The trip downtown was truly an entertaining one. I have been downtown before but not for an extended period of time. It was interesting to see all of the things that the small area had to offer from restaurants to theaters. It was also cool to see how they are trying to preserve the history of southwest florida there with things like the steam boat and the arts building that keeps that culture that so many places seem to lose. I thought this field trip was good to experience for the simple fact of knowing that there is an actual city in Fort Myers, not that it was just the area that people come to retire to.
This was also good for the class because even though this University Colloquium is very interesting, the work load can get to be a lot at points so it was good to have a day to really just enjoy the environment that we were in. Also it was great for getting to know eachother which we don't really get to do in classrooms of any sort nowadays. I thought that some of the environmentally sustainable techniques that the city was using was pretty interesting such as the parking meters that were solar powered. Or the small restaurants and shops that the city was able to invest in and then in turn the businesses would invest in the city and it's people.
I can now say without a shadow of a doubt that I can navigate my way through the downtown are of Fort Myers so that is also a good thing just in case I ever want to go there. Finally, it was cool to see how invested the students were in the class just based on the competition of the whole thing. Every group competed to win that "scavenger hunt" even if it was for one point of extra credit, so you can see that all of the students really enjoy the class and put effort into what they do for the class.
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