Journal 2: ECHO field trip

About two weeks about we went to this place called ECHO in Fort Myers. After seeing the video in class I had an "this place is going to be boring attitude", but however the day before the field trip I told myself that I was going to have an open mind about it and try to have fun and just give it a shot, boy was I glad that I did. The place turned out to be pretty cool. Getting up in the morning for the trip was the hardest part, but once we got there it was interesting.

The first place we were taken to was a spot where we saw inventions with like common things that you would be able to fine lying around somewhere in the garage possibly. Like there was a thing called a rocket oven that would hold all the bad smoke because in developing countries they tend to cook their food over an open fire and breathe in the bad smoke which really messes up there breathing and lungs. Also the liter lights were cool to see because it is cost effective and you are using supplies that you have lying around the house that you don’t use once they are empty.

 

Next we saw some bamboo then another thing that was interesting to me was the duck pond or "the circle of life". This was interesting because of the whole process that goes on. The ducks are kept in a cage house at night that has holes at the bottom and is built over a pond that tilapia are in. Well the ducks get fed and sleep in the cage at night and their poop falls into the pond, which is then eaten by the algae, then the algae is eaten by the tilapia, and finally the people net the pond and catch the tilapia and eat them along with the duck eggs.

The last two things that I found interesting and want to talk about is the Moringa and the "miracle berry". I found the Moringa interesting because it is used for so many things. I found out that it can be eaten because it has amazing nutrition’s like victims a, b, and c as well as a good source of calcium. The Moringa is also known to help promote breast feeding in women. The one thing that surprised me about the Moringa is that it can be used as a water purifier by putting some of the leaves crushed up into a water bottle with some dirty water and you shake it up and let it bake in the sun for a little and you have fairly healthier drinking water. Now the "miracle berry" was pretty sweet in my mind because all you have to do is eat one beery and it makes everything that you eat taste sweet for about four hours. This would be great for patients going through chemotherapy because usually they don’t want to eat but if everything would taste sweet to them then it is more possible that they will eat on their own. I really believe that the "miracle berry" will be the future of medicine.

Overall this was a great field trip and I am glad that I had the opportunity to go. It was a great experience and I can say that I learned a lot of new things.

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Journal 1

Waking up in the morning on a Saturday at my dad’s house in Cooper City, Florida was the best feeling when I was a little kid. This is mainly because I lived in an awesome neighborhood. We had kids my age up and down the street, so everybody was always doing something active outside on the weekend. We would play touch football games in the middle of the street, hit ground balls to each other for practicing baseball, and at night time we would play man hunt because it wasn’t too dangerous due to the amount of street lights we had on our block.

In our neighborhood we were very fortunate to not have a lot of cars that would come down our street so our games wouldn’t be interrupted too much by the famous two words "car coming". The weather was always perfect because we had a lot of trees that’s branches would shade the street so we wouldn’t get too hot and also when it rained it made for a good shelter at times.

Now hands down the best thing about my neighborhood was that I could open door to our fence in the back yard, walk about six houses down, and be at the local sports complex field, Bill Lips. This place is where I played a lot of my little league baseball, football, and soccer. They had everything there like baseball fields, soccer fields, a football field, and even a play set if you just wanted to go there and hang out. I remember waking up some days and going outside and smelling the fresh cut grass of the fields nearby and I was just ready and pumped up for my baseball game later in the day. It was the best feeling growing up and being able to have all the opportunities that I did in my neighborhood to have as much fun as I was able too.

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