Up until this week I had never even heard the name Roger Ebert. In the past few days I have learned so much about his uplifting story and I'm happy to say that he is truly an inspiration. I can't imagine still being positive after losing the ability to eat, drink and most importantly in my personal opinion, the ability to talk. To not be able to express yourself vocally seems terrifying. I'm a shy girl most of the time but once I start talking to you I don't stop. Even on those days where I don't want to ever speak, I still have the option and I think that's important. Roger Ebert was able to rise above not being able to vocally express his thoughts and he evolved.
He started a blog and I recently read one of Ebert's posts called "All the Lonely People." His words written in that blog speak to me on a personal level. I, like most other people, have experienced loneliness. Maybe not the all encompassing loneliness that some people face but definitely some variation of it. We need someone else to know we are there. We need to be acknowledged because we need to know we are visible. A quote from Ebert's post that I loved sums loneliness up perfectly. "Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness." The part about needing a witness could not be more true. It doesn't have to be marriage, we just need someone to see us and keep us company as we go about our daily lives.
Later on in the post Ebert writes something that I think exemplifies the quintessence of life. "The biological reason we fall in love may be to encourage reproduction. Yet why did nature provide homosexuality if that is the only purpose? Why do people marry with no prospects of children? Babies are not the only thing two people can create together. They can create a safe private world. They can create a reality that affirms their values. They can stand for something. They can find someone to laugh with, and confide in. Someone to hold them when they need to be held." We need to love and to be loved to truly not feel lonely.
Another topic that really relates to Roger Ebert is how we deal with challenges. People take one of two routes. You can rise to the occasion or be crushed; sink or swim. After Ebert had surgery and lost his voice, he rose above it. He refused to let his experience tie him down and instead allowed it to lift it up. He turned to the internet which allowed him to share all his thoughts and inspire readers around the world. Every person reacts differently to the chaos in their lives. A personal example I neglected to share in class relates to my mom and Aunt. In early December my Aunt who's also my moms sister was diagnosed with stage IV Cervical Cancer. She had a surgery to remove the tumor, but the tumor wasn't contained which of course means the cancer will eventually spread throughout her body. Her odds aren't good and currently she's still not healed from the surgery. That means she can't start chemo or radiation and the longer she waits the more the cancer progresses. That may have come out a bit blunt, but sometimes that's the best way for things to be said. So anyway, when my mom was first informed it was like someone tied a weight to her leg. Weeks passed and the weight just seemed to get heavier. My mom, when faced with a terrifying and awful circumstance has chosen to sink. Currently, my aunt is doing okay, which is to say that she hasn't gotten any worse. I think it's harder to swim when the awful experience is still happening. By that I mean, my Aunt's still alive but my mom is waiting for what she sees as the inevitable. Now I can't exactly predict the future but I think that if my aunt passes on my mom will be able to swim again. Once you reach rock bottom, the only way to go is up. The weights will drag my mom all the way down but eventually they will become untied and she will slowly make her way back to the surface.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Racism in America
Over the past few months we have spent a lot of time discussing racism in America. One of my favorite topics we discussed so far has been intersectionality. I have always been interested in gender inequality so when I heard of a topic that combined all types of discrimination together I was intrigued. Intersectionality says that gender, race, sexuality and social class all combine together to create a whole new type of discrimination. This means that all these traits about yourself are interconnected and can't be examined separately. For example if you are a black female you face oppression because of your race and gender. Intersectionality is saying that those two traits have to be examined together which breeds a whole new type of oppression. As a white, gay female, or a black transgender you face varying types of oppression because of the things that make you, you
Intersectionality is a relatively new idea, so the movement is just getting off the ground. I read an article that stated that middle class, white, cisgendered females, who are advocating for intersectional equality, are actually hurting the intersectionality movement. I personally don't agree with this assessment but I do understand where the article was coming from. Interesectionality is all about how different forms of oppression come together. If you're white, cisgendered, which means you identify with your natural born sex, and middle class, the only part about you that is being discriminated against is the fact that you are a female. Even though it makes sense, I still think everyone has the right to advocate for intersectional equality. Females everywhere face oppression and that alone should be enough for them to support the intersectionality movement. The more help and attention, the movement gets, the better the chance of success.
