Plant #1: Petroselinum crispum (Italian Parsley)

1. Light green

2. Palmate

3.Comes to a jagged point

4. Doubly Serrate

5.

a) half of a thumb

b) half of a thumb

6. Palmate

7. The petiole is one thumb in length

8. The venation is slightly more distinct

9. Smooth

This is a "curly-leaved" Italian parsley plant versus the other type of parsley, the Hamburg parsley, because it does not have a taproot and its leaves are not quite as large as the Hamburg. It's scientific name is petroselinum crispum meaning curly parsley and it gives off a very strong smell and is often used in cooking. Because all of it's pedicels come from a common point, it is a simple umbel and an herbaceous plant as it does not have a "woody" stem above ground. It is also a vascular plant which means that it has a vascular system to survive. An interesting fact about Parsley is that supposedly if you pluck a sprig of parsley while saying your enemy's name, it will cause the death of that enemy.

1. Intern with a stylist

Contact: Melissa

Two years ago I participated in the Young Women's Leadership Program and as a part of it we met several women one day who had several different careers. One of them was a personal stylist. I still have her contact and I had mentioned our schools internships before and she had said she would love to have me intern with her then, so I may like to get in contact with her now for a possible endersession internship with her.

2. Store window display designer internship

Contact: Nordstroms and Anthropologie

I have always loved the window display in all of the stores. It involves my love for art project-like work but it also involves my love for fashion and for putting together outfits. I think this internship would be interesting for me to pursue because it could possibly tell me if I might like to pursue a this career instead.

3. Lisella's Boutique

Contact: Lisella Thomas

Jasmine's mom used to be a top supermodel and now she owns her own boutique in La Jolla. I have always been interested in fashion. I would like to explore more into what it is like to actuallywork in the fashion industry and I think that it would be a fun way to end senior year.

1. Invisible Children Volunteer

This is my number one choice for ender-session currently because not only have I volunteered there before and have a contact there already, but I also feel extremely strong about the particular topic of the central African genocide that is currently going on. I have been passionate about this cause since I was a sophomore. The central African genocide is also the reason why I started the global service club at our school because I feel so strongly about helping the cause.

Contact: Cherliza Jimenez cjimenez@invisiblechildren.com, (office manager)

2. Southern Sudanese Center Volunteer Tutor

I volunteered as a tutor at the Southern Sudanese Refugee Center during my sophomore year right after my passion for helping the people who have been affected by the central African genocide first began. I stopped tutoring by the end of that year, but I loved it so much that I would really enjoy volunteering there again.

Contact: Sarah Barnes

3. Habitat For Humanity

I also volunteered here over the past summer through an organization that I am a part of called Mother's And Daughters Club Assisting Philanthropy Services. I really enjoyed volunteering with them during their building blitzes and if they have one scheduled during the time that we will be on ender-session, I would love to volunteer with them again on my own.

Contact: Mothers And Daughters Club Assisting Philanthropy Services

My Myers Briggs Test Result: ENFP

The E means that I am a leader, I have a big group of friends, I initiate, and that I am expressive. The N means that I always try to achieve a more overall understanding of things and that I like to make plans in advance. The F means that I am more compassionate, but I can easily be taken advantage of and I am too focused on feelings, and the P means that I am fun, have more experiences, am not controlling, am relaxed, but I am not as organized. These results lead me to believe that a more creative and less strict internship would be best for me. I propose that I try to get an internship with the personal stylist whom I have the contact information for, or that I volunteer with Invisible Children since it goes along with the leadership and more compassionate aspects of my personality according to the Myers Briggs Personality test.

Monday 2/13 Homework:

1. For the final product of this project, I would like to (as simplistic as it sounds) create a tri-fold or some kind of poster that displays my findings and conclusions after completing the research portion of the project. Since we would be tracking all of the life that passes through a cubic foot of land that we will have plotted out at the garden, I would be taking photos of the piece of land for everyday of the project. I would use a selection of these photos for my tri-fold. I would use the photos that showed significant findings of mine made in the process and I would include brief explanations as to why they are significant and some conclusions I have made about them. I would also like to perhaps display some sort of a 3D visual that would aid in the total understandings of the findings made and the knowledge gained from the project. Finally, I would present this tri-fold display at our senior exhibition night at the end of the semester.

2. My expectations for the project are to gain an in depth knowledge about the fairly foreign world that lives beneath us, to build a project that I can be very proud to show to the parents at the senior exhibition night, and to hopefully be able to have something published in the Encyclopedia of Life. I hope that through completing this project I will come away knowing more about the similarities, differences, and overall information about several types of species and more about just how important every aspect of our ecosystem is to its overall survival.

3. I am expecting that I will follow through on my goal to achieve the best possible product that I can achieve for our exhibition and so I therefore also expect that my classmates will do the same. I expect that they will put forth all of their effort even as we come to the end of our high school careers so that we may have the best environmental science exhibition yet. I expect that our final product as a whole will be complete and extremely professional to those who view it.

4. For this project we should have lessons that coincide with the discoveries that we make in the one-foot areas that we are examining at the garden. We should also continue to have days when we will have the opportunity to review what we have been learning from the lectures, individually in our own ways that we learn best because this proved to be extremely helpful when we tried it last week. I think we should have days when we are able to use the microscopes in order to examine the specimens we collect from our one-foot areas of land in class.

Plant #1: Daffodil

Color: Light green, flower is yellow

Shape: Linear

Leaf Tip: Comes to a rounded point

Edge: Entire

Measurements:

a) 1 thumbnail wide

b) About 2 hands long

c) Flower diameter: about 1 pointer finger

Venation: Parallel

Petiole: No petiole

Underside: Venation is slightly more distinct

Surface: Smooth and waxy

Plant #1: Dandylion

Shape: LinearColor: Light Green

Leaf Tip: Rounded, slight point

Leaf Edge: Spiny

Leaf Size:

a) 1.27 centimeters

b) 10.16 centimeters

Venation: Pinnate

Petiole: Not present

Underside: Venation slightly more distinct

Surface: Relatively smooth, slightly bumpy

Plant #2: Sour Grass

Color: Light Green

Shape: Opposite

Leaf Tip: Rounded

Leaf Edge: Entire

Leaf Size:

a) 0.635

b) 0.635

Venation: Arcuate

Petiole: Not Present

Underside: Venation more distinct

Surface: Smooth

Plant #3: Shepards-purse

Color: Light Green

Shape: Cordate

Leaf Tip: Comes to a point

Leaf Edge: Spiny

Leaf Size:

a) 3.81 centimeters

b) 2.54 centimeters

Venation: Cross-Venulate

Petiole: Present, 6.35 centimeters

Underside: Venetion more distinct

Surface: Rough, bumpy

1. Volunteer with Invisible Children

Explanation: I volunteered at Invisible Children at the beginning of this year and really enjoyed it. However, the main time that is available to volunteer there is during school hours. Endersession would therefore be the perfect opportunity to be able to spend a large amount of time volunteering at Invisible Children, a cause I have been extremely passionate about and my main motivation behind starting the Global Service Club.

2. Intern with Jasmine's mom

Jasmine's mom used to be a top supermodel and now she owns her own boutique in La Jolla. I have always been interested in fashion. I would like to explore more into what it is like to actually work in the fashion industry and I think that it would be a fun way to end senior year.

3. Intern with a Personal Stylist.

Two years ago I participated in the Young Women's Leadership Program and as a part of it we met several women one day who had several different careers. One of them was a personal stylist. I still have her contact and I had mentioned our schools internships before and she had said she would love to have me intern with her then, so I may like to get in contact with her now for a possible endersession internship with her.