Learning Challenges: Health/ Happiness & Cheeseburger

I may or may not be a little too excited about learning how to make a meme. I also, may or may not be very good at it but it sure is fun!

I am coupling the happiness H.E.A.R.T. challenge with the cheezburger meme creator so I have made some silly memes to go along with it. 

I am somewhat of a believer of making oneself owns happiness (if that makes sense). For instance when I am feeling sad or angry my favorite thing to do is go to the gym. Something about being able to plug in some headphones, blast my favorite music, and throw some heavy weights around calms me. I learned a trick a while ago (when I was a little more self conscience) that if I turned up my music and only payed attention to what I was doing, what I wanted to achieve in the next couple of minutes that everyone else in the room disappeared and my anxiety and anger or whatever it was I was feeling at the time went out the window. I try and channel my feelings into physical capabilities, if that makes any sense. For instance, I remember one time being so angry (of course I have no clue what I was angry about anymore) and my gym was closed so I took my frustration out on the track. I ran my fastest mile that day. 

Or sometimes you just want a friend to make casual conversation with. In cases such as that, I don't blast my music but simply leave my head phones out of my ears. There are many, many conversations going on in the gym. Sometimes I somehow end up involved in one myself, with random friendly people or sometimes I just listen. Some might say the later one is ease dropping... I call it "leaving my reality" for a just a second anyway. Sometimes I make up stories for people I see at the gym, (especially if I'm on the treadmill. I need something to occupy my time!) I typically keep the stories pretty happy and upbeat. 

Some people say the gym is a depressing place... I must disagree with that statement. It is a place full of people trying to better themselves with goals and aspirations. What is more inspiring and happy than that? What is even more awesome is when you notice someone who is not giving up, or someone who has the courage to ask the muscular dude what he does to get his triceps like that. 

The gym is not my only happy place. I would consider eating corndogs at the state fair, seeing a food truck park near where I am, and Roxy's Ice-cream in OKC another happy place of mine. I'm all about the balance. 

(cheezburger.com)

(Cheezburger)

Portfolio Index

The Fishing Trip
The day of the big fishing trip has finally arrived but King Santanu is in a rather gloomy mood. Has he lost everything in his kingdom? Does he have a fatal illness? His son, Prince Davavratha, is determined to get to the bottom of it while on their annual trip.

The Beautiful Maiden

A young beautiful maiden has been cast to a forest by her jealous stepmother. One day she sneezes and catches the attention of a goblin that lives near by her cabin in the forest! She hears his approach and becomes frozen with fright. What will be her next move?

The Prom Barter

It is the day of the prom and Kadru and Vinata are getting ready for their prom dates. Vinata has always been jealous of her twin sister who seems like she gets everything Vinata wants, but will her luck change tonight?  

The Football King

It has all come down to one final game to decide who will go to Nationals but in practice the star quarterback, Yudhishthira, hurt his throwing arm! Now Arjuna must travel in search of the Football King for celestial shoulder pads.

The God of Fire 
The god of fire tells his tale of how he, Vayu, the god of wind and Yama, the god of death have found themselves held captive in Lanka by the evil demon, Ravana. 

Reading Notes: The Sacred Tales of India, Part C

The Gift of the Ascetic

• A king with 3 wives had no children and this was depressing to him because that signified that he lived a sinful life in a previous existence. No one even liked being in his presence. 
• Even the man who swept the palace who lost his appetite upon seeing the king. 
• The king heard of this and became depressed until one day a holy ascetic went to see him and told him he will be a father if he eats this drug along with his wives.

              - The catch is one of the sons must be his (the ascetics)

• The two eldest wives took all the medicine for themselves bc they did not like the young wife.

              - The young wife heard of this though and resorted to licking the cup

              - The two eldest wives gave birth to 2 sons each, the young wife gave birth to a conch shell

• The boys grew up and the wives and husband forgot about the deal with the ascetic and the young wife realized her conch shell was splitting at night and revealing young man inside.
• The ascetic eventually went back and the king thought he could outwit him by giving him a son of a maid but the ascetic knew and was furious the king eventually gave him the son of the youngest. 
• The youngest wife prayed to Sancta- Narayan, he said her son will come back to her.
• The conch shell son met a beautiful maiden in a cabin in an area the ascetic forbade him to go and they fell in love but turns out him and the maiden are going to be sacrificed. 

            - They devise this plan and it turns out great.

