LA River Clean up

Hello my name is Anais Guevara. I attend Cal State LA and I am in the English 101 class with professor Hernandez. The trip to the LA River was an amazing experience. Going and helping Folar clean the river made me feel like I was contributing to helping clean the environment and making a difference. Seeing a lot of people clean made me see that there is many people that care about making the river cleaner and helping the environment. I saw little kids helping clean and family's coming to clean and contribute which was nice. I got there and saw how the river was dirty but once we got our gloves shirt and bags we started cleaning. It was a beautiful day to be out. I got to get to see the river up close i have usually only seen from a far. It look so nice and seeing it clean made it even better. Going back to the story The Lorax i can relate when the once ler says unless. Unless we clean the earth we live in will look like the picture in The Lorax and we will have to live in a polluted air. One person can make a difference but if there's more than one person even better. I felt that going to clean the LA River made me realize the beauty of it and of nature and that we should all help keep it clean and beautiful. I would like to go again and do my part to making the environment cleaner.

LA River Clean Up

I am Feiqi Zeng in ENGL 101, and today we have a field trip to the LA River. It is a volunteer activity to do the clean up for the LA River, because people throw too much trash to the river, and the trash will go into the ocean, which is polluting the environment that we live in. So it is important for us to pick up the trash and keep the river clean, and it is a good chance to have a look at the nature in LA.

Actually, the LA River is clearer than what I expected at first. I did not see too much trash there, and the water in the river is clearer than I imagined as well. But still, there were trash like coffee cups, small pieces of plastic bags, and some cans; these are the trash that people threw away without thinking about the environment, which is a bad habit. We need to care about more the environment, like “The Lorax” that we talk in class, we cannot do as Once-ler dose, who does not care about the environment at all, we need to consider about our environment and future when we think about expand the business. I like this activity, it takes me to get closer to see the nature in LA, and makes me easier to understand what we have talked in class.

LA RIVER CLEAN-UP

Hello! My name is Tina Nguyen and I attend Cal State Los Angeles. I had no clue Los Angeles even had a river before I enrolled into Professor Hernandez’s English 101 class. Most of our readings had to do with the environment, Jenny Price’s article was specifically about the Los Angeles River so it prepared our class with what we were going to deal with. On the day of the FoLAR (Friends of the Los Angeles River) clean-up which was April 23^rd 2016, my friend and I got hot and were already irritated by the heat. We collected our shirts, gloves and trash bags for the clean up to start at 9:00AM, but we got bored and left to the river. We complained a lot, but once we walked towards the river, we got confused or at least I was. I was expecting either full on cement or an actual river, but I saw that the entire concrete was overfilled with different types of trees and plants. Everything looked fine from the ariel view we saw, but the closer my friend and I got to the trees, the more of the flaws we saw. There was trash EVERYWHERE. Potato chip bags were lodged into the bushes, foam cups were decorative to tree branches, and plastic bags hugged almost every tree. We’ve only been scavenging trash for around 10 minutes and our bags became filled. On our way back to drop off our heavy trash bags, I spotted a baby grocery cart that didn’t even look like a cart anymore and a huge tarp attached to a bed sheet wrapped around a tree. We tried to rip it off but it was too strong. Anyways, we reached to the top of the river to drop off the trash bags and saw that the grocery cart I saw down at the river wasn’t the only one. There was at least 3 more large shopping carts filled with random trash along with other huge objects that got dragged up the river. Within half an hour of cleaning up the river, a pile of trash bags started building up quickly. The amount of people that showed up covered most of the river that we could see from where we were at. So in little time, there was no more trash to pick up and we started moving towards where the water to see if it was an actual river. There was flowing water but it was feet level. Other than that, the clean-up wasn’t as bad as we thought it’d be due to the heat. It made me realize that the times I was too lazy to throw away my trash in the trashcan, it could’ve went down the sewers and ended up harming the environment, which it probably did. The fact that I saw the amount of trash wrapping around the trees, bushes, and plants, it made me think twice about my laziness and that trashcans are there for a reason. Even though going to the FoLAR clean-up was going to be graded, I’m happy I wentbecause it made me feel good to clean up something that I could’ve caused and that my attitude changed because it taught me that trash doesn’t disappear once its out of your hands, it ends up where it shouldn’t be.

