Legacy Leader: Class of 2013 – 2014

King Bhumibol Adulyadej, age 88, died today at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok. The Thai nation is in deep mourning for their beloved king. As soon as his death was announced, the thousands surrounding the hospital to pray for him burst into tears and wails. He will be sorely missed.

>Okay, so the semester is winding down and classes are all beginning to run into each other. It’s a good thing, then, […]

About a month and a half ago I was in the middle of our corn field doing a happy dance. The corn was taller than me and looking so strong! All our hard work had paid off and the corn was growing taller and faster than we had hoped. The following day we show up to the farm and a great amount of the corn had fallen over! I was devastated! The previous night there was a huge storm. The rain flattened out the mounds that the corn root buried itself into and with no foundation; all 7 feet of the corn had fallen over. Also there were some casualties just because the wind was so strong as well. Upon seeing the damage that was done I knew that we needed to fix the problem. So I cancelled planting beans and tending to our other farm in order to keep this corn alive. We went through each row and created stronger rows and mounded them up. We went in the jungle and cut down 10 foot long sticks to dig in next to each plant and we tied the corn to the stick so it could stand up straight. This process took 3 days to accomplish.

This past school year has already come and gone. It’s amazing how fast the time flies. On March 18th six of the […]