Day 3 - This is the Water...

My design for a storm drain mural

Today we began by listening to a reading of "This is the Apple Pie that Papa Baked" by Lauren Thompson and Jonathan Bean. Then thought about ideas for a line in a similar poem about water and rivers. I wrote "This is the mud, wet and dirty..." We made a group of six and then read them all aloud. Later in the day we took everything we wrote and made it into one poem relating everything together:

This is the water wet and wild that carries the fish

slick and scaly that swim around the creeks

small and winding that travels through the backyards

grassy and sharp that grounds the plants

lively and colorful that grow with the mud wet and dirty

In the morning we also had four groups of people from the City of Dayton who presented to us about water quality, the rivers we live near, and jobs available in the field. These ranged from some people that do work on pipes in the city to people who measured water quality, and administration and careers we could go into in the future. Personally, I want to do something in computer science and there aren't very many positions available in what we were shown so while I couldn't learn about that, I still thought that what we were shown was interesting.

One of the stations was working on river murals about how Dayton storm drains lead to local rivers and the city is having artists paint on the drains to bring attention to the issues with dumping into them. I designed mine to make the entrance of the drain into a river with fish in it. These fish should be local to the area and with the size of the area could be life size showing that what is put in the drains directly interacts with local aquatic life.