Day 1

Today was the first day of my Stem-Mersion. We started off with a quote: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately by H.D. Thoreau which taught as the beauty of writing.

Then everyone spent a couple minutes thinking about what to live deliberately means.

After that we did an activity that introduced our classmates to us by drawing our palm and writing in who we are and what we like to do.

We also did an activity where we had two teams and we raced from one side of the classroom to the other using four woodblocks.

Before this we had gone over the syllabus and expectations of the class.

Then we had a guest speaker: Scott Giesel. He came and taught us how to start nature writing. Examples that he gave us were:
Start by being prepared (have your writing tools)
 make some observations
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