So it’s SPRING BREAK!!!  This is a time when you are supposed to relax and kick your shoes off and sleep till noon, right?  Well not for me.  This week is being filled with full time work at my Co-Op and preparing for exams and final projects.  And I have worked in quite a bit of time for fun!!  I also have been planning for my final Environmental technologies project; we have to build our own light fixture from scratch.  Everything has to be handmade.  Well this is going to be a challenge for me, so I have recruited my dad to help me with the technical aspects of building my light fixture.  What a great dad!!  I have also been keeping up with my Boutique Hotel project, always sketching and continually revising my floor plans.  As I realize that next year I will be a senior I am starting to really think about thesis.  I know what I want to do and am very excited about the challenge ahead.  I never thought that I would have an interest in healthcare design; I always thought that I wanted to work in the hospitality end of design.  Well the summer going into my junior year my grandma passed away from cancer.  She lived at home until she went into hospice.  We were with her everyday sitting by her side, and slept in her room in a recliner.  This was one of the most amazing and hardest experiences of my life.  Hospice is an institution that sees the transition from our human life to our eternal life on a daily basis.  But there were many components that were missing on the design aspect.  As I talked to my professor Elizabeth about this, I told her the story and she was like “design this space as if it was for your grandmother.”  This of all the things that would ease the patient’s pain, down to the minuscule details.  So I think my thesis will be designing a hospice facility and I would also like to do a holistic care center.  I know this will be an immense amount of work, but as Alex Noble said it is our spirit that helps us continue on and do what we love.