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Today was my first day back in a very long time! When I walked into the room with Tim and Elizabeth they offered all of us trail mix.. Because we are the healthy group I figured that this was a healthy snack. However after I ate some of the trail mix TIm and Elizabeth revealed to us that the trail mix was not healthy and we ate lots of servings of it. I was so surprised. THis however taught us all a lesson that we should really examine the thing that we eat! We got some healthy alternatives. They were spicy and cheesy popcorn and some flavored water. They all were really tasty and easy to make. And also a lot cheaper. Hopefully in the future I will use some of these healthy snacks that we learned about today.

Today we learned so many new things about alcohol use and its affects on your body. It was all very interesting. One thing that I learned and found very interesting was that when you drink and get dehydrated your body will start taking water from your brain and make your brain shrink. This was very scary to hear. I think if more people knew that this happened than they would not drink as much as they did. Some other things that I learned were out of 100 people with a BAC greater than 0.4 one person will die, taking medication while or before you drink will multiply the effects of alcohol, some long term effects of drinking are deterioration of you vision, and abnormal heart rhythm, and just because you have become more tolerant to alcohol does not mean that the bad things are not happening to your body. It just means that the effects don't show as much. That is all of the things that I learned today about alcohol and its effects on your body.

Tim wants each of us to think of something that we would like to learn about so that we can research it and do a project at the end of the semester for it. What i chose that I wanted to do was the effect of diet pills on your body. I wanted to do this because sometimes I take diet pills and I am starting to see more and more diet pill commercials on the television. I started doing a little bit of research on it today and everything that I have seen so far is that diet pills are unhealthy for you. This is a little frightening to me because I have taken diet pills in the past. However, what I think makes my diet pills different than others is that it is made totally from plants and herbs and it just curbs your appetite. Some things that I have learned about diet pills so far is that people do not take them correctly, they affect other parts of your body other than your weight that can effect you, and also not enough test are done to make sure that these pills are healthy. I am excited to see what else that I can learn about diet pills in the future. What I plan on doing with what i learn in the future is maybe teach the kids from Compton Drew Middle School what i learned and maybe mo

Next week the kids from Compton Drew will be coming back and some things that we will be doing with them is seeing the effects of soda on their body. They will also learn about healthy portions. One activity that we will do with them is mentos and diet coke. This should be fun because we found a fun way to make a spin on it. We screwed a hole in the top put the mentos on a screw and added a magnet and screwed the top back onto the bottle. When you remove the magnet the mentos will fall into the soda and the soda shoots higher than with out the cap on. We found this way to do this on youtube. It is very fun to do and exciting. Hopefully the kids will enjoy doing this as much as I did!

Next week the kids from compton drew will be coming and working with us. One of the things that we will be doing with them is a heathly warm up. After we get done with that we will be doing some food marketing. An activity that we will do with that is give the students fake money and have them pick advertisments out of a magazine that they will buy. After that we will make a healthy snake with them and they will make their own advertisment of that snake using some of the skills that we taught them during the lesson. That is what we will be doing with the compton drew kids that we work with.

Today inour group we went over to forest park. First we did this project that we were planing to do for the summer. In this project we measured out a space in paces for our search and find. In between this space we identified two oak trees and a thistle. We also saw like seventeen other flowers.Some of them that we saw are called potentilla, henbit, shepards purse, the honey suckle, and a lot more. The most flowers that I saw were the violets, spring beauty, dandilion, and the potentilla. Some of the trees that we saw were the oak,red bud, witch hazel, dog wood, maple,crab apple,hawthorne, and wesaw pine trees. Out of all of the trees that I saw my favorite trees were the red bud,dogwood,crabapple, and witch hazel. Other thanplants and flowers we also saw a variety of birds. We saw a cardinal, a redwing- blackbird, a robin,a mallard duck, and a grackle.

Last saturday me, Vincent, and Leah went hiking in Chubb Forest. On the way we were talking about what type of activities we were going to be doing with the kids in the summer. On the hike, we did this activity that we were going to try with the kids. For this activity we took paint sploches on small pieces of paper and tried to match them with the different things that we saw out in the forest. In the forest we found a couple different flowers. One flower that we found was called Dutchman's Breeches. They call the flower this because they look like upside down breeches that the dutchmen would wear.