            - the conch shell sons pretends to not understand the ascetics instruction's so he showed him and the conch shell son cut off his head!

• They lived happily ever after

The Sun's Twin Sons

• Very odd story about a woman who was not married 
• A king sent for her to bring sun to his kingdom for just 1 day.
• She prayed to the sun god and said she would give herself to him if he shone the sun on the king for just one day.

          - he did just that but she hid from him so he married her in spirit.
          - she gave birth to twin sons
          -  I don't really understand why the king is so worried about if she has children or not but he
             keeps checking on her to make sure and overtime she hides them.

• Her kids turn into vessels of blood when the sun is out?
• she pours them on a tree one day to hide them from the king

The Consequences of Generosity

• a Brahman woman and a milkmaid were friends
• Obviously the Brahman had more wealth than the milkmaid and the milkmaid one day asked if she could borrow the Brahman's image of Narayana for a year so she might praise her and find wealth too.

            - The Brahman agreed

• Soon the Brahman lost all her wealth and traveled looking for a place to stay but all the people she had cared for previously turned her away, not recognizing her.
• After a year when she retrieved her image of Narayana and her wealth was returned to her approached those people and was like hey, why didn't you care for me

                - all the people (including her own daughter) were all like I'm so sorry I did not know it was
                      you

(Narayana)

A Brahman's Ban

• Indra, king of the gods threw a party
• The party was getting a little crazy and a Brahman showed up and instead of Indra saluting him threw some flowers at him that had just been received by dancing girls.
• The brahman took this as an insult and cursed Indra, saying he has to be a cat for 12 years.

            - Indra died right then and returned as a cat

• Sachi, Indra's wife was unaware of this transition. She went looking for the Brahman who cursed him so she could find out where he was reborn at.
• Sachi found Indra and they slept for 12 years until Indra turned into a man again.

(Cat from pixabay)

The Pir's Power

• A beggar (who worshiped Narayan) ran into a Brahman (who worshiped Satya Pir)
• The beggar decided to worship Satya Pir and found much wealth and his neighbor who was childless worshiped him too after hearing about the beggars wealth.
• He had a daughter who grew up to be beautiful
• She married a wealthy merchant

              - they set sail and landed in a kingdom and bought a stolen necklace (they did not know it
                 was stolen).
              - the merchant was arrested
              - his wife prayed to Satya Pir and he visited the king that held their husbands captive and
                demanded their husbands be released

• The husbands journeyed home with their restored wealth and never forgot to praise Satya Pir

The Gander- Eater

• A poor Brahman widow had a son who went to school with all the other kids and was ashamed that he only ate vegetables and not fish like the rich kids. 

                 - He went home crying to his mom, embarrassed.

• The boy stole  bird for his mom to cook and the next day he was imprisoned. 
• The poor widow praised the goddess Subachani and it worked bc she granted her a wish
• Her son was released from prison and married the kings daughter earning him half the kingdom
• The widowed Brahman never stopped praising Subachani from then on.

Bibliography: Sacred Tales of India. D.N. Neogi. Illustrated by P. Ghose. 1916.

Reading Notes: Sacred Tales of India, Part B

The Bride of Yama

• A poor Brahman lost his bull (The gods were testing him)
• Him and his sister performed a religious ceremony to the goddess of love, Paravati.

           - Paravati enjoyed the devoted people and gave them their bull back and granted them both a
                   boon.
          - The Brahman became King and his sister (now a princess) married Yama, the god of death
          - Now Yama told her not to go near the southern portion of the grounds around the house
         - Of course her curiosity overcame her and she saw women who have sinned burning...
            including her own mother!

• She begged Yama to let her mother go, he said it could only be bought with a  portion of her brothers reward.

             - Of course he said no.

• Her last resort was disguising herself as a Shepherdess and present herself to Gautama who was also reaping benefits like her brother. 

             - She finally agreed and her mother was released from agony. Happy ending.


The Goddess Who Devoured Elephants

(The Goddess who sat upon a lotus holding two elephants) 

• 2 wives married to a rich merchant

            - Lahana, the younger one and Khullana
            - Lahana was better loved the two wives, needless to say did not get along!
            - Lahana got Khullana banned and she was forced to tend to a flock of goats to earn a living.

• Chilean heard a noise from a nearby town and went to check it out. They were performing a religious ceremony to Mangal- Chandi who brings fortune to whoever.
• Chilean then decided to perform these ceremonies with what little she had.

