Welcome! This blog will be part of the Grand Valley State University course ENG 382, Literature and the Environment taught by Dr. Christina Triezenberg (this is just a little background knowledge for anybody who happens across this blog). This is my first attempt at blogging, and I'm excited to see how it pans out over the semester! My name is Will Kaelin and have just started my first year at Grand Valley after transferring from Muskegon Community College. I live in Grand Haven, MI and work with my family at our two radio companies: 103.5 WAWL Tri Cities Broadcsting based out of Grand Haven-which is a low powered, non-profit station focusing on the community, as well as high school sports and classic rock- and Michigan Game Night, which is a brand new internet radio station that broadcasts Grandville sports. Along with this, I am a delivery driver at Jimmy John's, like to write/record music on the side and travel with friends.
With all of this taking up my time I really don't appreciate nature as much as I should. I know I'm not the only person who is guilty of this, as our society is so fast paced that every second of each day is utterly essential. Keeping this in mind, I decided to enroll in a class where I would be forced to work outside my comfort zone, and Literature and the Environment is just that. Even in these first two weeks of reading about the Appalachian Trail I find myself actually wanting to hike... something a mere month ago I would have scoffed at. By the end of the semester I am curious to see where I stand on different topics we talk about and if my ideas have changed at all. Hopefully I will be able to slow down in an ever busy schedule, even if it's for only just a few minutes at the beginning, to appreciate the Earth that supplies us with so much.
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