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Antigone Wanders's Seventh Trivia Tidbit
What substances can be composted?
I do not have a lot of time to write, but I want to share some exciting news.
The nonprofit in Ecuador accepted my volunteer application. As a result, I am going to move to the Equator in January. I will start off by doing outreach in the street markets every morning. Depending on how quickly I become acclimated, I may do additional work in the afternoons. When I am not volunteering, I plan to take Spanish and Salsa classes, and visit Ecuador's national parks and Inca ruins.
In other news, one of my lifelong dreams came true today. My first official ballot arrived in the mail (I have to fill out an absentee ballot since I am not at home). My ballot happened to arrive at the same time as package of politically themed gifts and chocolate chip cooks from my aunt in Minnesota. Mail is glorious.
I will write more later.
-Antigone Wanders
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3 comments:
Congratulations on both the voting and Ecuador.
Now question, was one of your life long goals to go to Ecuador or to vote?
¡¡¡¡¡FELICITACIONES!!!! Yay Haley you intrepid global traveller politically active person you! I am soooo excited for you. Geez, what a gap year:)
Aaand I say that...anything with carbon can be composted. Eventually.
I know you mentioned being accepted for the trip to Ecuador when we talked earlier, but I thought I'd congratulate you again.
I would say that any organic material can be broken down into compost. Although not all organic matter is conducive to making compost that one might want to use for planting. Certain organic parts and products, I imagine are not used in compost for fields for fears of biological contamination.
Also, i bet chocolate chip cooks can cook a pretty mean batch of cookies. :p
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