So we worked on this thing a little more.

For one, we began talking around with a few more people. Primarily, the principal.

After getting some time, the entire group went out and headed up to the principal's office for a little talk. He was quite supportive of us. Supportive, but not exactly optimistic. He began talking about the possible pitfalls of our project, the flaws, the challenges we would have to overcome. Well, let's just say that there was a significant amount of red tape involved with our previous proposition.

I anticipated some forms here and there, but it took several teachers quite some time and quite a bit of paperwork for them to be approved for the operation of the school's current garden. How were we, a small group of four students going to be able to accomplish that? Well, the principal then gave us some ideas for the project. Some alternatives.

We particularly liked this one: Talk to the teachers running the already established garden at school, and ask to become the custodians of the garden. All we had to do was ask for it.

Going back to Battig, one of the co-owners of the garden in the first place, we talked to her about this plan. She said it was a good one. We even got half a garden plot of call our own.

Then she pointed us to the other two teachers we needed to talk to. But that is a task for next week.

This week, Danielle and I went to visit the the AP Environmental Science teacher in charge of one of the  the garden plots in school. One of my group members, Tanya, came to the room early but learned from the TA working there after school that the teacher was out of the room, and so left school grounds to go home.

Brian was absent from school that day, and so couldn't make it to the meeting quite obviously. 

And so, Danielle and I waited by the doorway until she came back from the pet store. After watching her feed the resident snake a live rat, she began to talk to Danielle about the same things she talked to me about, as she wasn't there the last time I had talked to her. She  advised us to talk to the maintenance crew at school, as well as the softball team coaches and associated groups, because the plot of land we were interested in was used already by both groups of people to travel between one area and another. Another piece of advice given, was to contact the school principal and ask for permission although it was unlikely that he would refuse. And so, after talking with her for a bit, we left with some newfound knowledge, and a plan for the future. 

This week, a partner of mine, Danielle had the job of contacting the AP Environmental Science teacher that was located near a plot of land  that we thought suitable for the garden. While the English class was in the library working on projects, thinking up some new schemes, she emailed her. 

Meanwhile, the de facto head of our group, Brian To, suggested another project out of the blue, surprising all of us, detachable inline roller blades. I personally thought he was proposing wheelies for a moment.  He really wanted to do this project instead of the one we have already set out to do. It was also pretty darn expensive. After that, we went on to begin looking up some plants we could grow in the spring time. 

When the APES teacher responded that same night, she did her best to be helpful and supportive of us and tried to set up a time when we could all meet and talk.  We were set to meet on Tuesday or Wednesday, but sadly, our schedules interfered heavily with this, and we were at an impasse. 

So I took things into my own hands later on in the week. I went to her classroom in person and explained our project to her. She began to talk to me about the possibilities and such of the project, the pitfalls, and challenges we would need to overcome. It was quite enlightening . 

I left, and then afterwards, contacted my group members.