Documentation:
This past spring, I took an honors seminar called On the River: Experiencing the Amazon. Class met on every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30-3:45 with 15 other students and two professors plus an honors advisor. Together, we learned about the Amazon Rainforest specifically focusing on the Brazilian Amazon.
When I was a little girl I used to want to become a doctor and work with the Amazonian tribes to emulate the doctor from Medicine Man. However, I realized medicine wasn't my calling but it never stopped me from dreaming of one day visiting the Amazon. I never expected to take a seminar with study tour as my first honors experience but as soon as I saw that a class that traveled to the Amazon was offered I knew I had to apply. Being an International Affairs major, I didn't plan on taking an environmental sciences course but it completely changed my view on the world and taught me so much about protecting the environment and being more aware of the surroundings. Plus, I had the opportunity to meet many honors and non-honors students from vastly different backgrounds who I would never have met, otherwise.
The study tour occurred over Spring Break and lasted for 10 days. It was the most incredible 10 days of my life. Seeing the rainforest in real life was surreal and life-changing. The sights were beautiful and the animals were exotically colored. On top of all the wonderful experiences such as letting a tarantula crawl all over me and holding a baby sloth, the friends I made were truly the icing on the cake. I was unaware that I would make close friends on a study trip where I knew no one but the people I traveled with are some of my most cherished friends to this day.
I will never forget this experience and I am incredibly grateful to the University of Cincinnati staff, the wonderful people at Amazonia Expeditions, and the friends I made on the trip. I believe if anyone is interested in taking a study tour with honors I 100% recommend this one if it fits into your schedule. Without this trip, I never would have learned to appreciate the beauty of the world around me and be more aware of protecting the environment. Attached below is a link to the journal I kept during my trip which further details the epic adventure I had while abroad.
When I was a little girl I used to want to become a doctor and work with the Amazonian tribes to emulate the doctor from Medicine Man. However, I realized medicine wasn't my calling but it never stopped me from dreaming of one day visiting the Amazon. I never expected to take a seminar with study tour as my first honors experience but as soon as I saw that a class that traveled to the Amazon was offered I knew I had to apply. Being an International Affairs major, I didn't plan on taking an environmental sciences course but it completely changed my view on the world and taught me so much about protecting the environment and being more aware of the surroundings. Plus, I had the opportunity to meet many honors and non-honors students from vastly different backgrounds who I would never have met, otherwise.
The study tour occurred over Spring Break and lasted for 10 days. It was the most incredible 10 days of my life. Seeing the rainforest in real life was surreal and life-changing. The sights were beautiful and the animals were exotically colored. On top of all the wonderful experiences such as letting a tarantula crawl all over me and holding a baby sloth, the friends I made were truly the icing on the cake. I was unaware that I would make close friends on a study trip where I knew no one but the people I traveled with are some of my most cherished friends to this day.
I will never forget this experience and I am incredibly grateful to the University of Cincinnati staff, the wonderful people at Amazonia Expeditions, and the friends I made on the trip. I believe if anyone is interested in taking a study tour with honors I 100% recommend this one if it fits into your schedule. Without this trip, I never would have learned to appreciate the beauty of the world around me and be more aware of protecting the environment. Attached below is a link to the journal I kept during my trip which further details the epic adventure I had while abroad.
amazon_journal.docx | |
File Size: | 174 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Artifact:
The artifact I have is a cookbook I made of all the recipes I learned from the cooks on the boat as well as a few of the people who work for my father so as to be able to represent the entire food culture of Brazil and not just the Amazonas Region. I have always had a love of food and wanted to learn more about the food aspect of Brazilian culture and as we all had to choose a project I chose to create a cookbook. I learned Portuguese phrases so I could do my best to talk to the cooks without a translator and observed them cook as well.
savs_cook_book.pub | |
File Size: | 1212 kb |
File Type: | pub |