PLN 10

We never really stop to think about how things affect us. Never, do we stop to think, "I wonder how this experience will affect my life." or "What did I learn here?" Personal journeys don't really matter to us, we just think, oh, that was fun, can't wait until next year. In A Google Earth Odyssey , Mr. Fisch talks about our class's personal journey project on Google Earth. Personal journeys help every one of us to grow into the responsible (or not so responsible) members of society that we are. Personal journeys teach us things about ourselves that we never knew, even if we don't recognize it at first.



This project really mattered to me. Before this project, I had never really thought about how the places I have visited have affected the way I live my life. I had never stopped to think about the life lessons I learned at Chepstow Castle or Stonehenge. This project really made me think about my life and what I was learning along the way. When I was writing down all the places I have visited, I realized just how much all of the places I have visited have helped me to grow as a person.



The personal journey project relates to the world because no one ever stops to think about what they learned that day. Personal journeys affect our daily lives in so many ways, but until you really think about the places you have visited and the experiences you have had, the fact that personal journeys are so important doesn't really register.We all learn something from the different places we visit. Whether it was in that time in the grocery store when you saw the temper tantrum in aisle 3 and thought, "no way is my kid going to ever act like that." or the time you learned about patience from sitting in a line for three hours. Every little thing that we witness in our life time teaches us more about ourselves and how to live our lives to the fullest.

Personal journeys never register as ways we learn to live happily or places where we learn more about ourselves in an instant than we could otherwise in a lifetime, but the places we go and the things we do there are what shape and mold our minds. Personal journeys help us to become the greatest we can be, and to do things we never thought we could. Personal journeys are what make us, well, us.