              - It worked! When she opened her eyes, her husband was standing in front of her wanting to
                    bring her back with him.

• Years passed and Khullana gave birth to a son while her husband was gone trading.. He never returned so her son grew up not knowing his father. 
• Her son wanted to go searching for his father but not without performing a ceremony to Mangal- Chandi. 
• Turns out Khullana's husband saw a lady in a lotus devouring two elephants... the king in that town did not like this and sent him to prison.
• Now when the son went through, he saw the same thing but the king did not believe him and ordered him to die. 
• Now Mangal- Chandi visited the king in his dreams and showed him the woman in the lotus holding the two elephants and bade him he let the son and husband go.
• They arrived home and lived happily ever after

The Slayer of Kangsa

• Kangsa, king of Mathura was a harsh tyrant and Basundhara went to heaven to complain to Shiva.
• The gods assembled together in front of Vishnu to advocate fro Basundhara
• Turns out Vishnu was the one that made king Mathura great bc he had pleased him at one time.

                - his own sons cannot kill him but he never said anything about a nephew
                - So vishnu is going to rise again born to king Kangsa's sister
                - and Paravati be born again as well!

• The king was killing all the babies in fear they were to kill him. Reminds me of the Bible story about Moses and the Pharaoh. 
• Anyway, Vishnu's reincarnated self was able to escape this death with the help of Paravati and Vishnu's reincarnation grew up to slay the king. 

Chand, The Unbeliever

• Mahadeo, greatest god of heaven, visited Earth in human form and met a young girl in a lower caste. Neither cared and she gave birth to a girl but she was already full grown.... they named her Padma.
• Kinda odd. Padma's mother grew jealous of her and clawed one of her eyes out. Mahadeo cried and another woman appeared out of his tears.... he sent this woman and Padma off.

               - they found a place to live and wash clothes... nearby lived a man of equal wealth to Padma
                    but he refused to accept her and not worship her.
                - she was like oh nu uh! and after giving birth to a bunch of snakes had them kill his 6 sons

• The guy with the 6 sons eventually had another son and he got married when he was of age but still refused to praise Padma so she killed him too

                - the wife went searching for Padma to bring her husband back to life because her father-in-law said he would praise Padma if she brought her son back to life.

• The wife eventually found parma and she indeed brought him back to life and the rich guy praised her. 
• and then she brought all his sons back to life!

Bibliography: Sacred Tales of India. D.N. Neogi. Illustrated by P. Ghose. 1916.

Famous Last Words: Coming to an End

As the semester is coming to an end and my mind is already focusing on my finals and final projects due, I reflect on the whirlwind of events. This was my first time being a full time student since 2012, that along with a demanding part- time job and having a boyfriend being a full- time engineering student meant no time for relaxation. The good thing is, I realized it was too much for me if I wanted to make the grades I want/ need. When I quit my job, I felt so elated. Yes, I will be on a job search once the semester is over but this time I will focus on it furthering my career... and not knowing how to order copious amounts of food for events (which is definitely a skill I have learned).
Enough of my job woes, though.

I believe I will I will be able to finish up this class over Thanksgiving break and I am very, very thankful that we have that option to finish early. In my other online course the assignments due that week are not posted until Monday (sometimes even later). This can be very frustrating and can make it difficult to plan ahead. Other online professors at the University would really benefit by looking at how we do things in this course. I really feel we have been set up for success in the Indian Epics course plan.

I started a story this week but never published it. It is just not what I want it to be. I have decided based on our time left in the semester and the points I need to finish I am not going to write another story unless I become very inspired by something in the readings. I have decided to focus on my portfolio and perfecting those stories.

(The University of Colorado Boulder)

I chose a picture of The University of Colorado Boulder because I have been focusing on what graduate schools I would like to attend. This is definitely in my top five picks along with The University of California. I would like to study Hydrology in graduate school. I just bought a GRE study guide and will probably spend my summer studying for the exam. 

I liked writing a To-Do list last week so I will keep up with it.

