Elyse mcmillan 12-18-07
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Reflective essay
My experience completing my school’s (BCS) first expedition has been life changing.It gave me a different insight of the death threatening disease “cancer”.I now have an even more greater sympathy and respect for people who have experienced cancer in their family’s or personally.It makes me feel that i have the upper hand.I have knowledge about things that alot of people don't know.I can now can use this knowledge to either educate others or help find a cure.I could now give a helping hand .Overall i learned alot of amazing things.I learned that of course,cancer has a very very important place in science.For years people have been trying to cure cancer,and without the knowledge of science they wouldn’t know where to start.The history of cancer is also important simply because it helps us figure out how cancer came about.Without the past history of cancer scientist wouldnt have been able to help take care of cancer,when found earlier.I learned that alot of teachers in BCS have experienced the scare of having cancer.
If we were to continue this expedition,it would be fun if we would kind of do intern ships ,but with people with cancer.We could go out and kind of team up with people with any time of cancer, i could be a friend,family member, a person a teacher knows,or even a teacher.While we are on this “expedition” we could see what an average persone with cancer woud have to go through first hand:thier doctors appointments,thier medication methods,the sorrow or the happiness.Imagine the things we could take from a project like that!. From that i bet a lot of other ideas and activities will emerge.I would describe this expedition as the best learning experience i ever had. Before this expedition had started i had surgery to remove a benign tumor from my breast.When i was informed about this i was like, “what the heck is benign?”.But now i know .While hearing the teachers point view on cancer ,i realized that most of the things that they were saying i could relate to,such: as the waiting and the crying, and also the scarring.I knew what a biopsy was right when it was said and that scared me alot because as a 17 year old i could relate to older individuals and that made me really sad.But as i learned more i realized that theres nothing to be ashamed of,or to feel bad about.When someone would ask me why was i gone i would simply say”I was sick”.Now im confident enough to tell the truth and not be on the verge of crying.I also learned that some benign tumors aren't harmful!, that was a relief.I also know that that i have to start changing the way i eat and exercises.
As a grade since we got the advantage of experiencing this first.We have alot of knowledge and we need to start sharing this.We could start by giving the other grades an expedition also.We have alot more to give them ,than what was given to us.We have different point of views to give others.And from that we have alot more to learn,with alot more people to learn with.
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