At first, I was quite worried about not being able to explain my topic efficiently since this topic is quite difficult to explain even at college. However I was very happy to see that everything went very well. Being in Microbiology major,we deal with this topic every day thus I know how important this topic is in order to make sense of a lot of the biological topics. Accordingly, I decided to teach this topic but in an easy way so that they wouldn’t be totally alien to this topic when entering higher education (like what happened to myself). In general I was very happy to see that the students were very interested in this topic and that it made sense to them. I was also very excited to see how excited they were when they were doing the arts activity.
La Push has a very warm and welcoming community. I did not feel like a foreigner during my stay there because they made me feel like being a part of them. I am very happy to have had the honour of attending their Wednesday gathering and I will never forget our dance with them. We learned many things about their tribe during our short stay. We saw students performing for their whale ceremony. I was very interested in their theory of how humans have evolved from wolves since this was very similar to my teaching topic in the sense that they agreed with the general idea of evolution but at the same time it is very different from Darwinian theory of evolution. Accordingly, I did not go into a detailed lecture about evolution and focused more on Natural Selection. They showed this wolf to human theory of evolution also during their whale ceremony dance and that was very interesting to watch. In conclusion I had a great time with them and would love to see them again!
-Nika Hajari