Thursday, April 23, 2015

Keep it Going, Keep it Flowing!

I really need to check my hours list uhhhhhh

~*UPDATE*~

  • Nothing new, really.  I have a meeting with my Gold Award Advisor tomorrow, Friday, in the first time in what seems like forever.  
  • Things will clear up!
     So, last Saturday I had an interview at the American Museum of Natural History for he possibility of having an internship there over the summer... Very exciting!  All went well, I brought my mother, younger sister, and best friend with me, and we walked around the museum afterwards.  First of all, we went to their temporary exhibit about natural disasters which I loved! I've always been extremely interested in that kind of stuff.  However, later on while we were wondering, we came to the section about North American forests, and I, in all my nerdy-glory, got very excited and looked everywhere for a section on the American Chestnut trees!  I read every plaque and placement at the exhibits, looking in the windows...

     And I found nothing. I don't even think I found a single mention of the trees! I saw mentions of the American Elm and other Chestnut variations, but not the American Chestnut! :-(  I was actually pretty upset by this haha.  Just thought I'd bring this up. 

    Talk to you guys soon!


Wednesday, April 15, 2015

I'M BACK, SORRY

28?/80

~*UPDATE*~

  • I just returned from my Easter break which I spent in Italy... I have quite a few stories from that trip. haha Yet I unfortunately had no internet, or very little internet.  Needless to say not much work got done at all in that time.  Even before the break I really did not have time to work on this- between my school play, SATs, ACTs, and various other projects; however, since getting home on Saturday I've done a sufficient amount of work on this.
  • Working on my curriculum and I plan to email a few people within this week to see about setting up presentations! 
  • I got offered by my advisor to speak with a woman about my Gold Award for my local newspaper... So exciting! I'm hoping that goes through! :3
  • Since receiving a donation from the bird sanctuary, I will have to do less fundraising to obtain the trees (which I don't mind a bit)... Now all that I have left to do is get a supplier!
     Alrighty!! All things considered, my project really is going very well. As soon as I purchase trees and start presenting, I'll really have this process almost, if not completely, underway.  My only problem is that I've hit quite a few road bumps, and, if you haven't already noticed, I've been very busy and unable to keep up with this.  Not to mention, the weather here in NY hasn't been so great either.  I feel like it's only now just starting to feel like spring!  You know that feeling, right? I think people call it "spring fever." I just want to be outside everyday doing stuff instead of being cooped up indoors like I have been almost all winter!

     Now that I know I'm most likely going to have trees and start speaking about my curriculum by next month, June at the latest, (and because of the events in my school which are signifying the end of the year) I'm starting to become very excited for this summer.

     In other news, I plan to post my curriculum up here, and I feel like I've mentioned this before, for you guys to look at it and maybe even make suggestions.  I'm looking to show it to a few of my local Girl Scout troops, Boy Scouts maybe, even at my school or my younger sister's elementary school. 

     Again, sorry for being so inactive.  Entries should start to spring up more often now. ;-)