When first given the assignment brief of having to do a presentation on the sustainable deveolpment strategies o a country, i paniced. When i found out my country to research was Bulgaria, i paniced even more. I honestly had no idea what to do to begin with, thank goodness we were given starter websites to help us all out. however, after learning just how small a country Bulgaira is....i realsied how tuff it would be to find relevant information linking sustainable development and bulgaria together. And you know what? It was.

However, I did find this exercise quite enjoyable and interesting. The major things i learnt from this exercise are the different sustainable strategies carried out across all nations and not just our own, though ours hard very little in any plans for sustainability. Its so small! With such a tiny population, its hard to be surprisd tht they would make to much of an effort, apart from protecing their mountain ranges. Not being able to find much didnt really surprise me, however i was disappointed, especially after being in the debate and hearing all the strategies presented by other countries, i felt that our efforts, well our countries efforts were pretty pointless. I thought that Hannah and Sam did a fantastic presentation on Denmark, they really went into depth on how their countries efforts for sustainable development are far superior to most other countries researched by other groups.

I thought mine and Tristans' presentation went fairly well, we presented the best information we could find on Bulgaria's policies. By the end of the speech i was at a loss for words as i couldn't think of anything else to say...stutter central. The handout given to us was useful as a base for us to build our research on, but personnally i didn't really use it. What would i do differently if i were to do this exercise again? Pick a more ineresting country to research about, it would have been far more interesting to actaully LEARN about a countries sustainable plans then just to learn how Bulgaria wants to keep its landscape clean.

But as i said earlier, i did find this exercise enjoyable, especailly the debate part. I like listening to people and their views, though i wish i had contributed more in the discussion between countries, oh well, theres always room for improvement for next time.

I learnt about Agenda 21! A plan laid down by the UN in which to unite countries and help develop ways to sustain our world for future generations, whether that be for tomorrows generation or one in 50 years time. I also learnt a lot about wind farms and other eco friendly ways in which Denmark are becoming incredibly resourceful. errr...whether i actually learnt anything else about sustainable development from this exercise is not seeming likely at this present moment in time.

I feel that i have learnt how to communicate better with my team memebers so that we could produce a relevant talk to the debate. We found that when research into something very specific about a country, you need to read in depth at a large variety of sources to find useful information. Bullet pointing our work made us actually read our notes, as we had to understand them to present them and therefore were able to focus on the audience.