Recycling

Since I didn’t go to the biology field trip, I had to write a summery on these articles. So I’m going to share 2 of the 4 that I had to do. I hope you enjoy.

Recycling Facts and Statistics

There are so many random facts in this article. It’s hard to organize them all. So this is just a list of some important ones that I liked in the article. And I quote:

“The United States has finally reached a landmark in its paper recycling efforts in 2006 with 53.4% of the paper consumed being recovered for recycling.

Mount Rumpke is the highest point in Ohio at over 1000 feet, it’s no Mount Everest; however, Mount Everest is not made up entirely of garbage. Mount Rumpke is literally a mountain of trash and is located in the Rumpke landfill.

Greece falls short with only 10% of its waste being recycled and the remaining 90% going to the landfills.

Just one quart of motor oil that is disposed of improperly can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.

Motor oil gets dirty but does not wear out.

Oil too can be recycled by re-refining the oil it can be used again and again and can help to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.”

As you can see the littlest things again have the biggest impact. Did you know that oil does not wear out? I sure didn’t. This article was another eye opener. We should take these to heart and really start recycling more in this world.

Recycling Stats

            In this article it has many cool little facts that are important for everyone to know. It says that the average person goes through 4.5 pounds of trash/garbage every day. That is a lot of trash for one person. Just imagine all of the people in the world going through 4.5 pounds of trash each and every day. That is a whole lot of garbage.  No wonder that our world is in the state that it is in with all the pollution. A lot of that trash is wasted food. Every time that you throw away a sandwich you are taking up more space in the landfills. If we recycled the food we would have thrown away we would save a lot of space in the landfills. You could put some leftover food in your garden. Some foods are great fertilizers.  

Food is not only a great contributor to the landfills. With all the construction and demolition that is going on with homes, we are using up a lot of trees. The article says that if we used the 1.2 million new home’s lumber and set them side by side it would extend 3 million miles. That would be like going to the moon and back six and a half times! That is a lot of wood. If we would just be conscious of all of the wood that would be thrown away we would save a whole lot of trees and it would cost a lot less.

As you can see there are a whole lot of little factors that in the end make a big difference. With all the food that we don’t eat because we don’t like it or whatever the reason may be, we would save a lot of landfills around the world. So think before you act when it comes to throwing away things.

Thanksgiving

Since Thanksgiving is next week I thought I would talk about thanks giving. Thanksgiving is not one of my favorite holidays. As for the rest of my family they just love it. I don’t hate it or anything; I just don’t particularly like it. I think that it’s a waste of a day. You have to bake all day and then stuff yourself with as much food as you can. I don’t like a lot of traditional foods that you have at the dinner table on Thanksgiving. For example I don’t like stuffing or yams. I don’t like turkey which people think is weird. I am also not very fond of pies or desserts. I will eat them, but I just can’t have very much. I do however like what Thanksgiving stands for and symbolizes. I like how it remembers the pilgrims and their good harvest and how thankful they were for everything.

Here are some symbols of Thanksgiving.

1.     Cornucopia stands for the good harvest.

2.     Turkey is a reminder of the “Four Wild Turkeys” served during the first Thanksgiving feast.

3.     Corn is a reminder of the importance and heritage of the harvest festival.

4.     Cranberries with its pink blossoms and drooping head reminded the ancient pilgrims of a crane. 

5.     There is the pumpkin

There are so many more, I only gave you a small number of the many symbols of Thanksgiving. There is also a song that goes along with Thanksgiving.  Here it is.

Thanksgiving Day Turkey Song
O turkey dear
O turkey dear
How lovely are thy feathers

O turkey dear
O turkey dear
There could be nothing better!

We celebrate Thanksgiving Day
By putting your carcass on display.

O turkey dear
O turkey dear
You thought we were friends who came to greet you.

O turkey dear
O turkey dear
We gathered here to eat you!

O turkey day
O turkey day
The family is all together

O turkey day
O turkey day
We've over come bad weather

Seeing the family is so fab
We'll see ya'll again in rehab.

O turkey day
O turkey day
We'll drink away your memory.

I think my favorite line is “O turkey dear O turkey dear We gathered here to eat you!” Isn’t it just a comforting line for the turkey? A turkey probably heard this and was scared dead. He didn’t even get shot. Just when he heard this he was so scared that he died. Isn’t that just horrible?

There is so much on Thanksgiving. I only gave you a few things about this what some people call awesome holiday. Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. :)

Fun ideas :)

Are you ever bored and you do not know what to do or you just want to make an experience more interesting? Well I am going to help you do just that. I am going to give you some ideas on how to make something better for simple things.

