Literary Arts Magazine Spring 2010 | Page 72

Now Place the top on. I recommend you gets and the amount of water that is insqueeze the top onto the bottom so the side. top is on the outside. Once the plants have sprouted you should make sure it gets sunlight but do If you have trouble fitting the two pieces together you can cut a slit about not leave it in direct sunlight for the halfway down the bottom half of the entire day. It is a closed environment bottle. This will help it close up a bit and it can get very hot inside. and make it easier to fit the top over it. Water - Look carefully at the soil in the Congratulations. Your terrarium is completed. In a few days your seeds should germinate and in no time you will have a soda bottle terrarium that looks as nice as this one. Taking Care of Your Soda Bottle Terrarium There are two important factors you have to consider when it comes to your terrarium: the amount of sunlight it terrarium. It should look moist but not soaked or too dry. Beads of water should form on the top inside near edge and these will drip down the sides and continue to water the soil. If it appears to be too wet you can take the top off and leave it uncovered for a day or two. Teacher: Mariano Ramos Culinary Arts Morning Fall 2009 Personal Experience with Fire By Carolina Sambrana I remember when my mom told me I had to go to the grocery store with her early that Saturday morning. It was around ten o‟clock in the morning when she asked me, and we needed to go as soon as possible. My mom was making a meatloaf and she needed sides so she could finish making our lunch for later. When we left she said it wouldn‟t harm anything if we left the food cooking in the oven, so she left it on. When we left I kept thinking about the food. I could already taste the chimicurri sauce inside the meatloaf, and smell the sizzling of the warm aromas. “Delicious,” I thought to myself as we pulled up in the grocery store parking lot. For an instant I got paranoid about burning the food but my mom said, “Don‟t worry about it.” When we started walking around in the store my mind began to become hooked on the food again, like a fish on a hook or a monkey after a banana, but my mom took my mind off of it as she started talking away on her cell phone about who knows what. I thought to myself, “Shut-up, it‟s not that important whatever you‟re talking about,” but I thought about getting a punishment, so I kept my mouth closed. 71