Part 1

As apart of our research for the bus/shelter client charrette we were sent out to get the opinion that matters the most.  The city bus riders.  Our group set out for the nearest GTA bus stop and when we got on we asked the lady sitting next to us if we could interview her.  She said "yes." but she wished to remain anonymous.  Thinking she was about to get off at the next stop, Kara quickly sketched her. She had short gray hair, glasses, and appeared to been in her sixies. We found out that she rides the bus everyday to and from her job as a  Gulford County School teacher.  She said it takes a about an hour of waiting and riding the bus every morning.  At first she seemed a little shy, but as the ride she opened up a little bit and started talking about her children.  When it was time for her to get off we thanked her for her time and went on our way to the depot.

The rest of our journey lies within youtube... 

Post Card to Jenny Page

Hi Jenny!
Just wanted to let you know that I think the work your doing to improve UNCG's sustainability is great! Last year , first year IARC was assigned a "Bottle Cap Project", we had to create something made out of bottle caps. My partner and I decided to make a place mat out of them and it turned out pretty good!
I know you wanted to get more students involved with sustainability so my thought was that maybe you could have "idea boxes" around campus for people to suggest new uses for non-recyclable items. Who knows...maybe somebody will come up with a great way to reuse something such as bottle caps.

Cheers!
Kara Petrisko

The Wheels On the Bus Go Round and Round!

This was a very interesting assignment to do. At first I thought I was going to hate it , but it actually turned out to be really fun. The assignment was to ride a public city bus at least a mile and to observe the surroundings. It started out with me and my friend Shannon trying to read and understand the route map and times. After and hour of confusion we finally figure it out that there was a bus stop a block away from our house.
On our way to the bus stop I saw a city bus coming. So I yelled "Shannon! There it is!" (of course Shannon was already crossing the street trying to find the other bus stop) she ran across the street and we both then ran to the bus (looking like complete idiots) and then found out that it wasn't the bus that we wanted to get on. We cross the street again and wait for the bus at the bus stop we were suppose to be at. The bus comes, we hop on and scan our student cards and look what we found.....Lilly and Jenifer! Some familiar IARC faces! We were relieved to see them and relaxed a bit. We all decided that we wanted our final destination to be the Friendly Shopping
Center, but in order to do this we had to ride to the depot in downtown Greensboro to switch buses. On the way there I noticed this plaque in the window...
I immediately thought of our reading about civil rights and segregation. It made me think of how things use to be. That if the bus had been full when I got on, a black person would of had to give up their seat to me. It's absolutely ridiculous that someone would have to give up their seat just because of the color of their skin so ROCK ON ROSA! Thank God, things have changed!
(I also noticed there was a lot of trash on the floor.)

After about a 5-10 minute ride we arrive at the depot. We spotted the number 7 bus that we needed to get on and ran to it.
We all make it to bus number 7 and off we go again. As soon as the bus starts to go, I notice a sign behind our seat...
OOPS! We didn't get yelled at, but we still felt bad.
There were lots of different people on the bus, it was really interesting to observe.

We were scared to take pictures of people without them knowing so we acted like we were taking pictures of each other and just aimed the camera over who ever's shoulder. (haha)

Finally! Friendly Center at last! Along with being the last ones off the bus! ...I had a lot more fun than expected!

Chair

First week REPRESENT!

This sketch pretty much sums up the first week of school for me....it rained ALL week and having to walk 20 minutes both ways to get to and from class isn't really my cup of tea.  It was very stressful having a project due the first friday of school, but it got done and we were all happy with the outcome.