Kajal

Journal Entry #1. April.19th.2010 Day 1.
 * Date || Lunch / Snacks || Containers Used || Garbage Produced ||
 * Monday April 19 || sandwich, celery and cucumber. Chocolate chip cookie, and banana berry muffin || 3 || 1 paper muffin cup. ||
 * Tuesday April 20 || Chocolate Chip Cookie, Muffin, Vitamin Water, and sandwich. || 4 || No Garbage. ||
 * Wednesday April 21 || Chocolate Chip Cookie, and macaroni and cheese. || 2 || No Garbage. ||
 * Thursday April 22 || Rice crackers, hamburger, and vitamin water. || 3 || No Garbage. ||
 * Friday April 23 || Chocolate Chip cookie, and Pasta. || 2 || No Garbage. ||
 * Saturday April 24 || Burritos and vitamin water. with vegetables. || 1 || No Garbage. ||
 * Sunday April 25 || Hamburger with vegetables. || 0 || No garbage. ||

This class challenge that we decided to do has not really been that difficult for me. I am really glad that we decided to choose this activity as our class challenge because i think that it will not only help the environment, but people as well. We are only doing this for a week, but hopefully this will have a huge impact on our lives and this might even become part of our lives. I regularly bring 90% of my lunch in reusable containers so this was not really a big change for me. I am really looking forward to the rest of this week and hopefully doing something that will contribute and help the environment. Today for lunch i had a sandwich, with celery, and cucumbers. I brought this all in 2 reusable containers. For an after school snack i had a chocolate chip cookie that produced 0 garbage. Although along with the chocolate chip cookie i did have a banana berry muffin that i made in foods class. And it id produce 1 piece of garbage and that was a paper muffin cup that we used. I am really proud of myself in only producing 1 piece of garbage, but i want to do better and try to increase it by making 0 pieces of garbage. I am really looking forward toward this challenge and in my opinion, i think that this is a great way for everyone to get involved!

Journal Entry #2. April.20th.2010 Day 2. Today, I am really proud of my self. I did not make any garbage. I took a chocolate chip cookie in a plastic container, a muffin in a plastic container, vitamin water in a reusable eater bottle and a sandwich in a tupper ware container.This challenge agin has made really no big impact on my life because this is my regular routine. And for my school lunches, most of the time i do ring all of my lunch in reusable containers. So this challenge is just part of my regular daily routine. But it has really opened my eyes in thinking more about spreading this to other people. And trying to save this earth.

Journal Entry #3. April.21st.2010 Day 3. Today, all i had for lunch was a chocolate chip cookie and macaroni and cheese. I did not produce any garbage again. The more this challenge goes on, the more that i realize that what we are doing is only helping us. That with all these small changes we can save the planet. And it would be even better to support the challenge and spread the word.

Journal Entry#4 April.22nd.2010 Day 4. It is the fourth day of this challenge and i am still feeling very positive. This is my third day with a garbage free lunch. The challenge has not brought any real challenges for me yet. The only thing that sometimes gets hard is that i work at a fast food place so when i eat i usually have to eat with the wrapper, producing garbage. But, i also overcame this challenge as well. I just got use to the fact that i should just being a lunch from home. And sometimes i would eat from my work but with no wrappers, meaning in a glass plate. I told my workers about the class challenge that we were doing and they were very surprised. At how we are trying to take little challenges that can have a big impact. They were also kind of inspired so at work, we promised ourselves that none of us would eat anything that produced garbage for 1 week, and then maybe extend it depending on how it went. This was no garbage producing at work. And i think that this is going to have a huge impact on a lot of lives and really open the eyes of people.

Journal #5. April.23th.2010 Day 5. As the challenge goes on, i am still feeling very positive. For lunch today i had a chocolate chip cookie and pasta. Again, i made no garbage,, although instead i used 2 tupper ware containers. It has been five days and along with this challenge, i have learned more than just when you throw out so much garbage it has a huge impact on others. But i learned how to be organized and be prepared. The ability to be organized played a huge role toward this challenge. You ahd to be prepared the day before to make sure that you were going to have a garbage free lunch. I am personally really glad that we did this challenge, and hopefully it will urge others to care more for the environment just like i have throughout this challenge.

Journal #6 April.24th.2010 Day 6. There is only 1 day left in the challenge and i really dont feel like stopping. The fact that we have been doing this has really changed my life. It has definately shown me our dangerous and bad affects on the environment. Today for lunch i had Buritos with vitamin water. And for a small and quick after school snack i had some cut up vegetables. Again this was a garbage free lunch and i am really proud of myself. This challenge has definitely become part of my life, and i will keep doing this on a day to day basis because i have seen what damage this garbage it has done to our environment and the world. I want other people to get on this so everyone can help make a change!

Journal #7 April.25th.2010 Day 7. This is the last day and i thought that we did great. Today for lunch i had a hamburger with vegetables. This challenge has done a lot to show me about eh environment and how making small steps and working toward making a big change is not very hard. My feelings have become a lot stronger about eh environment ever since we started this challenge. I am more aware of the world around me. This challenge has shown me what damage i am doing to the world.Thsi challenge hopefully has done a lot to put some kind of impact on everyone's lives in our class. I hope that we can amke a change and make this world and our environment a better place!