tbh this post is pretty boring
By Tamika Whitenack
There are two weeks and two days of classes left, which feels very much like we are approaching the end of the year. Yikes! In a month, I will be heading home.
What has happened this week?
On Wednesday we had our end-of-year awards event for the ALANA Center, which was a fun event to honor students and eat lots of good food :) Later that evening, there was a lecture/talk by Junot Diaz on campus. This was a very good event. I hadn't read that much of his work before except a bit for my freshman writing seminar, but he did a few short story readings and then a lot of questions. The Q&A session was cool because he very intentionally focused on women of color and was super charismatic in his answers, he really wasn't afraid to be honest or to call out Vassar and other institutions about issues.
On Friday we had another farm trip, this one to Rise and Root farm. This farm is owned by four women and seemed to be a bit of a smaller operation than a lot of the other farms we've visited, but they are really focused on the social justice piece of food systems as well, which I thought was cool. I'll be blogging about this visit in more depth on our class blog soon, so feel free to check it out at http://pages.vassar.edu/hvagriculture/. Friday evening was a big food event for one of the student organizations I am part of. We went to the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory, which is a really cool space that has been renovated into affordable housing, art studios, and a cafe and professional kitchen. Our group of 20 students made lasagne, salad, roast vegetables, and fruit crisp together! It was a bit of a controlled chaos situation, but everything tasted really good in the end!
This weekend has been somewhat relaxed, I got a lot of work done and am planning to be in bed by 10pm tonight. Also, the weather is finally sunny and almost spring like, so I'm happy :)
I'm realizing that this blog post is not that interesting. I'll be more creative next time! Hopefully these pictures make up for the boring post.
There are two weeks and two days of classes left, which feels very much like we are approaching the end of the year. Yikes! In a month, I will be heading home.
What has happened this week?
On Wednesday we had our end-of-year awards event for the ALANA Center, which was a fun event to honor students and eat lots of good food :) Later that evening, there was a lecture/talk by Junot Diaz on campus. This was a very good event. I hadn't read that much of his work before except a bit for my freshman writing seminar, but he did a few short story readings and then a lot of questions. The Q&A session was cool because he very intentionally focused on women of color and was super charismatic in his answers, he really wasn't afraid to be honest or to call out Vassar and other institutions about issues.
On Friday we had another farm trip, this one to Rise and Root farm. This farm is owned by four women and seemed to be a bit of a smaller operation than a lot of the other farms we've visited, but they are really focused on the social justice piece of food systems as well, which I thought was cool. I'll be blogging about this visit in more depth on our class blog soon, so feel free to check it out at http://pages.vassar.edu/hvagriculture/. Friday evening was a big food event for one of the student organizations I am part of. We went to the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory, which is a really cool space that has been renovated into affordable housing, art studios, and a cafe and professional kitchen. Our group of 20 students made lasagne, salad, roast vegetables, and fruit crisp together! It was a bit of a controlled chaos situation, but everything tasted really good in the end!
This weekend has been somewhat relaxed, I got a lot of work done and am planning to be in bed by 10pm tonight. Also, the weather is finally sunny and almost spring like, so I'm happy :)
I'm realizing that this blog post is not that interesting. I'll be more creative next time! Hopefully these pictures make up for the boring post.
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| flower from ALANA event |
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| farm equipment |
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| black soil |
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| green is a good color |
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| seedlings :) |
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| nasturtiums |
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| idk i thought this tree looked regal |
Focused on social justice? I guess they're trying to plant ... seeds of change?
ReplyDeleteAlso that tree is very pleasing to look at
green is not a creative color!
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