Hello! We are Group 8 in the class of LFS 350 fall semester. Our group consists of six individuals who all share a passion for food, agriculture and nutrition. Before we go any further, here is a little bit about us:
Christopher Lee, Applied Plant and Soil Sciences, My interests include gardening, cooking, reading, hiking, and volunteering.
Annie Peng, Nutritional Sciences, Other than my passion for food, I also love cooking, baking, badminton, and reading.
Hillary Ko, Food, Nutrition and Health Major. I love learning to cook different cuisines, baking, and travelling. I also enjoy exploring nature and volunteering in the health sector!
Jamie Luk, Food, Nutrition and Health Major. Hi Everyone! Like everyone else in the faculty, I LOVE FOOD. My favourite fruits are banana, orange, and raspberry. I have an unhealthy obsession for desserts, especially dark chocolate. Other than eating, I like reading, jogging, listening to music and singing.
Jamie Lee Kwong, Food, Nutrition and Health Major. I have always had a passion for food and thoroughly enjoy cooking and baking (and eating of course!). I also love spending time outside and travelling, which is something I hope to do more of in the future.
Holly Heximer, Food, Nutrition and Health – Dietetics Major. I enjoy spending time outdoors either camping, hiking, biking, running, or skiing. I also enjoy cooking and gardening.
This semester, we have been given the opportunity to collaborate with the students and staffs of Livingstone Elementary School to conduct a series of workshops to compliment BC Dairy’s Mobile Dairy Classroom Experience. We chose this project due to our common interests in food and nutrition education and we believe that this project will give us the opportunity to share our knowledge from the LFS course series. We hope to gain a positive experience teaching students about nutrition, but more importantly leave a meaningful and long lasting impression on our students; the foundation of our future food society.
Our initial impression after watching Ernesto Sirolli’s TED Talk, was that it is very important to keep an open mind and to have good communication with others. Without communication, it would be difficult to cooperate with a community we have no previous experience with. Instead of doing what we THINK would work, we should LISTEN, learn and connect with each other in order to better understand our partners. Planning on your own is useless because when working in a community, mutual understanding is critical to a successful project.
We went into the meeting with our community partner with an open mind, arriving with less of our own ideas and more open to hearing what the community wants, as discussed by this week’s reading and the TED Talk by Ernesto Sirolli’s. The teacher hoped that we could inspire his students and introduce a variety of topics relating to the food system. He is fascinated by all the possible topics we could incorporate in our workshops, including knowledge about nutrition, cultural differences, and ways to preserve food. We are encouraged by the fact that they have a garden and they are in partnership with the BC Dairy Association. We want to build upon these assets to further engage with the students and teach them where their food comes from and the nutritional effects of that food.
We hope that this will be a meaningful experience for the students and we feel encouraged that our community partner is just as enthusiastic about their learning of the food system as we are. This opportunity is a great way to branch out from our regular schedules and to get involved in the community, so that we may educate today’s youth and establish relationships to integrate the community. We are looking forward to working with the school and to create hands-on workshops for the students in hopes of achieving our goal.