Today we finished our occupations.
Occupations are where we split the Farm Stay into two groups and we work or
learn about a part of the land school or its history. This year my group worked
on facilities, where we work to fix the homestead.
We each chose an individual
project, some people worked on finding the mysterious sewage smell, other
people worked on putting a vent into our pantry in the basement and fix a patch
in the wall where other people had previously tried to put the vent in. Another
person fixed a door in the boys wing and the girls wing so that the doors can
actually close. Another person fixed the ping-pong table and the really messed
up foosball table. I worked on pulling all of the old caulk out of the cracks
in the dinning room floor and getting all the dirt out. Then I put some new
caulk into the cracks.
We also chose a group project in
which all of us work on together. This year we all pitched in to frame pictures
of the past Residencies and Farm Stays. This took more time than we thought
because we had to find all the pictures then find which Residency it was and who
the people in the pictures were. Finally we hung them on the walls.
I think it is important to have us
do these jobs because it shows us a different part of going on a Farm Stay because
the original thought is, oh no home work, and we get a lot of free time. But
that’s not true; we do have homework and we actually have a longer school day
the people at the Urban Campus (Lake Country School). Now I’m making Farm Stay
sound not fun. It’s actually really great!
-Jo
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