Tech Tip: Browser Bookmarks

Bookmarking your frequently used tabs is a great way to easily access projects you need to work on fast. For this class, we have a lot of different resources and pages we need to visit often. The browser I use mainly is Chrome and at the top before I search for any websites, I have a few pages bookmarked for my convenience. Bookmarking a page means you can click on a quick link that you have saved and your computer will automatically go to that website. You don't even have to type anything into your search bar! For this class especially, I have bookmarked Canvas so I can easily access our class' website to check everything. I have also bookmarked my blog so I can easily access it to make blog posts (like the one you're reading right now!). I have also bookmarked my Project Portfolio so I can easily access it to make edits! Bookmarking is a very convenient tool and I highly recommend you all use it for the rest of the semester if you haven't already!

Bookmark Example. Source: Flickr

Week 10 Story: The Monkey and the Crocodile

A monkey was standing at the shore of the river and needed to get to the other side but at the bank of the river sat a crocodile. The monkey could not get over the river by himself for the water was too deep and he did not know how to swim. The crocodile had its mouth wide open and sat ready for the monkey to come over so he could eat him. The monkey begged the crocodile to not eat him for he promised he would lead him to a place where he could have all of the monkeys in the world. The crocodile hesitantly agreed and told the monkey to climb onto his back so he could take him across the river.

Once on the other side, the monkey jumped off of the crocodile's back and ran up into the tree where the crocodile could not follow. "Hey! You tricked me!" said the crocodile. "There will be a time where you pay for this!"

The crocodile lay motionless on the side of the river bank and the monkey thought the crocodile was dead. He ran down the tree by the bushes with the bright chili-peppers and slowly approached the crocodile. He quickly grabbed the crocodile's tail and began playing with it. The crocodile seized the monkey and held on to him so tight that he could not escape.

"Please let me go! I am the cook of his Majesty the king. Those bright-red breads have been entrusted to my care!" the monkey pointed over to the pepper bushes. "If you kill me, the king will arrive with thousands of well-armed troops and will punish you," the monkey warned.

"I did not mean to harm you," said the crocodile, "I will set you free if you relieve my hunger."

The monkey went over and grabbed some peppers from the bushes. The peppers were so hot that it made the crocodile very angry and it didn't cure his hunger. The monkey sat there and laughed at the crocodile as he complained about the heat. The crocodile reached out and ate the monkey right then and there in order to stop his teasing and cure his hunger.


Author's Note: In the original story, the crocodile does take the monkey across the river in exchange for food. The monkey is the king's chef and does give the crocodile spicy bread peppers in order to cure the crocodile's hunger. Instead of the crocodile eating him, he just runs up the tree and laughs at the crocodile while he tries to cool his mouth. I changed the story in the end where the crocodile eats the monkey to get his revenge.

The Monkey and the Crocodile by Dean S. Fansler

Crocodile. Source: Pixabay

Reading Notes: The Bullfrog Lover

A man dated a girl who liked him but her mom did not so he wasn't allowed near her house. He made a trumpet out of a gourd and hid down by the water and waited until the woman came down too. When she came down, the man played the trumpet and it played a song that resembled a bullfrog. The song sounded like:

Yañdaska'gä hûñyahu'skä,
Yañdaska'gä hûñyahu'skä,
The faultfinder will die,
The faultfinder will die.

The woman was so scared of the sound that she dropped the dipper she was using and ran back into the house to tell everyone. They all agreed they would stop interfering with the relationship, so she gave them consent to have a relationship. 

There is another story of a girl who heard a voice singing every time she went down to the water. It sounded like: 

Kûnu'nü tû'tsahyesï', Kûnu'nü tû'tsahyesï',
A bullfrog will marry you,
A bullfrog will marry you.

She wondered what it was until one day she came down and saw a bullfrog sitting on a stone and he asked her to marry him. She said yes and took him back to the house. The girl's family hated him and at last persuaded her to send him away. The next time she went down the water she heard: 

Ste'tsï tûya'husï, Ste'tsï tûya'husï,
Your daughter will die,
Your daughter will die.

So she died. Some people say it was a tadpole who took on human shape. He hid his identity from everybody. Soon, his wife exposed him and he left the house forever. 

The Bullfrog Lover by James Mooney

Bullfrog. Source: Pxhere

Reading Notes: The Deluge

A long time ago a man had a dog, and they went down to the river everyday to howl and look at the water. One time, the man got very angry and yelled at his dog and the dog then spoke back to him and told him that there will be a flood one day that will drown everybody but if you make a raft you will be saved but you have to throw me in the water first. The man could not believe his dog was talking to him. The dog told him that if he did not believe him, he should look at his neck to see the skin was worn off and the bones stuck out.

The man believed the dog and began to build a raft. The flood did come and the man took his family on his raft. It rained for so long that the water covered the mountains and everybody drowned. Once the rain subsided, the only people still alive was the man and his family. He looked over to the other side of a bridge and saw piles of bones ad knew that the people ghost's had been dancing.

The Deluge by James Mooney

The Flood. Source: Wikimedia Commons