flat world project reflection.

1. What did you like best about the project and why?
I liked the fact that we got to compare and revise stories written by people in Korea and Colorado. By this i realized that we all think the same way, I thought their stories would be completely different and they would have a totally different way of thinking, but all the stories I read seemed to be something I could`ve written. This just goes to show that in the end, we all think the same way no matter where we live. I also enjoyed reading the stories about the kids from Korea who talked about the hard times that they suffered through during the Korean War. I was astonished by the things they wrote that they had to do to escape communism. It helped me learn about their culture and even though I learned all the facts about it in World Civ, it was completely different hearing it from a person`s point of view. It was as if someone real was telling me their story and that makes so much more of an impact on me then a textbook ever would.

2. What did you like least and why?
I didn`t like the stories that seemed to have no effort put into them. I saw many versions of a stories I already knew and they just seemed fake to me. I read a couple that were completely random and not interesting at all. They had no story line to them or anything. Those were the ones that dissapointed me because I felt like they weren`t putting enough effort into them which just caused me to do more work to give them A LOT of feedback which they needed.

3. What was something surprising that you learned about the other students (from other schools)?
Like I said in the first question, I loved reading about the experiences from the Korean War. It was depressing what they had to go through and tragedies they had to witness. The fact that it was told by someone actually living it made all the difference. I learned that all these experiences were real, they never have an impact on you unless you know someone who had gone through them and hear how hard they actually had it. One person talked about how they had to hold onto the top of the train and people wouldn`t hang on tight and fall off to their death when the train started moving. One person talked about how they had to sneak away from their home in the middle of the night to take a boat with other people also escaping their communist taken-over home.

4. How do you think the project affected your writing?
I got a lot of great feedback because the people giving it to me were extremely reliable and took the time to give me thoughtful feedback. I definitly learned what a reader was looking for and how to make it the most appealing to them.

5. Describe the most challenging aspect of the project.
Writing my paper was the hardest part. Deciding on a topic took me a while and once I had it written, I changed it completely to a different idea that worked better for me. Writing the first draft and thinking of a topic for my story was the hardest. Once we got into communicating with the various students in Colorado and Korea, it seemed to flow a lot better for me.

6. Offer some advice to future participants.
Choose a good topic and put some thought into it. Really put 100% of your effort into it to make it interesting for your editor/reader. If you don`t give it your all, then you`ll get a boring or bad story that no one wants to read and all the people giving you feedback will have to spend a lot of time telling you how to make it better. If you don`t choose a good topic from the first draft, then from then on it will just make you frustrated so choose a good topic, stick with it and make sure your happy with it.

7. Other comments.
this project was great. I wish i could`ve talked to some of the kids over skype and actually get a sense of who they really were. Most of the kids had great stories and by reading the stories you get a small sense of who they really are and that just makes the whole project all the better.

robin.

My favorite character would have to be Robin. He`s so clever and can use his mischievious ways to cause mayhem, entertain himself, or to patch things up. The scene I most liked was the one in Act 3 Scene 2, where he made his voice sound like various characters so other characters would follow and tire out from trying to chase his voice. He is constantly causing mischief even when he doesn`t mean to. He put the nectar of the flower on the wrong peoples` eyes and caused a lot of confusion but he was still able to make everything work out in the end by once again, using his cleverness. Like I said, I think that Act 3 Scene 2 demonstrates just how smart Robin really is and shows that he isn`t just a person looking to cause trouble.
I think it would be fun to play Robin in this scene because I feel as if it would be fun to get into characters and imitate different people`s voices. He seems like a childish person just looking to have fun in life and it would be fun to play someone like him in this scene, or any others. He`s basically the one that causes the whole plot throughout this whole play by accidently causing these minor incidents that just cause confusion instead of making everything work out. In the end, he`s the reason why everything ends up the way it should. Basically, Robin is the person causing the whole story. The problem as well as the conclusion. If I had to pick a character to play it would have to be him because it would be a whole different experience to pretend to be this guy that seems to have the most character and personality out of all of them, except for maybe Bottom. It would be a challenge because he`s got so much personality inside him but it would also be a fun experience.

helena:act 2.

