As I mentioned in the last entry, I signed up for BUGS in order to develop my Service Learning. After attending two orientations (they changed the staff recently) I know that I will be helping to get the garden ready before the kids start to place their dreams, hopes, and effort there while they plant trees, vegetables, and fruits and work with bees. Also, I will be working with them and that would be really rewarding as I am a Elementary Education major.
That is one of the reasons to sign up for this project but definitely, not the only one. Even though my parents grew up in farms, I didn't help them at all and I regret it. Now I would like to live in a similar place and get food for my family, so that I believe this would be a good start. Apart from that, there is another practical reason: the Boise Urban Garden School is one of the closest to the campus and as I don't have a car, this was a small help to choose one of the SL available.
During this semester, the hours spent over there will be extremely helpful to make my new 'wisdom' about food and agriculture solid, as I will be checking it myself. Also, I believe I will learn more about healthy habits, I say this because riding the bike to Franklin road every morning will remind me that it's not that difficult to avoid the car if you make some effort.
All in all, I hope this will be a great SL and I am looking forward to start working!
