I had a great fun with our scavenger hunting. Everybody put their information such as photos, stories, histories, hidden mash room and live performance while we were going through our journey. It was like a party, and everybody seems to have a good time. There were many places that were nice and I never knew about. We imagine how we could use those abondoned hidden places such as a garden, musical place and bar. I learned about technology and our new classmates with a fun journey.
After the class, I went to the presentation, and they were talking about using GPS for refugees who live at Jerusarem and conneticut. GPS is such a bridge as a rainbow.
Many things ran through my head while experiencing these hunts and observing other people take our hunt on, much of which is echoed in Phyllis’ post. Another take-home lesson I learned from the whole experience was that everyone in the whole class has their strengths. I’m very interested to see a whole class project come together in the future. Each one of us has a strength or skill set that they are proficient at, and in a team effort, I think could be fully realized.
I also realized while on these hunts how unadventurous we can be. Are we really that domesticated so as to completely avoid having to trespass, and clamor through an overgrown pathway, or to even fathom that yes, you might have to duck under those bushes in order to get where you’re going? I reflect on this often living in the city, how fearsome I’ve become of what I step on, lean against, or what my long skirts are dragging through on the sidewalk. People, I used to walk BAREFOOT in the forest all summer long, the soles of my feet thick with protective callouses and stickled with pitch and leaves. I’m reminded of the summer I spent in Oakland attending classes at CCoA (formerly CCAC). I remember walking a block and a half down the street from my apartment to Safeway with my RA Gauri. We needed fresh ginger for the chai she was making for all of us girls at the apartment. I went with her, barefoot, all the way down the street, into the store, and right as we were about to leave, the security man came up to me and reprimanded me for going barefoot in the store, spouting lawyer rhetoric about people suing stores they get hurt in. I told him that the store should keep their floors swept and clean so that it wouldn’t be a problem. “You might slip on the floor without shoes on,” he said. I remember telling him, “I might slip with them on.” and scooting out of the store left perplexed at how domesticated we have become.
Now I can’t even imagine walking on the cleanest flattest concrete in my new environment. I need my callouses back! This was a big point in two of the scavenger hunts for me: the domestication of mankind, how far removed and sometimes fearful we are of nature and natural things. Overall things could have improved with the waypoints, devices, and satellite drift issues, but that’s what the future is for. I think everyone made a great effort in their own ways.
PS - Arosh, is the remix ready?
