Just Around the Corner

Hello! Welcome to Playground Bound - where you can stay up to date with your friendly neighborhood aspiring playground designer.

 *le future me right there ^^

Here we are on the last day of classes and I have been oscillating between two polar opposite emotions. First, stress; HOW many projects are due next week?!

Second, exhilaration; OMG I just bought tickets to South Africa! I am going to be a world explorer!

  

And that brings me to this blog.

A few people have mentioned being interested in knowing what I'm doing this summer. I will be trying to follow two playground pursuits: work for Rusty Keeler's natural playscape business, where we'll make natural willow huts and much more:

...until July 13th when I'll go to Johannesburg, South Africa and help build a sustainable preschool as part of Cornell University Sustainable Design - Schoolhouse South Africa (check it out!):

 

This is the preschool we will be building as designed by Cornell 2nd year architects.

I am so excited to get started! And as soon as I take three more exams and finish two projects, I'll be all set.

In the meantime, I will let y'all know how both projects are coming and give YOU, yes you, an opportunity to receive original art from me while I'm in Africa in return for you helping me out with the travel cost. Or else I might have to downgrade my flight.

 

Human-powered plane built by college student in the Netherlands.

But more on that later. For now, let me know what you'd like to see in this blog. Real life pictures? More on my life or more on the projects? And, what is your favorite African animal? (this will become important later).

 

(warthog anyone?)

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