Service First and Flash Videos-- Bother!

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Today we did Service First-- we went to an *inner city* St. Louis school and did projects. Pssh, I can't believe these kids aren't priveleged-- or, at least, not when it comes to school. Okay, sure, their population is 90% minority and 95% on free/reduced lunch . . . but Roosevelt was an awful lot like that, too. Yet Roosevelt was nowhere near the quality of this school. It was really nice . . . very new (and not cheap, chinsy new, like the *new* Orchestra uniforms in 7th grade, and the *new* playground equipment they got in 6th grade at Roosevelt . . . ), very efficient and very clean-- and very well taken care of. There were murals (and we painted even more) and things-- it was just nice. Still-- it was fun, and, well, it's not like a richer school doesn't *deserve* service projects, pssh, lol . . .

Anyway, I was in a group that painted a mural on nutrition-- we painted the new Food Pyramid. We had the stairs and the new, crazy, arbitrarily-divided food groups, lol . . . and we painted it all very neatly. I got to paint the little dude climbing up the stairs, and everyone agreed mine was even better than the government-issued one on the picture, because mine was leaning forward, as if he were actually running-- really exercising. Everyone thought he looked really good ^_^ Then we wrote "Food Pyramid" in letters that were shaped like food-- a carrot on part of the F, two cherries on a stem for the O's, a green bean or pea pod for the stalk of the P, a banana as part of the Y, a piece of bread with the crust shape darker for the M (that was my idea ^_^), and a bottle of milk for the stalk of the last D. Everyone was really impressed-- and this is the thing that the kids are going to see every day . . . you know, the one thing they can stare at during that retarded *quiet time* ever school cafeteria insists on having just to exercise arbitrary authority, lol . . .

Another mural had subliminal messages in it-- they drew a Death Star in their solar system, made one of the stars a Jewish Star of David, and wrote all their names in the smeariness of the red and orange and yellow of the sun.

I kind of wanted to do a fish mural, too, but there wasn't time, lol . . . though I DID suggest to one of the groups to add a jellyfish, and they did . . .

I showed Lisa, Keith, Patricia, and Aniruddh a bunch of Flash videos the other day, like Bothering Snape (I and II), Snape's Too Sexy, We Like Tha Moon, Lobster Magnet, Stick Figure Romeo and Juliet (and, man, I actually got to see the whole thing at once, lol . . . because we actually have fast computers here!!! Lol . . . ), and The End of the World.

They all really liked Bothering Snape. Lisa and I walk around going "BOTHER!" all the time now, and Keith likes to just randomly say, "I am Snape, the Potions Master!"-- and we were rather hoping some kids would walk by (but, sadly, they weren't at school today, seeing as how it was a Saturday, lol . . . ) and he could say that at them.

Too bad Tiffany couldn't come . . . *sigh* . . .

Jessica, go be somebody in the von Brandt journal, lol . . .

Service First and Flash Videos-- Bother!

( Blogthings Are Addicting )

Today we did Service First-- we went to an *inner city* St. Louis school and did projects. Pssh, I can't believe these kids aren't priveleged-- or, at least, not when it comes to school. Okay, sure, their population is 90% minority and 95% on free/reduced lunch . . . but Roosevelt was an awful lot like that, too. Yet Roosevelt was nowhere near the quality of this school. It was really nice . . . very new (and not cheap, chinsy new, like the *new* Orchestra uniforms in 7th grade, and the *new* playground equipment they got in 6th grade at Roosevelt . . . ), very efficient and very clean-- and very well taken care of. There were murals (and we painted even more) and things-- it was just nice. Still-- it was fun, and, well, it's not like a richer school doesn't *deserve* service projects, pssh, lol . . .

Anyway, I was in a group that painted a mural on nutrition-- we painted the new Food Pyramid. We had the stairs and the new, crazy, arbitrarily-divided food groups, lol . . . and we painted it all very neatly. I got to paint the little dude climbing up the stairs, and everyone agreed mine was even better than the government-issued one on the picture, because mine was leaning forward, as if he were actually running-- really exercising. Everyone thought he looked really good ^_^ Then we wrote "Food Pyramid" in letters that were shaped like food-- a carrot on part of the F, two cherries on a stem for the O's, a green bean or pea pod for the stalk of the P, a banana as part of the Y, a piece of bread with the crust shape darker for the M (that was my idea ^_^), and a bottle of milk for the stalk of the last D. Everyone was really impressed-- and this is the thing that the kids are going to see every day . . . you know, the one thing they can stare at during that retarded *quiet time* ever school cafeteria insists on having just to exercise arbitrary authority, lol . . .

Another mural had subliminal messages in it-- they drew a Death Star in their solar system, made one of the stars a Jewish Star of David, and wrote all their names in the smeariness of the red and orange and yellow of the sun.

I kind of wanted to do a fish mural, too, but there wasn't time, lol . . . though I DID suggest to one of the groups to add a jellyfish, and they did . . .

I showed Lisa, Keith, Patricia, and Aniruddh a bunch of Flash videos the other day, like Bothering Snape (I and II), Snape's Too Sexy, We Like Tha Moon, Lobster Magnet, Stick Figure Romeo and Juliet (and, man, I actually got to see the whole thing at once, lol . . . because we actually have fast computers here!!! Lol . . . ), and The End of the World.

They all really liked Bothering Snape. Lisa and I walk around going "BOTHER!" all the time now, and Keith likes to just randomly say, "I am Snape, the Potions Master!"-- and we were rather hoping some kids would walk by (but, sadly, they weren't at school today, seeing as how it was a Saturday, lol . . . ) and he could say that at them.

Too bad Tiffany couldn't come . . . *sigh* . . .

Jessica, go be somebody in the von Brandt journal, lol . . .