Last week, I made the benchmark for the allotted amount of hours to spend at the MIA. However, that doesn’t mean my time at the MIA has come to an end. I still have to teach a lesson, polish off lesson plans, and I’m still helping out with the MSP event. On Wednesday, I helped illustrate another children’s story for the MSP event. The kids were ecstatic about my drawings and one student even called me a “beast”, which is probably the best compliment I’ve received. It was fairly similar to last week. Last week, we went over the time constraint, so we tried to remove a few minutes when we could this week. This worked for the best, because the kids did get antsy both weeks when they had to listen to the facilitator. Overall, the event was very successful and the kids seemed to enjoy it immensely. For the rest of the week, I’ve been planning out the lesson plan for the MIA’s family day. The theme of the event on May 8th will be flowers. I was feeling a little clueless on ideas, but Victoria showed me the supply closets on Friday, so I could better visualize what the MIA had. I came up with a few ideas that I couldn’t choose from and was thrilled to get Victoria’s input. She helped pick out my strongest ideas and came up with a list of supplies we would need. It’s much easier bouncing project ideas with someone, as I was able to get an extra noggin to help work out the kinks. Originally, I was only supposed to plan out one lesson plan, but Victoria was very excited about two of my ideas. On one hand, I have more work to do. However, I'm viewing this situation optimistically, so I will get extra practice in lesson planning. The theme of the projects is flowers, but the projects must also repurpose a paper bag. I came up with a paper sculpture inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s flower sculptures and a paper bag booklet that will be filled with botanical illustrations. I’m excited to see how the projects will turn out. Unfortunately, my journal entries have come to an end, so you can only surmise that the rest of my time at the MIA will go swimmingly. Farewell!