Sustainability Fair

Today at the sustainability fair we learned lots of things. We basically walked around, going from booth to booth collecting as much information that we could. During the walk around we saw booths ranging from showing us how long it takes for different materials to decompose in the earth, to how animals are getting killed all the time by plastic debris that they get stuck in and get trapped and die.
I went to one booth that talked about the construction of the new Case middle school and the materials that were used in the building of it. I found out many interesting facts that i did not know before. While i was getting information from that booth i found out that most of the things in the middle school that the children used such as lockers... were made out of recyclables. Basically the case middle school was made out of a lot of recycled products that would have otherwise been turned into trash. Another one of the good things about case is that it has solar power. It uses solar power to get energy instead of using the normal electricity from a company. This helps the environment a lot.
Another booth that i saw talked about how the 5th graders had raised money by turning in glass and plastic bottles to raise enough money to adopt 3 tigers from the zoo. Since all they had to do was recycle, and that was only a small group of kids. Just imagine if the entire school had done that? The money raised would be a huge amount.
The last thing that i found out at the fair was that how the Hawaiians managed the land when they were around. They used a thing called the Kapu system which would prohibit someone from doing something. The Hawaiians had this system because it insured that everyone would get their fair share of food and water. If you broke this kapu rule, then the warriors would come after you to kill you, and the only way for you to not be killed the the warriors was if you were to get to a Hawaiian temple or church. It was only there where you would be safe from the harm of the warriors, and after you reached there you were safe, and they would no longer come after you.
Those are things that i learned at the sustainability fair. I learned a lot and I hope I can use the information that I learned to help benefit not only me, but the world that I live in too.

Hawaiian ghost story

My parents told me many stories when i was young. They would tell me a wide array of stories that went from nice peaceful ones about love, and spooky ones that were made to make me have nightmares. My dad would often tell me the scary ones and turn the lights off in my room because he wanted to make me more scared. And oh boy was he good at it. He would always make me have to sleep with them in their room because i would get scared of being alone after that by myself in fear of a ghost or something coming and getting me with all the scary stories that he told me. One ghost story that my parents told me when i was small was the story about the ghostly woman that would appear in the bathroom of the old drive inn in waialae. Supposedly what happens is women who use the bathroom walk up to the sink to wash their hands, and when they look in the mirror they see a reflection of a woman, and when they look behind them to see if she is still there, shes just gone. She vanishes without making any sounds or disturbance at all. She wouldn't appear all the time. Most people never even got to see her in the reflection of the mirror. If you did... you were sure in for a scare. The old drive inn has been replaced with a storage facility and no one has seen the ghostly woman since they put the storage facility up. Thats just one of the ghost stories that my parents told me when i was small.