W.E.X.

Grocery Bag 3-4-09


"At first I liked it," explained the navy blue Trader Joe bag. "I used to feel special and important. Like I was saving the world for everyone. It used to be easy to be taken to the store over and over again, getting filled up with my owners grocery's. I saw bags like myself everywhere in the store, all saving the world. Then pretty soon I started to see less and less of bags like me and I got a little depressed,but my heart was still in it... saving the world I mean. Soon after that my owner filled me up with a particularly heavy load of stuff and I began to feel my handles tear. From then on any time my owner put something in me I tore a little more, thread by thread, 'till it began to hurt me. I still wanted to ave the world but maybe my owner could have sewed some patches over me or something. Anyway one day I just broke. I couldn't keep myself together anymore and I just tore apart, the stuff inside of me flying all over the ground. My owner go really mad and chucked me into the back of the car for the first time. It was really dark and scary. It seemed like my owner didn't care about me anymore. Then one day a man I had never seen before came and got me from the car and tossed me right here in this...ummm.....what did you call it again?"
"Dumpster."
"Yeah, this dumpster."
"Wow seems like you had a rough life,"said the milk carton.
"Yeah, but you too. Aren't you supposed to be in that blue recycle bin over there?"
"Yep, I guess people just don't care anymore."




Job 5/5/09


The other day I was walking down the street, and I happened to walk in front of The Coffee Bean. I stopped, looked up and then checked my pockets. I pulled out six dollars, smiled, and walked in. "Hi," I said "can I have a small hot chocolate please?"
"Sure. Whipped cream?" I nodded. "2.59." I handed her my 5 and she gave me my change. "Thanks." I smiled and sat down. "What's your name hon?"
"Victoria," I said to the lady who had taken my order. Wow I really wished that I could work hear. Could you imagine? I would probably get discounts on anything I wanted hear. And I bet if I fudged up the order, I would get to keep the wrong one. "Would you like whipped cream on that?" i would say (only if the person asked for hot chocolate) and she wold say no, but I would go and make it and put whipped cream on anyway. Then when I gave it back to her she would say, "I asked for no whipped I'm so sorry. I'm just not concentrating well today. Let me take care of that for you." And I would make her a brand new hot chocolate and keep the one with whipped cream.
"Victoria," called the lady. I got up and grabbed my drink, said thanks, and walked out the door. I took a sip of the hot chocolate and felt it slide down my throat. It was so thick and chocolaty. And it was never too hot, but it wasn't cold either. It was always the right temperature. It was sooo good. "Best hot chocolate ever," I thought just like I did every time. Wow what a great job it would b at the Coffee Bean.




Belief 5-6-09

I am sitting on the couch staring at he TV. I'm not really seeing what's going on in my favorite show, Smallville though. There is a glare in the TV from the sum coming through the window behind me. Instead of seeing Tom Welling's face fill the screen as he wonders how he could possibly save his best friend this time, I'm seeing the old, brown, rotted wood of the fence behind me, reflecting off the TV. I see the huge bush of purple flowers climbing up the fence as if it's embarrassed by the rotting wood and wants to hide it. I'm too lazy to get up and close the blinds though. No, that's not it, I wouldn't even have to get up. All I would need to do is lift up my arm, and mess with the cord a little, until my grandma came in. She would take care of it. But I didn't even feel like doing that. And, to be honest the reason I'm not watching Smallville is because it's a really hard one to understand and I don't want to think today. So why don't I get up and do something, you ask? Come on do you really think I'm going to do anything at all, when I won't even watch TV because it's hard to understand? Yeah I didn't thinks so. OMG, a thought just struck me; I'm lazy. People always tell me that, but I finally believe it. Wow...I really am lazy.

Cooking Blog

Wonder

We are growing herbs in our classroom for the L.U.L.S. project. Why? Because L.U.L.S. stands for Lets Use Less Stuff and trying to support a local community. So by growing our own herbs we are not relying on big corporations, we are supporting ourselves. Then we are cooking with them so that we are doing something with what we are growing. We are also trying to answer our projects essential questions which are "Why don't people live more sustainably?" and, "How can I convince them to do so?" In growing our own herbs we can answer the question of how we can convince them to do so because if we know how we can do that, then we ca tell them all the benefits of living sustainably.

Process

First you have to pick what you want to make, then what you want to grow. Then you have to get the ingredients that you did not grow. You can get them from a local farmers market if you want, but we just went down to Von's and got the stuff.

This is what we used to make our guacamole

3 avocados
3/4 of an onion
1 tomato
1 jalapeño
and this is what we grew that we used
1/2 bunch of cilantro
1 cayenne pepper

Recipe for the guacamole that we made

1. First you need to pick the cilantro and peppers



2. Then wash them off

3. Then wash off the tomato and the peppers

4. Cut the onion and the tomato into little cubes

5. split the avocados in half, then dice them while they are still in the skin

6. Take the diced pieces out with a spoon and put them in a large bowl

7. Start mashing up the avocados in the bowl

8. then add the tomato and the onion

9. Cut the peepers in half, then scrape out the seeds

10. Dice up the peppers and put them in the bowl

11. Mix all the ingredients together and keep mashing it

12. Add salt and pepper and lime (there is no right amount...just whatever you like)

13. Mix it all together again

14. Then taste it and ad whatever you think it needs

15. Then eat and enjoy

This recipe is from my mom...she just made it up as she went along the first time she made it

Reflect

Our finished product tasted really good. We didn't have any chips so we ate it on garlic bread, while Anthony ran down to Von's and got us some chips. We shared with both our teachers and Chris Wakefield, and everyone else who came into the room.

If I were to do this again, I would make the guacamole sooner ad I would make more of it. I would also remember to get chips at the store before we started making it. Other than that I think it went perfectly.

Yes the growing and the cooking of the herbs has changed my thinking a little bit. I never thought of growing my own herbs an vegetables, but now I do think about it, and I know that I can do it an that it is not that hard. I also know that it tastes really good when it is fresh and now I want to grow my own a little bit. But I don't know if I am going to.

This I Believe

I really liked this essay. I liked it because it was written by a Military man about teddy bears. It was a really cool story and was really sad at the same time. He gave the elittle boy the girls teddy bear and the boy took it like it was the most wonderful thing he had ever gotten. I also thought it was really neat that he wanted to go back to Afghanastan so that he can give more children teddy bears and make them happy.

Food Blogs

Her is a link to a food blog that is really cool. People debate about the food and drinks on the blog and post all kinds of recipes. If you scroll down a little you will see one of my favorites. It is the latte that is "too pretty to drink". I thought it was really cool how they did that to the latte.


Here is another link to Another food blog. This is the blog Charlotte showed us, but I thought it was really cool too. It was funny and I like that for each step there was a picture. Also here is a recipe from her blog that used a fresh herb that we grew...basil. Maybe I will make this pizza, it looks pretty good.