E2 U6 (Maren,Arthur, Olivia and Eric)

El Amor De Oya y Rosalinda

Un dia, Oya estaba observando los humanos en una nube (ya que monta tormentas a batalla) cuando vio una mujer hermosa. Tenía piel oscura como la noche y manos desgastadas con trabajo duro. Era la mujer más bonita que había visto Oyá, y se enamoró inmediatamente. Pero ella realizó que no podía casar con ella porque ella era una diosa y la mujer era un mortal. Todas las personas saben que está contra los leys de la naturaleza. Ella era muy triste. Se perdió su amor antes que podía conocerla.

Se fue a su casa y se lloró por un tiempo. Despues, decidio a ir a su hermana Oshun para consejo. Oshun vivía en un palacio en los bancos de la orilla. Era grande y hecho de cristal brillante. Oya subió las escaleras y entró el palacio. Oshun estaba sentando en un trono hecho de agua. Oya corrió a sus pies y dijo “Hermana! Tengo una dilema terrible!” Empezó a llorar.

Oshun dijo, “No llores Oya, sabes que puramente la amas?”

“Sí!” respondio Oya.

“Bien, entonces tengo un proposición para tí. Si renuncias sus poderes por un día, y los dan a mi, puedes estar con su amor.”

Oya pensó por un minuto. No quería renunciar sus poderes, pero amaba la mujer mucho. Ella se aceptó, pensando en sus hijos adoptivos, los Abeji. Ellos necesitaban un buen madre. En un destello, Oya se transformó en un mortal. Sentía diferente. Se fue a la tierra de los mortales y encontró la mujer. El momento que el mujer vio Oya, se enamoró también.

“Soy Rosalinda,” dijo la mujer.

“Soy Oya”

“Como la Orisha?”

“Si, pero he convertida en mortal.”

“Que son algunas de sus intereses? Que le gustas comer?”

“Me gusta el pudin de chocolate y berenjena”

“A mi también!”

Hablaron por horas, caminando por el cementerio porque era el lugar sagrado de Oya. Mientras, Oshun estaba formulando un plan. “Con los poderes de las tormentas, el viento y los relámpagos,” dijo ella,”Puedo matar a Oya y ser la mujer Orisha más poderosa!” Y se fue a encontrar a Oya y a su amor.

Cuando los encontró, Oshun empezó a atacar a Oya y Rosalinda. Oya se atacó de vuelta con sus armas preferidos: machetes, máscaras, guadañas y su iruke. Al fin de la batalla, Oshun era muerta y Oya sobrevivía. Rosalinda estaba herida. Oya se tomó sus poderes del cuerpo de Oshun y se corrió a Rosalinda. La única manera que ella podía sobrevivir era convertirse immortal. Oya la hizo inmortal y los dos vivan felizmente por siempre.



E2 U6- Patakí (Mac y Apple) Por: Kimberly, Miguel, Jahan & Zoey)

Érase una vez un hombre llamado Apple y vivía en el cielo con pájaros. Era una persona colorida y hermosa. Tenía muchos poderes mágicos y todos estaban muy celosos de él. Solía ​​cantar y bailar todo el día. Protegió a un pequeño pájaro llamado Mac. Este pequeño pájaro era el corazón y el alma de Apple. Mac y Apple han estado juntos por 300 años, entonces un día las cosas se pusieron peor.  

Cuando Apple estaba durmiendo, alguien secuestró Mac. Changó fue a Apple preguntando si podía ayudar.

Changó es el dueño del fuego, del relámpago, del trueno y de la guerra. También, es el patrón de la música, del tambor y del baile. Se le conoce como un gigante que está lleno de energía trae energía a donde quiera que vaya, la gente piensa en Changó y le temen pero ni siquiera lo conocen, ¡son rumores! En realidad él es la persona más amable que está ansiosa por ayudar a todos. La única persona que realmente lo entiende son sus esposas, Oya, Oshun y la Pomba Gira. Sus esposas lo ayudaron a llegar a la conclusión de que debía ayudar a Mac. Cuando se enteró de que Mac estaba en problemas, se fue a Apple y le preguntó si podía ayudar. Apple le dijo que la gente respetaba a Changó y que si traía a Mac de vuelta a Apple, recibiría cuatro o seis huevos rojos, blancos y dorados.

Estaba decidido a recuperarlo. Buscó todo el bosque lluvioso para encontrar este pequeño Mac mágico. Chango miró a través de todos los árboles, arbustos, lagos y más. Preguntó a otras aves si han visto este pájaro, ¡pero nadie sabía donde estaba Mac!

Finalmente, vio a Lob, un pájaro rojo de seis cabezas que respiraba fuego vivía en la parte superior del árbol más alto con Mac, que le había robado a Mac porque sabía que tenía poderes especiales. Quería robar los huevos.

Chango se acercó a la rama y abrazó Lob hasta la  muerte. Mac vio como Lob murió y Chango puso a Mac en su bolsillo y le salvó la vida!

Mac fue devuelto a Apple con seguridad y a cambio, Chango obtuvo su recompensa de cuatro huevos de oro!


First Stamp Design

This assignment was about negative space. The goal was to create a logo that represents who you are, then, you needed to draw this sketch, cut it and paste it on a piece of paper. I chose to represent a man, like a “future me” (that’s one of the point that I wrote in my brainstorm). First thing first, I decided to put glasses because a lot of people identify a connection between me and glasses. Then, another point that defines me is where I am from. As you might now, I am from Paris. The best way to mention my city was to put a hat with wrote “Paris” on it (remember that I wanted to draw a guy, so I didn’t want to put like an Eiffel Tower or whatever on the side). The last point of my drawing is the moustache. I wanted to represent a future me, so put this element because I am really imagining myself like as an hipster, and I think that I will have this kind of moustache when I’ll grow up, so that’s how I moved to this point.