• Complete my readings for Monday/ Tuesday by Tuesday Morning.
• Maybe do the Tech Tip and Growth Mindset extra credit on Tuesday as well
• Do my Project Comments on Wednesday or Thursday morning. 
• Do comments and extra blog comments on Friday
• Do project ASAP

Learning Challenges: Time

H-ealth
E-mpathy
A-ttention
R-eading
T-ime

This week I chose to focus on time. I mean who wouldn't like more time? Or at least manage it better so it feels like you have more time. I started out by watching this video that was posted on the Learning by HEART blog page. (Using my new skills learned with a  TechTip to insert a video)

I watched the video before I went to bed and slept on it then watched it again this morning. I must admit, I have never thought of the science behind procrastination or think about why we even do it. So watching this video is rather mind blowing! The video suggests a promodoro technique which is setting a timer for about 25 minutes and then giving yourself an award whether it be to get on social media or candy. I have tried using this technique in the past but would not actually use a timer but just try to be aware and at least get up and walk around. This actual technique intrigued me so I did a quick pomodoro technique google search and found there is an actual website (you can find that here). The website is pretty cool and totally worth a look around if you are interested. There is even another video going more in depth of what the promodoro technique is. 

I am definitely going to give this whole reward technique another try. Specifically when I am studying all Saturday and Sunday for a test or writing a paper. The only thing I am worried about is when I get into my zone I do not like to be interrupted. Maybe when I write my Famous Last Words Post on Monday I can give you an update on how it went!

Growth Mindset: Stories About Growth

Being a science major and sometimes one of the very few women in my classes I absolutely hate pointing out gender differences. Like when people say, "Men are just good at math." Like yes, that MUST be the reason why there are only 5 women out of 40 in my calculus III class!  It really does not get anymore close minded than that.  People like that are the reason why there were only 5 women in my calculus class... because we have been told our whole lives, women just are not good at math. But this is not what I am writing about! (I just got side tracked by one of my tangents).

After reading the prompt for this Growth Mindset challenge I started to really think about some of the characters I have read about this semester and what kind of mindsets they had. Women do not play huge roles in most of the Indian Epics but most of them have relatively open minds. Rama told Sita she did not have to follow him but she was willing to try something new and not afraid. Savitri was willing to marry Satyavan even though she knew he would die after a year of marriage. In the story, The Divine Brothers, the youngest wife grabbed at opportunities and brought her family riches.

These women and many more have all practiced a growth mindset the way I see it. Savitri could have easily not married Satyavan when she found out his curse that he had no idea about. She chose to stay with him and grow. In the end she was able to persuade Yama to give him a second chance.
The women in the stories seem to not let bad luck or circumstances get them down but keep fighting on.

(women in the workforce)

Reading Notes: Sacred Tales of India, Part A

The Divine Brothers

• A rich farmer had 7 sons, all of whom were married. 
• Their 7 wives were sitting around one day talking about what their wish would be if they were granted one.

             - The youngest did not talk until called upon to state her's but she was hesitant she finally said
                hers.
          *I could write a story about how since she was patient her wish came true and all the other
            wives were jealous.

• I could write a story about her time spent with the snakes. I would like to do something different though. Not with snakes or if I used snakes they would only have a minor role in my story. 
• I would like to focus more on the 7 wives and how they share jobs and gossip to one another. Maybe the youngest wife is bullied by them or something like that. 

Snatched from Death

(Savitri and Satyavan)

• Savitri is a princess and is able to choose her own husband. She chooses a blind hermit's son, Satyaban. 
• Unknown to him, he is cursed and will die at the end of the first years marriage.
• Savitri knows this and prays to the gods every day to let him live. 
• Yama's messengers went to collect Satyaban when he died but could not bc the chastity of his wife Savitri. 
• I already have one story about Yama I would love to write another one!
• Savitri tricks Yama into giving Satyaban's life back.
• I really feel like I can do something with this story. 
• **In my story I think the messengers will act as the middle men between Yama and Savitri. Neither of them willing to give in.**

By Itu's Favor

• 2 daughters, Isani and Rama, were banished in the forest for eating loafs of bread the wife made. 
• I do not really like this story.
• Their dad basically tricks them into thinking he was attacked but then they still wish wealth for him... so they knew he was alive the whole time?
• After years the girls returned home and, their father was rich due to them wishing this upon him, but he gets mad at them again and says the next guys the pass will be their husbands.
• Isani was married and no longer worshiped the god, Itu Thakur, so every town they passes would go up in flames or an epidemic would break out

                 - People called her a witch 

• Rama continued to worship Itu Thakur on the daily. The towns she passed would flourish along with their crops. Even brought a dead girl back to life with her holy water. 
• **I could write about the fortune of the girls but in modern day** Maybe they won the lottery and one lost her money trying to play the lottery again or she is just flat out unlucky.**
• A lot of banishing going on in this story. 
• Itu has lots of power. 

