Thursday, April 3, 2014
Turtle Pond
I'd like to share one more experience with whoever is gonna to be reading this. I just found a relaxing place in campus a couple of weeks ago when a friend of mine invited me to go to a place called Turtle pond. This place is located on campus and it's nearby the UT tower. First, I would like to make clear that that wasn't the first time "met" that place. In fact, I remember passing by the turtle pond a few times before. However, I had never realized how relaxing and pleasant that place was since most of the time I passed by I was in a hurry. Thus, I am glad my friend invited me and I accepted the invitation. Now, it's time to explain why that place deserves a space on my blog. The main reason why I am writing about that place is because I wasn't expecting for a place like that to be so meaningful. By meaningful I mean that that place surprised me with its simplicity. Maybe meaningful was not the best word to describe what surprised me about the place. Anyways, I hope my readers get what I meant. The turtle pond is a simple spot in campus but, at the same time, a place full of good energy. There I had such a good afternoon. I spent a few hours there and by the end of that experience, I felt like I should go back to that place again. While I was there, I sat under a calming tree and enjoyed it's fresh air. Furthermore, I was gazing at the fish that were in a pond beside the turtle pond. That was a time on which I could feel the relaxing power of nature. And, while I was there, it felt as if I was in a world only by myself despite the bustle coming from surroundings that could interrupt that moment if I had paid attention to it. But, I have to say that it would be hard for me to pay attention to that energy because that place worked like a place where you could be isolated from the bad things regardless of what is going around. Furthermore, there, I was watching and trying to understand how a turtle life is while I saw the turtles trying to expose themselves to the sun while others were migrating from the turtle pond to the pond where the fish were.
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I love that place. I have photos I took there from when I was an undergraduate. Jay, who visited our class yesterday, told me that she saw a turtle that had escaped from the pond and was walking far away from it... she didn´t have time to take it back to the pond, but she was going to look for it on her way back to Sanchez. I wonder where it was trying to go!
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