so much harder to fold and stuff, but I am guessing that is just because there is not the same amount of heat that is being used to dry the clothes. Only a few more days left. Thank goodness!

Eighth Blog

What can I say, other than I can’t wait for this summative to be over. Honestly I don’t know if I have said this enough, but this has defiantly dragged me down a little bit. I’m almost convinced that this is like over. And even in my head I want to give up. The problem for me is finding the time to actually do this summative. It is so hard to find the time to put aside my clothes and wash them for a certain time and have them ready and DRY, key word, for when I need them. I had to start wearing wet clothes to school in hope that they would dry by the time I get there. It’s terrible I know, and I sound like a total hobo, but because of the amount of water I do not squeeze out before I lay the clothes out to dry, by morning, the clothes that I need are not dried. And I’m kind of getting sick of it. :(

Seventh Blog

So problem. Haha. My parents forgot that I was doing this whole no impact summative, and they put my clothes in the washer along with their clothes. I don’t know what to say. Like I’m disappointed to a certain extent. I’m super glad they did it deep down though, cause my clothes finally smell fresh. LOL. I’ve been waiting for the end of this project for this to occur, but I got it sooner than expected. So yes, I am happy, but I defiantly told my parents that I can’t happen again. Or else I’ll fail this project. They don’t want that to happen so I’m sure they won’t make that mistake again. That’s about it that happened today. It feels like I have a gigantic weight lifted off my shoulder cause I don’t have to deal washing my clothes this week. Yay.

Sixth Blog

OH YEAH , fun, another rugby game that was played in the rain. Aw yeah (sarcasm). Not pumped at all actually. Like me knowing that I had to go home and wash the nasty clothes that I was wearing was making me less interested in the game. I really miss my washing machine. I can defiantly live without my dryer though. I mean it’s hard, but I can do it. But my washing maching… Like I’m contemplating giving up. It is terrible. I really don’t know how the No Impact man dealt with all this stress. I’m sorta kinda hating my life. This really sucks. Anyways I’m sure the weather will get better? I hope and pray to God it does. I have so much homework and summatives to do, and when I got home I had to deal with all those dirty clothes. I asked my parents to help me out. :P Guess what they said.. “You told your teacher you were going to do this, so deal with it.” Oh yeah, best day of my life.

Fifth Blog

The weather just keeps getting better and better. This time for real ; no sarcasm. :) it’s good though cause I can finally use my clothes line out side. Oh gosh though, the effort to put it out though, is a drag. As I’m writing this, I am thinking “what a lazy ass”  & you might be thinking that yourself too, but seriously, it’s really tiring especially since it’s nice and warm outside. I had to purchase a bunch of pegs, because I realized I didn’t have enough for the amount of clothes that I put out there. I just went to the dollar store and bought them for like a dollar. Pretty reasonable. But yeah the weather has finally been perfect to put the clothes out on the line and so I did that today. Lots of reaching up to get the line though, and now my arm hurts. :( Not so happy about that. And I am defiantly not looking forward to doing that again.