A lot better

So our DIY project might not have gone a great success with what we wanted.

But, we did learn a lot and did end up gardening in the end, albeit maybe not for the community, but for Tanya's backyard garden...

It's all good, anyhow. We worked a lot together and learned a lot together and struggled a lot together and I want to say the DIY project was a failure and a success in its own dynamic way.

Yay! Lemons.

So this week around we were picking lemons and all from lemon trees Tanya's mom had planted and I thought that was real cool.

We also got to moving these stone bricks for a pathway through the garden which took a bit of work and we hope to finish it next week.

Alright, some actual work and all

So we got to planting some herbs and whatnot in Tanya's garden at her house working with her mother, which was really surprising..

Because we got work done!

And on that note, I think we're done with the school garden, as we haven't heard anything from Mrs. Gordon or Mrs. Battig about our little project, so I could we've ditched that effort.

I guess on the bright side, we're accomplishing something?

Maybe...?

So things have kind of slowed down with the school's garden...

And what happened was Tanya's mom has some garden work that needs to be done, which is very much so more readily available to us and to be worked on.

Tanya pitched her idea to the group for us to transition our project a bit and help with her family's garden as we're sort of hitting a dead end.

Not really a shed at all

So this week, we talked to Mrs. Gordon about the shed, again. And as it turns out...

The shed was already completed by some of the school workers or something or the other. Very deadlocked at the moment, as we have not accomplished much these days. The group is having a hard time getting together and all considering A.P. tests creeping along and with four or so A.P. classes, it's pretty tough.

A shed

So this week not much happened, as we talked to Mrs. Gordon about what we could do and all for our garden, and it certainly was not much. She decided we could tend to the garden and help build a shed for all the new tools that were coming in and that we should come in for the weekend  and do it together.

Watermelons?!?!?!

Ahh, so our group is really debating on what we should grow for our garden. A lot of things have to go into consideration, like what season the materials we are planting are best grown in, and things of the like. Anyways, our group has been browsing local flower and vegetation areas of interest that we believe could provide us with an answer. The local Walmart or Home Depot seem alright. But as much as we'd like to work on this little project of ours, A.P. classes and the all-important A.P. tests are coming up real real soon, and boy will they hit hard. Maybe our group will decide to grow watermelons in the meantime.

Gettin' Things Rolling

Today in class we were able to schedule an appointment with our principal, Mr. Herzfeld, and we got a huge start. We talked about legality issues with distributing food to other people, and also accessibility of where we wanted the garden in the school. A lot of the areas of land that we looked into have underground piping and things of the sort, so we can't exactly have it wherever we would like. It was decided that we should, for the better, improve the school's already existing garden, which more-or-less has been abandoned. So we'd like to talk to some of the current garden's "caretakers" and see if we can, in my opinion and not exactly in tune with my group, take over. So next week we'll be conversing and whatnot with the caretakers of the school's garden, and hopefully, we can work some things out!

The Week to Present

This week our group is being asked to make a short presentation of 2-3 minutes and present to an audience of staff members of the school, representatives of a newspaper, and a couple of the students' parents. I think this is awesome. We'll have an opportunity to communicate our idea, our ideals, and our beliefs on gardening. Well, our presentation is a work in progress. Anyways, this week around, we're working on contacting some school officials to actually acquire the place on campus on which we want to begin the garden. I believe most important is the school administrator and the softball team coach, which we should get done within the week. Otherwise, I think our group is growing closer together and well-tuned with each other and everything should be peachy and clean.

In all seriousness, let's get serious.

We can do it!

Man, I really do feel inspired nowadays. 

The past few, well, months or so, I've been a major downer. I mean, I didn't really like much, like anything, or like anyone. Everything was just drab, boring, pointless, etc. I felt as if there really is no meaning to life, that death is our only salvation.

But after reading some Japanese, English-translated manga about very touching stories, I realized that the meaning of life, quite simply, is to live. 

Last Tuesday, it was a cold day. I stepped outside of my mom's car in the morning and felt a cool breeze brush against my skin. Delectable. The morning sun shining upon me. Simply beautiful.

So nowadays I like living. Life is pretty awesome. Just to think that I live, that I exist on our plane of physical existence and dimensional thought (or so I would like to believe!) is cool.

Anyways, as a sort of real starter to this little gardening project my group and I have set forth, I feel I need to explain why exactly I came across this idea, besides with my semi-daily affiliations with critically-acclaimed rapper Snoop Lion.

I believe I'm a broken record and may have told everybody I talk to this before, but for the sake of the progression of this blog and so forth our project, I digress. 

I was a little kid once upon a time. But I never really did anything for others, anything of significance. Wow, sure, maybe I'd share a gummy worm or two to that girl sitting next to me, but mostly because she was really pretty. 

Now this transpired probably throughout elementary and middle school, I never did much for anyone but myself. But I remember in 6th grade, one really cool charitable event was taking place in our school. I believe it was called "Pennies for Patients".

Well anyways, during the time, I never really ate lunch, I'd usually just ask my mom for money and keep it. And being 11 or 12 years-old, I didn't have much to spend it on.

So during class, my teacher Mr. Wesley called out for any donations, being it a couple pennies or a few dollars. Suddenly BAM-SHABOOM-POW. I whipped out like $80.00 from my wallet and gave it to him. 

This was probably the greatest feeling in the world. That I did something for someone (I hope!).

Anyways, from that point on, I never really did anything else for others. These first few years of high school have been devoid of volunteer work, community service, and charitable event workings. And now that our teacher has provided my group with such an opportunity, I hope to make the best of it alongside Brenton, Danielle, and Tanya.

Getting things started

So this week we haven't done much at all.  But we did find a mentor-sama. Mrs. Battig has decided to help us with our flowery quest for vegetable liberation. Though Brenton was gone today. But today I researched up on this one dude. His name is Epicurus. You see, Epicurus was an interesting guy, in fact, people who studied under him, the Epicureans, are known to inhabit the 6th circle of Hell, as according to Dante's Inferno. Now, Epicurus was widely known for his trilemma, a play on words of the term dilemma.  Now here was his theory: that if God is able to rid of evil, but is unwilling, he is evil; that if God is unable to rid of evil, but is willing, then he is not omnipotent; and that if God is unable to rid of evil and is unwilling, is he God? Well I dunno. Flowers. Anyways, with our garden activities slowly budding along, we hope to get things really started in some 2 weeks or so. For now, more research into circles of Hell.

World peace with potatoes

Unlike the Irish potato famine, our work with a community vegetable garden with the humanitarian organization Mind Gardens will solve hunger. This idea began with the concept of inhalant drugs. This evolved into an interest of the Based God of drug usage, Snoop Dog. Needless to say, Snoop Dog is a very interesting individual, having been arrested some years ago for a murder-involvement. Also drugs. Lots of drugs.

But Snoop Dog is a humanitarian. He is a model, example person towards the righteous journey towards World Peace. Snoopy Snoop Snoop currently owns a junior league football team in the Los Angeles area for inner-city kids to keep off the streets and drugs. Most don't know, but he also has and cares for two loving children.

Anyways, while looking for Snoop's more "enticing" proposals, I came across his organization, Mind Gardens.

Mind Gardens is a nation-wide community garden project aimed to collect food, resources, etc. for impoverished countries. And so, our project is thus forth to create a Mind Garden in our school.

Other people are building bikes, others making a short film, others building doghouses.

But Mind Gardens is legit, yo.