Leah+Higgins

Leah's Geographical Biography  I am Leah Kay Higgins and I have lived and grown up in Iowa my whole life. I live in a small town in Union, Iowa. I love small towns and want to live and have a family in a small town later in my life. I have traveled to many different states for vacations and visiting family. 3 of my favorite places to travel to were North Carolina, Florida, and Alaska. I enjoyed going to Alaska as it was a very fun learning experience and we took the time to drive there which was very exciting. I hope to keep traveling and learn new things about geography as I travel. South America Reflection  I learned many things in trying to figure out a way to help South America. In my opinion it was very hard at first because you were to think up everything on your own and had to be creative, which is not a bad thing, you just had to get your brain in creative mode. I found it hard to be creative at first but then as you started thinking there were many different ideas or way that you could take the project and that is something I liked. You didn't have to follow the way the teacher said to do something you got to take it in your own direction. I think I helped the group out as I made the project on my computer with idea from my group and I think I threw out good ideas that helped us later in our project. After doing this project there are things I would change about how our group did it. I think that we first need to start out by learning about the place we are helping out and learn as much information about them so if we get asked questions we can answer them right away rather then having to go look them up or not knowing the answer. I did learn many things about places in South America and had a fun time doing this project. Middle East Reflection This project was very different from the first project we were assigned. This time you had to teach a group of people about the ways and culture of the Middle East. This project was interesting and I was not sure how to take it at first. Our group decided that we wanted to make a video to teach the people how to act but then we decided we would not have enough time for that and thought making a keynote would be the next best decision. We first researched many different things about the Middle East. Most of our information was about the religion and family. Then we made our keynote added pictures and made it colorful. I learned many different things while doing this project. I thought it was interesting that we were working on this project and in Sociology class we were watching a movie about the Middle East and had to write a paper about it, so there were 2 different places that I was learning about it which helped me in the long run, because it gave me more information to put into my keynote. I am enjoying doing these different projects as you have to be creative and think up different ways to do things and solve problems. Asia Reflection I learned a lot about Vietnam while doing this project. Our project was based on helping the Montegnad Christians because there government is not letting them practice there religion. They beat them and don't let them doing anything with there religion even in their own homes which is not fair. This is against there human rights and we wanted to help them so they can try and get that back so they can practice there christian religion. Them not being able to practice their religion has even put some families into poverty. I am glad that we are run by the people and I hope that this will never happen to us in the U.S. Many people do not know about this issue because in Vietnam they have a lot of media control and do not let anything spill out so that is a reason not many people know about this problem, and that is why we want to help get the word out about it so people can start to help. Africa Reflection This was a fun project. I enjoyed this project the best and learned a lot. I think I enjoyed this project because we have talked a lot about Africa and raising money for them in different church projects we have done so I knew a lot about it. I learned a lot about how Kenya has a water problem and we need to help them so they can have fresh clean water and not get has many diseases. We used a budget but we did not do a huge budget because we raised a lot of our money from different church organizations. I helped my group in making the flyer for the fundraising so people knew what was going on. I think I helped out a lot in my group and we came up with a good project. I enjoyed all these projects a lot and they helped me learn a lot about different places I would never look up.