Call to Action

            During Call to Action day, I and along with some other students, went to the creek to pick up trash alongside the creek and within the park. This experience made me realize how careless people can be by just throwing their trash or leaving their trash wherever they feel like it. At one point my group and I found a shopping cart in the creek. Honestly, that was pretty ignorant of someone to dump a shopping cart in the creek. That was a very unintelligent decision because now the cart cannot be lifted because rocks and trees have made it one of its own and now it is engraved into the dirt and water and it is very hard to pick out. After a period of time, the rust of the cart will bleed into the water, probably destroying the small creatures that live in that environment. The cart was not the only thing that was there that was disgusting. There was a lot of plastic bags and broken pieces of glass scattered throughout the creek. Pulling the plastic bags from the branches of the tree were gross because it was wrapped around multiple branches and it was filled with dirt and water.

            When my group and I were picking up the trash alongside the creek we noticed somewhat of a cave. Most of us went in there, but then soon got scared because we heard noises coming from the darkness. In general, the location was very beautiful. It was peaceful and quiet and it had a nice scenery from wherever viewpoint one was looking at.

Towards the end of the experiment, while walking back to the meet up point to put our supplies away, an older man thanked us for what we were doing. This showed me how thankful he was for us doing something to keep the environment clean and trash free.