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Anthropology By The Wire 2013: Normal? What's that? My name is Chanel Nicole (no last name) and I am living for The City that raised me.

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Friday, February 21 2014, Anthropology By The Wire 2013 presented our final drafts of our visual media to a highly engaged audience. Although nervous, I believe we all analyzed, interpreted, and delivered our reflections of the entire Anthropology By The Wire experience well.As I look back on this day and think about how we have grown as individuals, it makes me proud.  How were the presentations? They were a success.  I am proud of us, as a group.

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ABTW2013 have our final presentations today. This shall be fun.

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IMG_0228 by Zwrita on Flickr.

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IMG_0499 by Zwrita on Flickr.

Seeing everyone's maps was the best part of The Gallery Opening for me. I probably stared at this art piece more than once during the showing for about 10 minutes. 

After a while, my friend (Jamal) and I were trying to find our streets on the map. I had to remind him that this is a historic map of Baltimore, so most of our streets were probably nonexistent or off the map somewhere. 

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IMG_0501 by Zwrita on Flickr.

Well there it is. . .all 12 of us!

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IMG_0500 by Zwrita on Flickr.

This was taken by my best friend, Ziggy!

Everyone's map was so neat! I practically ruined mine. 

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IMG_0498 by Zwrita on Flickr.

This was taken by my best friend, Ziggy! 

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Buying a Kid at the Mall

So, don't you know how they have those "Save the Children" things either on television or in places where people won't pay the sponsors any mind like for instance: the mall, perhaps? Well, I went to Annapolis Mall on Monday. My friends kept saying how big it is, well in reality Arundel Mills, Columbia, and Towson malls are much bigger.

So anyways, as we walking to the mall I saw this "Save the Children" stand and the lady was trying to get people to come listen to what she had to say. After waking past her twice, I decided to go over there for two reasons:

1. I know it's not easy trying to get people to listen to you, especially on a topic that has to deal with sponsoring children that you know nothing about and giving them money.

2. I thought that maybe this would be interesting.

The first thing she asked was my name and my age. Then we went off topic talking about what school we attended because come to find out, this "lady" was 19 and goes University of Maryland! We both were little nerds growing up. She liked/likes homework just as much as I did/do. AND she's a Sagittarius. <------Fun Fact -----> I'm an Aquarius and according to Astrology we are a cool team.

Back on topic!

As she was talking, (I keep saying she because I forgot her name), I learned a few things about their Save the Children Program.

1. There are over 120 programs across the world.

2. She actually sponsors a kid who looks like Jake from Glee.

We talked about connecting with a child you sponsor for and that's how she connected with her kid.

3. They are not with "That old guy with the white beard who tells us to give to the children."

4. Their main goal is to educate the children/community.

The forth point brings me to this fact that blew my mind yesterday! She showed me two kids from Malawi and asked, "Can you look at these two kids and tell me their story? What is similar between these two kids.?"

Well both kids were black with very short hair. In fact, that both looked like two boys to be honest. One a little girl and one was a little boy. The reason why the girl was dressed to look like a boy was because there is a problem with HIV/AIDS in Malawi.

There's a myth in Malawi and other sub-Saharan parts of Africa that if you're living with HIV/AIDS, there cure is to have sex with a virgin. That little girl's hair is cut to protect her.

This culture in Africa needs to be educated on HIV/AIDS. They need to b educated on health in general because the fact that that belief that having sex with a virgin is so strong that people have to disguise their little girls as boys. They say "If you know better, you do better." We, generally speaking, could help these people do better.

Maybe that's what the Save the Children Program is working towards.

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Still Dreaming. . .

So, do you remember when I said I used to dream about Anthropology By The Wire (the work that we had to do). Well, last night I had a dream that gave me ideas on how to improve my Ebenezer AME video.

If I take out the beginning where she's introducing herself, I can put in a title slide and introduce her on a black screen with music. Apparently people like music. I know I like music.

I'm still contemplating on an introduction. I think that Leon and Kaila's was pretty cool being that it introduced the entire project, but I also like the way others did it - where they just introduced everything through text slides.

I probably shouldn't be thinking about this right now, but I am.

Lol , my best friend goes to Morgan State University for this kind of stuff. She's doing screenwriting and editing. I have another friend who goes to Stevenson University who said that he would be more than happy to help. The Wide Angle interns could help as well because apparently nobody knows how to reduce background noise. So, I think they would know how to do that.

I'm just pretty excited. . .

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Moving day was a very powerful day. We all left with smiling faces. We actually were able to go through six weeks without killing each other. I honestly was afraid to give the doctors that picture, but I'm glad they loved it!

Well, before I made my journey through the rain & then back home with my restless puppy, I left my mark in the archaeology lab.

#ILoveHugs tells you why I gave everyone a hug before I left, evem if you didn't really want one! #NobodyEverKnewWhenIWasInTheRoom makes me think if anyone even noticed when I left!

#IWillMissYouGuys explains my ever so random posts for the last couple of days. (This tag isn't up there)

I also noticed that I put the wrong date. We were ACTUALLY here from May31st-JULY12th. My apologies. Lol

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Chanel left her webcam on when she went to answer the phone… Last night in the dorms… I’m gonna miss you guys

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Lol I see you guys took over the webcam.

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The Five Roommates! Our Last Night In The Dorms

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It's the possibility of having dreams come true that makes life interesting!

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Ratscape: an interview with the founders

Baltimore recording engineer Mike Franklin thinks that Baltimore is essentially one big family that…

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Photo series with professional musician Carlos Manuel Zabala in Fells Point, Maryland. Carlos is a trumpet and fuglehorn player. He teaches regularly at the Alfredo de Saint Malo International Music Festival in Panamá and at Sembrando Talentos in Uruguay.

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Baltimore Isn’t All Bad

Often times I hear people complaining about how wretched of a place Baltimore City is. Granted, crime rates aren’t the lowest, schools aren’t top in the country, and low income families are popular. However, there is also, if one cares enough to open his eyes, an intrinsic beauty that cannot be ignored. If people spent as much time looking at the beauty in front of them, or at the very least, trying to beautify their communities, as they do complaining about them, Baltimore City would be a place where more than just the Inner Harbor is a tourist location.

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I love this photo and the caption under it. It is really beautiful and I agree with everything that you're saying.

The problem comes with what we put into the media. If all we put on the internet is pictures of The Inner Harbor and run-down areas in our city, then that's how people will see Baltimore. 

I've been exploring Baltimore City for six weeks, and I have learned more things about my city within those six weeks than I did my entire life. There is so much life within the city. We have so many festivals and events that are created to uplift our communities.

Just to name a few:

Safe Streets

City Uprising

The Gathering

AFRAM

Artscape

We also have other programs for the younger generation that will keep their minds going. It will encourage them to be critical thinkers...

Baltimore is really a wonderful place full of great minds, creativity, and talent. We're a city of dreams.