Green Course Educator: part 2

Breathe, breathe in the air,

Cherish this moment,

Cherish this breath.

Tomorrow is a new day for everyone,

Brand new moon, brand new sun.

When you feel life coming down on you,

Like a heavy weight.

When you feel this crazy society,

Adding to the strain.

Take a stroll to the nearest waters

And remember your place.

Many moons have risen and fallen long, long before you came.

So which way is the wind blowin',

And what does your heart say?

So follow, follow the sun,

And which way the wind blows

When this day is done

Xavier Rudd - Follow The Sun 

I will start my article with this beautiful song from Xavier Rudd, these song basically make us realize that be gratitude for this moment and all the moment you already passed. We need to believe that every day begin with new sun and end with new moon, so then we can reflect what we did today? How we solve every problem and shade all the worries? Come back with what your heart say not only your thinking. Being this moment, present, not past or the future. Then for every worries and uncertainty are seem like wind, sometimes they come or blow away.

I would like to continue my story and what I got from Green Course Educator. 

In second or third day (I'm sorry I forget exactly the date) we had discussion about what is connection of art and sustainable education. We begun with conversation about Gaia Theories " The theory asserts that living organisms and their inorganic surroundings have evolved together as a single living system that greatly affects the chemistry and conditions of Earth’s surface. Some scientists believe that this “Gaian system” self-regulates global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, and other factors in an “automatic” manner. " (http://www.gaiatheory.org/overview/). Gaia theories or paradigm related with our mother nature or Pachamama. The reason behind why we called our nature is mother because nature give us everything with unconditional love and nurturing every human being. From this perception I realized that what I get from nature is all free, everyday, every second we have. Then the teacher told us to make our own culture, that's the way for us to recreate our myths, symbols, and heroes to re new our connection with our society and nature. We can apply these ways to find our own school culture, although it might be weird, but it's wort it.

 In this course we also talked with the architect of amazing bamboo building. They begun the project with brainstrom about the shape and material from local resources around the school. Like no others architect who came up the idea with theories and make a model by computer. The architect team begun with a model of building, use same shape and material. So they build all the bamboo building based on that model. The concept of wall-ness seen in every aspect of the architectural building and give impact to the atmosphere of the education. Like what I got before from psychology-architecture subject, there is a connection between the human and space. Human can impact to the design and function of space, in the same way space can also impact to our behavior and state of well being. That time I thought that kind of connection is just explain from theories or book. One time, I tried to observe the children behaviors in Green School and found out that they can expand their knowledge, sensory motor, and increase their sensitivity and concentration in the condition of wall-ness. They more connect with their environment and have space freedom to express, feel, and understand with experiential method. 

I just imagine if I had opportunity to come back to my early life and got chance to expand my connection and knowledge with society and other human being. What I look like in my future time?