jdixon08

This is interesting, my first senior journal blog. I'm writing it a bit later than I would have liked, but with several houseguests over and partly due to my poor management of free time, I'm posting now.

Seniors had a meeting today from five to six pm about college planning. I talked to Matt Hussmann about our senior projects and we both came up with an idea that could help out my project. For my own project, to expand on my learning about herbalism, I'd thought it would be a good idea to raise some of my own herb plants, the ones commonly used in the alternative medicine practice. Thus far my idea hasn't been going over well, just because I don't know where I'd put the garden. But while I talked to Matt, he told me about his architecture project, and how he'd originally wanted to build a greenhouse as part of it, which would be located on his property. I told him about my problem, and he got super excited, saying that he'd love to share his greenhouse with me if he can get it built. Tomorrow I'll talk to him more, since he said he had to go home and ask his parents if it's okay to build a greenhouse on his property. If he gets the okay, then the plan is to have it built in a week or two (but I'm guessing it'll take longer). I offered to help building it, since if this idea works our projects are the same for a while. I think it would be good if it happened, because that means I can get started on planting my seeds right away and they'd be decently grown and in bloom by the time the senior project presentation came around. My only concern is, how to present this part of the project to the panel of judges? Do I drive them all up to Matt's house, or do I transplant all my plants, take pictures, a video of it, etc? I guess I'll figure out that part later.

Tomorrow I also meet with Ms. Clark Evans, so I'll run this idea by her too.

I'm excited about it! Matt and I have so many ideas about it. He wants to use half of the greenhouse, for landscaping and other business he has with his own part of his project. He wanted to landscape my plants, but for the sake of doing my part of the project myself I said no. I ought to tend to them myself, it's the only way I'm going to learn about them, through hands-on experience. I guess he could buy some fancy pots to put them in, if he really wanted. :-) But as far as the upkeep and growing of the plants, that'll be my job.

I'm pretty tired now, so I'll wrap this up. My first journal that is now a blog... interesting!