Blog # 4

The Tutorial.

About 10 years ago or a little more I remember that I use this kind of service in my old school  back in Colombia, for many of my reports or research and y wasn’t conscious that I did until I took this tutorial, because I  get so used to just internet, which I believe is a great tool for any research, but I also know that when you want to go further in a research the internet is just not good enough and is when the use of the kind of data bases that me as a student of FGCU have access is a wonderful resource .   For me was great this tutorial because allow me to rediscover the great potential of quality information I can have from this resource and I really give great value for this, because I know how expensive could be have access to this kind of information.

If I want to list things I didn’t know I have to say that most of the staff was familiar for me from my all school but I remember a few things that I totally forgot about it.  Like the fact of the existence of this service for the students, the different academic and more reliable resources like the journals and the proper way to make citation, hey and I can’t forget about the Floridian big food.  And what I knew is that I always have to give credit to the resources I use with a proper citation, the journals are great recourse for professional research and if I really want to do a good academic research the internet is not just enough.

The amazing back yard

For this blog to be honest I was undecided where to go, between  the beach or  the six miles preserve which very close to my home, but when I was reading the snake, come to my mind one of the passages in Tracking Desire where she describe scenes of their back yard then I realize that that was a great place to do it, I live in a condo where the developers advertised the dramatic views of the preserve. And for first time in almost a year living here I decide to go out to my balcony, sit and really see the view, then I star the exercise.

The first picture is the forest fill of trees,  maybe 30 feet’s tall, where is difficult to determine the limits of the field from my location, then I start to look down and notice that is also smallest trees around it and a first line of different  plants located right at the border of a small canal, then in the other side of this you star to notice the human touch in the perfect trim of the grass, just as an anticipation for the big buildings of my development.  I took a deep breath trying to use the rest of my senses, I realize that the weather was actually very nice, fresh, and the sky open, I thought to myself; hmm the summer is over. Then I try to determined the smell but I could not, I just felt breathing a cleaner air. Then I listen to my surroundings and noticed many sounds that I though only  heard in the silent of the night, I counted at least  ten different sounds of birds, insects or may other animals that I could not see.

After that I swept the area with my sight, looking for something to couth my attention like a bird or a ground animal, a dear or an armadillo but nothing, then I used my video camera to zoom in, but for a while still nothing and finally I focused my attention in a few dragon flights by the canal and y observed the way the haunt smaller insects, how they moved their multiple wings as a helicopter, how the seams to walk over  the water and how fast they going up and down everything just like in a perfect choreography of ballet.

Finally when I finish, I realize the kind of amazing things you can find across your back yard.