10 January 2022
I had some conversations via Face Time with my relatives Ela and Kaan from Turkey, to be more precise Istanbul.
We talked about the topics regarding the work and came to the conclusion that flora and fauna will also be a huge topic.
"On the one hand, it would be better if we didn't exist, but it's sad how our houses are destroyed and we never experience it.
But for that the world would live as it wants without any people who have destroyed nature, so to speak," was Ela's statement.
The question of how the world would be without us will of course be the main topic. Nevertheless, Kaan and Ela want to present another thesis: "What would a big city be like in contrast to a small remote village without people?
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The following link is for all students from Izmir, Turkey.
https://forms.gle/njsDD5iF4ZPFHL3BA
Here for the students in Wetzikon, Switzerland.
https://forms.gle/yAUZtbU5wJaafDmGA
Currently we are still in the preparationphase of our project. in the future we will communicate with our collaboration partners via whatsapp and zoom. The main language will be English but if needed Italian will also be used.
Our projectgoal is that people start to shopp plasticfree.
To achieve this, we first need to evaluate how much plastic is currently being purchased and whether people are willing to spend a little more money to buy plasticfree. After that, we will try to sew fabric bags from fabric scraps and send them to our collaboration partners so that they can go shopping with them. Our goal is that even after our project, the people who have participated in our project, read our report, or heard from it choose to shopp with fabric bags etc. and reduce the use of plastic while shopping.
After the second Zoom meeting it was clear for us that we would like to do the collaboration project with Reyda, Elif and Arda from Izmir, Turkey. They agreed to help us to find participants for the survey and to plant some trees. We exchanged numbers in the Zoom meeting and created a group chat on Whatsapp. We are now in regular contact with them and have already sent them our survey. We informed them that we are going to keep them up to date and they were fine with that.
Vision
We hope that our project and survey will show how much students from Izmir, Turkey and Wetzikon, Switzerland know about the environment. We believe that through this project we can also increase our own knowledge. Our main goal is to contribute to the environment. We also want to show the students how easy this can be. The trees that our collaboration partners and we are going to plant will illustrate exactly that.
Imagination
What if...
the whole world was full of trees. There would be no pollution and deforestation and humans would protect them. If humans would get how much worth one single tree has. Animals wouldn't have to fear loosing their living environment because of humans. Are there any negative points about it? In our imagination there aren't. All living and nonliving things would have a better live. If everything would be full of trees, everything would be better because humans are the cause for all the problems concerning environmental pollution.
Our meetings will most likely take place on Tuesday or Friday evening, the exact time has yet to be agreed. Since Bosnia does not have and Turkey only 2 hours time difference, it will be easier to find an appointment. While talking to each other and exchanging information, we would like to see each other, which is why we want to try our first meeting via whatsapp. Emina will contact her relatives in Bosnia and I will contact my acquaintances in Turkey and we will fix an appointment with them.
The goal of the first meeting is a first mutual getting to know each other and we want cleary explain our project. If there's enough time we would like to say and hear what everyone is expecting and how we can reach that step by step. In the upcoming meetings we will then look at everything more precisely and discuss what the further steps are, what changed since the last meeting etc.