Day 1

 Senior Project | May 9th

Today marked the first day of Senior Project 2022. I took the opportunity to sleep in but made it a priority with my partners, Trey and Mitchell, to begin brainstorming and planning events by 10am. We met outside of Rulon, got comfy in our Adirondacks and set to work. Our goal for the morning session was to come up with a number of potential ideas for events that would be both entertaining for the whole Proctor community and financially feasible. Some of our ideas included: a wiffle ball tournament, movie night on the turf, "Stay Afloat" contest, flag football tournament, the revival of Proctor assassins (water guns), ghosts in the graveyard, mini golf, spike ball tournaments, scavenger hunts, and more. We understand that some of these ideas may not be possible for one reason or another, so we hope through sheer abundance of ideas, enough will workout; and we're confident enough will. After our morning session, we got lunch and planned our activity for later that night: a bonfire. We decided that with the wonderful weather we were gifted with today, and the not so wonderful black flies, a fire would be a nice idea. At around 6pm we gathered wood and kindling and brought it over to the fireplace outside of Slocumb and began making the fire - we also got supplies for s'mores! Gabby was nice enough to hang around with us to make sure everything went smoothly. By 6:30pm, the fire was in full swing and we sent out an all-school email so that our schoolmates would (hopefully) join us. We got a healthy crowd of Hornets to come through and enjoy the warmth, s'mores, and bug-repelling smoke with us! It was only Day 1, but it was a good one. 
More to come soon. 


Hours Today: 5

Total Hours: 5

Comments

  1. Kelly Griffin-BrownMay 10, 2022 at 6:23 AM

    Sounds like a fun filled first day. Don't forget to put your daily hours and project total hours on your blog.

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