Week 8- Graduation!
Week 8 August 1st – August 7th Since I had no class to prepare this week, it gave me more time to look over the evaluations and other data collection documents I got throughout the program. I was really happy to see that many of the participants wished the sessions had been longer and wished [...]
Week 7-Food Groups and Portion Sizes
Week 7 July 25 to 31 This week was very hectic. I overestimated how much information I could pack into an hour and a half and I had to save some time to give them an evaluation form (evaluating the program so that I would know what they thought about it), which reduced the amount [...]
Week 6–Traditional Food
Week 6 July 19th-July 24th Session III As usual, I spent the week getting the education material ready for the third session of my program. I thought I was going to get traditional recipes ready for the session but after a meeting with Pr. Parra, I realized that did not make much sense since I [...]
Week 5-Session II: Older Children and American Dinner Meals
Week 5 July 11th -July 18th This past week was spent trying to get everything ready for session II—Older Children and American Dinner Meals. I had already tried some of the recipes, which was nice for my roommate who became my recipe guinea pig this summer and is probably getting fed up with trying all [...]
Week 4- First Session in Marion!
I highly underestimated how much work getting a program started and getting a session ready would be. I had seen my mom give out classes I home but I guess never really appreciated how much work was required prior to actually giving out the class. I needed a lot of office supplies for the program, [...]
Week 3- evaluation questionnaires, trying out recipes, and preparing the educational material for sessions I and II
Week 3 June 13th to June 20th I left Ithaca at the end of week 3 and was going to come back on July 3rd—6 days before my first program—so I had to do a lot of work during that week to make sure everything would still be ready on time. I tried out all [...]
Getting the program ready: weeks 1 & 2
I visited Marion for the first time in December 2010 and met Sister Lucy, the woman who essentially runs the Church in Marion and therefore know most people in her community, and Father Jesus, the main priest in the Church. Pr. Parra and I were introduced to the community and Father Jesus explained that we [...]
Adoption of American Foodways among Recent Immigrant Families-Pilot Study: An Introduction
I am Marion Robine, a rising senior (already?!) in Human Ecology, Biology and Society major and Global Health minor. I have been working with Pr. Pilar Parra since August 2010 on a project about how immigrant families adopt American foodways and their struggles with their new diet. I worked mostly on literature reviews during the [...]