Dimitri was the teacher for today!

Today, in class one of the students, Dimitri, taught us instead of Mr. Schick. I thought that this was a creative and yet humerous idea from you. I had a great time in class, because it was unique than any other class that we had so far! Also, I took a lot of notes that will postiveley affect me for studying for  the test. We took notes on 'Regions of Culture', culture is the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people. Orgin of word, culture, is the Latin cultus, which means "to care for". It has two meanings: to care for, and to care about. Geographers study both definitions of culture. Culture: What people care about. Important cultural values derive from a group's language, religion, and ethnicity. Culture: What people take care of. The second element of culture of interest is production of material wealth, such as food, clothing, and shelter that humans need in order to survive and thrive. Also, we talked about why different places are similar. Scale, space, and connections help geographers explain why similarities among places and regions do not result from coincidence. Scale is the relationship between the portion of the Earth being studied and Earth as a whole. Globalization is a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in space. That is all we talked about in class today.