Dog Patch Sympathy

Coming up with a project that seems appeasing to me is harder than I thought. Fortunately, I came up with one. I play in the Lexington Fiddle Group "Dog Patch Sympathy" and we are a public service that play for about any occasion. Around December I asked my group if they would like to play for my geriatric patients at Lexington Extended Care, an extension of Lexington Medical Center, and faithfully they said yes. I always wanted to give something to the elderly and I feel that a little music therapy would do just the thing. Recently, we have played for a celebration of aging, which was a gathering of over 60 Senior Citizens. We also played for an audience at Lexington Extended Care and plan to play at many other retirement/assisted living homes.
The Fiddle Group includes: Me (senior, violin); Heather Porth (senior, violin); Elizabeth Wyndham (senior, bass); Johanna Jesowski (junior, violin); Andrew Chaveria (junior, violin); Diane Vaught (sophomore, violin); Jonathan Wyndham (freshman, guitar-master); Johanna Pollock (our great sponsor and teacher).

Gift Baskets

My community service project is hopefully going in December. I was searching through the Community Service book, trying to find something right for me. Like always, I wanted to do something for the elderly. In the book I found a great ideal, which was to make gift baskets. The elderly people in my community, just like in most quickly developing communities, are being pushed into the background. There are plenty community service projects at my school occuring at the same time but a few to none including the appreciation of our senior citizens. Hopefully, this ideal will be successful and may be accompanied by others. I am pretty sure that my grandfather would enjoy this. What do you think? Do you think that this would be boring? I would still have to find sponsors to put items in the baskets and the baskets themselves. Please tell me what you think.

Another Way

Last night I got a chance to talk to one of my town's councils, Kathy Maness. She, of course, told me that I should try doing voter registration. I took upon that ideal and got the forms today. Everyone wanting to sign up has to be signed up before October 7, so this project is going to go quickly. Talk to everyone later!

Different Day, Different Plan

I came to a conclusion that all my ideas sound half-baked. In affilation with JCL (Junior Classical League), I will confer with my peers and city officials to find what my community really needs. In JCL, I am the school president and any good president would speerhead a great community service project. Another Day, Another Idea.

My Vision

My vision is to have a walk for diabesity. Diabesity is a mixing of the words diabetes and obesity. Being Overweight and obesity are predictors of type 2 diabetes, and obesity is indeed an insulin resistant state. In particular people with central obesity, where fat collects around the waist, are most likely to become insulin resisitant. It is no coincidence that cases of type 2 diabetes have escalated in line with the global rise in the scale of overweight and obesity so that type 2 diabetes is being nicknamed "Diabesity."

-My Vision

Farewell

I miss you guys already. I hope you all continue to have a great summer, unfortunately for me, I go to school next Tuesday. See you all in March and hope to hear from you before. See YA'LL Later.