New Direction

So this may come as a bit of a shock since I took a bit of an unintentional hiatus from blogging..but I am thinking about taking my project in a new direction,

I have been resistant to drawing, and to be quite frank, drawing precise blueprints is really not my thing. Drawing precisely and focusing on every single detail has never been my thing. Also, at this point, I would really just be happy to live in any earthship. It might even make more sense so I don't have to spend a ton of time and energy building my design later if I wanted to.

Yesterday, Ms. Lord suggested to me and another girl that we could take our projects a new direction if we wanted to. If we were unhappy with the way things are going. I thought originally that I should just stick to what I'm doing. But then, I started to wonder.

I JUST, like, one period ago, had a meeting with Ms. Zaryski to talk about possible directions I could take and what other hands on work I can do that's in relation to earthships. And Ms. Z suggested the idea that I could build a garden at my house, then eat only the food that I grow from my garden for one week. Because, in an earthship, there's a green house in front of the large glass windows where you could grow food, and learning how to garden/properly grow my own food would be a good "introduction" to living the life I could in an earthship down the road.

Also, I mentioned in my planning post yesterday that I wanted to reach out in the community more and seek out stories of how people live sustainably. Once I interview enough people, I could make a scrap book of their stories! This way, I can have a (parishable) product by the end. Also scrapbooking is a lot of fun :) And, this would still include the creativity aspect of my project, just a different outlet.

I still have to talk to Ms. Lord about all of this to make sure it's okay and get some more advice about how to go about this change, but I am once again excited for the possibilities!

The goal for this weekend is to finish watching and taking notes on Garbage Warrior. I know this was something I was supposed to accomplish a couple weeks ago...so I will post an entry about it on Sunday night/Monday morning (I have a regatta from Friday afrernoon-Sunday evening and might not be able to access blogger).