Haven't Posted in a While!

I haven't posted in so long but I assure you I have been keeping up with my CAS work!  School has just been so busy since March Break with midterms going on and lots of projects and essays but I have managed to stay on top of things.

Seniors Home:  I have volunteered a few nights since last posting and I was able to go a couple of times with my friend who is also doing CAS service there.  We were able to visit with lots of seniors in their rooms and I really think it made each of their nights to have someone to talk to.  We learned a lot about the lives of these people and each one had their very own interesting history.

Romeo Parelli:  Romeo had been progressing faster than I could have hoped!  I think he is almost ready to move to level two since he seems to be able to do all the friendly games smoothly.  We have moved barns however, but we will start up again soon.  I also discovered that we need to work on getting him on and off the trailer and Parelli has some good dvds and tutorials for this since it is such a common problem among horses these days.  It isn't a bad thing that Romeo has this difficulty though, since it gives us more to work on which I believe will only increase the bond and trust that we have been developing.  And I will continue fine tuning our level one work for right now since I really want to him to have a good foundation before moving on.

Art:  I haven't been to art recently, I have only had the one acrylic class so far.  The grade 12s who have been teaching us have been busy with mocks but I believe there will be another meeting next week.

Gardening:  The gardening is going great!  I have been to water once so far but have decided to take part more in the artistic side of it since it is hard to get the watering schedule to work with my own.  I have been working with a few other students to come up with an art design for the wall in front of the garden and we will be working on a rough draft as soon as we all decide on a theme.  There is also a video that a fellow student made of the gardening committee and I am in it.  I am the one doing the drawing near the end of the video.  Gardening Video

Battle of the Books:  This is something new.  I am doing a Battle of the Books at my school with a fellow class mate on the book Before I Die by Jenny Downham. I read the book last month after watching the movie based on it and really enjoyed it.  It has some great and very important messages about dealing with life and death and I believe it can become a classic (which is the theme of this year's Battle of the Books; a novel written withing 25 years that we think could become a classic).  The actual event will be Tuesday (April 16th 2013) at 7:00pm.  It is also a fundraiser to help certain literacy groups.