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I think that the e coli outbreak started when Charlie Thompson came home from the pond with un-purified water on his hands. He couldn't have gotten the sickeness from the fair, because he was grounded and didn't come. The way that his sister, Susie got sick is when her and Charlie were sharing a bag of candy. Charlie had not washed his hands and he picked up a red candy and pretened to eat it. Instead he handed the now contaminated candy to Susie instead. She ate the candy and they both came down with stomach cramps and diarrhea. To prevent future outbreaks, companies must first double check their produce to make sure it is safe to eat or drink, such as unpasturized milk. Second, kids need to always wash their hands when they come back from anywhere, whether they touched anything or not. Third, whenever you pick somethig up with your possibly contaminated hands and are about to eat it, don't give it to anyone else, because you never know whats on your hand. Lastly, if a county fair is running a petting zoo, they need to set up hand sanitizer dispencers. If they do, then parents need to make sure that their kids get some, even if they didn't touch the animals.

Diary Entries Tuesday, May 11, 79

Today was just like any other. I woke up, had a sliver of bread and some fruit. I walked outside, since it was such a nice day. I strolled down to the butchers shop. He had lots of delicious hunger racking meat that I could have purchased if I wasn’t so poor. It was my birthday today so I decided to walk back home to see if anyone remembered. Strangely, no one was home. Had I walked right past them and not noticed? All of the sudden, the earth seemed to trip on its axis. Everything in the house toppled over. My feet had lost contact with the ground for a few seconds. Then everything came down with a loud “THUD”! I could smell blood in my nose. I could hear panic continuously in the street as if a volcano was erupting. Turns out, it was erupting. There had to be thousands of people running quickly with their kids and pets. What was I waiting for? I joined them without hesitation. I didn’t look behind me for two reasons. First, it would slow me down and second, I didn’t want to see all of those poor people getting burned by the worst birthday present ever. When I got to the beach, I remembered that I cannot swim. When I was little, my friend had drowned in a lake. I think that I would rather drown than burn though. Either way there was nothing that I could do about what happened after that.

Wednesday, May 12, 79 When I was close to the water, I tripped and fell on the rough sand. I tried to get back up onto my feet but there were too many people trampling over me. They were so focused on saving their own lives that they didn’t think about anyone else. I could see other people already dead and I didn’t want to become one of them. I tried to call out for help but no one would answer me. Now my nose was numb from the foul smell of toxic fumes. My eyes were blinded from all of the tears and the gas. I knew that I wasn’t going to make it but then a familiar child helped me up. He helped me across the water. I recognized his voice. I thought that I had lost him years ago. Once I was on the other side, I realized that the person who had helped me across had drowned. The next night I couldn’t sleep because my eyes were lit up with the fire from the volcano and the people that I had lost. Physical Flyer Nutrition When you want to be physically in shape, you need to eat very good food, and stay away from extremely bad ones. A bad food to eat would be candy and other treats. They can give you energy for a few seconds, but you later crash and get sick. But, a very bad food would be an energy drink, even though it’s an “energy” drink. They contain a lot more caffeine than coke and actually don’t give you much energy. A good food, however, would be fruit or meat. Good food can give you energy for a good amount of time. If you were to not eat good food, you would not have the energy to exercise. And no exercise means no strength. Pretend like you are a car and healthy food is gasoline. You can only run on gasoline, and nothing else. If junk food was water, a car couldn’t run on water.

__ Physical Fitness __ Physical fitness is essential to having good health, and there are many different ways to stay in shape. A good way keep you in shape is to work out. This includes lifting weights, push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and jogging. It is a good choice to make a workout routine, if you want to get in shape. An example would be to do twenty push-ups and fifteen sit-ups every night. There are lots of ways to be physically fit, but staying in shape doesn’t have to be painful, tiring work. Just going outside to play is a very good way to stay fit. It takes muscle to ride a bike and play sports. Not only are you getting a good workout, your friends are too. There are a lot of things that can exercise your body without you even knowing it, but it is still a good idea to exercise.