In Act 2, Helena demonstrates herself to be even more lovesick and desperate and needy then before. She tells Demetrius about how much she loves him all the while he`s telling her how much he dislikes her and is in love with Hermia. By telling Demetrius Hermia and Lysander`s plan to run away, she compromised her friendship with Hermia just for a chance at a desperate attempt to prove to Demetrius that he was loyal to him, but he continued to loathe her. He said awful and rude things to her when they were looking for Hermia and Lysander. She kept telling him that she loved him and that she was sick without him but he told her things like he was sick every time he saw her and he would run away from her and leave her to be eaten by wild beasts. Demetrius also told Helen that she should love someone who would love her back and not waste time in Demetrius who only has eyes for Hermia. Helena hasn`t changed since she was first mentioned in Act 1. She`s still the girl that doesn`t get paid any attention and is always living in the shadow of Hermia. She`s jealous because the man she loves, Demetrius, is in love with Hermia.

helena:act 1.

Helena seems like a needy girl who is desperate for Demetrius to love her. She seems so desperate that she`s willing to try anything to win his love including telling Hermia and Lysander`s plan about running away to Demetrius. She seems to be like a doormat for Demetrius in the way that they slept together and he made an oath to always love her but then fell for Hermia, yet she still loves him. Helena sees herself as lesser then Hermia because she doesn`t have two guys wanting her hand in marriage. She is less confident in herself but at the same time, questions why Hermia and her are of the same class, yet Hermia is loved so much more then she is.

sustainability fair notes.

-the old hawaiian people lived on ahupua'as
-an ahupua'a is a land system that provided the hawaiian people with all the resources they needed to survive
-they also used the kapu system which was a law system
-the kapu system included laws such as no overhunting, fishing and harvesting to keep balance to the ahupua'a
-the people had special relationships to the land
-they believed that the taro plant was their older sister
-they believed that they were only workers on the land, not owners
-by taking a shower you can save 40 liters of water
-a ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees
-the energy from recycling one aluminium can is enough energy to watch 3 hours of tv
-everyday each person throws out 4 pounds
-80% of all household waste can be recycled
-styrafoam stays in the ground for 500 years
-85% of golf carts run on electricity
-american swimming pools that are 7ft deep carry enough water to cover san francisco
-1/3 of all energy is used at home
-the amount of wood and paper thrown away is enough energy to heat 50,000,000 homes in 20 years
-it takes 4 months for paper to decompose
-it takes 25 years for a magazine to decompose
-it takes 40 years for a cigarette to decompose
-it takes 80 years for plastic bags to decompose
-it takes 120 years for a water bottle to decompose
-50 5th graders raised $90 for sumatran tigers by collecting 1,800 bottles and turning them into the recycling center
-the girl in charge was alayna kobayashi who gave the money to the honolu zoo at the zoological society
-with the money they collected, they are helping the zoo raise 3 sumatran tigers named djelita, berani, and chrissie

moderator: at the western palace.

Why did Moon Orchid let Brave Orchid boss her around so much?

Why did Moon Orchid get married if her and her husband were so different and didn`t truly love eachother?

How old are Brave Orchid`s children? They sound like grownups but she always talks to them and refers to them as if they were still children.

Why is Brave Orchid so harsh? Has anything bad ever happened to her in her past to make her want Moon Orchid to do such cruel things to her husband and his wife?

How does Brave Orchid`s husband tolerate her?

Are the "children" really as bad as she makes them seem? Are they just more modern-american then Brave Orchid is?

What made Moon Orchid so curious in everything the children did?

Why would she talk out loud to herself instead of thinking in her head?

Has she always been bossed around by her sister and lived Brave Orchid`s shadow?

Why was Moon Orchid`s daughter in America when she wasn`t?

Has Moon Orchid`s daughter not adapted to the american society?

Why is Moon Orchid so incapable of doing simple laundry work?

Why doesn`t Brave Orchid feel bad that she forced her sister to see her husband when he didn`t want her back and she then ended up in a mental hospital, or does she?

Does Brave Orchid always imagine scenes and how certain situations will go?

lost sister (old).

When we read the poem lost sister, to me one quote stood above all the rest. "you find you need china: your one fragile identification, a jade link handcuffed to your wrists. You remember your mother who walked for centuries-and like her you have left no foot print". this shows that the girl misses her home and since she left, she no longer has any ties to her old life in china no matter how much she may want it back. the last part that states "and like her, you have left no foot print" can also mean that since she left, everyone in china who used to know her, no longer remembers her and they all act like she never existed. This quote shows a lot of feeling, in the first part, "you find you need china; your one fragile identification" it shows that the girl doesn`t really know who she really is anymore since she left and she wants and needs to return to her home to find out. Since she left china, she no longer has her "one fragile identification" and she wants it. "a jade link handcuffed to your wrists" also gives off the impression that you can never truly escape china until you completely destroy the "jade link handcuffed to your wrists" and leave. This quote means that, like i said, the girl no longer has any ties to china and feels like a part of her is missing since she left.