{"id":457,"date":"2017-12-20T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=457"},"modified":"2017-12-20T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:39:02","slug":"drews-life-changing-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2017\/12\/drews-life-changing-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew’s Life Changing Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was asked by the Garden Club of Georgia to provide a presentation for them about water and how we use water.\u00a0 So I prepared my presentation and when I arrived to the meeting, one of the ladies told me that a young lady would be taking part in my presentation.\u00a0 Well it turns out that young lady was one of my daughters best friends.\u00a0 This young lady’s name is Abby.\u00a0 Well during my presentation I had a part where I discussed the water cycle.\u00a0 So at that time I stopped my presentation and Abby read a story she had written about the water cycle.\u00a0 With her permission I have reproduced it here:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Drew\u2019s Life Changing Journey, by Abby<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cGood morning, class,\u201d said Mrs. Dropilina.\u00a0 Drew the Drop\u2019s 4th<\/sup> grade teacher always greeted her students at the door with a warm welcome.\u00a0 Drew was a water droplet of course and he loved starting a new chapter in science.\u00a0 Today was going to be an incredible day at Dropwood Elementary School because Drew was going to learn about his life journey.\u00a0 \u201cListen up class.\u00a0 We will be studying the water cycle, and you will be a part of that someday,\u201d said Mrs. Dropilina.\u00a0 Drew quietly raised his hand with a look of wonder.\u00a0 \u201cYes, Drew?\u201d said his teacher.\u00a0 \u201cWhen will that day be?\u201d asked Drew.\u00a0 Mrs. Dropilina said, \u201cIt\u2019ll be someday.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you worry!\u201d\u00a0 Well Drew worried alright.\u00a0 It seemed like forever and ever but finally the day came on Drew\u2019s 21st<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n

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Drew began his birthday by relaxing in his lime green lounge chair on a hot, sunny day while reading \u00adAmong the Hidden<\/u>.\u00a0 He started to rise upward and wondered what was happening.\u00a0 Then he recalled learning about his life journey back in 4th<\/sup> grade.\u00a0 He was experiencing evaporation which is the first stage of the water cycle.\u00a0 The next thing he knew he was shivering with chill bumps.\u00a0 He was condensing.\u00a0 This was the second stage of the water cycle called condensation.\u00a0 He began to make some friends because he was in a cloud with a bunch of other water droplets.\u00a0 As more and more friends joined the cloud it got heavier and heavier.\u00a0 Eventually he started to fall as rain also known as precipitation the third stage of the water cycle.\u00a0 Splat!\u00a0 He fell onto a mountain and started to trickle down.\u00a0 It felt like a slippery, twisting slide.\u00a0 This was called run-off.\u00a0 As he flowed back into the Mississippi River he remembered that his teacher, Mrs. Dropilina, had told him about his life journey and he realized he just experienced it.\u00a0 Mrs. Dropilina was right.\u00a0 He had nothing to worry about!<\/p>\n

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I know the water cycle is part of the 4th grade curriculum this time of the year so I wanted to share this with you.<\/p>\n

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The Water Cycle is all around us.\u00a0 See in this story how Drew becomes part of the Cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-water-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}