Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen

What struck you?
What struck me was how without the sticks she could play the instrument, and do different sounds wit her hands and invent some to and also add her bracelet noise but what was the most striking thing is that she's death; and she can still add other sounds and make them sound good together and she doesn't need to hear nothing.

What did you notice?
I noticed that you could tell that she's really into music and although she can't hear what she's playing she feels it some how;and what I also noticed was that she could close her eyes and still be on track on what her next note or where ever shes putting her note is going to be. And also I noticed she has an accent which I thought it was nice:) although it sounded funny.

What did you enjoy about her performance?
What I enjoyed about her performance was how she played it, but that she was playing solo with nobody like a partner etc. And also I liked how she was explaining the instruments that if the "marimba" didn't have that space below it wouldn't sound the same or better.

School garden

Student questions:
What type of plants are you growing?
Strawberries, flowers, artichokes, onion, carrots, beats, potato, cabbage, Suzuki, cilantro, mint, oregano.

What are the flowers for?
Flowers and plants were added to attract bugs, ladybugs etc.for more benefit on our plants, to get all the nutrients.

When did you start with the project?
We started in October.

What type of fertilizer/soil do you use for the plants?
We use old leaves for fertilizer for the plants because it turns into rich soil.

How is the system to water the plants?
We put black tubes and placed them on ever base to cover it, and it waters the plants it doesn't use nor waste water it uses the exact amount.

questions:
What did you like or not like about the garden?
I didn't like it that much because it was to small and sort of everybody was in one spot and there was barely shade, but the plants they were growing were cool that's the only things that i didn't really like.

What struck you about it?
What stuck me about the garden was how the students put it all together like connected the water tube and how was it going to get water, and the time when plus using leaves for soil.

Would you like to continue the seniors work?
Um... I really wouldn't because I don't really like and not interested in planting and all those things I don't find it fun, but it's not bad or nothing they really did a good job on it.

Sustainability visit

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1. What struck you about the location you visited? Was it what you expected, or very different? What struck me was that there was a lot more people walking around then I expected, I thought that there were going to be like 6 families and barely people and just grown- ups but there were adults,seniors,and children. I expected it to be more quiet to but it was the opposite there was even music and people asking questions of the different organics there were.
2. Which items were cheaper than you expected? Which were more expensive? Well It would depend like what I saw was that the littler fruits,or vegetables etc. were cheaper but the pound was a lot just for a few, and the bigger kinds of things were not cheap at all,sort of everything was at a high price but some things weren't.
3. Do you think you will start going to a farmers market more often? Or using a community garden? Or supporting a CSA? Well I really don't know because my mom is the one that does the shopping sometimes when I'm not with because I'm at school, And when I do go with her for groceries it mostly at supermarket, Pancho Villa etc. It's really rare when we go to an organic market; just sometimes we do cause my mom works with a lady that sales toughs types of things,And she buys off her.
4. How do these locations fit into our essential questions of “Why Don’t People Live More Sustainably?” and “How Can I Convince them to do So?”
Well It's really up to them because some prefer to not pay a lot for like a piece of celery etc, but some actually really want there kids to be healthy so they try and make more money so there payments well even out and they can buy what they think is better for them and for there loved ones; not just go for the cheapest things because It doesn't last a long time.Like a new pair of shoes obviously your not going to go buy it at the 99 cent store because if you use the common sense there going to tear quickly in a couple of days then if you buy them at a shoe pavilion,DGB etc.

Talking these ideas out

What me and my family talked about was that these days we have seen difference in our food choices, but that anyways in any healthy food we get its not natural or organic. And that sometimes we don't make the right decisions in food we eat out when there's food in the house sometimes, but we didn't really based on that just that yeah there's not many good things we can find and that my mom always checks the labels and all though other things which sometimes maybe exaggerating.But after that everyone started going there way and doing there things so we never finished because they weren't in to it but the last person at the table with me was my mom which wasn't a surprise because she really gets into things easily and mostly if it has to do with our school; so we just kept talking she asked me some questions. Like what did i learn etc. and after that she changed subject to the chores I have to do but that's about it

Dialectic journal-school daze

Quote:
"When the youngsters of your culture graduate from school (unless their families continue to
take care of them), they must immediately find someone to give them money to buy the things they need
in order to survive. In other words, they have to find jobs. You should be able to explain why this is so."
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Response:
I think that at the age of 13-14 that they say know things don't completely know a lot they have more things to pass through,barely taking that next step but scared to take it completely. And just act tough and that they do know a lot and everything for there age just to look good in front of other people and especially there parents, saying i don't need your help I can do it on my own, I'm not a baby no more I can take care of myself, and blah blah blah. But us as the teenagers know that it's all the opposite we do need a lot from our parents and that we are constantly asking them for things that we want need or just saw something at the moment you liked and just make up excuses of why you need it but we only say lies to get our way,which sometimes don't work but it's worth a try. The thing is that at some point or our whole life's growing up as an adult were going to need our parents for something or just any little thing or what to wear etc.So the point is we don't know everything as teenagers,We need someone there.

