Hi, everyone! This is Chanyang Kim. I usually go by Gloria Kim in a class. I’m from South Korea and I grew up there in a city, Incheon. Now, I’m living in State college. Before coming to State college, I was in Seattle for 2 years and I transferred last semester. I’m studying Early Child Education as my major and trying to get a ESL certificate as well. Because I am interested in teaching and learning English, I would like to be a English teacher after I graduate. However, I am also considering studying more at a graduate school. But still I’m not sure what I am going to do after graduation.The reason why I’m taking this course this semester is that I needed to take one more GS class and my advisor  recommended to take this class. Also, I thought this fits on my schedule because it’s a web class. I’ve taken one geography class at my previous college, in Seattle. But I forgot a lot about geography, so it’s going to be new start.I’m so excited to get to know each other and learn basic geography!

The biggest issue I concern is that the human caused environmental problem is getting serious more and more. The ecosystem on Earth with wildlife, plants, mountains, oceans, etc., is drastically destructed. Because of human’s reckless destruction of nature, we see a lot of pollution in everywhere and ecological catastrophe. Like we discussed on module#1,  it is so clear that human-environment interactions shape and change the natural environment, including ecosystems, river systems, vegetation, and climate with human decision making and processes. Since environment impacts on humanity, I strongly believe that people should be more careful and cautious on nature utilization.