In addition to the World Religions course, several other high school electives emphasize the relevance of the subject to the students’ lives. Recognizing the lasting impact of the recent world economic crisis, the Personal Finance course provides students with practical knowledge with which to recognize the importance of fiscal responsibility. Environmental Science focuses on the manner in which human beings as a species have misused the world’s resources and, rather than endorse short-term “cleaning” solutions, seeks to find preventive measures that will raise environmental awareness and reduce resource exploitation. These, combined with other courses that will be detailed in future postings, ultimately provide the students at Wells On Nut with a conditioned consciousness and realism that are too often absent in educational settings.

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On the fourth floor, where our tour began, is a place for praying, meditating and listening to “Shabad” or “Kirtan” (songs with religious meaning), and everyone gives money to the temple by putting money on the shrine where the Guru Granth Sahib (the Sikh holy book) rests. We then moved up to the sixth floor and into a room where a part of the original Guru Granth Sahib is kept and stayed for a while as we explained the room’s significance. We continued on to the room in which all the copies of the holy book are kept, available for anyone who would like to take a copy home for personal use.

Moving down to the fifth floor, we inspected the classrooms where lessons are held, teaching us about our religion and the morals and ethics involved in being Sikh. Our tour ended with a meal in Langar Hall, which is a cafeteria where anyone can eat, as free vegetarian meals are offered to all who enter each day.

After the tour was over I felt wonderful about my religion and proud to be part of something that is so spectacular, which makes me appreciate it even more. This feeling occurred because of how happy I was to share a part of my religion with people close to me, which made me feel even better about myself when I remembered that the ones I was the one sharing and helping my friends and teacher understand my religion. This feeling that erupted inside of me makes me feel proud to say “I am a Sikh.”

– Reported by Nick, Grade 11

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