Personal Narrative: The Cedar Dell Pond

On Thursday September 22, the entire class met at 9:30am in front of the windmill. There we were told the route through the Cedar Dell Pond we were heading in and shown naturally occurring jagged rocks from Professor Broadrose. While still standing by the windmill we were told to look over the pond area and imagine there were no trees, this would be a Tundra. This is what existed 9-11 thousand years BCE. The day was hot, at this time there were no clouds in the sky.
To begin we did a survey across the land towards the entrance to the trails. We all stood side by side, arm’s length apart, and slowly walked the ground looking for anything that stood out. I saw normal things for the area, jagged rocks, pointed sticks, I also saw white wood, perhaps this had been burned or broken off a tree too early. …show more content…
When we began walking we say beer, water, and soda bottles as well as coffee topers tossed around, this is a common thing to see on a college campus. We saw a structure of rocks wide-spread in a circle, this was probably a social hangout for modern day college students at a party. We saw two deer running by. We also found a set of plastic flowers, old and rundown, that looked to be placed at a grave of some sort. We also found glass, this looked fairly new, at most 40 years old, the older the glass the more rainbows you can see in it and this had no rainbows. Primarily when looking over the area we saw plastic, glass, and