Cindy / Journal Entry #49 – Jan 11, 2021

I started planting with my mom. We both share a passion for the environment, she loves gardening and I love protecting it from pollution so we have a team going on at home. She has been teaching me a lot of techniques for their care and the way I should plant certain plants. This has helped me acquire new skills that I can implement in my environmental organizacion Green Power but also helps me cope with stress. I have been trying to be balance with my IB life, and this activity that I started makes me spend more time off of social media and be more connected to nature an my family. Some obstacles I faced at the beginning was time, I did not know when to take breaks from assignments, I always wanted to keep working on them but I figured that breaks are always needed which is where my skill of being balanced took place. This new hobby has taught me responsibility since I need to take care of the plants, patience because I need to give them time to grow and balance since I need to organize my time in a way where I can have breaks for it.