This event was eye opening for me. I don’t often get to explore my own artistic abilities, but the Gourlandia project gave me that chance. I had a lot of fun working with my fellow Rose Scholars and thought it was interesting to see a lot of the idea they thought of. I was especially interested to see how passionate the nice lady who was teaching us was about Gourds. Who would have thought that someone would be so knowledgeable about such a random topic in small town Ithaca. I ended up naming my Gourde lamp “The Sausage of Truth.”