I'm walking across campus the other day with my latest floral design that I have created and I hear some amazing things and get some of the most interesting looks you can possibly get. First of all lets just say that the class Floral Design is a win lose class. Let me explain.
Winning sides-
1- Your teacher loves the fact that there are boys in the class. Example: One day in our large lecture section with all of the Floral design students are teacher starts to list off the boy to girl ratio in all of the sections. Such as Section 1, 4 boys 35 girls, Section 2, 6 boys 40 girls...so on. She gets to the end and dose a final tally for the whole class and gets the number of 33 boys to 235 girls in the class. (She loves the ratio) So she has all the boys come down in front of the class to introduce them self's. Not only this but she gives us a free tie at the same time. So we grab are favorite color of tie and have to say if we are single, married, dating. Where we are from. Why we took the class. Now she is a smart teacher and she made sure that she wasn't breaking any laws by doing this. Privacy act did not apply to this according to her.
2- There a lot of girls in the class. Who can complain except for the girls.
3- You learn a skill that is amazing and you can use through out your whole life and save a good amount of money. Think of it this way. Guys you go to a store and buy a bunch of flowers for your lover and spend 10-20$ depending of the season. Well for me I grab some flowers that I can buy separately and make my own for half the price.
4- You always have fresh flowers around. So for my mom it is great. If you have a girl friend then it is a score.
Losing sides-
1- So I mentioned the above of the great looks and amazing things that I hear. So if you are single you want to keep the image of being single about, and also wanting to have a chance hopefully of maybe communicating with the opposite sex. This is not the class for you. We can just say that flowers are like getting sprayed by a skunk. It is like walking around with a sign on your forehead in bright red saying taken and madly in love. If you don't believe me, next time you see a guy walking with flowers or a girl write me and tell me what the first thoughts are in your head. Also you get some of the greatest call outs too with flowers such as:
"Score man! You are getting 10 points on the flowers."
"Dang! Who's the lucky girl." or for a girl "Who's the guy!"
"Hey I didn't know you had a girl friend"
"Looking good!"
These are all words that I have heard besides the "Who's the guy!" since I am a boy and that is what I would say to a girl if I saw her with flowers. I am as guilty as the next person.
Looks are also great. You get the guys looking at you in jealousy because they think you have a girl friend or you get the wishful girls walking by saying under their breath I wish I had someone like that. I love the second looks from people. They look once and then they look again like they just saw a monster walking by.
2- You have to defend yourself as to why you are taking the class. Me I love the flower arranging thing, I just love flowers. It also counts as my arts class for my generals.
3- Some day this is going to come back and haunt you when someone is getting married and they know you know how to do flowers! Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!
So the fun of the floral design class has just begun. I love the class and enjoy the wonders of life that come along with walking around campus with flowers. Have a wonderful week love Jeff!
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
