Throughout my life, I always wanted to help people and the environment, but I never know how I should do to help. I do not know how much I can be helpful to both the people and the environment until I take this class. This Global Studies class really shapes my life in a way I couldn’t even know how to describe it. I am not only learn academically, but socially and ethically. Many students might describe this class differently, however, for me this class is such a safe house for me. This class not only focusing on teaching the subject, but also focus on the social environment. Occasionally, the professor would tells us to communicate and discusses our idea about the topic we learned from the class with either a small group of people or a pair. I think that is what make this class really different from my other class. By sharing our ideas and thought with one person in the classroom, we come to know each other and get more comfortable toward one another. People might laugh inside their lung when I say I get more comfortable toward other, because they barely see me talk in the classroom. For me talking too much or talking in front of people is not really a thing where I came from. I was told that “ Be a good listener is more important a talker” and I think that become my habit. Anyway, I might not talk a lot in the classroom, but there are thing that I learned from my others classmate. I learned that we may be different, we may come from different background, but we want the same thing in life and that is education. Honestly, I am really thankful to a professor for making this …show more content…
I waste water and I have never realized it until we learn water footprint in class. Learning water footprint in the classroom makes me want to become a new person. After I watch the video in the classroom about water footprint, I realized that I needed to take action by changing my old habit of wasting stuff to a new habit of valuing the resources. Michael Jackson said, “ If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change”. So I thought it was time for me to take action and be a 1% that will make the change in the