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.