Bibliography: Scared Tales of India by D.N. Neon. Illustrated by P. Ghose. 1916. 

Reading Notes: Jataka Tales, Part B

I know I said in my Famous Last Words post that I was going to try and read something else besides fairy tales but I could not help myself! I absolutely hate not finishing a book or article or story. I had only completed part A so I have to complete part B now!!

The Wise and Foolish Merchant

(Conestoga Wagon)

• A wise merchant and a stupid young merchant were traveling through the same city and bought a puppy of goods they were going to sell as they traveled the country
• The thrifty merchant did not want to travel together.
• The foolish young merchant decided he would go first
• I could write a story about the demon who tricked the young merchant but not the wise one.      

                   - in my story maybe the demon has dialogue with the merchants or maybe the wise one 

                     convinced the young one to go first because of the demon.

The Elephant Girly- face

• Girly- face is a super kind elephant that overheard some robbers talking about how to show no pity for people they are robbing. Girly-face overheard this and was convinced that is how he was suppose to treat people now
• They sent good people to talk her his stall to convince him to be kind and it worked!
• I think I could make a story up about bullying in school and how when people talk it is so easy to convince a little kid that is how one is suppose to act.

The Banyan Deer

• Deer the color of gold and eyes were like round jewels. 
• This deer reminds me of the one that Sita wanted Rama to catch for her, maybe I could write a story about the deer that Sita wanted!!!!

The Princess and the Water- Sprite

• Story about Prince of the Stars, the Moon Prince and the Sun Prince.

The King's White Elephant

• Kind of  a sad story but the white elephant was always well taken care of. 

The Ox Who Never Envied the Pig

• Ox named Big Red
• Young brother named  Little Red
• Do not be envious of people for what they have because you do not know what will become of them. 

Grannie's Blackie

• I could write a story about the encounter black, the elephant, had with the man trying to pass the river with his wagons. 
• Blackie was a smart elephant and would not leave until the merchant gave him what he promised him. 

The Crab and the Crane

• The story about the crane tricking the fish in a shallow pond to be carried to a big pond to only be eaten by the crane
• The crab did not fall for it though!

Why the Owl is Not King of the Birds

• Apparently owls and crows do not get along which is why the owl is not king but the turtle dove is. 

Bibliography: The Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Illustrated by Ellsworth Young. 1912.

Famous Last Words: Riding the Struggle Bus

This week I am really regretting not doing the extra credit assignments before now. They are fun! Why is that no matter how many times we are told to do something or try something out we just don't.... or is that just me? Literally every day of the week in announcements, our class has been told to try out some of the extra credit and I have not until now! The tech tip, I mean it is so useful and not just for this class but for others as well.

This was the first week I did not write a story. It seems now that the semester is ending my creative side is struggling to keep up. I have been reading the Indian Fairy Tales, which is what I wanted to do since the class began. Now that I have read them though I just cannot seem to think of a story to write. I guess you could say they are not inspiring to me. This week I think I am going to switch it up and read something different. Maybe my creative juices will start to flow.
This week I also quit my job. As a full time student I was definitely being overworked. Staying up until at least 1:00 am in order to work on my online classes to wake up at 6:00 am on the daily to get to work and go to class is not my ideal schedule. So, hopefully, this week I will not be stressed about my time management and will actually get ahead in the class!

So here is my to-do list this week:

• Find a new story to read
• Try to get my readings done by Tuesday morning 
• Start writing my story on Tuesday, hopefully get done by Wednesday morning (the story writing seems to take me a few hours, creativity is not my forte). 
• Edit my Story for the Project
• Get my new story in my Portfolio by Wednesday night. 
• Start commenting on Thursday/Friday
• Extra Credit on Sunday. 

P.S. I am very good at making lists. I should have been doing this the whole semester!

(Making a to-do list)

Growth Mindset: Perfectionism

Wow. Was this an eye opening article to perfectionism. I think most people have at least a hint of perfectionism in them. Maybe some more than others, I will be the first to admit I am a perfectionist most of the time. I am much more aware of my perfectionist attitude now that I am out of high school and got slapped in the face with the real world pretty quickly.
I do not want to blame social media, simply because I enjoy social media outlets, but people get to pick and choose what to post about their lives. This means most things are only happy (guilty as charged) and people only get to see in your one window; that one widow being the perfect window.