Another topic we started our racism unit with was white privilege. When white privilege was first brought up I was actually a little offended. I felt like it was saying that I owed some of my success to being white. That idea to me was preposterous because I felt that I had worked hard and I deserved all I had achieved. Then we began talking more about what white privilege really meant and I began to better understand. The definition of white privilege as stated on Wikipedia is White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by the non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. This means that being white protects me from institutional racism. I don't have as many odds stacked against me when I start off my life. That's not to say that minorities and people of color can't be successful because of course they can. They just have a slightly more uphill climb.
One thing about white privilege that I think needs to be made clear is that being white does not automatically make you successful or guaranteed to have a good job. People of every skin color need to work hard to achieve their goals. Also, being a successful white person does not mean you are successful just because of your skin color. It would be wrong to point at a white person and say that they got to where they are just because of their skin color because that is an unjust assumption to make. Statistically there are more white middle class citizens in America than black and white privilege may have had a hand in that. The poverty cycle also plays into this because it's difficult to work your way up from the bottom in todays society. At my school I don't believe that there is white privilege. Everyone who comes to my school is given the same opportunities. Regardless of your ethnicity, you have the same opportunity for success. To conclude I believe white privilege exists but I don't think it's a factor in every day of everyone's life. I also don't think someone's success or lack of success can be completely blamed on white privilege. While it may have played a role, it will never be solely responsible for your achievements.
Intersectionality is a relatively new idea, so the movement is just getting off the ground. I read an article that stated that middle class, white, cisgendered females, who are advocating for intersectional equality, are actually hurting the intersectionality movement. I personally don't agree with this assessment but I do understand where the article was coming from. Interesectionality is all about how different forms of oppression come together. If you're white, cisgendered, which means you identify with your natural born sex, and middle class, the only part about you that is being discriminated against is the fact that you are a female. Even though it makes sense, I still think everyone has the right to advocate for intersectional equality. Females everywhere face oppression and that alone should be enough for them to support the intersectionality movement. The more help and attention, the movement gets, the better the chance of success.
Another topic we started our racism unit with was white privilege. When white privilege was first brought up I was actually a little offended. I felt like it was saying that I owed some of my success to being white. That idea to me was preposterous because I felt that I had worked hard and I deserved all I had achieved. Then we began talking more about what white privilege really meant and I began to better understand. The definition of white privilege as stated on Wikipedia is White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by the non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. This means that being white protects me from institutional racism. I don't have as many odds stacked against me when I start off my life. That's not to say that minorities and people of color can't be successful because of course they can. They just have a slightly more uphill climb.
One thing about white privilege that I think needs to be made clear is that being white does not automatically make you successful or guaranteed to have a good job. People of every skin color need to work hard to achieve their goals. Also, being a successful white person does not mean you are successful just because of your skin color. It would be wrong to point at a white person and say that they got to where they are just because of their skin color because that is an unjust assumption to make. Statistically there are more white middle class citizens in America than black and white privilege may have had a hand in that. The poverty cycle also plays into this because it's difficult to work your way up from the bottom in todays society. At my school I don't believe that there is white privilege. Everyone who comes to my school is given the same opportunities. Regardless of your ethnicity, you have the same opportunity for success. To conclude I believe white privilege exists but I don't think it's a factor in every day of everyone's life. I also don't think someone's success or lack of success can be completely blamed on white privilege. While it may have played a role, it will never be solely responsible for your achievements.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Second Blog Post Update
Between this update and the last update we have continued to learn more information relating to the creation of sign language. We have also finished assigning everyone in our group with sign language names. For example, Kat's name is the letter k the the motion represents wavy hair. My name is the letter E and the motion represents red hair. We have added a few new words to our repertoire such as hello, clumsy, coffee and poop. We also practiced our letters and can use them more fluently.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Passion Project Reflection
So far we've found out a lot of background information on the creation of sign language. We've also learned how people get their sign language name. We then attempted to give each other sign language names using distinctive characteristics about ourselves and the first letter of our names. We've also learned some basic signs like friends, help, mother and father. We also know all the letters. So far we haven't encountered any significant problems. The hardest will probably be learning and remembering all the signs.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Empathy In Society
Recently we have been talking a lot about empathy and the likeliness that we can become a more empathetic society as a whole. Many citizens today all around the world are empathetic, the real challenge is converting those of us who don't care as much to become more empathetic. I would love to see a world where everyone is empathetic but I believe that that's too idealistic. There are of course some steps we can take that will showcase our good nature. For example, we can all become more involved in helping disaster victims. After natural disasters so many people are in need of help. To truly become more empathetic we need to place ourselves in the victims shoes and understand the pain that they're going through, and how just a little bit of help could turn their whole lives around. We can start small too. By being empathetic in our daily lives we can become a more empathetic society. For example, if someone is having a bad day, just try to understand their pain.
