Honestly, I thought that this was, well, just plain odd. I felt like I was being dragged onto a ride with no clear destination. With all due respect, I would rather not have to view this in the future.
I agreed with the fact that the Gregorian calendar basically made no sense in terms of when days, weeks, months and years started. It was like people would just randomly choose when a year would start at their own convenience. What I really questioned were the so-called effects that kind of calendar would have on society. Honestly, I was a bit lost with the drawings and strange side notes.
Many of the calendar systems that our group researched where a king would choose the start of the year like the Babylonian calendar. Other systems, like the Egyptian calendar had a system that helped determine when certain events, like in the Egyptians’ case when the Nile would flood. Personally, our group would prefer a calendar based on observations in nature, because like I mentioned before, the Egyptian calendar was used to predict the flooding of the Nile and that calendar system was very close to the one we are using now, meaning that it must have been rather accurate.
--Sarah Pak
