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Zoomy Muhammad

Czech Food

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Reed Fancher

I recently visited prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic in eastern Europe. While there, I got to try many foods within the city,  like dumplings and sauerkraut. 

 The most popular thing that is had with almost all Czech food is potato dumplings, bread dumplings and carlsbad dumplings as a side of the dish. They’re a kind of like bread and soak up sauces like goulash.  Another side dish that is had with a lot of czech food is sauerkraut. Those two foods were brought over to the Czech Republic from Germany and became Czech staples. The Czech also borrowed schnitzel. Schnitzel is fried chicken or ham patty and was brought to the Czech Republic from Austria. 

The most common dish you will see on a menu in the Czech Republic is goulash. Czech Goulash is different from Hungarian Goulash. Czech Goulash has more meat and has no vegetables in it unlike Hungarian Goulash. This dish often has a side of potato dumpling like I mentioned earlier. This dish does not change very often, the only thing that might be different is the type of meat.

The main dessert I found and had when I was in Prague was apple strudel. It’s very similar to apple pie but instead it has a more flaky texture to it rather than a crumbly texture that apple pie has. Like apple pie, it’s served with vanilla ice cream a lot of the time. One thing that I noticed was that the strudel doesn’t have a gooey kind of texture around the apples like apple pie has. The apple strudel has the apple slices that are cut pretty thin and carefully stacked on top of each other.

All of these dishes I got to try when I traveled to Prague. I think the cool thing about these foods it that they all came to prague from neighbouring countries like germany and austria. 


How Well Do We Really Know The ODE Store?

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The ODE store has become a central part of ODE’s community. We flock there every lunch hour for candy, chips, and treats and yet most know very little about the small treat carrying cart. It’s time we all learned a little more about it. 

The 25th was the last week before the 2 week long semester break. Many of you may remember it as costume day. I had been curious about the workings of the ODE store long before that day and I knew that I needed to get to the bottom of it. As I mentioned before, many of us live in ignorance of how the ODE store functions and how it came to be. This is most likely because we’re all too busy scrambling for candy to ask questions. It was on that Friday that I decided to conduct an interview with Lavonia Black and her sister Willow Black, the two responsible for manning the ODE store during lunch time. I was able to speak to the two during lunch, however Lavonia shooed her sister away in favor of answering the questions herself. 

Q: How long has the ODE store been around?

A: Lavonia, with some hesitation, answered that the store had been around for 4 years, however she advised me not to quote her on that. Luke Fisher interjected and said that ODE store had actually been around for 4 and a half years, much to Lavonia’s annoyance. 

Q: My next question is How long have you been working at the ODE store?

A: 3 years. 

Q: How has the store changed over the years you’ve been working here?

A: It has become much better.

Q: In what ways?

A: I started working here and took over. And after that, lets just say it went uphill.

Q: Was there any difference in the stuff sold? Candy wise or food wise?

A: Yeah, we didn’t use to sell so many chocolate items like these milk duds.

Q: Who was working at the store before you?

A: My mother, Cassy, and that’s it. It was basically run by my mom. 

(For those who don’t know, Cassy has been a helper here at ODE for many years)

Q: Why do you think the ODE store is important?

A: It gives food to people who want food. We provide food for those starving. 

Q: Have you gotten complaints about the ODE store?

A: Yes!

Q: What type?

A: People expect me to sell things that are just ridiculous! 

Q: What types of things? Give me examples.

A: Sushi, gatorade, cheese, like no! I’m not gonna straight up get cheese!

Q: Where does the money go?

A: Into buying more stuff.

Q: You don’t get paid?

A: Well, not usually. 

Here is where I concluded my interview with Lavonia, having gleaned so much new information from the experience. However, i was not done. After the interview I went to ask others their opinion on the ODE store. 

Sammy Amador: My opinion is that its been going pretty well for a good amount of time, but, and I have bought a lot of things and it has given me some free stuff, but my respect could be higher for it if they had cheese. Then I would actually bring money and buy cheese because I buy cheese on a regular basis. 

Q: Luke(Fisher), do you have any information on the development of the ODE store?

A: It has devolved and turned into a cart.

Q: No, like, why was the ODE store started?

A: I think because they knew that everybody would bring out their wallets to pay for stuff.

Lavonia, who was nearby, corrected Luke Fisher.

Lavonia Black: That is not why it started! Its because people didn’t bring enough food and they were hungry at lunch. 

Most opinions from the ODE upper school were overwhelmingly positive. Upper school students often said that they find the store to be a good thing. Students praise the store for having a good variety of food. Abby Amador claimed to be “in love” with the ODE store and saying it is “her life”. Students find the store to be a useful addition because they don’t have to worry so much about bringing a lunch.  Ivy Merrill expressed that she the ODE store should give her free Caprisuns every week because she is “a really good person”. 

While almost all of the opinions on the store were positive, one student, Jayden Cervantes, had a few complaints.

Jayden: You know, my opinion about it is that y’all need better snacks, its wack. Y’all get in like that gluten free stuff and I don’t mess with that. 

While its been established that the ODE store does not take suggestions, the store has still provided us with so much. From meaningful interactions, to snacks and candy. Most students rely on the ODE store for their lunch and many more enjoy it for the snacks and candy. For all the the ODE store gives us, the least we can do is to know more about it so that we can appreciate the ODE store as more than a cart of goodies. 


Welcome To Journalism

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Welcome to the ODE to Journalism website! First off, I would like to thank you for visiting us on our launch date. We have been working hard since the start of the school year to prepare for the launch of our site. It takes a lot of work from the team to get this many articles up every week and to keep the site up and running so we appreciate you taking the time to read the articles we publish. Speaking of which, what do we publish? As you might have guessed from the name of the website, we are a journalism site. Journalism is much more than just news, It is the art of documenting, researching, and bringing forth the truth. This is ODE’s first ever journalism class and we wanted to make sure that we embodied the spirit of journalism. This means putting out well written articles with accurate information in order to give you the best reading experience possible.

At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Ginter told us that she didn’t want the class to have a teacher-student dynamic. No, she wanted it to be more like staff working at a publishing firm and that is certainly what has happened. Since the beginning of the year the class truly has taken on a life of its own with the students taking control of the class and transforming it into something unique. We hope you will continue to visit our site and read our articles, supporting our work and the next generation of hardworking journalists. 

This was a very ambitious effort on the part of everyone involved in the class and none of this would have been possible without the talented team of authors and editors that make up the ODE to Journalism staff.

Jenny Ginter- Advisor, Editor

Yvonne Muhammad- Head editor, Author.

Zander Marshall- Head editor, Author, Webmaster.

Katherine Alexander- Author, Editor.

Luke Fisher- Author, Editor, Spirit day organizer, Developments Director . 

Jayden Cervantes- Author, Editor. 

Moriah Mitchell- Author, Editor, Media director.

Micheal “Reed”Fancher- Author, Editor.

Nathan Canada- Author, Editor. 

Ivy Merrill- Author, Editor.

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

— Christopher Morley