Everything Is going to be Alright

My name is Pedro I’m 2 years old and I have a happy family, it hasn’t been that long since we moved houses I’m a single child and raised with lots of love. I help my mommy in making food when a dad at work, her food by the way is good! When dads home I usually pass the majority time with him, yeah my life is perfect well that’s what I used to think. Until one day my dad left us… he went to war and now life hasn’t been the same. My uncle comes all the time; he's always been there since my dad left. This is nice because he’s like a 2nd dad to me, although I miss my dad I know he’s doing the right thing.
A year has passed by really quickly my birthday passed, my uncle Francisco got me a toy I always wanted, he knows every single thing of me I love him, another year came by fast, still nothing no sign or even a letter from dad my mom would take me into her arms until I would fall asleep she would repeat, Everything is going to be okay he’ll come back I promise“. Years passed by 1,2,3,4,5,6 already and until one day on a Saturday night and it was pouring rain, we were gathered around the table drinking hot chocolate talking and laughing the door bell rings, “ding dong” my mom questioned herself because it was late already, she opened the door and it was a tall guy with a beard not that long and not that short, his eyes were big, his hair was brown and short, he handed my mom a paper and left without a word as my mom opened it her face looked worried she started crying and she fell on her knees as if she had two heavy rocks pulling on her, as I went up to her I didn’t want to believe that it had something to do with dad I read it and didn’t get the words, but my dad’s name was on it. I asked my mom, “what does it say about daddy, mommy?” my mom couldn’t speak it was as if she had a knot in her throat. She started telling me in a lowered voice almost whispering, your dad, your dad died at war, memories started accumulating and my tears started gaining on me.
My mom was heartbroken; devastated I couldn’t say I know how it feels because I’ve never been a wife. Life seemed small, my uncle had been there to support me and my mom in that time were we felt the world was falling on us. Time had passed my looked new again and thanks to my uncle I felt safe and protected, my life was forming up again I got on the soccer team and the best as always, I’m now in middle school moving onto high school I’m not that little kid no more that used to play around with cardboard boxes and think that, that was life. My mom and uncle started a relationship so far I could say that I’m happy…

It was my 8th grade graduation the day were I was officially older moving on to high school that day was the best my dad I mean uncle came and my mom they looked really happy, and proud of me. We came back really late that day and a man was standing outside our house and his hair was short and he had a blue marine t-shirt with a pair of jeans he looked familiar something he had I remembered my dad and as we walked up to him you could see a scar on the side of his eye close to the eyebrow, as my mom got closer she began to cry I couldn’t understand why she was but the man was looking directly to me and it made me feel uncomfortable my mom turned to me and said “this is your dad Pedro” she told me with a confused and terrified voice as if he came from the dead. All of a sudden i started feeling cold as if I were in a refrigerator at the moment i felt confused and scared I don't know why but something wasn't right. A week passed by with him in the house it wasn’t the same something inside me was telling me that something wrong was going to happen, another day passed and he seemed mad and frustrated, my uncle took him aside to talk to him brother to brother and see what was happening my uncle asked him “why have you been different with your wife and son? You’re not yourself no more; you've been acting strange what is your problem?” He took time to answer and he said you are in the deepest and hard voice you could think of it was like if he were throwing me a rock to the head, he started breathing hard I wanted to explain that things just happen and time goes by fast and life goes on he said “why do you think that you could just take my wife like that! And even my sons love? Who do you think you are?”

He took a tree branch and out of no where stood up to my uncle Francisco “do you think I’m STUPID? DO YOU THINK THAT YOU COULD JUST DO WHATEVER YOU WANT? I thought you were my brother he fell and got on his knees he started crying, my uncle grabbed his shoulder and said, “Everything is going to be alright” “no its not going to be alright! Because she’s with you instead of me and the worst part is that you slept with my only true love. “But you must understand that we thought you were dead and she needed support and I was there to help her pass through this hard time” “you helped by sleeping with my wife?” “things happen brother”, as I could hear my uncle and my father scream at each other I could feel a chill going down my spine when all of a sudden my father lifted the branch as if he were going to hit uncle Francisco, as I saw what was about to occur I immediately reacted and went outside to stop him I ran as fast as I could and I stepped in front of my uncle my father was furious and determined to harm my uncle and because of that, I don’t believe he noticed me standing there and hit me across the face. “Where’s my uncle? And my mom and my father?” I said as I woke up from the hospital, the doctor with a serious face said “son your father developed anger issues at the war and because of that, the shock of seeing your uncle with your mom made your father angry at the point were he killed your uncle and your mom I’m sorry” the doctor held me tight into his arms and swayed me back and forth and said “everything is going to be alright” and he left the room. I got really depressed after that and started seeing things that weren't even real I felt I was going down, I started doing drugs which my mom would always tell me not to do now it wasn't the same I felt like shit! It was my entire fault I have no right to be forgiven but yet to apologize for excising I am now writing these last words before I die, because I can’t handle the pain.

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Gaming in 2010

1. A brief summary of the topic. What is it? What field of research does it fall under?
They have invented a smart button that sends your character where you want him to go with the fewest button pushes, so then there will be no more getting stuck on a table or behind a crate, a quirk of older first-person games. It falls under technology.

2. What's the big deal with this topic? Why should you care about its developments and any new discoveries that are made?
That it will save you time when your playing. Because eventually it will sell and be a helpful thing, to the ones that are addicted.

3. What's going to happen to this topic in 2010?
It will get big and meager that they will start inventing other things like that.

4. What obstacles or setbacks are in the way of this topic's success?
I think nothing bad will happen but, they'll start getting tired of it and not use it and it will get old.