Evelyn Glennie: Shows How to Listen

I will remember when she started to playing the xylophone the first song she played was very cool. It was very cool to hear her play because she changed up the music in her own different way. What influence what the audience heard was were they were in the crowd because it sounds different to every one. Because each person hears things differently and as I said above it depends on were you are siting.

Farmers Market Visit

Last weekend we went to a farmers market in Del Mar. I interviewed a farmer from Valley Center, CA, which is near Escondido.

Farmer questions

1. What is your name and your role here at the (farmers market, CSA, community garden)?

My name is John. I am the brother in law of the owner. I sell fruits and juices. The farm is called "Schaner Farms".

2. Why do you choose to shop here/garden here/support this CSA?

I sell things here because I wouldn't make any money selling to a big company that sells to the stores, so this eliminates the middle man.

3. When did you first start your farm?

26 years ago.

4. Do you garden at home? Why or why not?

No I don't have time.

5. What would be your advice to get others to do what you do?

It is a hard time to get into this business now because there is a huge waiting list to get into most farmers market, including this one. You will also have to spend a lot of time. It is hard to find a piece of land that has water from the wells with the right minerals in it for the crops.

6. Where is you farm located?

It's in Valley Center. We have 53 acres.

7. What do you sell?

Lots of fruits and juices, including avocados, tangelos, lemons, oranges, and much more. We try to also sell something out of the ordinary, like today we have green garlic.

8. What is your roll on the farm?

I juice the fruits and I package all the items.

Questions for me.

1. What struck you about the location you visited? Was it what you expected, or very different?

It was what I expected but they sold a lot more than just fruits and veggies. They had kettle corn, fish, meat, eggs, tamales, and flowers.

2. Which items were cheaper than you expected? Which were more expensive?

The popcorn was only $1.00, which seemed very cheap. The tangelos were $2 for 5, which also seemed cheap. Everything seemed cheap.

3. Do you think you will start going to a farmers market more often? Or using a community garden? Or supporting a CSA?

We might start to go more often. The food is fresh.

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?”

Because the business people are living more sustainably and they are trying to make other people live that way, by selling fresh food to them.

Senior Garden Visit

Questions i asked the senior.

1. What happens to the garden in the summer?

" some one might come to take care of the plants or they leave it and plant new thing next year."

2. Who gets the food?

"The whole class shares the food."

3. When did you make the garden?

" About a year ago."

4. What kinds of plants do you grow?

" We have lots of different kinds but we have strawberries, artichokes, bananas herbs, flowers, and carrots."

Questions from our class.

1. Does this inspire you? In what way?

I was already going to do this but I will probably make a garden now.

2. What changes would you do to the garden?

I might get rid of all the dead grass in the front to make it look better.

3. What would I grow if this was my garden?

A variety of things but more fruit trees.

4. Was the garden what I expected?

Well it was because i have been to it before but I hadn't seen all the plants.

Talking these ideas out

- Monsanto - Seed Saving and Selling

What has struck you?
What struck me was how a company can own the rights to soybeans. And that they sue people if they have traces of their seeds on a farm. Also how they make money from suing people. They shouldn't be able to own the rights to them.

- Do you agree or disagree with the concepts? Why?

I disagree with then because they are shutting down small farms and making people go into debt.

- How can you apply them to the real world?

Seeds should be available for all farmers, and farmers should be able to get them from a seed house, open to all.

- What do your parents or family members think?

My mom and dad think that since seeds come from the Earth, they should be available for anybody to use, even if they've been changed genetically. They are still from the Earth even if they are changed. No one should be able to "own" a seed type. And the small farmers that are just trying to earn enough money to feed their families need seeds to be able to grow crops and cannot afford to buy special seeds.

Cows being feed corn instead of grass.

- What has struck you?

What struck me was that companies feed the cows corn just because it makes them fat. Feeding them corn is not good. Cows are designed to eat grass so when they eat corn they get sick, and when they poop it contains salmonella which goes down stream and contaminates crops and water supplier.

- Do you agree or disagree with the concepts? Why?

I disagree, cows should eat grass because they create a cycle- when they poop, it fertilizes the grass, then they eat the grass, and the cycle continues.

- How can you apply them to the real world?

The government should make rules that only grass can be fed to beef, and they should keep track of all the cow farmers.

- What do your parents or family members think?

My dad thinks that corn fed beef tastes better. When he was a kid raising cattle, when you fed them grain it was a lot better tasting meat. But you still would have to feed them alfalfa too. But my dad agrees that corn fed beef is bad for the environment. My mom thinks that cows should eat what is natural, and what will be best for the environment, which is grass. She wants to start buying more grass fed meat at Whole Foods and Trader Joes.

