Message from ggoldstein

[Anonymous]

I visited the Japanese Garden today but not as a makeup assignment but rather as an assignment for a Vanguard University salary point class. It is a very interesting place. A water reclamation facility with a Japanese garden open to the public built in. Kind of stinky but a really cool use of the facility that makes people aware of water and how we use it. There were ducks and water birds and all sorts of fish. The grounds have been landscaped and there is even a rendition of a real Japanese tea hous as well as the familiar U.S. versian of the big tea house type structure one seems to find at any Japanese garden in Southern California. I learned about "Pygmy" bamboo and saw som interesting plants and some nice bonzai. I had to write about how I could use it with my students. It could show Japanese gardening and connections to nature as well as the how we use water.

GG