There's so many serious problems in the world today. For example, there's issues of gender inequality, ISIS, hunger, school systems, sexual abuse, utilitarianism and many others. Every problem listed before could be solved if people were more empathetic. If people were empathetic, there wouldn't be any gender inequality because males would be putting themselves in the shoes of females. People wouldn't go hungry since everyone's empathy would drive them to donate food. ISIS wouldn't exist and neither would dictators. It's crazy to imagine that almost all of the worlds most pressing problems could be fixed simply by people being more empathetic.
When asked if it's possible for empathy to be extended to the entire race, people would love to say yes but the truth is that's a highly unlikely possibility. Even though empathy could solely fix a lot of major problems in the world, that's still not enough motivation for some people to become more empathetic. The lack of empathy in our world today doesn't have so much to do with people being bad by nature. It has more to do with people wanting to avoid things that upset them. If your life is great and you have a lot of money and food you aren't going to want to think about the people that are suffering. It's not that you're mean and don't care. It's more that thinking about the people starving is upsetting. And even if it upsets you, you probably aren't actually motivated to do anything about it so instead you just avoid the whole topic. You block out the fact that people are suffering and essentially squash your empathy. The more people that squash their empathy, the less empathy we find in the world. So therefore I don't believe that empathy can be extended to the entire race. As long as people avoid the suffering of the world around them, we can never become a completely empathetic society.
There's so many serious problems in the world today. For example, there's issues of gender inequality, ISIS, hunger, school systems, sexual abuse, utilitarianism and many others. Every problem listed before could be solved if people were more empathetic. If people were empathetic, there wouldn't be any gender inequality because males would be putting themselves in the shoes of females. People wouldn't go hungry since everyone's empathy would drive them to donate food. ISIS wouldn't exist and neither would dictators. It's crazy to imagine that almost all of the worlds most pressing problems could be fixed simply by people being more empathetic.
When asked if it's possible for empathy to be extended to the entire race, people would love to say yes but the truth is that's a highly unlikely possibility. Even though empathy could solely fix a lot of major problems in the world, that's still not enough motivation for some people to become more empathetic. The lack of empathy in our world today doesn't have so much to do with people being bad by nature. It has more to do with people wanting to avoid things that upset them. If your life is great and you have a lot of money and food you aren't going to want to think about the people that are suffering. It's not that you're mean and don't care. It's more that thinking about the people starving is upsetting. And even if it upsets you, you probably aren't actually motivated to do anything about it so instead you just avoid the whole topic. You block out the fact that people are suffering and essentially squash your empathy. The more people that squash their empathy, the less empathy we find in the world. So therefore I don't believe that empathy can be extended to the entire race. As long as people avoid the suffering of the world around them, we can never become a completely empathetic society.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Passion Project Update
Our passion Project is on genetics and it's going surprisingly well. We have made a lot of progress but there's still more to be done. We have researched a bunch of genetic and physical tests and then we tested our whole G&T class. That way we will be able to see what genetic traits our most common. We also tested our families so we can see how many of these tests are genetics. Our major achievement is just having collected all our data. The only obstacle we've faced is determining what counts as completion of the test. For example, some people have a more obvious hitch hikers thumb than others. That makes deciding if its an actual hitch hikers thumb harder. We still have a lot of work to do on our project. The next major step we have to take is analyzing our data. We have to determine how many of our traits are actually genetic and how many are just physical abilities. The only coming obstacle I can anticipate is deciding what all our data means. After we analyze all our data we have to create a power point showing our findings and explaining what having each trait means. Overall we've completed a fair amount of our project but there's still more to be done.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Passion Project Reflection
I can't believe we're already halfway through the time allotted for passion projects. My group and I are doing a Rube Goldberg machine which is pretty cool. Our goal is to pump hand sanitizer using at least 15 steps. We've completed 7 steps so far so we're about halfway there! I'm pretty proud of our group because we've put in a lot of working trying to find the perfect combination of consecutive steps. We have faced a few challenges that slowed us down. One of the biggest challenges is that when our machine goes to pump the hand sanitizer its so powerful that it pulls the hand sanitizer off the table. We have to find a way to get the hand sanitizer to stay on the table. Another problem we're facing is that Thomas the train is having trouble going up the track. It doesn't seem to have enough power to make it up the hill. On the bright side we’re getting together today to hopefully resolve the problems and add more steps.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Thomas Edison an Outlier
When I had to pick an outlier to research at first i wasn't sure who to pick. I knew it should be someone influential so one of the first people that came to mind was Thomas Edison. I didn't really have much proof that he was an outlier until i actually started to research him. After reading a lot about him i realized that he is indeed an outlier and follows some of the rules to be successful.
Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the last of seven children. When Edison was young he had scarlet fever which left him nearly deaf. Later in his life this disadvantage would come back to affect him. Edison was only in school for 12 weeks before his teacher deemed him difficult and his mom decided to pull him out and teach him at home. This wide open curriculum allowed him to self educate himself and learn independently. Edison getting pulled out of school might have actually been a special opportunity. Although at first it might have seemed like a bad thing, Edison had more time than any child his age to focus on and learn what he wanted. He was also used to teaching himself new topics and experimenting to find things out on his own. That explains why from a very young age Edison was an entrepreneur. For example he published his own newspaper called The Grand Trunk Herald and he sold it to passengers.
For example, Edison was given a special opportunity. He saved a three year old child from being run over by a train and the boys father was so grateful that he taught Edison to operate a telegraph. This opportunity allowed Edison to become employed as a telegraph operator. Getting to work as a telegraph operator lead Edison to become very familiar with electrical science. That special opportunity really allowed him to discover his love for electrical science.
Thomas Edison was also privy to accumulative advantage. All his special opportunities put together lead to accumulative advantage. From a very young age Edison capitalized on opportunities like when he was kicked out of school. He didn't let not going to school stop him from learning. Also when he became a telegraph operator he used every chance he had to learn as much about the telegraph and electrical science. Basically Thomas Edison's advantages started small and then snowballed down to huge advantages.
Another rule of success that Thomas Edison followed was the 10,000 hour rule. Edison has basically been working towards 10,000 hours since he was a young boy. All that free time he had as a kid allowed him to get a head start on 10,000 hours. When Edison was 19 he began working at the Associated Press. He worked the night shift so he could spend a lot of time reading and experimenting with electricity. That also goes towards the 10,000 hour rule. When Edison was only 22 years old he had his first successful invention which was an improved stock ticker that the Stock Telegraph Company bought for $40,000. 20-22 years of age is normally when most devoted people reach the 10,000 hour rule which is conveniently when Edison had his first successful invention.
Edison became a well known inventor by the 1870's. He created a few useful inventions but the most well known by far was the light bulb. He then created the Edison Illuminating Company which provided electricity to paying citizens. I think it's quite clear that Thomas Edison was extremely successful but now its also pretty clear that he's also an outlier. He had a few special opportunities which lead to accumulative advantage and he also completed the 10,000 hour rule. In my persona opinion Thomas Edison is a true outlier.
Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the last of seven children. When Edison was young he had scarlet fever which left him nearly deaf. Later in his life this disadvantage would come back to affect him. Edison was only in school for 12 weeks before his teacher deemed him difficult and his mom decided to pull him out and teach him at home. This wide open curriculum allowed him to self educate himself and learn independently. Edison getting pulled out of school might have actually been a special opportunity. Although at first it might have seemed like a bad thing, Edison had more time than any child his age to focus on and learn what he wanted. He was also used to teaching himself new topics and experimenting to find things out on his own. That explains why from a very young age Edison was an entrepreneur. For example he published his own newspaper called The Grand Trunk Herald and he sold it to passengers.
