If it wasn’t for ‘The Wild Thornberrys’ I wouldn’t have found my passions for learning about other people and cultures different from my own. The people living in these societies will never show you who they truly are unless you are getting involved and showing them that you want to learn and understand. You can’t sit back, watch and write as you are never going to truly understand the place where you are. Dr Manchi spoke about how if you really want qualitative research then you have to be involved. This was reinforced to me by Dr Madhavi Manchi’s lecture on qualitative research and specifically ethnographic fieldwork. However, I don’t think that a true understanding lies in numbers and data, I believe that it sits in culture, people and understandings. I’ve always believed that it’s extremely important to understand the past, and if we can understand the past then we can understand the future. Each episode stuck with me differently specifically when she went to Peru and lived with the native Incas, when she went to Brazil and got stuck in an ancient temple, and when she went to China and got involved in a Chinese festival whilst she was trying to save some pandas. Whilst all of my friends were worried about missing the new Hannah Montana episode I was getting ready to watch reruns of ‘The Wild Thornberrys’ – seeing most of the episodes 3 if not 4 times each. She got to experience what their lives were like by getting involved in their cultural norms and practices. I was inspired at a young age by this show and it wasn’t because I wanted to speak to animals, it was because she would travel all around the world and meet so many different people from different cultures and ethnicities. The family travel all over the world and Eliza gets into all kind of situations and the ability to speak to animals gets her out of them. If you haven’t had the wonderful experience of watching ‘The Wild Thornberrys’ then its basically about a girl named Eliza that can speak to animals, her family lives in a caravan whilst her dad hosts a nature show and the mum films it. It aired from 1998 to 2004 on Nickelodeon and the movie came out in 2002. Weirdly enough my favourite show as a kid was ‘The Wild Thornberrys’ and I would be lying if I said it didn’t change my life.
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