Smell - I liked when Ackerman wrote that
“we each have our own aromatic memories.” Being from a family that cooks almost every night I love when I can smell all the different foods being made from all the way down the hallway in my room. One of my favourite's being my mom's Cassava Pie. Like Ackerman said, it is hard to describe a smell to someone who hasn't smelt it before so I don't think I could even try. When I come back to the states, I bring Cassava Pie with me so that I can eat it while I'm away from home. When I heat it up and smell that memory filled aroma, all of sudden I am sitting in the living room watching a movie with my family while we wait for the pie to bake. 
Touch - “Touch allows us to find our way in the world in the darkness or in other circumstances where we can’t fully use our other senses. " This quote is found in the section, The Skin Has Eyes. This quote reminds me of all the hurricanes that would pass Bermuda, knocking our power out. In the daylight we would be able to see but by the time night came around, everything would be dark. By night time, we would have to either use flashlights to find our way around the house. But when the flashlights would run out of battery we would have to walk slowly and feel our way around the house. The section being called, The Skin Has Eyes, I feel is very accurate. When we can't see the next best thing is touch.
Taste - In this chapter, Ackerman talks about 'how strange it is that we acquire tastes as we grow' and how children love sweets so much because their tongues are more sensitive to it. I would say this applies to me very much as when I was a kid I would try to avoid eating vegetables as much as I could while at the same time eat as many sweets as I could. Now, I feel that my love for candy and hate of vegetables has reversed. I also thought it was interesting to think about how smell contributes to taste. In short, if something smells good, you're going to want to eat it. You're going to want to see if the flavours taste just how they smell.
Hearing - In the book, Ackerman spoke about how sound is in everything we do and is everywhere we go and that without hearing we wouldn’t interact the same in the world. I never thought about it much but when I read this I started thinking of how that is true. When I'm in bedroom at home, I hear the tree frogs and crickets or my dog barking. When I'm in a classroom I can hear the people typing on their laptops and the teacher talking. When I'm walking around campus I either hear my music from my headphones or the snow crunching underneath my feet as I walk. One of my favourite sounds is when I'm at Coopers Island at home walking up and down the beach listening to the waves crashing and the birds chirping. Without these noises the walk on the beach wouldn't be as enjoyable. Ackerman also mentioned that “the way we pronounce words singles us out...gives us a sense of local or national identity." She then went on to speak about how Bermudians talk and what words they might say which, being Bermudian and living there all my life I would say reading that was funny and surprising but not one hundred percent correct. However, I do agree with Ackerman on the way we speak giving us a sense of national identity because I can definitely spot a Bermudian a mile away just from hearing their accent.
Vision -
“Children learn implicitly that good people are beautiful and bad people are ugly, and society restates that message in many subtle ways as they grow older.” I think people simplify it for children so they get the gist of good vs bad. Ackerman included the quote, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind" by Shakespeare. I agree with what Ackerman was trying to get across because
I think by 'beautiful' and 'ugly', she was talking about the person's personality. Pretty much saying that good people have beautiful personalities and bad people have ugly personalities.
Smell - I liked when Ackerman wrote that “we each have our own aromatic memories.” Being from a family that cooks almost every night I love when I can smell all the different foods being made from all the way down the hallway in my room. One of my favourite's being my mom's Cassava Pie. Like Ackerman said, it is hard to describe a smell to someone who hasn't smelt it before so I don't think I could even try. When I come back to the states, I bring Cassava Pie with me so that I can eat it while I'm away from home. When I heat it up and smell that memory filled aroma, all of sudden I am sitting in the living room watching a movie with my family while we wait for the pie to bake. 
Touch - “Touch allows us to find our way in the world in the darkness or in other circumstances where we can’t fully use our other senses. " This quote is found in the section, The Skin Has Eyes. This quote reminds me of all the hurricanes that would pass Bermuda, knocking our power out. In the daylight we would be able to see but by the time night came around, everything would be dark. By night time, we would have to either use flashlights to find our way around the house. But when the flashlights would run out of battery we would have to walk slowly and feel our way around the house. The section being called, The Skin Has Eyes, I feel is very accurate. When we can't see the next best thing is touch. 
Taste - In this chapter, Ackerman talks about 'how strange it is that we acquire tastes as we grow' and how children love sweets so much because their tongues are more sensitive to it. I would say this applies to me very much as when I was a kid I would try to avoid eating vegetables as much as I could while at the same time eat as many sweets as I could. Now, I feel that my love for candy and hate of vegetables has reversed. I also thought it was interesting to think about how smell contributes to taste. In short, if something smells good, you're going to want to eat it. You're going to want to see if the flavours taste just how they smell. 
Hearing - In the book, Ackerman spoke about how sound is in everything we do and is everywhere we go and that without hearing we wouldn’t interact the same in the world. I never thought about it much but when I read this I started thinking of how that is true. When I'm in bedroom at home, I hear the tree frogs and crickets or my dog barking. When I'm in a classroom I can hear the people typing on their laptops and the teacher talking. When I'm walking around campus I either hear my music from my headphones or the snow crunching underneath my feet as I walk. One of my favourite sounds is when I'm at Coopers Island at home walking up and down the beach listening to the waves crashing and the birds chirping. Without these noises the walk on the beach wouldn't be as enjoyable. Ackerman also mentioned that “the way we pronounce words singles us out...gives us a sense of local or national identity." She then went on to speak about how Bermudians talk and what words they might say which, being Bermudian and living there all my life I would say reading that was funny and surprising but not one hundred percent correct. However, I do agree with Ackerman on the way we speak giving us a sense of national identity because I can definitely spot a Bermudian a mile away just from hearing their accent. 
Vision - “Children learn implicitly that good people are beautiful and bad people are ugly, and society restates that message in many subtle ways as they grow older.” I think people simplify it for children so they get the gist of good vs bad. Ackerman included the quote, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind" by Shakespeare. I agree with what Ackerman was trying to get across because I think by 'beautiful' and 'ugly', she was talking about the person's personality. Pretty much saying that good people have beautiful personalities and bad people have ugly personalities. 
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