Campus Activity

The campus activity that i attended was the farmers market. I have gone to the farmers market two times since i have been here. What i did at the farmers market was basically walk around and look at everything that is set out. There is so much stuff to look at it is amazing. There is so much food there to, but its better than food. It seems that everything you get from there is awesome when you eat it. In my home town of Great Falls we have the farmers market to and i think it is pretty similar, but the farmers market here is way bigger. I personally think the farmers market is pretty cool i went a lot back home and going to this one seems way better because there is much more merchandise. Another thing i really liked about the farmers market was the location, it is a perfect location for the event. When i was walking around i was trying to find the didgeridoo's because my anthropology teacher always talks about them. He even had some girls from the didgeridoo club come in and play a whole bunch of music and sounds. I have tried to play a didgeridoo and it is harder than it looks. They learn how to breath out there nose so they can get full circular breathing. The ones i saw had some pretty cool designs on them. The culture that the didgeridoo is from is Austrialian. To me it deminstrated that the musicians playing them are very talented. All you could hear when they were playing was animal noises it was really cool. A lot of the things my anthropology teacher talks about is multicultural and he always talks about artifacts from other countries and at the farmers market there is a lot of that. There are blankets, jewelry, clothes, and so much handmade merchandise. There is more than that not just man made artifacts there is foods from other cultures that is really tasty. My mom would usually go to the farmers market every week. She would always buy the best breads, and pastries. She would always get weird jewelry there too. The main reason i think people go to the farmers market is because the prices are so cheap its unreal. Everything there is cheap and it is always a great deal. If you go down all the way there are tables of pipes and other tabacco products. There were actually a lot of people smoking weed around me which i thought was kind of funny because there are so many hippies here. The age range of the people who run the little individual markets is all over i see college students, adults, and the elderly working there. Its good to see that a lot of the students from UM participate in the farmers market. Next Fall i will definatly attend the farmers market here and this summer i will definatly go in great falls because my mom always goes, but its worth it besides the early hours you have to get up to go to it but thats not a huge problem. So for the most part the farmers market is an awesome thing to go to when you have nothing better to do. I would recommend it to anyone to go there because its a real pleaser. If you want to enjoy a good walk and look at some pretty cool stuff, and maybe get a good bite to eat go to the farmers market. Where else can you go and get so much out of it than there, i can't think of many places that do.