So, after roller skating on Friday night, Angie, Erin, Avery, and I were walking home on a dusty road in Bethel, when all of a sudden.... I spied a treasure in the bushes. It was a thrown-away bike rusting in the ditch. I cried "Avery, go get, get it, you can, go get it, quick, before someone sees, go get it!" He did, with Erin's help. So, we brought the bike up and it's in pretty good shape. The chain was rusted and completely off the track, but we took it anyway. Yeah, we took it about 5 minutes down the road then ditched it again. We'll let someone else discover Bethel's wonderful treasures. We were watching the weather channel this morning and we're supposed to get some snow this week. Yuck, now I should really buy snowpants, gloves, hat, and goggles. I'm getting off topic. So, when you walk around Bethel, you notice that people throw everything out! I was walking down the boardwalk and I can find backpacks, shopping carts, baby seats, bikes, bottles, shirts, man everything! So, before you go to the AC store, take a walk down some Bethel roads and you can pick up a lot "o" things:) Naw, I'm joking-- don't pick up that nasty stuff. But, if there were any dumpster divers in Bethel like there are elsewhere (MI) then they would be in trash heaven.
3 comments:
SADIE NELL! I was Rolling with laughter at your story telling!! It sure sounds like fun... kinda like late night travels with the SNBs:) ahhh good timeS!
love ya jess:-)
i love your name. and i love that you are in alaska. i think you should educate the school, or at least the first graders about sustainable measures we can take to help our landscape and our world. for instance: baby seats and bottles are made out of plastic, plastic is a petrochemical made from oil, oil is something they want to get from alaska (and the government would like to disturb breeding and feeding grounds of native species to do so), if we were able to make less plastic (by recycling - if such a program exists there, which i rather doubt, with the infrastructure and population - but the LESSON is the important thing,), so if we were able to make less plastic, we would need less oil, and if we needed less oil, we would have more room for wild animals and farms, and if we had more room for those things ALL animals (including the humans, my favorite animal!) would benefit.
see if you can tell the kids in a nice and not condescending way. they are a voice to their parents. free bikes are fun, but a lot of what makes up the rest of the recycling picture isn't as fun....
great work! keep it up!
sadiec@ecohaus.com
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