WEX blog post

First piece: Exhausted

It was the first day of X-block (in high school) so I was kind of excited. So during X-block all the students in the x-block walked down to a park about 6 block away from the school, not to tiring. As soon as we get there we are told to get into lines, and once we where we ran drills repeatedly. All of which involved running at your best. Sure it was really fun but the human body has it's limits. With the last few minutes we played a little scrimmage. Which involved quite a bit more running, then Chris tells us "if they score this whole team gives me 25 push-ups." My team didn't defend our end zone and we ended up having to do 25 push ups. At the end I had to carry back a 25 pound bag full along with my stuff (which at the time added up to about 10 pounds). The lack of energy didn't make me behave any differently however my body was taking a sway in one direction every time I took a step, and my arms swung along with the direction that my legs moved. The sleep that night was amazing.

Second piece
"Kevin shut up, I am trying to help you but you keep making me laugh." I said still laughing. "If you're not going to be serious go copy Dimitri's." 

"okay fine" Kevin responded.  He presented his P.O.L in front of me one more time but constantly keeping popping a dirty joke every now and then during the several practice rounds we went through.  I saw no problem with it because it relived all his tension, best get those out now instead of during his P.O.L  During the practice rounds I kept hearing 6th graders running down the hall past the office we where practicing in I turned towards the blinds and just listened to the incoherent yelling.  I turned back around, and heard Kevin in a serious tone starting from the top.  He tried again, we giggled every now and then during that round but in the end he did really good, then came my turn.

Third piece

The penguin looked around with shifty eyes, for it was in a pickle.  The secret undercover penguin was looking around and was surrounded by Tiny Tony Waffles' mutant ninja monkeys.  Using his quick thinking skills he waited for the monkeys to charge and pour syrup all over the floor.  When the monkeys slipped he belly slided away.  He had overcome that obstacle but it was not over for him, he still needed to destroy the famed waffle-copter to prevent Tony's escape.  Using his penguin ninja skills and 50 pounds of dynamite he blew up the waffle-copter.  The second it exploded he busted down the door and help up his WPA badge (world pancake association).  Unfortunately for the penguin there Tony stood along with his MNMs (mutant ninja monkeys) and the penguin was all out of syrup, he would have to think quick.  A split second later Johnny Pancake comes in through a window and shoves a pancake in Tony's face and sent him flying out a window, and he went "SPLAT" as he went down 1 billion stories.  

Cooking post

Well today after school we got together to make guacamole as a final product of the L.U.L.S project. The whole point of making some kind of recipe was basically to try and make ourselves live even a bit more sustainably by growing just a tiny bit of our total food supply. So basically by doing this we answer one of the essential questions of this project. "Why don't people live more sustainably?", basically because they generally don't feel like taking the time to do something to help themselves and much rather take the way that everyone else does it, or they don't feel like growing their own food. As for the second question, "how can we convince them to do so?" if we can show that we can do this (as 14 year olds) than adults can certainly do it, and it just takes a few minutes to prepare it. Most people won't do something unless they know someone else can do it.

In this recipe it called for two herbs, cilantro (which was plentiful) and cayenne peppers. There is no 'one' right way to harvest the peppers but it is mainly meant for different recipes, basically we used the peppers in their green state which after many searches over the Internet says that is when they are spiciest but they are mainly picked at the point in which they turn red to make salsa. As to why we chose this recipe, mostly because it did not require a lot of time, it was simple, and it tasted good! The process of how we actually created it is unknown to me because I had to run down to the store to buy chips to eat the guacamole with.

In the end (or when I got there) it tasted pretty good. One of the biggest things I would have changed is actually brought chips so that I wouldn't have to have ran and missed out on the process of making our guacamole. That is probably the only thing I would have changed. As to how I think, it did not really change much because I already have some of my food grown at home so I did not really expect any change.

The links below provide links to pictures (since they where to big to fit on the page)

This I believe

http://thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=5&lastname=Gates&firstname=Bill%20&yval=0&start=0

I didn't chose this one because I'm big on computers or anything like that, mostly just because some of the things said in here I really agree with.  Especially this quote from his essay "I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than the death of a child anywhere else. And that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in these children's lives." I personally believe that every single life on this planet has just as much right to be cared for, nurtured and have chance to live as the next one.  I also liked the connection he made between his optimism and creativty.  It just spoke to me as a happy person you seem to invision more for your self and others giving you a goal or somthing big to go after later in life.  

Food blog post

Here are a few recipies I thought looked good click below to see them

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/06/cowboy-nachos/

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/the_best_chocol/

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/05/how_to_cook_a_s/