Sustainability Walk

by Susan Ahn

This walk is intended for whoever wants to visit the Blacksburg Farmer’s Market, with a colorful dialogue and narrative along the way. We will be talking about sustainability and how the town of Blacksburg and the University, Virginia Tech, address this concept. Your narrator is me, Susan Ahn. I am an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech studying Economics and International Studies. I hope you enjoy what our class has been working on all semester!

Interested? Then keep scrolling down!

Watch and listen to the walk

Where will you go?

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What will you see?

Blacksburg is a thriving town that includes many residents, students, and faculty interested in living a more sustainable life. The community is eager to increase the presence and importance of the Farmers Market and see more people being informed about sustainability.

Lyrics

In my walk you will hear songs and poems which are written and performed by other Virginia Tech students. Here are the lyrics and the poems for you to read:

Questions

Who am I?
Where did I come from?
Why am I me?
And when I look in the mirror, who am I supposed to be?
Why do I smile just the way I do?
How do you see me?
Why am I blind to things that everyone else can see?
Oh, I have questions.
Just like you.
I have questions.
And what do I do when the answer is not clear?
The response is hard to hear.
I look above, and my question fades away.
And my question fades away.

Written and performed by Duston Scarborough.

Fearless

I’m looking danger in the eye now.
And I ain’t about to back down.
I’m R-Kelly, I can fly now.
Everybody crowd around.
I’m on my grind like a skateboard.
I’m four wheels above the ground.
And if you doubt me, I’m going to prove you wrong.
Breaking through every bound.
If you’re scared, stand up.
And put your fears away.
Nothing holds you back.
The shackles fade to gray.
And be fearless.
And be fearless.
You want to be fearless.
And be fearless.

Written and performed by Duston Scarborough.

The Process

I don’t trust the process.
So I guess that leaves it all up to me.
I will sing the same note over and over,
until I find the right key.

Because tomorrow is tomorrow
(Which makes today the day)
To repeat the same mistakes over,
But in a completely different way.

Wait for me… just wait.
Because I will make the same mistake in each facet.
But I will learn! Promise I’ll learn!
Just give me time and I will have it.

For these things can’t be rushed,
like Tri-Delt or Pi Beta Phi.
I must take my time to learn alone.
And possibly spend that time gazing high.

Written and performed by Olivia Movafaghi.

Superhero

I’m my own superhero.
Can’t you see my strength?
There can be darkness all around me,
I can go to any length
I am created in the likeness of the ones from before
but there are different things about me that I cannot ignore

I am human
I hurt, I cry, I bruise and I bleed.
But this human,
Has everything it takes to succeed
There is nothing that can hold me back from reaching my dreams.
No there’s nothing .
There’s nothing,
‘Cause I’m a superhero.

Written and performed by Marecka Davis

Acknowledgements:

Gwynn Hamilton, Bill Claus, Elena Dulys, Duston Scarborough, Olivia Movafaghi, Marecka Davis.