Through out my externship experience I was finally able to get an accurate grasp on how life outside of high school can be. Simple things like how you go about planning your day to day and even finding times to feed yourself are things I actually had to put quite a bit of thought into. Aside from these blog posts I have been able to completely immerse myself into my work. I chose to share this picture for my last blog post because it's a picture with a lot of layers. Bright white and pink flowers in full bloom and a densely wooded background. Below is a picture from Central Park in New York City. This park is in one of the most populated metropolitan cities and from certain angles it can look like you're in a forest. This inspires me to never let your spacial limitations stop you from creating the means of a happy life. Parks like these are wonderful examples of that.
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Here is a photo of my friend Sam Talner (Below) who I started my trip with in New York. Sam goes to High Tech High and we all have our externship at the same time so we planned this trip together. Although Sam created a an entirely different project for his externship we were both able to collaborate and help eachother. Since we didn't spend anytime in a traditional work place we had a lot of free room to create as we pleased. Sam ended up creating a video of our traveling through New York and the east coast. The time and work I put into my trip and over all project directly reflect my work ethic in and outside of the classroom. Over the last month I created my own project guided by myself and it's something that makes me really happy. I believe I have contributed greatly to my education by taking initiative, allocating resources and applying both to make a final product. Creating this whole project around the idea of equity was what was very important to me. All of the work I'm creating is being donated and all copies of my booklet are free I believe I have achieved my goal. My externship was always a final product I had to work backwards and figure out how I was going to accomplish it. My work ethic definitely played a huge roll into this; my first self-guided project that I was traveling across the country to work on. At first I thought that I bit off way more than I could chew but as I took small amounts of time each day dedicated to my work the load became much more manageable. Sam Talner (Above) Here is my work in progress project! All that's left to do is make the final draft and print the booklet! (Top Left) Building the planter box. (Top Middle) some seeds (Meyers Lemon) 1 day into germination. (Top Right) Finished planter box (Rosemary, Mint, Lemon sprout, Aloe Vera and various native succulents). (Bottom Right) Lemon Rosemary Mint Tea brewing! (Bottom Middle) crushed nectarine pit for face and body scrub. (Bottom Right) Draft of booklet.
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