Goat Whisperer
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I am writing our project polar bear success report for project polar bear. Right now, I am working on this part about how the project has 'changed you' this is mine, what do you guys think?
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]"Since going to Churchill last year, my attitude has slowly been going into a slump. It's felt so hopeless. Like there is no time left, too much to change, and not enough people caring to do it. It's felt like the polar bear is already gone, I might not ever get to see it in the wild again, I might as well change my major in college, because there is no way I will be studying polar bears if they are extinct. I would spend hours talking to people at the zoo, and no one would listen. Sure they would pet the pelt, and look at me for 2 minutes, but I could see it in their eyes, they simply didn't care.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Then everything changed. It started with my trip to Mount Baker. I never would have gone on this trip, without discovering my love for polar bears and the arctic through PBI. That's what pushed me to apply, and it's what set me apart, and got me accepted into the program. It was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I was carrying a 50 pound pack, I had been climbing up hill, off trail, for miles, and at one point, I fell down a snow pack, and slipped down a hill. I was exhausted. My shoulders ached, I was thirsty, I wanted to give up. But then I looked around, I saw my friends, smiling at me, encouraging me, I saw mountains, the most beautiful landscape in the world, and off in the distance, I saw an eagle, flying over the mind halting beauty of a glacier. I pulled myself up, slipping, and sliding, I found my footing, and climbed back to the top of the hill, rejoining my friends. This experience alone proved to me, that as long as I keep my sights on what I am trying to save: the arctic, polar bears, my own future. I can do anything. I can stop carbon emissions, I can save the polar bear. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I came back from this trip with a renewed vigor. Not only did I now know I could do anything I put my mind too, but I now had another thing to add to my list worth saving: glaciers. I was finally able to see that there were people out there who cared. I started doing presentations again, and it was like, my new absolute, and real love for the arctic, and commitment to saving it, had changed the very way I present, and now everyone was listening. Everyone was caring, people really were going to change. I have renewed my hope and now I know that we can do this. I know that the polar bear's, glaciers, and I have a future. And all of this is because of Project Polar Bear and through it, Girl's on Ice.” --Abrianna[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]"Since going to Churchill last year, my attitude has slowly been going into a slump. It's felt so hopeless. Like there is no time left, too much to change, and not enough people caring to do it. It's felt like the polar bear is already gone, I might not ever get to see it in the wild again, I might as well change my major in college, because there is no way I will be studying polar bears if they are extinct. I would spend hours talking to people at the zoo, and no one would listen. Sure they would pet the pelt, and look at me for 2 minutes, but I could see it in their eyes, they simply didn't care.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Then everything changed. It started with my trip to Mount Baker. I never would have gone on this trip, without discovering my love for polar bears and the arctic through PBI. That's what pushed me to apply, and it's what set me apart, and got me accepted into the program. It was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I was carrying a 50 pound pack, I had been climbing up hill, off trail, for miles, and at one point, I fell down a snow pack, and slipped down a hill. I was exhausted. My shoulders ached, I was thirsty, I wanted to give up. But then I looked around, I saw my friends, smiling at me, encouraging me, I saw mountains, the most beautiful landscape in the world, and off in the distance, I saw an eagle, flying over the mind halting beauty of a glacier. I pulled myself up, slipping, and sliding, I found my footing, and climbed back to the top of the hill, rejoining my friends. This experience alone proved to me, that as long as I keep my sights on what I am trying to save: the arctic, polar bears, my own future. I can do anything. I can stop carbon emissions, I can save the polar bear. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I came back from this trip with a renewed vigor. Not only did I now know I could do anything I put my mind too, but I now had another thing to add to my list worth saving: glaciers. I was finally able to see that there were people out there who cared. I started doing presentations again, and it was like, my new absolute, and real love for the arctic, and commitment to saving it, had changed the very way I present, and now everyone was listening. Everyone was caring, people really were going to change. I have renewed my hope and now I know that we can do this. I know that the polar bear's, glaciers, and I have a future. And all of this is because of Project Polar Bear and through it, Girl's on Ice.” --Abrianna[/FONT]
