Getting down to the pond was my biggest challenge. In order to overcome this, I told myself to basically suck it up and that I was going to get dirty. So, I ran through the high grass, trying not to think about snakes or other little animals, and stood in the mud while I built my sculpture. I sunk in the mud up to my shoes as well as slid a couple times, but it wasn't that bad. I washed my shoes when I got home because I didn't realize how muddy it would be. My last challenge was trying to get close enough to push my structure out into the pond. After making my sculpture, I found a huge stick in the woods and used that to grab up underneath the sticks of my structure, loosening them from the sticks holding them down under water, and pushed it out further. This worked at first but then the overgrowth of the pond won, and I ended up pushing too hard and flipping my structure upside down. My structure fell apart a little bit but it still looked cool upside down sticking out of the pond.