W.E.X.

Learning

"Oh my gosh!" I gasped. I couldn't believe it. I turned my head slowly to the right, sitting next to me was my dad and brother. I stared beweildered at them. "You won't believe what I just noticed!" I yelled over the other hundred people jibbering away. The sent of new comic rose up my nose. I stood up and pointed to the giant projector screen. My dad and brother stared at me like I was a freak. "The sci-fi logo is a saturn!" I yellped. I was so excited I wanted to spurt around the hundreds of poeple spreading the news.

"Yeah, so? I already knew that," my brother said in a wanna-be-smart voice.

"Then why didn't you tell me!" I screamed. I shifted my body to the left to ignore him. I kept my eyes on the big screen. This is so ool I thought. Me at comic con learning something new and totally awesome. I felt special, I didn't know why, I just did.

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Fairy Tale

" hu....uhhhhg," The princess sat up in her dust covered bed. *Cough cough* the dust was to much for her wind pipes to take in. She looked around the moth infested room. Her hair draped her shoulders. Her piercing blue eyes dashed everywhere around the room her hands began to clutch the sheet. "Where am I?" she helplessly screamed. All the sudden her closet began rumbling causing the handle to fall to the ground and roll downa a pile of clothes. "Ahh, go away!" She slammed her eyes shu, scared for the unvieling of the thing in her closet. Out jumped a dwarf, falling onto the pile of clothes too. He then made his way to the side of the bed while the princess stared in "aw." "Who are you and what are you doing in my closet?"

"Well i'm the dwarf who was sent to rescue you and I wanted to surprise you when you woke up, so I hid in your closet. Then I got stuck so I tried to find a way out because I thought I broke it so I tried to climb out your window but I fell back and broke your door open."

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Meal

"Oh my gosh, this is so freaking good!" I announced to my dad and brother. We were sitting in the center of the sushi place, everything was so neat and remodeled looking. The seats were so full of bounce, and the tables were shiny to the brim. I looked down, staring at the half eaten piece of sushi, while chewing on the other savory half. I felt the salty seaweed slide down my throat, with it traveled the yummy sticky rice covered in soy sauce. It felt as if my taste buds were having a party and were dancing around the back of my tongue. The other half of my sushi was still on my sparkling triangular plate. I picked it up carefully and tossed it into my mouth. My first bite was a loud crunching of cucumber. I felt the cucumber burst into halves between my teeth and the crab ripping to shreds. It was the most memorable piece of sushi I'd ever eaten.

L.U.L.S Food Blog

Essential Questions

Why don't people live more sustainably?

And how can we convince them to do so?

The reason we chose to grow our own herbs was to show us that living sustainably isn't that hard and is healthier for our bodies and economy. Cooking with the herbs was a way for us to try the herbs we grew and it made it rewarding to know we grew it ourselves and we got to eat it too.

Recipe

lemon basil rice and eggs

I got this recipe from my grandma.

1. First get out the things you will need, which are lemon basil, rice, an egg, salt and pepper, olive oil and soy sauce.



2. Heat up pan then add olive oil.



3. Add rice and break it apart.



4. Add about two to three table spoons of soy sauce and mix it up.



5. Now take out about five lemon basil leaves and roll them up on a chopping board.




6. You can chop it up more finely if you'd like smaller bits.



7. Add one egg to the rice and mix it up, then add then lemon basil.



8. mix well.



9. Put in a bowl and enjoy :)

This I Believe

Tony Hawk's This I Believe


As heard on NPR's All Things Considered, July 24, 2006.I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.I have been a professional skateboarder for 24 years. For much of that time, the activity that paid my rent and gave me my greatest joy was tagged with many labels, most of which were ugly. It was a kids' fad, a waste of time, a dangerous pursuit, a crime.When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook. He told me that I would never make it in the workplace if I didn't follow directions explicitly. He said I'd never make a living as a skateboarder, so it seemed to him that my future was bleak.Even during those dark years, I never stopped riding my skateboard and never stopped progressing as a skater. There have been many, many times when I've been frustrated because I can't land a maneuver. I've come to realize that the only way to master something is to keep it at—despite the bloody knees, despite the twisted ankles, despite the mocking crowds.Skateboarding has gained mainstream recognition in recent years, but it still has negative stereotypes. The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, world travelers and successful entrepreneurs. Their hairdos and tattoos are simply part of our culture, even when they raise eyebrows during PTA meetings.So here I am, 38 years old, a husband and father of three, with a lengthy list of responsibilities and obligations. And although I have many job titles—CEO, Executive Producer, Senior Consultant, Foundation Chairman, Bad Actor—the one I am most proud of is "Professional Skateboarder." It's the one I write on surveys and customs forms, even though I often end up in a secondary security checkpoint.My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, "My dad sells money" and "My dad figures stuff out." My son said, "I've never seen my dad do work."It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do. My parents never once questioned the practicality behind my passion, even when I had to scrape together gas money and regarded dinner at Taco Bell as a big night out.I hope to pass on the same lesson to my children someday. Find the thing you love. My oldest son is an avid skater and he's really gifted for a 13-year-old, but there's a lot of pressure on him. He used to skate for endorsements, but now he brushes all that stuff aside. He just skates for fun and that's good enough for me.You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.Tony Hawk got his first skateboard when he was nine years old. Five years later, he turned pro. Hawk’s autobiography and video games have been best-sellers, while his foundation has funded skate-park construction in low-income communities across America.Independently produced for NPR by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with Emily Botein, John Gregory and Viki Merrick.