Dielectic Journal

Quote- "Never disagree. Never point out inconsistencies. Never ask questions that go beyond what's being taught. Never let on that you're lost. Always try to look like you're getting every word. It all comes to pretty much the same thing." Pg. 59

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Reflection- I think that a lot of kids don't do any of the things like in quotes, because they just want to get the day over  with and like it says in the chapter to help the teacher complete her task. Her task would be to teach new things to kids. If you did follow the quote you would eventually get super far behind because if you didn't get something you would never understand it.

Tragedy

Travis Van Vechten

1/18/10

Dude in the Cage

“LET ME OUT!”

Victor screamed to the guards. They looked at him and said,

“If you want to get out find a way out smart one!”

The guards all laughed at him. He continually screamed,

“LET ME OUT!”

As the cold dark night went on the guards left, and Victor was cramped and shivering in his tiny cage with a cold bowl of oatmeal. That night he was furious with the guards for teasing him. He spent all night frustrated trying to find a way out, and ended up sharpening his toothbrush by shaving the plastic off the end with the bars of the cage. He tried to pick the old lock that was attached to the rusty old bars. He spent hours sharpening and picking at the lock but it just wouldn’t come off. He sat down on the cold metal bed trying to think, and after a while of sitting and thinking he realized that his cage was on dirt and rocks. There was no bottom of the cage. He took the oatmeal and dumped it out and used the spoon to dig and the bowl to shovel dirt and take rocks out. It was almost morning so he decided to wait until the next night to start digging.

He was glad he could spend a day sleeping and occasionally sharpening the spoon to get ready to dig. That day it started to rain. After the guards left for the night he started to dig. The rain made the ground soft and muddy so it was easier for him to dig. In an hour he had almost dug a foot under the ground and soon started a tunnel under the bars. Once he got to the other side he punched his way through like a crazy bear and realized he had finally escaped. He wanted to yell out that he had escaped but he didn’t. He went back to his cage and got the sharpened toothbrush and the spoon and went through the hole. He was covered in mud and was all sweaty. He looked around and he still hadn’t made it out all the way, there still was a small perimeter fence around the cage and there was a guard tower with a spot light.

Not even thinking about it he ran to the fence and started to climb it. He got to the top and there was barbed wire on top. He looked at the guard tower and the guards were fast asleep so he climbed back down the fence quietly and ran to his cage. He grabbed his blankets and ran back to the fence. When he got to the top he draped the blankets over the barbed wire and climbed over. He started to run like a chicken through a deeply forested area. Running through the forest there was branches breaking and flying leafs. He almost slipped a couple of times on mud puddles. He was gone before the guards even noticed.

He ran until he could run no more and he passed out in a small farm town. He woke up flustered and confused on a pile of hay in a barn. The latch on the barn door unlocked and an old man with a cane walked in with a rifle.

“Who are you?” the man muttered, holding the rifle at Victor. Victor responded quickly, frightened by the gun pointed at him, saying that his name was Tom and he got lost on his camping trip. The sorry old man believed his lies and let him stay in the barn for a couple of nights. Victor was surprised that he believed him and was glad he put the gun down.

The old man and Victor became friends. They trusted each other even though Victor was lying. They spent lots of time together. One day they went to a pond and went fishing.

Back at the jail it was madness. There were alarms and people running everywhere yelling. There were investigators everywhere looking for clues. The head guard was yelling at the night guards because they were sleeping. The police started to track Victor’s footprints from where he escaped. They were hard to follow because it had been a day since he escaped. They found the field he had passed out in and they called the SWAT team.

When they were ready, they kicked open the barn door and yelled,

“GET ON THE GROUND!”

They saw Victor trying to get out the smallest window in the barn and the old man just sat there confused. They fired a couple of rounds at them but they missed. Victor told the old man to push him out the window and the old man did. The SWAT team fired more but missed Victor and hit the old man right in the head and he fell to the ground. Victor fell out the window and ran as fast as he could away from the police. He ran for hours and was lost. He was in a forested area with no civilization around. He was so mad that the old man died and he was nowhere near anything. All he had left was a spoon and a sharpened toothbrush.

He could not find any food or water to eat so he ran back the way he came and then he switched directions and found a new town were he sat on the side of the road with his thumb out waiting for a ride. No one would stop for him. He was sad, starving, and had to drink water out of the storm drain, which was covered in mucky leaves and trash. He used a piece of his shirt to filter the water through.

Victor was on the side of the road dying. Victor was depressed and he was starving, he hadn’t eaten food in at least two days. He tried to stand up to go to the bathroom and he fainted and fell into the road and bonked his head. A semi truck zoomed by and the driver thought it was just a speed bump.

My Zine

Mobile TV

1. It is a small TV that you can bring with you and get shows. It falls under entertainment.
2. They have never had a TV like this that picks up signals. You should care because you can take it with you instead of siting at home.
3. They are going to have devises that you can plug into a computer and get TV.
4. Only about 30 stations on it.