Kathleen

**Biography:**  I'm Kate, I live in Whitten Iowa and have for my whole life. I haven't really gone on many vacations but I've been to six different states; Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, and obviously Iowa. I also run cross country which involves a lot of geography. **Reflection of the South America Project:** I thought this project took a little while to take off. We all kinda of didn't know what to do and we couldn't decide on a topic, but once we figured out what our topic was it became a lot easier. We still had some struggles figuring out how to explain what we were talking about and how it would help the South American economy and people. I felt like while I was researching for ideas and information I also learned a lot about it and that made it a lot more fun to do. I felt like I helped my group a lot. I looked up information to put into our proposal and to put on our flyer. I also helped look for pictures and thought of ideas on how we should put our project together. I felt like our project was really well put together. It answered lots of questions people might have and gave a lot of additional information. It also was really colorful and intresting to read. I think that my group did a pretty good job overall, and I cant really think of anything that I would change. **Reflection of the Middle East Project:** Unlike the South America project this one was a lot easier to get going. We understood how to use the wiki a lot more and I think the whole process was a lot smoother. We got down to business and divided all of the work up on who would be doing what topic. While I was researching, Shaun and I noticed that cutoms and culture were basically the same topic so we decided to just take one out and combine some of the information we both found to put into our keynote that way we wouldn't have to topics that were made of basically all of the same points. I felt that my group all worked pretty good. We all looked up our own information and either sent it or showed it to Katie so she could put it all together on the keynote on her computer. I also looked for different pictures to put with each of our topics on each slide of our keynote. I think I project is put together nice and neat and it has a lot of useful information in it. It was fun researching about the Middle East and learning about peoples different culture, religions, and ways of life. **Reflection of Asia:** I think this project took us a while to figure out what direction we were heading in. It probably didn't help that it was a Firday when we started this project, and that Mr. Buttler was our substitute because people just wanted to mess around the whole time instead of discussing and brainstorming ideas. For this project I would have changed a couple of things. I wish we would have worked more as a group instead of of trying to do our own thing, or not doing anything at all other then messing around on the computer. I think I learned a lot during this project. I feel bad for all the people who live there and have very few, if any human rights. They have some very bizzare rules, like not being able to leave the country. It made me realized how lucky I am that I am able to live in The United States of America. **Reflection of Africa:** I think that this project was actually one of the easiest. We got started right away and Katie devised the work up between all of us, but her and I basically did it. I made the poster and she put the keynote together first, then we worked on our proposal. I feel like for this project we got the least amount of help from the boys. I really don't have anything else to say about this project. I thought overall it was a lot of fun and I think we did a good job on making it for it being just the two of us.