Three Most Interesting Points:
1. The biggest take-away by far is how driven and passionate the students are about the project. You don’t have such rapid growth in a program without some serious enthusiasm, and it’s great to see something like that happening anywhere, let alone in our own city.
2. Another surprising and refreshing tid-bit is how they were supported and donated to by so many different organizations and even some corporations. It’s possible to take the cynic’s view with the corporations and say that they just want some free advertising, but it’s nigh impossible to say the same to the organizations that have lent their support. It’s really assuring to see that there are groups out there that would readily support such efforts.
3. At the time of writing this blog post on Word, I’m actually reading a pre-loaded page at a restaurant, unable to connect to the Internet. But as soon as I do get home, I am visiting their website for their recipes.1
Question: I don’t know if it’s just because, in IB, we’re uberclocked and so have no time, but from what I’ve seen, there’s limited school spirit and sprawling apathy in the student body: people are more concerned with getting marks than displaying Highlander love; this isn’t me ragging on classmates: I’m not exactly innocent of apathy either, and goodness knows I’m still an Argylian at heart. But I wonder how it was that Windermere was able to get their students so enthused about the garden, and if it can be replicated at our school?
To Look For: Note to future self: come back to WVSS in, say, 4 years, and expect our garden to kick Windermere’s butt.
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