For example, Edison was given a special opportunity. He saved a three year old child from being run over by a train and the boys father was so grateful that he taught Edison to operate a telegraph. This opportunity allowed Edison to become employed as a telegraph operator. Getting to work as a telegraph operator lead Edison to become very familiar with electrical science. That special opportunity really allowed him to discover his love for electrical science.
Thomas Edison was also privy to accumulative advantage. All his special opportunities put together lead to accumulative advantage. From a very young age Edison capitalized on opportunities like when he was kicked out of school. He didn't let not going to school stop him from learning. Also when he became a telegraph operator he used every chance he had to learn as much about the telegraph and electrical science. Basically Thomas Edison's advantages started small and then snowballed down to huge advantages.
Another rule of success that Thomas Edison followed was the 10,000 hour rule. Edison has basically been working towards 10,000 hours since he was a young boy. All that free time he had as a kid allowed him to get a head start on 10,000 hours. When Edison was 19 he began working at the Associated Press. He worked the night shift so he could spend a lot of time reading and experimenting with electricity. That also goes towards the 10,000 hour rule. When Edison was only 22 years old he had his first successful invention which was an improved stock ticker that the Stock Telegraph Company bought for $40,000. 20-22 years of age is normally when most devoted people reach the 10,000 hour rule which is conveniently when Edison had his first successful invention.
Edison became a well known inventor by the 1870's. He created a few useful inventions but the most well known by far was the light bulb. He then created the Edison Illuminating Company which provided electricity to paying citizens. I think it's quite clear that Thomas Edison was extremely successful but now its also pretty clear that he's also an outlier. He had a few special opportunities which lead to accumulative advantage and he also completed the 10,000 hour rule. In my persona opinion Thomas Edison is a true outlier.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Joyas Voladoras Essay Response
After reading this essay I feel that it had a very negative and discouraging message. This essay was basically saying that no matter what you do to try to save your heart from pain, its still going to get hurt. This quote proves what I'm saying. "You can brick your heart up as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and it comes down in an instant....." I think that sends a very pessimistic message. It's almost warning you that you will get hurt despite everything you try to do to stop it. After reading this I feel that its not worth it to try to keep my heart safe. It makes me want to stop trying to save myself all the hurt that I will experience in life. Now I guess I understand that you can never possibly stop yourself from being hurt. Maybe you can lock your heart up so it's not effected by some things but then something will happen completely unexpected and your barrier will come down. I'm done trying to lock my heart up and keep it safe. I undertsand now that I can never truly protect my heart from everything.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen
The song Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen has a lot of great advice. One of my favorite pieces is
"Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young." This is a great piece of advice because you should never continue to hold on to people that don't appreciate you. You should also never let go of people who really love and care for you. This is an important piece of advice that as soon as people understand this, the happier they will be. My other favorite piece of advice is "Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past And the people most likely to stick with you in the future." I like this piece of advice because it basically says how important your parents and siblings are. I have a brother and although we don't get along but I don't know what I would do without him. Same with my parents. We often have different view points but I would be devastated to lose them. This song has a lot of great advice that I'm going to try to follow.
I also have my own piece of advice to add. All I have to say is eat healthy and stay in shape. Don't pollute your body with unhealthy substances if you expect to live past 40. Exercising and eating healthy will make you look and feel younger. You will need your body in the future so it's no use destroying it when your young. I know as a kid everyone wants to look skinny, but when it comes down to it staying in shape is a lot harder than it seems. That would definitely be my top piece of advice to give other people.
"Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young." This is a great piece of advice because you should never continue to hold on to people that don't appreciate you. You should also never let go of people who really love and care for you. This is an important piece of advice that as soon as people understand this, the happier they will be. My other favorite piece of advice is "Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past And the people most likely to stick with you in the future." I like this piece of advice because it basically says how important your parents and siblings are. I have a brother and although we don't get along but I don't know what I would do without him. Same with my parents. We often have different view points but I would be devastated to lose them. This song has a lot of great advice that I'm going to try to follow.
