Day 4

You are in your house. Sitting at the dinner table. Around you is your family, silver wear arranged around the table in the positions of your family members. Food is in the center. Peas, steak, mashed potatoes and gravy steam in the center of the table.  The family is about to start eating. They put their hands together and say grace… finally the tipping point as everyone takes their first bite they all go for the same thing, the steak. As I put my first piece of the freshly grilled meat in my mouth I can feel it melt around my taste buds. It is flavourful with spices and rubs from the propane grill. The potatoes still steaming with heat and moister waiting for you taunting you with all of their buttery goodness, you dig in and take a large spoonful of the fluffy cloud like material. This marshmallow material is what everyone looks forward too when it is done right you think as you take a bite and the golden white clouds dissipate into your mouth a throat as you swallow the large spoonful. But then the most dreaded part of your plate. The peas… you sit and stare at them and think “they look like old green person faces”. As you curl up your nose towards them you take the biggest bite possible to try and get rid of them and down it goes. But then when you look back there is still the same amount of them! Peas are the grossest thing in any dinner, besides zucchini. But you tread through the green mishmash of soldiers and wake up… Wait. It was just a dream! None of those evil things touched me! But I didn’t get the steak either you think as you sit waiting to arrive at your destination in the heavy city traffic.

Today we went to aulwood and my group learned about birds, plants and uses for medicinal plants. First we were introduced to the environments we would be walking through and then we walked with binoculars to find different types of birds in the environments. The coolest thing that I learned today was about how the birds have a blue luminescent glow in their feathers to make it dark in the light and blue in the shade.