Food for Thought

Hmm… Food. Just lovely food. I like food. Food, food is good. I love almost all things food. I even like cooking food. I love to bake, but cooking can be fun too. Baking is apparently a gift of mine, or so I’m told. I can bake almost anything. I don’t think there is something that I have tried to bake that hasn’t worked. I like to think of my ability to bake more as a gift to share with others. But I won’t talk about that. Like I said earlier I like to cook. So much so that I took two out of three of the cooking classes offered at my school and I am currently going to the local community college in the culinary arts program. It is a lot of fun. I love to learn how to make foods I didn’t know how to make before. The one thing I don’t like is trying all of it. Now you may be thinking “But I thought she said she loved all things food and cooking?” Yes that is correct, I am a picky eater. A very picky eater. Is that so wrong? Maybe, hmm, maybe I should work on that. That probably won’t happen. Anyways back to me not liking to try all of the food, yes, I just can’t bring myself to do it. I like learning how to cook things but I don’t like trying all of them. Every now and then I will try something new but I usually don’t like it so that discourages me from trying new things. I feel like I should clarify that if it is dessert I will almost always try it. But there aren’t many desserts that I haven’t had. I can’t really say that about actually making the desserts. But I can say that I have made many pies. I think one of my only memories about food would be about pie. In my one of my culinary classes we made these small apple pies, and we got to take them home. I toke mine home to my mom and she loved. And she loved my pie crust she said it was the best she had ever seen. That’s about it though, so I think I will stop there. I feel like I could talk about food for a very long time.

Poem Inspired by Collins

Growing up means:
Saying goodbye,
Goodbye to the naptime,
so taken for granted.
Goodbye to nothing big,
or important, or serious to keep track of.
And saying goodbye as you are taken,
taken from what you didn't know you had.
Growing up also means:
Saying hello to jobs and
not enough time in the day.
As well as a lot bigger expectations.
And a longing for the past.

Childrens book

Title: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Author: Jon Scieszka

The author bio is in the back of the book. It says that the author lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and their 2 children. He is a writer and a teacher.
The cover of the book is styled like a newspaper. The title of the book is the big bold headline of the newspaper. It has a picture of a wolf, that is wearing a suit and glasses, that is seeming to huff and puff in the direction of three little pigs.
There are about 28 pages.
The characters are:
-The "Big Bad" wolf
-The three little pigs
The setting of this story starts out in the wolf's house, then the three little pigs houses, as well as the road from his house to theirs, and at the end is the prison.
A short summary of this book is that the wolf, usually know as the bad guy, tells his side of the story of the three little pigs. He was just going to the pigs houses to ask for a simple cup of sugar for a cake for his granny. The first two houses only came down because they weren't built very well and came falling down from his huffing and puffing from sneezing from his cold.
This book has the following:
-animals as characters 
-use humor, some people might not find parts of it humorous, like where the wolf eats the pigs, but it is told in what is supposed to be a light hearted way.
-uses illustrations
-uses color
-it seems to use a little bit of actual photographs
-at the beginning it has kind of a nice tone
-a good amount of words per page, not too many, not too few
-a few words/phrases were repeated:

• "huffed and puffed"
• "dear old granny's birthday cake..." 

I think one of my favorite lines from this book would probably be:
  "What a pig!"
There is another one but I don't know the exact wording, but its talking about having the reader of the book think of it as a cheeseburger.
I feel like you would have to be reading the books to be able to see why these are funny.
I think this book would probably be best for a little bit older child, closer to 10 years and up. Because parts of it might upset young children, like when he eats the pigs,and an older child would be able to better to understand some of the jokes in it better.
My teacher read this book to us when I was younger and I liked it then, so I would say "yes, I would've liked it as a kid".

Milennium writing

Hurricane Katrina… Hmm… I don’t really remember too much about it. I remember that it was a big deal. I remember that it was all over the news. Let’s see what else… hmm… I know that I am glad that I wasn’t there. I also know that had such damage that the affected area of New Orleans is still recovering from the damage. The damage that a storm caused. I always thought that part of natural disasters/ storms was interesting. That something that we can’t control can create so much damage. Take people from families. Take homes away. I find that with most natural disasters, in the pictures of the after math I feel like I either see a lost teddy bear of someone, or an American flag. A teddy bear that could have brought someone comfort in this hard time. That always makes me sad to think about. I think the American flag is interesting. That even though they are going through a hard time, people can still be patriotic. I thought that I would try a poem about it.

I don’t know, I don’t know why,

Why the storms have to come,

Why it has to be this way,

Why our homes had to be destroyed,

Why they had to lose a family member.

Why?

I don’t know why.

And I don’t think I want to know why.

I don’t even like to think about it.

I don’t like to think about what happens

I don’t like to think about why it happens. 

This is...

This is...
This is a little llama or alpaca toy,
A modest toy sitting on a modest plastic white table,
A poster sits in the back on this modest table.
All at a Spanish cultural event.

This is...
This is a well liked toy.
Better yet this is a well liked memory.
At least well liked by one girl.
One girl who didn't even want to go in the first place.
Didn't want to go with her mom, for her mom.
But ended up having a good time.
And finding something that she loved.
If you asked her now how she feels,
How she feels about that night,
I'm sure she would say that she is glad she went.
Glad she went and did something with her mom that night.
Glad she went even with the pouring rain and the modest set up due to a low budget.
She would be glad she went.

lyric shuffle

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
You know I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll
Yeah, my mama she told me don't worry about your size
She says, "Every inch of you is perfect"

Ask a teacher about music

What music or songs remind you of your childhood?

-Phantom of the Opera

-Peter, Paul, and Mary

-Madonna

-Musical movies

My answer (M.A.):
-Bon Jovi

Who is your favorite singer or group or song and why?

-Bon Jovi, for his word choice/lyrics, style, use of guitar.

M.A.:
I can't choose. I do like Maroon 5, Avicii, Philip Philips.

What music or song reminds you of someone you love? Your child? Spouse?

- Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men

M.A.:
I'm not sure. Older songs like Love is a Battlefield. 

Do you go to concerts? Why?

-No, because live music doesn't sound as good as music from the studio.

M.A.:
Same answer.

What radio stations do you normally listen to in your car? Do you sing along?

-Wind 88.3        -Alice 95.5       - Yes, I sing along.

M.A.:
Alice 95.5
Power 96.5
Sometimes I sing along, sometimes I don't.

Which music or artist was "controversial" or "offensive" to some when you were growing up? Is any music offensive to you now?

- Madonna 

-Rap music

M.A.:
Probably rap.

Which music or artist do you really dislike or refuse to listen to?

- Most rap

-Screamo

M.A.:
Screamo
Some 80's


I thought it was interesting how some of our answers were the same.