Where I Am From...Poem

Where I’m From

By Prasadini Gross  

 I am from spanish and sign language

From a land of three brothers

I am from nature and nutrition

From quiet meditations to loud family gatherings

I am from “help ever, hurt never”

From the electrifying sight of the mountains, and the fishy smell of the ocean

I am from the thrill of a comedy movie and the excitement of a fantasy book

From wearing skirts when I was three to skinny jeans now

I am from stolen high fives with my silly friends and playing unfair games of monopoly with my family

From playing sports and singing songs

I am from art and creativity

From positive attitudes and “just keep trying”s

I am from hot summers and warm winters

From Goofy and Mickey Mouse

I am from a million and one unknown relatives

From stories of Dog and Rabbit

I am from endless days of being thrown at the pool and summer days at my dads yoga camp

From sweet almond milk in my granola and tangy lemonade with burritos

I am from dad rapping old school raps

From never-ending games of 20 questions in the car

I am from the epic adventures of The Boy Who Lived

From the loud chatter of my friends continuously yapping over each other like chihuahuas

I am from “I don’t like this” or “I am allergic to that”

From constantly moving from one house to another

I am from home, and that’s where my heart is!

Idyllwild Fauna

Black-Headed Grosbeak
Scientific name: Pheucticus Melanocephalus

• I believe that a Black-Headed Grosbeak is diurnal, diurnal means it comes out in the day, because on all the websites that I looked at they didn't say if it was nocturnal or diurnal. 
• You can identify this animal because it has a thick beak, white patches on their black wings and it has reddish- orange breasts, and a black head.

Refrences 
Wikipedia.org
(I'm not sure) Birdsandberries.com

Photo Essay: Cooking With My Family

 We made vegetarian pizza. So first I pre-set the oven to 360 degrees.

  Then greased pan so that the pizza wouldn' t stick.

 Then put sauce on the pre-made pizza dough. I was spreading it around with a spoon.

  Then I spreaded soy cheese (I'm allergic to milk)  on to the un-finished pizza.

 I like mushrooms so I decided to put mushrooms. Luckily my mom just went shopping before I made the pizza.

 Then I put some chopped olives, yum. (FYI they looked really really gross).

 And then into the oven! My mom had to do because I was to scared, I didn't want to burn my hands.

 Then I cut up salad.

 Then finally bon-apetit! Time to eat! Horay!

The Qur'an and the Sunnah

 Left: whole star, right: my part of the star

• What facet of Islam did you present?

Well Emily and I were working on the Qur'an and Sunnah but Emily was absent the day that we were supposed to present so it was just me and Natalie.

• What are some concepts that you learned?

I learned that a guy named Caliph Uthman made an official edition of the Qur'an and he destroyed other versions. I also learned that they do not let copies of the Qur'an touch the floor get dirty. And most Muslims memorized a great part of the sacred book. And that Muhammad received passages from the angel Gabriel. And what I learned about the Sunnah is the example that Muhammad set for Muslims during his life time. He (Muhammad) told all the Muslim children "God forbids all of you to disobey your mothers". And the most basic acts of worship are called the Five Pillars of Faith and the Sunnah shows how to use them using Muhammad's example.

Hunger Games Movie Review

I honestly think that the movie was okay. It could have been way better. I didn't like how they took parts from the book and changed it. For example when Katniss gets the mocking jay pin in the book she gets it from her friend Madge at the reaping. But in the movie she gets it from the hob when she barters for food and the lady says she can have it for free. Then Katniss runs home and gives it to Prim. That didn't happen. They also left out the part when Gale is getting taken out of that place when he is talking with Katniss and Gale says "I will always-" they left that out and that's really important for the next book, Catching Fire.
The movie was definitely not what I expected. First of all the cornucopia was supposed to be gold and I thought that it was gonna be like an actual cornucopia that they use at harvest time... you know made out of basket. But in the movie it looks really odd and square-ish and silver... Oh! and the wolf mutation things. They didn't really look like wolves, they looked like pitbulls. And when that one jumped out, me and Emily and I think Tori too all screamed and then Clara she was laughing at us :(.

Photo Essay: 24-Hour Diet

 This is a lemonade from Coco's Restaraunt and Bakery, I had already dranken some of it when I remembered I had to do this photo essay 24-hour diet thing. I don't remember at exact what time I drank this so I'm gonna guess it was around 4:30-ish PM on Tuesday, April 10th. I choose to drink this because I really like lemonade and I wasn't in the mood for a soda.
This was my breakfast. It contains a bowl of cantalope, one whole grain bagel split in half and a teaspoon of margerine and a teaspoon of honey,  half dranken bottle of water and a tablet or a pill of some kind that keeps me healthy. I aproximately ate this at 7:00-ish AM on Wednesday April 11th. I did not choose to eat this, my mom just gave it to me. But if I had a choice I probably would have choosen this to eat.
For lunch I had two mini lemon cakes, a buttered crosaint sandwhich with toferky meat (not real meat), a tangerine and CapriSun juice pouch. I ate this at around 12:15 on Wednesday, the 11th of April. I choose to eat this 'cause would I need the energy to go on with the rest of the day and open my brain so that I could listen to the teacher trying to teach. And I also ate it 'cause that's what my mom packed.
I honestly forgot to take a picture of what I ate for dinner on Wednesday, the 11th of April. So I got a picture off the internet of what I had for dinner Thursday, the 12th of April (tonight). I had a soy cheese Boboli (pizza crust brand) pizza. (But without the garlic as it shows in the image above). I ate at about 6:00. I choose to eat this because I was in the mood for pizza and it was the fastesting thing my mom could make before she left.

Macronutrients

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmWjgoThz2vWdHdhOG1neUVsbThtS1ZkZDdrd3BNWGc&pli=1#gid=0

My graph shows the calories (blue), carbohydrates (red), fats (orange) and proteins (green) of me and my two close friends, Emily and Kimberley. Macronutrients are nutrients that provides calories and energy. A calorie is a unit of energy. Protein is an important part of every cell in the human body and makes up a large part of your skin, hair, nails, muscles, organs. There are two main carbohydrate groups: sugars and starches. As you can see I get more calories than Kimberley or Emily does. This is a little...weird 'cause I'm the skinniest out of all of us even though I eat more calories. I wonder if calories can make you obese? I wonder if it's because I excercise more? Anyway, it seems that Emily doesn't get enough protein and fats. It also looks like I eat the most carbohydrates which I kind of expected because I know already that I eat a lot of breads. It also looks like Kimberley has the most fat.

I believe that we all need to change our diets. I need to eat less carbohydrates because I think that carbs have more calories than other foods, but I could be wrong- okay I was wrong, fats have more calories than either carbs or proteins. I also think that Emily should eat more proteins and fats because if she doesn't eat enough protein it can weaken the immune system and then it's easy to get sick. Kimberley also needs to change her diet. I think she takes in more protein than her body needs and her body can't store the extra for later in the same condition that it's in so her body turns it into fat for storage.