Experiential Learning in the Exploration of Diversity: Getting Out of the Comfort Zone The objective of this study is to select an activity that places one outside of the normal environment. For the purpose of this study chosen was a wheelchair and the public setting chosen was a city zoo. For the purpose of this study, the writer of this work pretended as though blind and unable to see but only to hear and sense what was going on in the surroundings of this study.

Description of Activity

The writer of this work had a friend accompany the writer to the zoo and to push the wheelchair that the writer was in during this experience. The zoo was chosen because of the many different sounds, smells and other stimulating input that the writer would receive from the setting.

What Was Observed

While everyone was very accommodating for the fact that the writer was in a wheelchair, it was noted that very few of the people in the zoo environment appeared to notice that the writer was in fact, unable to see, or blind. The writer wore glasses as though a blind individual would wear and band-aids were placed over the writer's eyes to give the writer a real experience of blindness in the public zoo setting. It was observed by the writer that the animals in the zoo appear to be in communication with one another and a pattern of communication was noted by the writer to occur between the large primates in the zoo. The human beings in the zoo carried on several layers of conversational banter as they…