Do you know what its like to fly from one end of the Mississippi river to the other? Well I do and let me tell you, it is not easy. That river is log, deep, and there are hunters everywhere. Here’s a little about my flight over the Mississippi river.
I’ll start off by saying that it is really long. The river stretches all the way from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. It twists and turns the whole way down. And did I mention how deep it is. At one place you could be swimming in inches, go half a mile down the bank and you’re in fathoms. It’s dangerous too. There are all kinds of bears and foxes. If you don’t watch out they’ll get you! One day I couldn’t even land because the bars were out and the forest was so dense that I got so tired flying over it all and flew right into a swamp.
One thing that amazed me was all the people there were on the river. There were black men, white men, and even Indians. They were mostly farmers and fisherman. And believe me when I say there were hunters. It was hard to stay away form them. I got shot at over 10 times. Some of those people do some pretty weird things. This one time I flew over this huge mansion with a ton of slaves working in the fields, but there was this one slave that had a whole bunch of people standing around him. He was a weirdo throwing a ball of hair in the air saying it was talking to him.
There were a lot of boats on the water too. There were skiffs, canoes, steamboats, regular boats, and a bunch of other boats. I tried to land on them whenever I could but the people always shoed me away. It would have saved me a lot of flapping if I could have just taken a ferry.
Over all it was an ok trip. I was shot at by hunters, couldn’t get food because of bears, saw something’s I don’t ever want to see again, and was super tired. One thing I know for sure, if I ever do that again I am going to take one of those metal birds to get there.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Independent Service Reflection
The Mirror
Will these experiences change the way you act or think in the future?
Well a lot of my independent hours were spent with my grand mother who is 90 years old. She gets very lonely being so old so I spent a lot of time with her to keep her company. We did things like talking about old family memories, watching TV, making art projects together, eating, and even dancing. I think this experience will help me in the future because I know that when I get old I am not going to want to be forgotten so now I am being more patient with elderly people because I know it must be hard for them. Before I used to just do my own thing but now I see that they are still people who have feelings and like to have fun.
The Microscope
How does this experience compliment or contrast with what you do in class?
Well the other half of my service hours were spent doing runs with student runs Philly style. One run that I did was the Clean air run. The run was supposed to get people involved in the environment by getting together and running. This complements what we did in class because we are working on recycling and that is for the environment. We also want to get people together to educate them about what recycling can do for our city and world.
The Binoculars
How will service learning change your future behaviors/attitudes/and career?
Service learning has already begun to change my behavior and attitudes toward recycling. Now I feel so guilty about every piece of trash I have that is not being recycled. I look at all the wasted papers we get in class and wish that I could just recycle it all. Something really has to happen in our school. Too many good materials are being wasted that could be reused. I would definitely work for recycling again next year if it would mean that we could start our own program.
Will these experiences change the way you act or think in the future?
Well a lot of my independent hours were spent with my grand mother who is 90 years old. She gets very lonely being so old so I spent a lot of time with her to keep her company. We did things like talking about old family memories, watching TV, making art projects together, eating, and even dancing. I think this experience will help me in the future because I know that when I get old I am not going to want to be forgotten so now I am being more patient with elderly people because I know it must be hard for them. Before I used to just do my own thing but now I see that they are still people who have feelings and like to have fun.
The Microscope
How does this experience compliment or contrast with what you do in class?
Well the other half of my service hours were spent doing runs with student runs Philly style. One run that I did was the Clean air run. The run was supposed to get people involved in the environment by getting together and running. This complements what we did in class because we are working on recycling and that is for the environment. We also want to get people together to educate them about what recycling can do for our city and world.
The Binoculars
How will service learning change your future behaviors/attitudes/and career?
Service learning has already begun to change my behavior and attitudes toward recycling. Now I feel so guilty about every piece of trash I have that is not being recycled. I look at all the wasted papers we get in class and wish that I could just recycle it all. Something really has to happen in our school. Too many good materials are being wasted that could be reused. I would definitely work for recycling again next year if it would mean that we could start our own program.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Service Learning reflection May 28, 2008
Our service learning meeting on Wednesday was very productive. We broke into our groups to finish up the research and write ups for our own topics. My topic was plastic so I did research and typed a page that had statistics and things for people to think about and pictures of recycled products. Ms. Thomas is going to take all of our research and put it together for a little report.
Next meeting we are probably just going to finish up the report to submit it to Ms. Thompson.
Next meeting we are probably just going to finish up the report to submit it to Ms. Thompson.
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