Process Paper
My capstone entails the history of two Caribbean island and a multicultural food
fest. In the beginning of the school year I knew I wanted to do something with
history and culture. I was originally want to do my own history and
culture. I got advice from my mentor Mr. Herman and I decided to broaden my
search and add another island. I have created a website that hold all the
research I did for the two Caribbean islands. As for the Multicultural food
fest I partnered up with a fellow classmate since our capstone topic was along
the same line and we did a event. Food is what brings us together sometime. So
what better way to share a piece of history and culture with the SLA community?
We show cased many different cultural dishes. This was learning
experience for me. I saw some of the dishes that were basically the same as my
own cultural dishes but cooked differently. This the same for the history
of most of the Caribbean islands. They all had some things in common like
Columbus stumbling up on the island and saying he discovered it when obviously
there was indigenous people like Tanios were living there long before he
arrived. The countries being a part of the caricom community. Music as
well, reggae-ton is formed from reggae. I can now come to the conclusion that
our history and culture crosses part whether it’s in big way such as being
colonized by Spaniard or Britain or small way such as music and
food.
Mr. Herman is my mentor/ advisor. I chose Mr. because he is an expert at deal with
history of thing. He was my history teacher and my advisory and I can get a lot of advice from him in this
area. My goal was to learning about different culture through food and history.
I have a passion for cooking and an interest in history. I was very willing to
try and learn new thing from my pair. I learnt did learn things from my pairs
like what was the one of the national dish of Trinidad and Tobago. On the day of
the multicultural food fest I would give a little history background on some of
the dishes I had fun telling people about the food and getting them to try
different food / drink. Another goal of my mine was to have our guest live with
a little knowledge about the food their eating and where it came from this where
I slipped in a little history lesson. It like you visit a country for the first
time you would like to try the traditional food of that country. Food made the
experience fun and interesting. For the research part of my capstone I had to
research a few country to have some background information. This where I got my
knowledge to share with my pairs. Even though my website doesn’t contain all the
countries listed in my citation I used that for the multicultural food fest I
cooked something from each. I went around and I asked family members and friends
and my mentor what is the best way to share the different culture I researched
and they all said food. My process was hectic in the beginning but it came
together as I maximized my time. In September I had to come up with what I
wanted to do, so I talked with my mentor and finalized my idea of doing the
multi-cultural food fest. In the months of October and November I worked on the
research part and website creation. December, November and January I had a talk
with my volunteers and my partner who I’m doing the multi-cultural food fest
with. Also meeting with my mentor for advice and show him how far along I am on
my capstone. I had collaborate with my classmate Mabintu Donzo to
host the multicultural food fest. Mabintu Donzo and I had similar concepts for our capstone which is culture and
cultural awareness. In the beginning I was planning to host an event and she was
too and we decide to work together. Sla’s community is made up of so many
different culture of diversity and curriculum which is what makes our school
stand out. Collaborating with her made the work load a little lighter not easier because we had two
separate capstone but common topic. My final project is a website that holds the
research I did and the pictures from the multicultural food fest. This was time
consuming process and I got what I needed to be done in time to make sure my
capstone was finish and was something I enjoyed doing. I put time, blood, sweat
and tear in to this project I was glad when I was finished and saw the outcome.
I couldn’t be more proud of myself.
fest. In the beginning of the school year I knew I wanted to do something with
history and culture. I was originally want to do my own history and
culture. I got advice from my mentor Mr. Herman and I decided to broaden my
search and add another island. I have created a website that hold all the
research I did for the two Caribbean islands. As for the Multicultural food
fest I partnered up with a fellow classmate since our capstone topic was along
the same line and we did a event. Food is what brings us together sometime. So
what better way to share a piece of history and culture with the SLA community?
We show cased many different cultural dishes. This was learning
experience for me. I saw some of the dishes that were basically the same as my
own cultural dishes but cooked differently. This the same for the history
of most of the Caribbean islands. They all had some things in common like
Columbus stumbling up on the island and saying he discovered it when obviously
there was indigenous people like Tanios were living there long before he
arrived. The countries being a part of the caricom community. Music as
well, reggae-ton is formed from reggae. I can now come to the conclusion that
our history and culture crosses part whether it’s in big way such as being
colonized by Spaniard or Britain or small way such as music and
food.
Mr. Herman is my mentor/ advisor. I chose Mr. because he is an expert at deal with
history of thing. He was my history teacher and my advisory and I can get a lot of advice from him in this
area. My goal was to learning about different culture through food and history.
I have a passion for cooking and an interest in history. I was very willing to
try and learn new thing from my pair. I learnt did learn things from my pairs
like what was the one of the national dish of Trinidad and Tobago. On the day of
the multicultural food fest I would give a little history background on some of
the dishes I had fun telling people about the food and getting them to try
different food / drink. Another goal of my mine was to have our guest live with
a little knowledge about the food their eating and where it came from this where
I slipped in a little history lesson. It like you visit a country for the first
time you would like to try the traditional food of that country. Food made the
experience fun and interesting. For the research part of my capstone I had to
research a few country to have some background information. This where I got my
knowledge to share with my pairs. Even though my website doesn’t contain all the
countries listed in my citation I used that for the multicultural food fest I
cooked something from each. I went around and I asked family members and friends
and my mentor what is the best way to share the different culture I researched
and they all said food. My process was hectic in the beginning but it came
together as I maximized my time. In September I had to come up with what I
wanted to do, so I talked with my mentor and finalized my idea of doing the
multi-cultural food fest. In the months of October and November I worked on the
research part and website creation. December, November and January I had a talk
with my volunteers and my partner who I’m doing the multi-cultural food fest
with. Also meeting with my mentor for advice and show him how far along I am on
my capstone. I had collaborate with my classmate Mabintu Donzo to
host the multicultural food fest. Mabintu Donzo and I had similar concepts for our capstone which is culture and
cultural awareness. In the beginning I was planning to host an event and she was
too and we decide to work together. Sla’s community is made up of so many
different culture of diversity and curriculum which is what makes our school
stand out. Collaborating with her made the work load a little lighter not easier because we had two
separate capstone but common topic. My final project is a website that holds the
research I did and the pictures from the multicultural food fest. This was time
consuming process and I got what I needed to be done in time to make sure my
capstone was finish and was something I enjoyed doing. I put time, blood, sweat
and tear in to this project I was glad when I was finished and saw the outcome.
I couldn’t be more proud of myself.