During the Seattle field trip we went to the Bill Gates Foundation. We took a tour of the area and learnt about the charity work it does. They explained how they host competitions to reinvent inventions across the world to be more suitable and efficient for areas with lots of poverty. They also explained how 30 years after the three founders passed the foundation will be shut down. We were assigned an essay describing how this foundation was “Cray Cray”, as in world changing crazy which was the topic we were exploring in humanities at the time.

My strengths for this assignment were my interest in the topic. I find it very interesting how he uses a huge portion of his money the well being of people he doesn’t even know. When he dies instead of passing his money down to his kids, which is what I would be doing, he is investing it all into his foundation. I found this very peculiar and eye opening.

In order to improve my writing in the future, I would like to develop a better way to organize my thoughts while writing drafts on a screen. When writing drafts on paper I find that being forced to rewrite the entire thing allows for better organization of my ideas. I would also like to enjoy writing more.

Overall in humanities my biggest obstacle is motivation to work on the assignments. For most activities I have difficulty sitting down and starting to work. After getting myself to sit down I would like to improve on my organization of ideas because pretty much everything I do is unorganized to some extent.

My goal this year for Humanities is to improve my writing skills so that I can easily communicate my ideas throughout my writing. In order to achieve this I need to work on my grammar and organization of my sentences and to do this I need to write more.