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2010-03-12T10:30:00.000-08:00

One's first visit to a far off land can be quite nerve racking. I have learned this the hard way for many weeks now. I came into my home(away from home)thinking it would be very easy to adapt, and i was thinking that it would be very different from what i am used to with immaculate buildings and extreme buildings, but here i was in for a very large and unsettling surprise. Here in my city there is one of the most buteiful and amazing things,right next to where i work, as a junior school teacher, i take my class to this garden to study English on Tuesdays.

This week i was shown how my students eat lunch. Sounds easy? Ha Ha, Sure. If you'r thinking "Spoon, Fork, perhaps a pair of Hashi(chopsticks). Food in mouth. Chew. Gulp." Your Wrong. The Japanese People have a special way of enjoying the food and also of eating it. They call it the Triangle pattern, because they take a bite of 3 things at once, then chew and swallow. This i find very interesting and i believe it has something to so with their community ways. It shapes the way they work together with other people in their community to build a stronger way of living, or bond between the foods. Some of the lower grade people have bento lunches that their parents construct.

2009-10-22T11:21:00.000-07:00

This is the tenon head. Tenon heads like this one were put on walls as representations of human to feline transformation. now the last of the Tenon heads can be found on the west wall of the new temple.

These are textiles that the Paracas made fall under two different types which are linear and block color. With the linear styles the textiles, only four colors are used like the one above. Block color textiles use a much fuller inventory of color.

These are the Nazca lines. they can depict many different figures such as monkeys, condors, humans, spiders, hummingbirds, hands and trees.

Mayan Collapse Theory

I believe that the Mayan collapse was caused by lack of rain and too much farming of the soil. The evidence that lead me to this conclusion is that some information stated that, some pollen was found around areas that had little farming, and mainly in the forests. Another reason that I think this is how the collapse happened is that some of the alters were unfinished, which means that they could have stopped working to focus only on praising the rain gods. I believe that the Mayans left only ten or so people who were to stay to see if the rain would come, while the others were left with no food and no water. Only after the majority of the Mayas were dead had they seen that the soil was over cultivated and had no hope of return. What was left of the Maya were left to starve with no hope of survival.

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