UBC Orchard Garden

The crispy air, the cold breeze, the chirps of various birds -- all different from the classroom experience. Learning at the UBC Orchard garden was a refreshing experience when compared to the menial classroom environments. The garden provided a safe and inviting work space which allowed for greater discussional activities and engagement from students. Not only were students more motivated, individuals were explicitly joyful of the outdoor classroom -- some even therapeutic.
One of the most noticeable and apparent differences between the indoor and outdoor environment was curiosity and critical thinking. Especially when we were given a task to artistically illustrate artificial and natural objects within the Orchard garden. The various ideologies and interpretations of collective objects were vastly different from student to student. This simplistic design of a task changed my introspective interpretation of things and how others may see something else -- I am not the only lens, nor am I absolute.