Social media is not all bad. I am going to share this Huffington post on my Facebook and encourage my friends to read it. I think the more people we have aware of their perfectionist attitude the more they realize how sad it is to go on carrying this point of view. Once aware, we can grow from it and learn from our mistakes. Maybe what we learn today about growth mindsets will benefit our children the most.

The perfectionist Cycle 

Tech Tip: Canvas Calendar

I officially regret not completing more of the tech tip extra credit assignments. As I scrolled through all the options I thought how helpful some of these tips will be and how too bad I have not learned about them earlier.

This is my only class this semester using canvas and from my understanding all courses will be on canvas starting next semester. The university is going to drag some of the professors kicking and screaming it seems too. Once we finally learn and understand how to use a program it seems like another one comes out and we are forced to learn all over again just in time for another to come out. Funny enough, I remember distinctly feeling this way when Facebook went public. I was so reluctant to join because I had literally just got the hang of Myspace. I finally had to make the switch though and.... turns out Facebook was a ton better than Myspace!

I watched the introduction video for the calendar tool on canvas. I personally have never kept a digitized calendar, even on my iPhone. I prefer to buy an Agenda and write everything down... color coordinated by class. This system has worked for me since middle school and it has not let me down yet. I do have an on campus job, however, and I would not be able to schedule and organize my work life without the outlook calendar. It is a very convenient tool when scheduling meetings and such.
I have enrolled in next semester and those classes have already shown up on my calendar which makes it a little confusing. Of course when the assignments are due are not on there but they are listed under my courses (not by title but by course number too).

I am just a little worried about the professors who are reluctant to switch to canvas. They only make it harder on the student trying to figure out the new system when they do not attempt to learn it as well. This course has been amazing! I do not know what I would have done if not for the extension you have added on to our assignments. I wish some of my professors could complete some of your canvas tech tips. It would make the students live's so much easier if they had a professor willing to learn.

Reading Notes: Jataka Tales, Part A

The Monkey and the Crocodile

(Wild Crocodile) 

• Monkey lived in a tree next to a river full of croccodiles
• The mama croc wanted a monkey's heart, she asked her son to get her one
• The young crocodile thought he would trick the monkey into going to the middle of the lake to an island full of fruit
• The greedy monkey jumped on the tricky crocs back
• The crocodile tried to kill the money  by drowning him
• The monkey said he left his heart on the shore. The crocodile was stupid. 
• The crocodile wanted the heart so he took the monkey back to the bank of the shore
• The monkey of course took off left down the river to live another tree but the crocodile found him and tried to trick him again but it did not work!

How the Turtle Saved His Own Life

• A turtle tricked men who were afraid of him to throw him into the water bc they thought it would kill the turtle. 

I'm thinking about combining a few stories into one. Like a  couple of animals with some good dialogue. 

The Merchant of Seri

(Ancient Gold Bowl)

• Basically a story about greed.
• An old poor lady and her golden bowl and the 2 merchants

The Turtle Who couldn't Stop Talking

• Two geese and a turtle became good friends. 
• The geese wanted to talk him with them so they said as long as you can keep your mouth shut and hold on to this stick you will make it
• The turtle did not and died

These stories are very similar to Giant Crabs and Other Tales. which I just read but it is fun to see the different styles and how some of the gory ones could be turned into nice ones. 

The Ox Who Won the Forfeit

• This is a story about being nice
• The man made a bet but was mean to the ox so the ox did not cooperate until the man said he was sorry

The Sandy Road

• wow. This story was about a desert and how they found/ dug a well.
• I think I like the grim stories better than the happy ones. 

The Quarrel of the Quails

• Tale about the quails that learned to get away from the hunter but quarreled and got caught anyway. 
• Maybe I could make a tale about two children who gets caught stealing candy or something like that. 

The Measure of Rice

• There was a dishonest king
• Maybe I could write a story about the one king who was too kind and this king. They would not get along very well I have a feeling. 
• The valuer on his court was very honest and set the price of things
• Obviously the King wanted to cheat so he found a random person to become his new valuer but he made a laughing stock of himself bc of course he new the value of nothing!
• I hope the king learned his lesson

The Foolish, Timid Rabbit

• There was a rabbit who thought the world was breaking up and stated to run when he heard a loud noise. 
• Rabbits began to follow him then deer then a fox then an elephant
• The lion stopped them and made the original rabbit go back to the tree and see what has happened, that is when they saw a coconut and knew that is what scared him.

Bibliography: Jataka Tales. Ellen C. Babbit. Illustrated by Ellsworth Young. 1912.