Negative and Positive space are playing a key role into this drawing. It really helps to make the drawing sticking out the background. I also purposely didn’t put the “points” into the letters P, A and R because I think that it would make a cool effect with the negative space, it makes the entire word like a logo and give some originality.    

During this drawing, the question of negative and positive space was central. I don’t think that I got stuck at any moment while doing it, even if it wasn’t always easy. The major problems that I had to solve was to know if I put the “points” into the letter and if I needed to fill in my glasses with pink. This project really helped me understanding more the concept of positive and negative space, it made me more familiar with it. It’s like English: you need practice to correct all the aspects of the language!

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E1 U5: Dasia Poema

Soy Camboyano y Africano Americano.

La hija de padres inmigrantes,

Pero soy ciudadana, soy de Filadelfia, y vivo con mi familia.


Como arroz y carne.

Somos Khmer.

Somos fuertes la mayor parte del tiempo o débil.


Me gusta escuchar música de Khmer.

También me encanta escuchar otras canciones.

No tengo un favorita artista en música.


Mi mamá trabajar todos los días.

Mi papá trabajar todos los días también.

Mi familia es bonita.

Mi mamá y yo cocinamos mucho, y mi papá.

Te amo mi familia.

Haisha Hahsy Capstone

One year has been granted to care, interest, and curiosity during 2017. My capstone gave me a chance to go out into the world and do something that I truly care about. I created the HHH organization, each month a person that is in need of medical aid that does not have the financial stability to pay for their healthcare is chosen and is fully covered for their medications, doctor visits, and even in some cases their needed operations. As each month passed, one more person got supported. I created a connection with a prominent pharmacist in Afghanistan Atiqullah Dur Mohmmad, who works at a hospital pharmacy. He helps me pick the person we will be supporting by also talking to Dr. Aziz one of the hospital’s managers, we look at the person’s background what they need, how much money we got, and how much money we can get.  This process has taught me that there are many people all over the world that are in true need of help. Where a small cut turns into an infection and leads to cutting off a body part, and even in some cases it can lead to life threatening situation. While one person a month may not seem like a lot, little by little it will add up.

Zaeem Wallace-Parker Capstone

My purpose behind this capstone was basically to shine more light onto SLA. I've been here for 2 years now and when I'm outside of school and I speak on SLA, nobody knows what I'm talking about. Some people don't even know that it was school, others only heard of our Beeber campus which is crazy but that's the alternative school. I feel as though SLA has so much to offer for all students throughout Philadelphia but it's not exposed as much as should be to the city of Philadelphia. Most schools and definitely the ones that I live around, only focus on displining the students. They care so much on the rules not being broken that it takes away from the education. Teachers focuses more on who is on their phones and out of uniforms rather than who wants to learn and make a living. Most of the teachers only show up for a pay check! This all that my community, friends, and family think of when it comes down to school. Everybody has a story on getting in trouble rather than a story on how school actually them in life. SLA in  my eyes wants students to strive for success not just in school but in life outside of school. Again, many schools throughout the city don’t have these morals set for students. This why I decided to do this for my capstone.

Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/14mmAGYQ7itg7yE7LtZQALxwbRu-Y17LwwCWQ-n6kt7Q/edit?usp=sharing

Mild Cognitive Impairment Blog 2

Hello again! My name is Louisa Strohm and this is a second blog post in continuation to my first post about Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). If you would like to read that one first, which I do recommend you can find that here. In my first post I talked about what MCI is and what kind of effects it has on elderly people physically and mentally. I also talked about my personal connection with MCI, which is my grandmother. She was diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment in 2013, and it affected not only her, but our entire family. We changed the way we did things around the house to try and help her condition. In this blog post I’d like to talk about some new facts and statistics I’ve found. I also got to sit down with my grandmother and my mother, her caretaker, to ask some questions about MCI and how they deal with it.



The first interview I conducted was with my grandmother. The first thing I had her tell me about was her daily routine. She told me that 3 days a week she babysits her 2 year old grandson Leo. If she isn’t watching him she’s doing laundry, watching her favorite game shows such as The Price is Right, or if it’s nice out she sits on the front porch, or she gardens. She also told me that during the spring and summer there is one thing that she never misses and that’s the Phillie’s game. During my interview she expressed many times that the medication she takes makes things much better. At the end of our interview she told me specifically to let the people know that if she didn’t have us girls, referring to me my sister, and mother, she would be sad, she said that she would hate to be alone.


The next interview I conducted was with my mother, the caretaker of my grandmother. She told me that her initial reaction to being told her mother has MCI was that she was upset with herself at first for not recognizing the signs and in denial about my grandmother’s condition. She told me about some of the things she does like leaving notes and filling my grandmother’s medicine for her that may not sound like they make a difference, but they do. She told me that she she normally is fine with my grandmother but sometimes gets frustrated with having to repeat herself but knows that it’s just part of her condition. She got emotional towards the end when I asked things people might not know when living with a person that has MCI. She got teary eyed and told me that it takes a lot of patience and love to care for anyone with any disease.

Since my last blog I’ve done some more research on the effects and ¨cures¨ of MCI. This Scientific American article I found, suggests that the risks of MCI and dementia are falling. Studies done in America and Europe tell us that over the past 25 years the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease has been steadily falling. A study led by Carol Brayne at Cambridge University surveyed people over the age of 65 once in the 90’s and again somewhere around 2010. The results led them to believe that the dementia rate was decreasing by 24 percent.

There is lots more to discover and uncover in the always moving world of MCI, Dementia, and Alzheimer’s. I hope to come to some more conclusions and help more people overcome MCI.


If you would like to see my sources here’s the link to my Annotated Bibliography.