How is the relationship between human and animals? Is there a pecking order? In Valley Fiesta, one man showed a performance with an owl and a monkey on the stage. When I saw it, I thought that human seems to have higher position than animals. The owl or monkey looked to me like one of tools for people’s amusement. At a zoo, animals are shut in cages or are limited spaces and showed to humans. It’s also for people’s amusement. The animals can’t live as wild animals. They have lived at a zoo since they were born so they don’t know wild life but they have rights for freedom. If we were in these animals situation, we would insist on our freedom. However animals can’t speak like human. The animals like the owl or monkey which I saw are taught to perform in one-way by human. They can’t refuse it. Also humans kill animals easily, sometimes as hunting play. It is a big felony if humans kill humans, of course killing intentionally our pets is a crime, but we kill wild animals for our safety. Humans think that animals are under humans and the first is human’s life and the second is animals’. We often think about our rights in life. At the same time we should think about animals and the way of coexistence with animals.
I went on a totally amazing Southwest trip with my classmates. The trip was my first time to go to the Southwest so everything was new to me. Sarah, Anikke and Bethany came with us. They made our trip more exciting. I’m happy I could go on this trip with them and I had a lot of great experiences. First, I really enjoyed New Mexico. It was chilly but not too cold. I went to the Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I liked the Old Town because there are many cute things and good restaurants in there. For example, I found a gate that was decorated with a lot of red chili peppers. I had never seen anything like that before so I was very surprised and it looked like a lot of flowers from a distance. The red chili peppers were absolutely gorgeous. Not only that, I found a great restaurant. I forgot the name of the restaurant but they have really delicious Mexican food. They gave me some Mexican chips for free and recommended that I eat the chips with honey. I really like Mexican ...