I am currently at the computer lab at school and I am on my lunch break for Thursday’s session. We watched a film for the second half of class about types of farms and watching it raised a lot of thoughts and ideas especially since prior to the film, we heard from a guest speaker, Pam, about the idea of food security and food justice. I have always been interested in the idea of food and where I am getting my food from and living in a sustainable way so I could really engage well with this lecture. The film made me feel very motivated and willing for change, but on the other hand, the film made me feel sad and disheartened with what is going on. A big majority of the United States are turning a blind eye about their food production until a new disease outbreak pops up and even then they only care long enough until it disappears from their Facebook feeds.
I had to pause mid thought yesterday because I was going to be late to the second part of class. Now I am really trying to narrow down my research for my blog project but I am having a hard time with my blog topic. I thought I wanted to write about living sustainably but as I was listening to the lecture/workshop on how to research, I couldn’t stop thinking about butterflies. I know I may just be daydreaming about them but it got me thinking about my blog and how much fun it would be to learn about butterflies and how I wanted to go to school to study butterflies and this may be a good chance! I found that the topic of living sustainably was very simple and not easy but it didn’t take a lot of hard work to find articles already written on it. I really want to push myself and make this blog a challenge and learn some new things that I maybe wouldn’t learn in this class; something that I was really passionate about.