Halloween’s Terror Behind the Walls!

This was a spooky Halloween break that several of my classmates and I took. This event is held annually during October at the Eastern State Penitentiary. I wrote a review previously of a daytime visit to the prison turned museum. It is a wonderful place to visit and should certainly be visited if you are in Philadelphia. Terror Behind the Walls is a series…

Archives As Reference

This semester we have visited the Archives at Penn several times. This is an amazing resource! The Archives are located below the Fisher Fine Arts Library. The entrance is located just off 34th street by the crosswalk between Morgan and Fisher. The Archives are always open and often have exhibits. As a class we have gone to see several of these including geologic mappings,…

Garden Review

What a wonderful review! I presented first and so had the reviewers at thier liveliest. Presenting first to third is my preffered place in the order of presentations only becuase the critics are the most attentive and you get to set up the standard for the presentations. You get to decide what background information to tell, what to highlight in the process, and the…

Field Trip Tuesdays!

Honestly one of my favorite classes thus far has been the workshop/field ecology classes. Every Tuesday the class goes out to the landscapes around us to learn more about how they are formed, what plants grow there, and to get a better sense of the ecologies we are working within. While this is constrained to the area around Philadelphia from the Jersey shore to…

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Musuem of Art:https://www.philamuseum.org/ This museum is beautifully crafted! Most of the exhibits are integrated into the architecture of the room and are interactive. I really love seeing how artifacts were implentened into an experience. The museum really used pieces as they were originally intended, as architectural elements. I purchased an annual membership this year in the hopes of taking friends and family for…

PAWS at Petsmart!

Over summer I volunteered with PAWS (Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society) and loved it! I decided this semester not to give up on volunteering but to integrate it into my school schedule. In some ways I treat my volunteering like another two hour class. I transitioned from the Grays Ferry location to the new Petsmart on Broad and Washington. I was super excited to take…

Salsa Saturday!

Sassafras Bar: http://places.singleplatform.com/sassafras-2/menu?ref=googlehttps://www.yelp.com/biz/sassafras-bar-philadelphia-2 Brasil Night Club: http://brasilsnightclub-philly.estilodancestudio.com/salsa-lessons/ In celebration of a few studio birthday’s several of us went out for a night of food and dancing in Old City Philadelphia. In true landscape fasion we celebrated first with dinner at the Sassafras Bar, chosen for its tree like name. The Sassafras was a quaint little place with a standard american fare menu. The only downside was…

Gym Buddies

There is nothing like having a few gym buddies to make your workout a little brighter! I am so happy to see that my healthy lifestyle has encouraged my classmates to take a break from studio to take care of their health. A group of 8 of us have a small positive reinforcement group to go to the gym. We share workouts. We encourage…

Penn Health Tips!

While no one likes going to the doctor getting an annual check up is really important. My last check up was roughly in October. I went in for my check up this year at about the same time. While there I learned a few wonderful things! If you have a medical emergency call Penn Health first! They have an on call doctor 24/7 who…

Garden Update!

Even with a busy semester I have found some time to expand my garden! The cherry tomatoes are blossoming, my daisies and african voilets are continally flowering, and my succulents keep sprouting new succulents. I have even tested planting strawberries. As with every garden I have run into my troubles with watering schedules and pests. But the spider mites and wilting leaves will not…