Here's the link if you want to listen to it.

I chose to put this one on my blog because it really inspired me to do what I want and not what others tell me to. As he said his teacher never thought he would ever make money because he thought his future was bleak, since he was a skate border.

REcipes 2

If you click here there are many great recipes for the use of lemon basil.


And if you click here there is a great recipe for the use of cilantro.

recipies

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1839,151167-251202,00.html











http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1839,144171-234203,00.html

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1935,158183-244207,00.html

Farmers Market

1. What is your role at a farmers market?
A: I'm someone who shops here to get my weekly vegetables and fruits.

2.Why do you shop here?
A: I think it's a great way to support my community and there's always great choices to choose from. I also shop here because It's close to my house and easy to get to.

3. When did you first start coming here?
A: I just moved here and I heard about it from a friend and I chose to start going here instead of the big grocery stores when I need to get vegetables herbs and fruits.

4. Do you garden at home?
A: I don't garden at home actually, since I just moved here I haven't had any time to.

5.What would be your advise to get others to do what you do?
A: I would let them know that everything sold at farmers markets are way healthier for your body then the ones that are being sold in chain grocery stores.

6.How would you describe the atmosphere of this farmers market?
A: Well this is always a place you can go and get lost into looking around that time goes by so fast. I always come here every Sunday and I sometimes bring my mom here since its so enjoyable.

Ecological Intelligence

Link: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1884779_1884782_1884776,00.html

1. Ecological intelligence is the knowing people have about their carbon foot print. It's when people do more to reduce the amounts they are using and try to find a healthier way for our planet.

2. This project connects with our essential questions because they both have to do with living more sustainable and keeping that idea alive.

3. My ecological intelligence seems pretty average to me. I know what is better for the planet but I don't always act on it. An example of this in my life would be knowing what products are good for he planet so I try to buy those but I don't always.

Green Ads

http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/greenpeace_recycling

http://www.1000bulbs.com/Recycling/?source=1000bulbsaffiliatepfx-k180356

http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp?page=710

L.U.L.S Data

1. One thing that struck me about all the data we collected was, how many people actually recycle because they want to.

2. What surprised me about the results were the number of things people could name that were recyclable.

3. My expectations were met and I was very happy with all the results we got. People knew the reasons why they were recycling and to prove that they knew what items are recyclable. eryone we got to take the test was very helpful, but we still don't really know why people don't recycle.

4. The type of campaign I want to run is the kind that will encourage people to do the right thing which is recycling. I don't want to embarrass people because then they might not respond well to the ad.

My Ishmael 3-2-09

1. Anthropomorphism mean when something that is not at all human but acts like one. In the book it is referring to the animals that act like humans by defending what is theirs.

2. - Ishmael describes "Erratic Retaliation" as a way to keep the peace. The cawks don't really go by erratic retaliation because they still fight and erratic retaliation means to find a better way of settling a argument.

-Erratic retaliation is a peace keeping method because it is a way of finding a solution to a problem without fighting.

-The cawks annihilate each other instead of the occasional attacks because they are very aggressive animals .

2-23-09

1. Sustainability means to live your life with the necessities and support.

2. At ages 14 freedom and independence is something I have open range in. There are some things that are out of my range such as going alone to the mall and driving where ever I want to go.

3. As a 14 year old, I can live my life more sustainable by making sure I have a good relationship with my family and to make sure I use my money for necessities rather than random things that I want to buy.

Semester Goals

1) I have changed over the semester just a smidge. Before I was kind of shy and quiet and only spoke to the people I already knew. I never really branched out to people but now I do, and I'm glad I do. I have made a ton of new friends, and I'm proud of myself now because I can do better in school with not being to shy to talk out loud to the class or present in front of them.

2) Important skills in humanities are things like similes, metaphores, or alliteration. I find these important because if I ever wanted to become someone like a writer or a journalist then I can appeal to my readers easily.

3) One thing i would like ot improve on would be my annotating and reading. I am not really a reading kind of person so if I read more now it won't be as hard for me in the future. I'll do this by reading more on my own time and reading books that I like and will enjoy reading.

4) I'm really curious about homicide detectives. I just really like learning about crime scenes and other things relevent to that. In 7th grade I did a project about it and I loved it. We had to solve the crime of "the missing dragon babies" It was so much fun!