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The best part of native plant cooking was learning what our people made out of these plants. Also trying and seeing the amazing things that can be made from the plants. My job was cracking the acorns open and braking the peas apart to pieces.

My favorite part of native cooking with Kim Marcus was trying new Native food even thought I didn’t like the pudding one. My job was cracking acorns and making the powder smooth.

1. My favorite part today with Kim Marcus was breaking the shells off the acorns.

2. My job was to break the shells of the acorns. Breaking the wheel of it beneficial because in order to get the nut from the acorn is to break the shell off. This makes the next job easy which was shaving the skin from the nut. Then it is grounded and off it goes.

1) I really liked scraping the skin off of the acorns with Kyla, Nick, and Cece. It was funny and entertaining.

2) My job was to scrape the skin off of the acorns, stir the pudding stuff, and cut the kiwii-like-things. It was beneficial to a nutritious diet because they were healthy aaaand tasted good. but the pudding stuff was really different.

1) My favorite part of native cooking was getting to try out chia seeds

2) My job during native cooking was cleaning the skin off of the acorns and cutting them them with Michelle and Dominic

Today was amazing

Today’s morning was very exhilarating. We were able to participate in preparing traditional native foods, all from natural substances. I felt proud grinding the nut in a traditional grinder, using only the power of my arms and stones. These nuts were ground into a fine powder that were then used for other forms of cooking.

Today was a beautiful day in the rain! I also had fun being able to learn different ways of being healthy with Native plants and how to cook them. My Favorite part of today was cooking with Kim Marcus and creating our own tea and acorn treats. While learning the benefits of a proper diet. Although the rain stopped our trip to Wishtoyo. So that was kinda sad, but we’re still traveling! I can’t wait! Here I come Malibu!

Families and friends we are sorry to inform you but we will not be going to Wishtoyo tomorrow due to the rain in sunny California forecasted for the next 2 days. Talking it over with our partners at Wishtoyo it was decided that for the safety and comfort of the student and staff we will postpone our trip until Tuesday, July 21 and will return Wednesday, July 22 in the evening. We will be sending an email out but we the Board wanted to communicate to you the changes as soon as posible. Thank you for your understanding and if you have any questions or concerns please call me directly at 909 706-5948 or email at scott_scoggins@pitzer.edu.

1) Things I miss about home are my family, my comfy bed (not that these beds aren’t comfortable), and my dog.

2) What makes it hard is nothing really. I don’t really have a problem being home. I do miss my family though. That’s the first thing I would  miss.

3) One thing that is great about being away from home is kind of being away from everything.

4) Today, we did our acting class which consisted of a version of head, shoulders, knees, and toes, and hand shake statues, in our English class we read and did a little bit of poetry, in our college applications we wrote our stories, in our Western University class the University recruiter came and explained their medical applications. After Western University we went to Mt. Baldy and met up and danced with the Tongva people of the area. It was an ice breaker for me because I don’t dance. At all. But it was fun nonetheless.