Michael's CAAP Webpage
Hey! My name is Michael, and I'm from St.Lucia. I came to America in August of 2002. I enjoy playing basketball. I want to go to college and play basketball, so I can go to the pro's. I play basketball anytime I don't have anything to do. Most of the times I don't have anything to do, so I play basketball. I also enjoy playing video games when I don't go to play basketball. I like listening to rap and reggae. Those are my favorite types of music. My favorite rapper is 50cent,and my favorite reggae singer is Elephant Man. I don't smoke because my mom taught me much better than that. My mom has helped me in making a lot of decisions. She always talks to me about GOD, and I listen to her. She goes to church every Sunday, and she doesn't miss a day.
I visited the tobacco museum. It was great. I had a lot of fun. I got to learn a lot of things I didn't know. I even got to touch some of the dried tobacco leaves.
The tobacco leaves didn't smell too good. It smelled like something that had been there for centuries. We had a tour guide that showed us all around. She showed us some of the tobacco leaves that were there for a very long time. It was so dry that if you touched it, it would just fall into pieces.
She also showed us some cigars that were there for about 102 years. That is a very long time. She said that someone gave it to her. She also showed us the sheds that they kept their tobacco.
She also told us about the West Indians. Some West Indians migrated to the United States because they wanted to do farm work. Most of them came to the United States in the 1900's. Some examples of traditions they brought from the island and practiced in the U.S. were farming and planting seeds.
Traditionally, cigar boxes were made from soft, pliable woods such as white wood, popular, or cedar. Over the years, the use of wood in making cigar boxes was abandoned for the cheaper, and easier to mass-produce paper boxes. These are the type still manufactured today. Tobacco has been a part of the agriculture economy of America since the early 1600's when residents of James Town, Virginia grew tobacco for pipe smoking.
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