1. I chose this space on campus as I love to people watch and thought it would be a good spot to witness the changing seasons
  2. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to take a step back and recognize things I otherwise wouldn’t have noticed. Such as the diversity TRU presents through signage, flags and monuments. 
  3. I found the easiest theme I related my space to was regarding Chapters 4&5. I highlighted the large relations being the growing modernism, materialism, and globalization. I witnessed proof of climate change and the effects it had in the common areas of TRU
  4. I am grateful for my place as it’s given me a space and time to take a step back from all the books, stuffy rooms, expectations that in-class lectures require and to reflect on nature and reality. I feel a lot of the time we, as students, are pressured to say what the professors want to hear, in order to meet requirements for a better grade. These assignments gave me a chance to reflect on my own reality.
  5. I hope my place has felt grateful to me in a way that I’ve taken time to think and research about the space itself, more specifically the bench I always sit on. I took moments to pay attention to the memorial plate on the back of it. As that’s their intention – to recognize or remember, to not be forgotten. His name was Aaron Manson, and he, from what I’ve read, seems to have been a phenomenal young man, lost too soon. I won’t forget about him due to how many times I’ve been there and recognized it.