Senior Project #20

Time spent: 6 (or 24) hours

Total time: 35 (or 53) hours

The final part of our project was finally completed yesterday at Relay for Life. Despite the cold weather, the event ran really smoothly, and everybody there had a lot of fun. Our group stayed at the team tent to sell our t-shirts - we sold about 30, which isn't too bad. We'll be continuing to sell at school so that we can pay Brendan back. I wasn't able to help out much with sales, since I was running around doing my own thing for the Luminaria Ceremony that I was going to run later in the day, but I tried to help and check how the group was doing as much as possible. Either way, participating at Relay this year was a little stressful, but definitely worth the hard work, because 100% of it paid off. The whole event ended up raising about $35,000.

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That's the end of the volunteering portion of my Senior Project, and I'm happy to say that I learned a lot more than I thought I would. Building our project from the ground up made me realize how creative the group and I were, and how hard-working and diligent all of us were to make a final product that we're all extremely proud of. Our mentoring obviously gave us some great insight on photography, editing, and technological skills, but the best part of this Senior Project for me was interviewing all of the survivors. Their journeys are all really inspiring and taught me a lot about how to just live my life. I especially enjoyed interviewing all of my teachers (Mrs. Yee, Mr. Arias, Mr. Jordan) because we got to know the personal sides of them, and it really made me appreciate their hard work and their contributions to the school and the community that much more. Not only did we learn some life lessons, but all of us expanded our interpersonal skills through the interviews, and Clarissa and I got to work on our writing from the biographies as well. All-in-all, it was just a good experience, and I have no regrets putting ourselves through all the hard work and stress.