Our Final Days

          As our final week together approaches, we are all feeling the heat – there is so much to do. This week there has been a gamut of final assessments. I took an English, Spanish, and Marine Science exam. I finished my History paper on the Influence of Religion on the Structure and Ideal of Roman Society. I also took a test in math on solving fraction equations. We must finish our Marine Science Research and Prepare for our Exhibition of Learning.

My Marine Science group had taken over 50 water samples for the Little River Bridge. We are in the midst of writing our paper and analyzing data. We are finding that during an incoming tide, the water has an average pH of about 8.1-8.2 and a higher salinity than an outgoing tide. An outgoing tide has a pH of around 7.5 and a lower salinity. Salinity and pH have no correlation to each other or to the depth from which we sampled from. This may be due to the disturbance created in the water from lowering the water sampling, or that the current is so strong that the water is mixed very well. Our goal is to finish the paper this weekend or early next week so we can get going on the PowerPoint Presentation and Poster.

In Leadership, we are preparing work for the Exhibitions of Learning next Friday. We have a self-portrait, personal mission statement, and self-reflection due. The self-reflection is a ten-minute talk or speech and then a five-minute creative showing. Some of us are doing iMovies and others are doing paintings. Each project is very unique. 

Home is on everyone’s mind. While we miss our families, we also don’t want to ever leave each other. My favorite part of CSG is the community. We are all really close and help each other out all the time. We have laughed together, played together, and cried together. It is really nice to know that someone is ALWAYS there for you. It is also different from a regular friendship because we live together so you can’t hide anything. Everyone knows everyone else so well. Thinking about leaving, we are sad because we won’t know what to do when we are not together all the time. Because now, if you need someone to talk to in the middle of the night, they are right there, but when we go home, our best friend isn’t right next to our bed. That is what I’ll miss the most – the friendships. It is just so awesome and I am so glad I have gotten this opportunity!

~Brianne