Quote 1: “The clock goes very slowly in the Herbarium. If a botanist wants to borrow some specimens from Michigan, he or she needs to agree to keep them for at least two years, and may actually keep them for decades.”

Response: I found this quote very interesting because the clock is contrubuted as somthing different. The herbarium is a field of study and the fact that it seems like time is going slow just means there are more studies that will be developed. Furthermore, its very ammusing that whenever a botanist needs to borrow something, they have to keep it with them for 2 years. It’s like having a contact between two people.

Quote 2:  “A DC develops horizons of expectation, defined rhythms of activity, a sense of its history, and value systems for what is good and less good work. Consider again the concept of the university clocks moving at different speeds that was discussed in the opening section. Or reflect on how DCs evolve rotas and rosters.”

Response: This is another quote that interest’s me because the DC is a system to help people. The DC concept IS useful for languages for specific and academic purposes, aand other practitioners as they work to give students the oracy and literacy skills to survive and thrive in their diverse educational environments.

-Rania Mohamed