Day of Learning, Final Post

Today I was one of the hosts of the workshop sweet sustainable jewelry.  We prepared with buying a bunch of bags, I think about 6, of starburst for our workshop.  When we began the workshop, the members of the group seemed very excited to have starburst at their fingertips.  I was very excited to begin the workshop.  We all began by explaining what you can do to be sustainable when eating your treats.  For example, we said that if you eat candy or gum often, you can save the wrapper [if it’s rectangular] and then make something beautiful.  We demonstrated with starburst wrappers and we folded them so they could be intertwined to make a lovely bracelet.  Everyone was a bit confused as to how to fold the paper, but we went around and helped everyone that felt that they were struggling.  I really enjoyed helping people with their questions about sustainability and how to reduce, reuse and recycle.  I enjoyed this because is really felt confident about my answer.  Everyone seemed to enjoy making bracelets and we played some music and definitely had a lot of fun!  I learned a lot from the speakers that I didn’t already know about how to save our earth.  I learned that I can decorate my apartment with very sustainable art from my art committee.  I am very content with the way we conducted our workshop because everyone seemed to have a lot of fun and also learned a lot but was obviously never bored by what we were saying.  It was exciting to listen to the things that our group members had to contribute and their creativity with the starburst.  I think that everyone in the group really actually learned a lot from this workshop.  -Ama Torres