Reflections: Weeks: 11 and 12

This semester is going by really fast.....and I am really happy I got the oppritunity to take this class. Every week opens my eyes to new things to think about and create an opinion about and to research things as well.

Week 11
This week we started off by doing a enviromental literacy activity where we got into groups and basically defined what enviromental literacy was. I think this was good because we got exposed to different apsects of the enviroment and new terms. We also did another activity by looking at different items and thinking of things that we could use them for. I thought the best thing was the mini coffin deal. We all had some funny things for it.

Week 12
This week we learned what blog hopping was. I think that is pretty cool actually. We also did out photo essays and there were alot of cool ones and it was really cool to see all the different ideas all the classmates had. In my opinion this was one of my favorite assignments we had because I after 22 years I finally realized how my neighborhood is.

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 9 : My SMART Goal

My health goal for this week was to walk to school every day and to quit drinking and have a salad for a meal each day.
How did it go?
This week is probably by far one of the worse weeks I had. I did walk to school every day but I did not follow through with having a salad every day. The holiday made it extremely hard. Also with the drinking part, I did fail with that to. I am pretty upset with myself and I am hoping to finish strong. It was just hard being home and my friends like to go out alot so it was hard to avoid the drinking aspect.
FUTURE GOALS...
I am still going to continue my plan and just work alot harder at completeing these last few weeks or so.
Until next time good luck to everyone and good luck!

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Share @ Voice: My new Signature!

I made my signature using livesignature.com. Its pretty easy and cool!

Eye Opener: Photo Essay

My story.... When driving back to Minneapolis for the turkey day looking out my car window, I was wondering to myself through everything that we have learned being from a big city... how does the government and factories treat my neighborhood...I guess I never really thought about how we are treated... so I went on a journey with my dad to capture images and see if the government and factories treat my city and I as an expendable means..... Here is my story...

The train they planted in neighborhoods and tore down houses for…

The Back yards to alot of the residents in my neighborhood.

Good landscaping?

Whats up neighbor? The factory next to this house was where they use to make and store dog food…

Kind of cool having a loading dock right next door? Not.

Piles of dirt from highway construction for someones back yard…I also asked one of the residents how the conditions are and they said “through the night all your house does is rumble from traffic, and during the day its even worse when they’re drilling” he wanted to be annonomous

An elementary school with a run down play ground, next to a real busy road and in a bad neighborhood.

This here is a run down train track and electric pole and a plant right in the back yard of houses

Run down train track...housing to the left, factory to the right with huge smoke stacks...

Gun shop right next to section 8 housing…. Weird.

This has really opened my eyes to the world I grew up and live in. I never noticed til now…