UN Day: Blue House Garden

          Last October 13-17, 2014, our school held the United Nations week. This year, the theme was about Family gardening. This dealt with the global issue of how our world has to sustain its resources for the present and the future generations. With that theme, the house leaders helped the lower school in building their hanging gardens and also, each house built its own unique house gardens. 

          The Blue House came up with a plan of building a covered garden. We planted tomatoes and different kinds of lettuce. I, Jennifer and Gary participated in planting the seedlings. It was really fun although it was somewhat hard to plant the seedlings. When we were all done planting, we watered the plants and hoped that it would grow well. We were really happy that we were done building our house garden.

          However, the work did not end there. We had to take care of the garden so that the plants can grow well. As a result, the house leaders took turns in watering the plants. Our house garden seemed to be really successful at first because the plants were really growing well. However, after some months, our plants began to die. We realized that our garden was receiving too much light and we were on a vacation so we did not get to take care of it really well. I was really sad that it was really dying. We were not able to take care of it really well and had to leave it dying.

          I believe that this activity was something that really needed perseverance. We cannot stop at one point and we have to cooperate to take care of it. It is really sad that we were not able to take care of it until the end but I know that we have placed much effort into it. It was a good experience and I hope to use that experience in the future.