happy earth day!

today is going to be a full-out earth day celebration for me!

at 1:30 this afternoon, I'm going to growing power for their open house with one of my supervisors from the corporation for national and community service/serve wisconsin in order to take a full look at their facility and hopefully talk to someone about hosting a potluck there for Americorps week. this will mean i have to miss my school's tornado drill, but i think i endured enough actual tornadoes while at earlham to get by without being here for the drill.

this evening is also maple tree's science fair/spring open house, which we're running in conjunction with a family gathering night. the HIP coordinator has planned arts and crafts activities, so the kids will paint flower pots. we've worked it out through the action team that parents will be given a form to fill out when they arrive that allows them to rate the displays by most creative, most informative, etc. when they go to the cafeteria to attend the family gathering night, i will be there to collect the forms as their ticket into the gathering night.

i am a little anxious about this, but for a good reason: the school principal will not be present at this event. this means that even though she supports the idea of collecting these forms before parents attend the gathering night, that doesnt mean things won't go according to plan.

stay tuned for more information on Americorps week, maybe some pictures at growing power (I'm not going on the tour, since I didnt bring sneakers and refuse to destroy my new loafers), and the results from the science fair!