There is Power in the Movement

     This last week was a lot of progress.
     We hit many walls, but really kept powering through. **WARNING. The following is a really long narrative.** First, there was an issue of students fundraising for their own cause without being a club. So, I spoke with Mrs. Marshburn before school, and she said that the issue was not that we weren't a club, but we did not have an account in the Activities Office. We need the account because we can't leave the campus with the money. Anyway, we were going to need an email from Mr. Orre to validate our cause, and an account, from either one of the clubs Mr. Orre supervises or a friend's club. We went to Mr. Orre to ask him to write the email, and he ended up talking to Mrs. Marshburn. We also talked to him about using their funds, and he said to talk to the club president, Alexandria Tso. We looked up her schedule in the Journalism binder, but did not think to look up her face. This brings me of things we still need to do with these new breakthroughs. We need to contact either Alexandria or a connection as the leader of the club. We need to go into the Activities Office to plan a date for the fundraiser. We need to scout the place we want to put the advertisement, which we started to do today.
       I think we have learned to be persistent. We thought planning a fundraiser would not take this long, especially because we planned the logistics weeks ago. We have been communicating with multiple authorities to get the information we need, but there was no other way to do. We have learned that sometimes things will only follow through with lots of work and effort, not just with skill.

The Struggle of Saving the Environment

For our topic, we, Lina Kim and Leena Elzeiny, haven't learned much about our topic except for the information we had collected, that was mentioned in the first blog, due to us spending all of our time trying to reach out to people in order to reach our goal of fundraising and advertising. We've learned that we work together well because when one of us gets tiresome and drained of motivation because of a setback, the other one always helps and make sure that everything is going to go on track. So far in our 20 Time project, we've already encountered more than one setback. The first one being the fact that we can't seem to reach Mrs.Marshburn to talk about if and how we can fundraise on top of the stairs in the quad due to her not emailing us back, though it's already been two weeks since we've sent her our email. We're planning on handling this situation by instead tracking her down at school so that we can talk to her face to face. Another setback is how our prediction of the cost of the "fundraising doughnuts", that we were planning on buying from Kirspy Kreme and selling, was way off and it's actually much more expensive then we thought it would be: the enterprise only allowing us to purchase those kind if we buy about I believe it's 25 dozen boxes at a time. To handle this situation, we'll just be purchasing the normal doughnuts, without the fundraising doughnuts benefits. In our process, our next steps are to track Mrs.Marshburn down and discuss with her our plan immediately and searching for places we could possibly place our advertisement in, along with it's cost, of course. We can apply what we have learned about how hard it is to communicate to people by making sure that next time the person we're trying to connect with will get our message and respond accordingly.