pigtails and a tiara

Well I have made a lot of progress with the expert source for the Beyond the Border. During class on Friday I found a FANTASTIC source. Her name is Lynn Paxton and she is a professor at Idaho State University where she teaches Native American architecture. I found an article on her innovative teaching subjects online. Apparently she is really passionate about Native American architecture. Perfect Right? Well I thought so. So I bookmarked the website (which also had her phone number on it), and I plan to call tomorrow. (I know teachers hate it when you call them on weekends.) When I am going to call is going to be a problem, I don't get home till 7:00 or 8:00 and by then its already 9:00 or 10:00 in Idaho. I think. I guess I will have to call her during lunch or class or something. That would be good. Then Cammy and Kayley (my group mates) could be there too. That is the official update for the Mexico project.

As for the Mayan artifact project, well there is bad news. Unfortunately, not having my own car, or my own license for that matter, can sometimes cause difficulties. There was no time for my mom to take me to the store for supplies so I am going to have to make due with materials I have at home. For the poster board, I am using an old poster board from an eighth grade project. I am just going to use the other side of the board and maybe, if I have time, I will cover the old project with a large piece of paper or something to make the back look nicer. I don't really know what I am going to use for the artifacts. I wanted to make a necklace and either a painting or drawing of a ritual bloodletting on a stone or old rock. I originally wanted to draw it on clay but I don't think I have any spare clay sitting around. Maybe I will see if one of my classmates has any extra clay. But I prefer that they don't know how embarrassingly unprepared I am. And that is it, that is the 411, the dish, the fat to chew.

I know I have missed the last few bloggings so I hope that this overly gigantic one will make up for it. Just in case I will try to make the next one just as huge. Nighty-night.