Don't you just love it when you plans go all whacky? I was advised of a commercial that could be made for my club at OSU (Environmental Education and Parks Society) and that I had a week till the deadline. (Now I'm looking at 2 days till I have to get it in the mail.) This is where my small experience with filmmaking has come in handy: Be ready for ANYTHING.
Plan C: It's Sunday morning, it's pouring, and no one has shown up. Thank goodness I've taken a TON of pictures.
I will triumph!
(and I now have a ton of cinnamon rolls to enjoy too ~evil laugh~)
Besides that, it's been a busy week. I dropped a bunch of stuff off at home and met my friends new cat. I also got to see another friends new baby. This was in conjunction with the Meatloaf concert and such so I'll not spend too much time on that. Those were just cute pictures. The main thing I wanted you to get out of that was that I dropped a bunch of stuff off at home.
When my dormmates returned from their trip home, they gave me a whole bunch of great teacher stuff the Pennsylvania DNR. They had duplicates so now I have great lessons on bears, PA songbirds, etc. That was so awsome! However, it now does not look like I took anything home.
That was also pretty much the last day they were here. After Dr. Krissek's beach survey (more on that in a moment) we had a yummy farewell lunch for them and they hit the road. I wish them both the best of luck in school and in their future careers. I think they'll do fabulously.
Now, back to Dr. Krissek, who also did a talk at Stone Lab, did an evening talk with us on Andrill. Andrill is an incredible drilling program in Antartica and, amongst other things, they are using the bedrock cores they drill to help understand where the world might be going with this whole global warming thing. Dr. Krissek has been to Antartica many times and will return again. He filled us in on Artic Slugs (Weddell Seals) and the drilling mechanism and he had lots of great pictures of the transportable station. He even went over some of the results of their reasearch and managed to make it very understandable. It was a great lecture.
The next day, we all piled out to the beach to be educated on the movement of sand on the beaches of Lake Erie. Dr. Krissek showed us how to do a beach survey and we got to use some cool antique surveyors tools like sticks and string (there's a "back in my day" joke in there somewhere).
We dug holes in the sand to look at the layers and came across a sand spider. We also played in the odd purple sand that apparently is made up of magnatite and garnet which have heavier masses and therefore don't get blown away by the wind leaving purple stripes.
Dr. Krissek had us pick up random rocks and he told us what the different stones were made of and where they came from. (Even the ones from Michigan.) That was really cool. It made me think that, along with all the other classes I've decided it'd be a good idea to take, a geology class may be a good one to take. That was also a really fun event (because all the other events that I've participated in have soooo borning[/sarcasm]).
The next two days were full of Project Wild training and I have no pictures of that because I forgot my camera. However, I am now trained on Project Wild too and even taught a lesson during the class. Friday was wonderful and not filled to the brim with excitement. Saturday however.....
....was East Harbor State Park's Conservation Day! That was a fun day. We set up microscopes so people could look at plankton (and many did). There were many other stations that included caterpillars, cornhole with fish shaped bean bags, paper making, Lucky the Ladybug, and much more. It was a great event and there were LOTS of people who came with their families.
We returned back to Old Woman Creek after a brief stop at the craft supply store (and to do some brief "research" on how a certain member of the local economy is doing in their task of creating bird habitat). With that, it was time for me to head back to the dorm and prep for the proverbial commercial today and to clean up for the Division of Forestry folks who are coming this week.
Other things on track for this upcoming week is the OWC Advisory council meeting where I'll be doing a presentation on my internship, finishing this commercial thing, and finishing anything else I can finish. I am intern, hear me roar!
Till next time!
1 comment:
You look so cute in your little uniform.
-ladybugpj
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