Friday, October 20, 2006

Field Botany





I took a block class this semester, InBio 235, and it has turned out to be my favorite class I've ever taken at BYU. Our class met 12 hours a week, spending most of that time outside looking at plants. Sounds pretty boring huh? The first day of class we just dove into the material and I was thinking the same thing you are right now, how boring. But it has been so much fun. We have learned about 240 woody plants found in North America. I am now cursed, everywhere we go I stare at the landscape and point out all the interesting plants to Lance. I'm not sure he thinks its as interesting as I do. And now all those weedy trees by our house that I paid no attention to before, drive me crazy. I just want to cut them down. Our class has gotten really close. On our last day of class and we decided to have a lunch together. One of the guys in our class is a big game hunter, so he grilled up some antelope kabobs for the whole class. Everyone else brought in cookies, chips, salad, drinks, or fruit. We had a great time. It's weird I've never been sad for a class to end, but I will miss this one.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cute pictures Jessica!! I can't wait to see you at Thanksgiving...but first I had better cut down my weed plants!

Mrs. Ordinary said...

Jess you look so cute! And it sounds like this class was even better than your knot-tying class.

jessica said...

I know I'm such a plant nerd, who knew I would choose plants over knot-tying?