go Green

tote bags

Since everyone is talking about global issue and the recently ban on plastic bags on Saturdays, i am going to blog on this matter.
Ever since i was a school going child, i had always brought food from the house and at time due to peer pressure i was shy and got teased by my school friends for doing that. But then when i grew up and became a teacher, i notice that lots of people do the same in other parts of the world too. Let me cite an example of my brother in law, well he is a professional in a global company and he takes food from the home. Not that he cannot afford to buy food from the cafeteria at work but he rather take food from home which is more nutritious. Beside as he says, nothing can beat my wife's cooking  with a smirk on his face.Then there are my uncles who also take home food each morning. Well is taking food from the home really bad ? Why do the Malaysian society look down upon it ? In US people take food from the home in order to stay in the office during lunchtime.
Well since i am in school environment so i will write about this. When i started my teaching profession, i too started to bring food from home. Well it would be something like sandwiches, fried rice, fried pasta and so on. Well after some time and seeing me doing this, other teachers start to follow. Well it is not that i am stingy or do not have money or am broke but imagine eating the same food in the canteen each day, well let's just say variety is the spicy of life !!!
So i became the trend starter and soon others at my school have started to bring food from the home. Well it is like now we compare food and ask have our quick meal and back to work. So in some ways it also increase productivity as less time is spend over taking a break. Well that is how i see it. at least :)
Seeing me having my sandwichs, i now have some of my students who also bring bread from home which is a plus point for me as that is what their parents have packed for them.
Well parents should change their mindset and should not take the easy way out by giving the child money and expect him to buy from the canteen. It is alright at times but other times, they should pack lunch bags for their children.
One way to encourage this is to have interesting tote bags  and lunch bags as shown below:

lunch bags

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lunch bags 

 Well an idea did crop in my mind and i did voice it out in my school. I mean we should encourage children by doing something for the environment and what better way than to award them the bags during their Sports Day. I mean we could print our school logo over at the bags to promote our school and also show the public that we support green based activities which encourage going green. Well i have forwarded this idea to the administrator and keeping my fingers across. Well to those who are reading this well please feel free to use my idea and hopefully it could be useful to you. Beside that, they could also use the bag to keep their physical education attire and also pack their food from home.

Well we should educate the children from the young the importance of bring food from home, thinking and saving the environment. My small effort and my small change. Hoping that my pupils will learn from me and will know change once they leave the primary school environment. Like the movie, "Inception" i plant the idea of bring food from home but does the idea evolve to something better, that is yet to be seen in the future. Let's just say i have done my part....