Here is my presentation. Mostly it's just pictures, but if you look at the Presenter Notes you'll get a jist of what I said. I didn't look at the notes while I was presenting because it turns out I don't actually know how to work presenter notes, but... you know, whatever.

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Senior Project Slideshow.ppt

 I am WAY too tired to blog right now. But I haven't yet this week. Ugh. I'll flesh this out tomorrow, or something.

But, in brief: Monday and Tuesday I worked at the office, dutifully making lists, printing labels, and putting broken tents out of their misery. 

Today was market day! I wasn't there for set-up, but I arrived midway through the market and stayed for take-down for the first time. Take-down doesn't take nearly as long as set-up, but it does involve collecting garbage, which, as you might imagine, smells less than lovely.

 Here are the pictures of the farm site I took with my phone. The pictures are terrible quality because, again, I took them with my phone. But here's what I have:

This is a really cool old-growth maple on the side of the site.

A view of the farm site, newly plowed (though not finished). You can see the shed in the background.

With a single post I shall now cover two days of work, so rejoice! (And also be warned of brevity, for exhaustion strikes.)

I spent the rest of last week dutifully doodling at maps for my garden design, with no salient events of interest. In the end, I came up with three potential designs and counted myself a success.

This morning I had to drop my father off at work downtown on my way to Forest Grove, so I got to stop off at Spella Caffe for a cappuccino. Any day that begins with Spella is a good day indeed. But I digress.

 So today I had my first "official" day of my senior project. To quote my advisor, I now feel "orientated." 

I enjoyed the door-knocking tremendously, and found that interacting directly with people in the neighborhood gave me a better insight into the area’s culture than any amount of talking to people who live elsewhere or browsing Internet statistics ever could have. This fact seems almost too obvious to state, but I found the experience of walking between houses and speaking with the people living in them honestly eye-opening.

And so it begins.

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Application for Senior Project Class of 2010.doc

We recently spent three class periods watching the documentary Making Sense of Place – Portland: Quest for the Livable City. The film detailed Portland’s system of urban planning, the history of the urban growth boundary, and the function of our Metro government. We learned that the urban growth boundary was instituted with the passage of state Senate Bill 100 in 1973, and Metro, a tri-county regional government that now regulates that boundary, was established shortly afterward. We came to appreciate how unique the Portland metro area is in its approach to planning.