I also have my own piece of advice to add. All I have to say is eat healthy and stay in shape. Don't pollute your body with unhealthy substances if you expect to live past 40. Exercising and eating healthy will make you look and feel younger. You will need your body in the future so it's no use destroying it when your young. I know as a kid everyone wants to look skinny, but when it comes down to it staying in shape is a lot harder than it seems. That would definitely be my top piece of advice to give other people.
Monday, May 6, 2013
What's worth knowing?
Schools teaches us a variety of different skills but somehow manage to skip over the most important ones. Sure we're taught math, writing and reading but we're not taught how to communicate our feelings or read other peoples expressions. School teaches us all the academic knowledge we need to know but fails to teach us any social knowledge. By sitting in school everyday I'm not learning how to tell someone how I feel or how to understand what someone means just by looking at their face. Now both those skills are extremely important but their not taught at school. Sure people say you can't survive in the world without knowing math or learning to write but how can you survive never being able to tell someone how you feel or never being able to understand if a person is upset. I believe that being able to read peoples expressions is immensly important and yet its never taugth to us. Neil Gaimen was completely right when he said that schools don't teach us alot of stuff thats worth knowing. As he said before they dont teach you how to love or how to be rich or poor. Yet, arguably those are two important skills that will help you later in life. I want to know why schools skip over such important information. How are we suppose to go into life with such huge gaps in our education? How are we ever going to learn to love and trust someone if its not taught? Maybe its assumed that we will pick it up on our own but that's not always the case. School needs to teach us these things or atleast have them explained to us.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Wasteland Documentary
The wasteland had a lot of memorable parts. I think the most memorable part of the movie was when the catadores or the pickers saw the pictures that Vik had created. I liked this part because the people were in awe and fascinated by what Vik had created. I learned from Wasteland to be grateful for what I have and never take anything for granted. you don't really understand how much you have until you see how little other people have. From watching this film I will start to appreciate everything I have. Until I watched this film I didn't know that people lived in the garbage. After seeing this I want to appreciate everything no matter how big or how small.
I think the people that had their lives turned into something bigger felt proud. To them it probably felt like all their hard work paid off and they were finally being recognized for the good work they had been doing. I think they also felt a bit overwhelmed. This was something completely different than what they normally did. At first I think it took them a little bit to get used to the idea that their daily jobs were turning into something bigger.
I think I would feel overwhelmed too and a little scared. I wouldn't know what to make of having my whole life turned into something more meaningful. I would also feel shocked because I would be surprised that someone other than myself was so interested in my life. I don't think there are aspects of my life that would lend myself to similar types of art. My life isn't really full of anything interesting.
I think the people that had their lives turned into something bigger felt proud. To them it probably felt like all their hard work paid off and they were finally being recognized for the good work they had been doing. I think they also felt a bit overwhelmed. This was something completely different than what they normally did. At first I think it took them a little bit to get used to the idea that their daily jobs were turning into something bigger.
I think I would feel overwhelmed too and a little scared. I wouldn't know what to make of having my whole life turned into something more meaningful. I would also feel shocked because I would be surprised that someone other than myself was so interested in my life. I don't think there are aspects of my life that would lend myself to similar types of art. My life isn't really full of anything interesting.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Blizzard!!!
The picture above shows one of the many houses that was hit hard by the blizzard. As you can see the snow is so deep that if you step outside it might just reach the bottom of your foot. We interviewed Mr. and Mrs. Fairfield and asked if they were prepared. Mrs. Fairfield said "We got all the basics for a week trapped inside. We got tons of raw pasta and fresh meat that needs to be refrigerated. I forgot to get any water but since its snowing I figured we could just use that." The Albert family stocked up on light bulbs in case the power went out so they wouldn't be in the dark. Parents have called out sick for the next week because they don't want to risk getting trapped away from home. As you can see from the picture above, any minute now the snow could completely cover the door. Some families are treating this situation as vacation.When we interviewed little Molly Fairfield she said that all her favorite games were outside on the patio so that she would have plenty of sunlight to play the games. Other families are in panic mode and already ready for the storm to be over. Mrs. Dinklewitz's is one of those people. She's worried that if it snows much more it might cover her flowers. If the snow keeps falling at this rate we might get 2 inches in about three weeks. We will keep you posted and let you know if this storm can possibly get any worse!
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Week Supply of Food
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