Attie Pearsall

Attie Pearsall
Asya Rojas
Katie Pappas
Jennifer Garcia

Ever wonder what happens to all of the pastries at Starbucks at the end of the night? Up until 2010 Starbucks would just throw all of the pastries out. As an employee of Starbucks for two years, I can safely say that is a lot of food that gets wasted. So Starbucks decided to enact a plan to set up every local Starbucks, including the one I worked at in Fairfax, with a local church to donate all of the leftover pastries too. This allows the churches to give the pastries to homeless and hungry people that come to the church looking for food.
The Starbucks I spoke with told me that every night when they close they package up all of the pastries into large green plastic tubs, and then the next morning church employees come by to pick up the numerous tubs of pastries. They are given out in the morning and throughout the day to the homeless and hungry. According to my friend Tim they just have so much food that would go to waste, they decided that had to do something about it.
Starbucks has decided to make it easier for their stores to donate all of their pastries by collaborating with a company called Food Donation Connection. By collaborating with Food Donation Connection, Starbucks is able to increase the number of stores that can donate food, and stop all of the waste. It also makes it easier for the individual Starbucks stores to arrange pick ups with the churches.
When I talked to my friend Tim that works at a Fairfax Starbucks he said “I am not sure of the exact church that we donate to every week because sometimes it changes depending on needs”.
Upon further research I learned that the Starbucks I used to work at donates a majority to their pastries to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Once a year at George Mason University they have International Week. I think that it is great chance for George Mason students to see some of the countries that all of Mason’s student body is made up of. It is an opportunity for students to see different cultures on the pavilion by the clock tower. There are also many different types of food that are served to Mason students. During International week Mason hangs flags all throughout the Johnson Center. Some of the things that I saw throughout the week included speakers and dancing. There was dancing and speakers in the Johnson Center as well as Dewberry Hall.

When attempting to come up with events that I could attend to blog about it hit me, why don’t I blog about a political event I have attended. Politics is one of my favorite things in the world. I love to argue it, read about it, talk about it and much more. So as I headed out to an event called Shad Planking in Wakefield, VA, I realized this is the perfect opportunity. Shad Planking is an annual event put on every year by the Ruritan Club in Southeast Virginia. This year since I am working for a candidate that is running for the Lieutenant Governor nomination, I was lucky enough to be able to attend. Much of the event for me took place before the Shad Planking actually began. I had to put up signs all over the area of Wakefield, VA. We, as a campaign, wanted our candidate to stand out above all of the others. Once the event started I talked to make people that were in attendance at the event. I talked to people about my candidate, and explained to them why they should vote for him about all other candidates. I even ran into some people that did not want to hear about my candidate, but at the end of the day everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I made sure to take lots of pictures of the event, so that I could upload them to my blog, and show people just what the Shad Planking is all about.

I think I would be better off saying that I have no video blogging talents. In class we talked about audio and video techniques and learned how to use garage band. I wish that I had more to offer when it comes to video blogging. That is part of the reason I feel as though I struggle with this class. I feel as though I am better off blogging online by writing and not uploading videos. I used garage band for the first time in class today. I learned that I can record sound on the IPhone, and then upload that directly onto my computer through email. I recorded some sounds with my IPhone today. The sounds are literally just natural sounds of noises, and coughing.
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