1.       Bring a rope and a Cowboy hat to a local park, find some geese and have yourself a fun time trying to roping some geese.

2.       Write down deep questions on the toilet paper in the public bathroom

3.        Do a few laps in the next revolving door you encounter

4.        Walk down a busy street and then freeze for no reason

5.       Sniff random people on the streets.

6.       Pretend to make a very personal and odd conversation in an elevator with a lot of people.

7.       Greet everyone that comes onto the elevator.

8.       When the money comes out of the ATM, scream, “I Won! I Won! Third time this week!"

9.       Walk behind someone and have an argument with yourself. (It's even better if you talk in two different voices.)

10.   Buy something entirely with pennies.

11.   Walk through a drive through pretending your driving.

12.   5.  Ask to see the manager, and then complain to him about all of life’s problems. If they don’t let you talk to the manager, walk out muttering, “You're gonna be reading about this in the papers.” 

13.   Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.  

14.   When the doors close, announce to the others, “It’s okay. Don't panic, they open up again."

15.   Challenge other customers to duels with tubes of gift wrap.

16.   Sing your questions.

17.   Leave permanent markers by the dry-erase board.

18.   When the professor calls roll, after each name scream “THAT’S MEEEEE! Oh, no, sorry.”

19.   Hold up a piece of paper that says in large letters “CHECK YOUR FLY.”

20.   Wear your pajamas. Pretend not to notice that you’ve done so.

21.   Ask whether you have to come to class.

22.   Start a “wave” in a large lecture hall.

23.   Ask to introduce your “invisible friend” in the empty seat beside you, and ask for one extra copy of each handout.

24.   Watch the professor through binoculars.

25.   Claim that you wrote the class text book.

26.   In the middle of the lecture, ask your professor whether he believes in ghosts.

27.   Laugh heartily at everything the teacher says. Snort when you laugh.

28.   Bring a typewriter. Use it to take notes.

29.   Bring a fishing rod. Try to catch things on the professor's desk.

30.   Randomly get out of your seat and sit on the floor.

31.   Cry out randomly that everyone is against you.

32.   Tell your teacher you don’t need to do your homework because you’re
skipping school tomorrow.

33.   Randomly laugh hysterically

34.   Raise your hand and wave it around like you know the answer. Then ask
the teacher why they called on you.

Family Fun

I had another fun weekend. My parents planed a trip to Las Vegas to visit my uncle for his birthday, but he got sick and his wife, my aunt, asked us not to come because of how bad he was feeling. So instead of going to Las Vegas my parents took my brothers and I to Lehi and stayed there overnight. Since my sister was away at college working, she wasn’t able to get the time off and come with us, so I got the bed to myself while my bothers had to share one. I have never had a bed to myself so that just made my day.

So we got to Lehi around 7 o’clock. We checked into our hotel room and went to go eat dinner. It took us a while to decide where to go because I didn’t like Chinese food and everyone wanted to go to Panda Express. Finally we decided to go eat at Denny’s. Denny’s had pretty good food, and got us filled. So after we ate we went back to the hotel room and went to the pool. Everyone sat in the hot tub except for my little brother Parker; he went for a swim in the regular pool. We swam for a while then went back to our room watched TV and ate popcorn.

We had season passes to Trafalga, so we went there in the morning. At Trafalga we played black light laser tag and black light mini golfing.  Both were really fun. For black light laser tag you were “in New York” and had to save it from a bad guy. My family and I were always put in a group with a whole bunch of little kids. It drove me nuts! They were talking a whole bunch of trash. They kept saying that they would win because they have done this before and that they were the best. I was about to strangle them. It bugs me when people talk like that and brag. So to teach them a lesson my family and I set out to cream them. In the end we beat them big time. There was at least a 2,000 point difference between our two scores. When they realized that they didn’t win the little kids were saying that they felt bad for us and let us win and that they didn’t try their hardest. Oh man I sure wanted to strangle them…  Anyways we always won, we didn’t lose this time. As for black light mini golfing… well that’s a whole different story. I am a horrible golfer, and when I say horrible I mean horrible. It took me on average 7 tries before I could get it in the hole. My rest of my family though… they were amazing! My brother Garry shot the ball off the wall and made a hole in one. It was amazing! The rest of my family was making shots like that also.

My weekend as you have seen was very fun. I went to Lehi instead of Las Vegas but it turned out to be really fun. :)