Same Old Same Old

I always seem to write in my blog after I go line dancing. Go figure.

Well, I went line dancing last night! Haha. Heather and I trucked out to Greenville after symphonic band rehearsal was over for Blindhorse's weekly lessons. It was actually a lot more fun that I thought it would be. It's kind of this huge challenge to be new to a group of about 70 individuals from beginner beginner to paid to dance caliber. When we got there we still had a bit of time to wait before the lesson started and some of the more experienced folks were doing some VERY hard dances. However, we found 2 (count 'em 2!!!) that we had actually learned from previous attempts. The lesson warm up was a dance that we had already learned (yup we're at 3) and we learned 2 or 3 MORE dances during the lesson! It felt really good to actually grasp the basic steps and to finally not be the worst dancer in the building!

On another note, internship applications are taking over my life. I'm applying to 9 internships. 1 is in Anderson at a wholesale cut flower warehouse. 1 is in Seneca at a family owned nursery. This isn't like the little place I worked at over the summer. Their greenhouse is HUGE and I have an interview-ish type thing tomorrow afternoon. 1 is in Highlands, NC at the biological station. 1 is at the Sarah P. Duke Botanical Garden in NC. 2 of them are in upstate NY. One is an internship on a large scale organic farming operation. The other is a theraputic Horticulture internship that I'm actually very excited about. I would be in charge of helping mentally handicapped children learn how to garden and better their motor skills by interacting with plants. This is a lot like what I did at Camp Harkness, except that was with horses. The cool thing is, Green Chimneys (the place the internship is at) is also an equestrian therapy center so I might get to do some riding over the summer, too! Another internship is Raker's Acres in Michigan. It's one of the largest plug producing companies in the US with some of the best technology out there. Yet another internship is in GA, Chatham Landscape Design, and it's a landscape design internship in the Atlanta area. The last one is an arboretum at Harvard. And then there's always the backup of going back to Green Survival. I love Green Survival but in order to step into the Horticulture industry I really should get a bigger, more prominent internship over the summer.

So all in all that's 7 applications, 27 letters of reference, 9 resumes, 2 transcripts, 7 cover letters, 2 statements of interest, a shitton of postage... and a partridge in a pear tree?

If I seem extra moody or irritable over the next few months it's just the stress of getting everything out on time and waiting for responses.

Much love.