Kennels

Recently I have been to the kennels near my neighbourhood in order to give a dog food there. I decided to go there, because my dog has died lately and I had a lot of accessories that otherwise would be binned and it is better to reuse some things, in addition that I had full, unpacked 10kg bag of dog food. I went there together with my sisters and it was quite difficult experience for all of us. Firstly, because it reminded us about the loss of our dog and secondly, because of all the other dogs that were at the kennels. After the winter they all looked sickly and peaky. This is the most difficult time for places like this. We had a small conversation with a lady that was working there and she had explained it to us. Kennels collect food and blankets for dogs for the winter, because there are usually a lot of actions connected with this and many people that want to help poor dogs. However after the Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve there are a lot of new dogs that drift into the kennels. Firstly, because kids get puppies as a present from Santa Claus and then they get bored after some time. Puppy is not just a sweet mascot that kids can play with and then leave alone, because they had changed their mind. But there is parents’ role that is the most important here. They should educate their children in the sympathy and sensitivity for other living creatures. Other problems that the kennels experience in this time are the escapes of the dogs during the New Year’s Eve fireworks’ explosions. Dogs are afraid of the noise that is made and there are a lot of cases when in the act of panic they run away. That is why it is advised to keep your dog locked, under the special care and also you can give to it a tranquilizer.

So I got to know that know it is a very difficult time for kennels and they need a lot of help, but unfortunately only a material one. This particular one now has an excess of volunteers and they do not need any more, but they need dog food and old blankets, so my help was on point.

Me and my sisters in front of the kennels.

Learning Outcomes:

• Undertaking new challenges
• Engaged with issues of global importance
• Consideration of ethical implications

4 Design Days

This weekend I've been to 4 Design days in International Congress Centre in Katowice. This was connected with my current plans according to new house they me and my family are building. We all together think about the solutions they could improve our new place of living but also we were searching for some inspirations. In this place there were exhibitions of many companies that were providing solo ruins for interiors in the houses but also simultaneously there were exhibitions of independent art, like some furniture or other accessories to the house and some lectures conducted by specialists in this topic. I was participating in two lecterns. The first one was about how to live trendy but practically. During this time a person that specialize in the interior design was providing many solutions according to the accessories in the house that could not only be use to look good but also to have certain functions for house-dwellers. The second lecture was provided especially for my family. It was made on an example of house for five-person family. In this lecture in was said how to effectively manage space in the house. This is something that would be specifically helpful for my family as there are my parents, two of my sisters and I that are going to live there. We need to discover the way that we should organize our rooms because till now we only have lived in block of flats and we had far smaller space for all of us than we are going to have in the nearest future. However not only lectures were important. During this event there were a lot o exhibitions of certain building companies. We, as a family, live very close to each other and it is important for all of as to actively participate in the family's life. Because of this we were all engaged in other issues connected with our future house. First of all there was a problem of fireplace. We got to know that now there are new, innovative solutions for this case. We decided that gas fireplace is much better for as than the one for wood. It is not only because of design (gas one looks really amazing, it is glass enclosed and make an impression of fire floating in the air) but also, because it will allow us to refuse costs and emission of pollution. Another problem was with floor in our house. We wanted to have wooden parquet but we got to know that it is not a good idea for family especially with small kid (the youngest of us is 5 years old) but also it costs a lot. We were suggested to use a floor made of certain kind of resin. This would cost less and last for a longer time, because it is more resistant to any damages.

During second lecture

During first lecture

I found this event very informative according to my future choices connected with new room. I am not very interested in architecture but this experience was very quaint. A think that the exhibitions and lectured allow me to choose wisely and enable me to design a place that is going to look great, will be organized well and last for the rest of my life. I believe they people need this kind of events especially when now we have a great place for organizing them. Entrance does not cost a lot, because it was 5 zloty for an adult and 3 zloty for a child, and it is worth much more because of the experience and knowledge that it gives.   




Learning Outcomes:

• Developing new skills
• Engaged with issues of global importance
• Undertaking new challenges
• Increased awarness of strengths and areas of growth