Today is out last day here at Microcamus and I'm sad to say goodbye. I am so glad I went on this fantastic trip with great students and teacher. Mr. T Talked about how this trip wasn't guaranteed to be great and that we would need to make it great. Well, I'm glad to say that we've made this trip amazing. We had a great balance between work and fun at the same time learning new things. I will miss Microcampus and this amazing experiences I have made here.

 For the first time in Microcamous history, There is going to be not one, but two Mr. T's all-star whizbang superduper trivia night. Last time we had a trivia night, the teams were Barton, Angela and me against  Laura, Annie, and Nicole. Safe to say we won by over 100 points. This time's trivia night will be Barton and me against all the girls including Bryce. I am extremely excited for tonight's trivia night and hopefully, we win. Earlier today we also completed our service learning projects and handed them into Mr. T for review.

Today was a big day for inquiry work. At 10 am we needed to hand in our inquiry projects to me. T for pearls of wisdom. I was able to get great feedback from the chat and great insight on where my Project is going. The rest of the day I edited my project according to what Mr. T wants and I think it is a much better final product. Today we also worked on service learning because in 2 days our service learning project is due. Our service learning partner is so kind and hopefully will be able to make the viewing on Wednesday.

For S.S during SAS essentials we were required to take notes on a 50-page chapter. I decided to do a chapter on memory and today I will be talking about how it relates to the village of Xizhou. My inquiry topic is on parents expectations and I talked with many adults about what their childhood was like. Many of them hao use their memories that would take them over 35 years back to when they were children. During my time talking with many of the locals I came across many people who constantly said what to questions than answered shortly after.

Today right after lunch, we had 2 hours to work and finish Phase 4. It was a little stressful but we were all able to finish in time. I still can't believe that for almost 5 months now we have been working on a project that is about to come to an end. We have been working and striving towards our goal and we are just in reach of it. The next few days we will be working on our final product which will bring and end to our inquiry time.

It is day 17 at Micro campus and it is our second to last day here to work on our Phase 3 and tomorrow will be the last day we will be able to go out and talk to the locals. In 2 days we are supposed to finish 2 phases and that definitely makes me nervous. However today was a great day, I had to share ant inquiry slot with Laura because the other teacher wasn't available. Laura needed to talk with the local farmers here and it was really fun to talk to the local farmers. In fact, they even taught us how to pull out the garlic stems with the tool.

Today was the first day of the weekend to rest and recover. When we woke up, we woke up camping. We packed everything up after breakfast and headed home to BaoCheng Fu. When we got home we had to set up our tents so that they could dry out. After that, I took the greatest shower ever, with hot water and soap. It was nice to take a small nap in my feather bed with my pillow once again. During down time our service learning groups went out to have conversations with local's and make connections. I cant wait for tonight's sleep in my comfortable bed!

Yesterday for the evening activity, our house guest so kindly hosted an intro to art class for us. A couple days ago, a lady by the name of Gabby moved into Baochengfu. She is staying in Xizhou for 2 weeks working with the Linden Center teaching art classes. She then proposed an Introduction to drawing class. it wasn't exactly a drawing class but it was much better. We ended up using charcoal paints and powder. We started off the lesson with the quick usage of charcoal powder on a brush, we then moved to the charcoal pencils.

For evening activity we are having Mr. T Wiz Bang Allstar Superduper Trivia Night. This is the world renowned trivia game that is have heard so much about and am really excited to participate. It is the first time in about a week that we have had blue, clear skies. It was also the day we talked to the next Microcampus group. Angela, Laura and I had a skype call with the Micorcampus group coming right after us to answer some questions. It was great to meet the Tactical group and to be able to clarify some questions they needed to answered.

I woke up to beautiful blue skies with barely any clouds. Today is Sunday and is a day of rest and recovery for us. In the morning we needed to complete a wellness reflection for the week. We took around an hour to complete the reflection. Afterward, we had lunch in House and a meal design by us students. Today was an absolute amazing day and hopefully will go for a bike ride soon. Today for evening activity we will be getting prepared for the week ahead. 

Wind turbines, Wow. Today we took a trip to the wind turbine farm. At around 3:00 we were able to choose either to go to a tie die factory or to the wind farm. If you get the chance you need to go to a wind farm and stand in front of the Turbine. the amount of wind and how strong it is is tremendous. Before the field trip we didnt have WIPPIS time. We only had inqury project time until 3:00. Today was a great first week and i cant wait to see what the weekend can offer!

Today is the 5th day at Microcampus and the first day with local contacts. it was also the first time we woke up late. We woke up about an hour after breakfast started. It was quite terrifying to see how late we woke up. Since starting our day was quite difficult without any breakfast, we were tired and hungry up until lunch.After lunch, however, we started the day oof well with a fun game of badminton, then I  did some jump roping. Wellness was fun but the inquiry project was amazing. Mr. Tafel and I one out to Interview Mr. Yang. An antique dealer at the corner of SiFang Jie.

It is the 3rd day at Microcammpus and also the first day of Still Time. We started off our day with the daily meeting. There we were able to talk the plan for pitching in. After the daily meeting we had Pitching in for around an hour and a half. During Pitching in we meet with our committee to see what the plan is in the future. My committees are Food and Menue which is planning out what we eat, banking and financing which is distributing the allowance every 4 days and Laundry We stopped which is assigning laundry to people. After lunch we then moved on to our Inquiry projects.