LA River Clean Up

 

 

Hello my name is Brenda Perez, I am currently taking English 101 with professor Hernandez. This past Saturday we went to the Los Angeles River to participate in the annual FOLAR clean up. This was to get a hands on experience in what we were learning in class. Getting there I had to wait in a line many people went there to give to there community. The people in the registry were friendly to start the clean up we were provided with gloves and a trash bag as well as with a shirt and there were snacks available as well. Waking up early on a Saturday to clean the river was a good experience. during my clean up I witness a lot of trash such as plastic and glass. although there was water you can see how it was dirty it had small particles floating on top. I saw two shopping carts full of trash. Some of the animals that I saw there were birds sitting on top of the rocks in the river. There was a lot of trees around the river, however if you picked up a rock you most likely found trash underneath. This helps bring awareness to the conditions of how the river and it was a good two hour experience.

L.A River Clean Up

Hello, my name is Natalie Navarrete. On April 23 2016, I went to a participated in a Folar clean up will my English 101 class at the L.A. river. At first i wasn't really excited to go, but as soon as i got to the cite, i realized how many people were here. I was really intrigued on how there were so many people here to clean the river. solar gave me a plastic bag to put the trash I picked up in and also some gloves and a t-shirt. in the process of picking up trash, I stopped and began to look around me and  realized how beautiful our planet really is and how much we really do not care for it. There were plants that were full of rappers and plastic bag. while walking deeper into the river, I started to so see water and then the water started to get reaper and wider to the point where there was actually a flowing river. And then and there there is while life that lives here. I saw two ducks swimming in the river. There is life in this river but we do not care and keep on throwing our trash into it. While heading out to leave these two men found a shopping cart where it was in a bush were the bush grew around it and it was just so amazing the things that people can find.

           

L.A River clean up

Hello, my name is Brandon Lozano and I’m currently taking English 101 with Professor Ximena Hernandez. Were on the topic of environmental protection. On April 23rd, I participated in The Friends Of Los Angeles River clean up project. I woke up around 8’ish and got there a little late because I wasn’t familiar with the area. Once I got there I got provided with a trash bag, gloves, and a shirt. I got paired up with a group and from there started cleaning the river. I was surprised on how much it was polluted with trash, especially when I seen how many people were bring back their bags full of all the garbage they had picked up. I mostly found a lot of plastic bottles & plastic bags. Its hard to believe how some people are carless on how they treat the river. In my English class it reminds me on what I learned it my English class. In the article "A River Again” by MacAdams it states that the only part of the river that was free from concrete and fences was around glandale narrows was were the clean up took place. Also similar to The Lorax on how the fishes left and in this case the fishes are dead or gone because of all the garbage found in the water. This experience helped me realize on dirty the river is and how a cleaning can go a long way. 

LA River Cleanup!

Hello, My name is Hanh Luc. I'm a student from Cal State LA. I am taking English 101 in Ms.Hernandez's class. On Saturday April, 23rd at 9A.M., I had a service leaning and participated in FOLAR which was to clean the L,A, River. At first when I heard this event from my instructor Hernandez for volunteer, I thought only few people would show up to help. But when I arrived to the location, it surprised me how there was a lot of people, included teenagers, whether young or old adults. The FOLAR representatives provided the gloves, shirt, snacks, plastic bags and more that we would need to help and clean the river. Even though, I didn't know much about L.A. River and thought that it would be clean. As soon I started to work, I could see there are many different kind of trash that are earphones, bag of chips, blankets, clothes, etc. It had surprised me how dirty it was. I could feel that we didn't appreciate much about our environment, which was really sad and disappointed. After two-three hours of volunteering, I felt much better because I could do something to help this environment. I realized that I need to pay more attention to the areas and how important it is to throwing away trash to help the environment clean.