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Farm Reflection

          I really enjoyed going to the farm. I think my favorite part of the whole thing was digging up the potatoes out of the ground. There were some creepy bugs during that whole process and I did get a little scared because I kept seeing spiders and I'm really afraid of them. I also enjoyed rubber banding the lavender plants and taking the tour. The tour was very interesting. I was very fascinated when I found out that some of the chickens lay light blue colored eggs. Overall, it was a really great experience and it was worth it.

Journey of the Universe: Chapters 8-11

          Although no one is 100% sure where people came from, theories can be made and there is proof that there was a species which walked on two feet rather than four just as humans do. The brains of the species continued to grow bigger and bigger and as time went on they left Africa and went to other continents. Animals react quicker than humans and would probably run for their lives sooner than the humans would think to do. I found it interesting how the megafauna disappeared from the Americas. My personal thought is that the humans that were there hunted the big animals often. It interests me how humans had symbolic codes of civilization and what they meant. Soon, humans became more advanced and started using an abundant amount of resources and populations increased rapidly. I found it extremely interesting how Jupiter, Venus, and Mars were thought to be balls of dead matter. I also found the topic of molten rocks being transformed into monarch butterflies and blue herons very interesting. Today, we live in an industrialized world. I completely agree when the author says that we can always count on the stars because they are there for guidance. I do believe that everything is interconnected as the book said and that the last two pages of the book felt like it was really speaking to you.

Journey of the Universe: Chapters 1-7

          Throughout the first four chapters, I kept finding myself in saying the expression "what on earth." As I kept reading I started to realize that everything interconnects. I had never really thought of it in that way. It was an interesting creation story about how the stars live, how the solar system was made and how the plants and animals came. It was interesting to learn about how the stars rely on pressure and gravity so that they don't explode. It amazes me how there are still questions and always will be questions about the universe because it is just so mysterious. From this reading I learned how things were created from a new perspective. I had already known some stuff the author spoke of so it was refreshing my memory about material I had learned in the past.

DONE!