This week I really realized that I need to buckle down and actually finish up my hours on this project. Somehow, I let myself get farther behind than I had realized. I did some budgeting research. I also worked on my Chapter 7, and some of my appendices, and my abstract. Overall I think it was a good week, and I am confident I will be able to pull this project back together in the next month.
Recently in Project Category
This week was the week of our final, so I was studying for that, and didn't make tons of progress on the project this week.
This week me and Emma started to finally get on top of things again. We set up a weekly meeting time to talk and plan for the rest of our project. This coming week we plan to meet with our on-sight contact, Eva, to set up our on-sight evaluation as well as discuss our idea to clear out the back room and donate the excess clothes to missions. We are still unsure of what they will think of the idea, but we are hopeful they will go for it.
This week I could not move forward on the project because I was really sick all week.
These past two weeks in my project it was very difficult to make any real progress. We found out that the time we went to the Clothes Closet last semester won't work anymore. Our ride fell through. So we have not been to the Clothes Closet yet this semester. We are currently trying to figure out another time when we can go to volunteer. We plan to start on the other aspects of our project this week.
Over Christmas break I continued to visit Neighbors Inc. on Fridays.
These past two weeks weren't very eventful as far as my project goes. Neighbor's doesn't open on Thanksgiving weekend, so we didn't go in that week. Last week we had to go in earlier, as we couldn't stay for our regular time due to the choir concert. The Clothes Closet was short staffed, because some of the volunteers didn't show up for their shifts on time.
I think I've been moving a little slow on this project. I haven't made much progress since we started.
This week in my project I started volunteering at Neighbors. Emma and I learned what our duties would be as volunteers and met the staff there. This week we basically just sorted through the clothing donations and placed them on the racks in the store.
This week I learned a little more about the Clothes Closet in particular. They are very selective about the clothes they sell. When we sort through the clothes we are supposed to exclude any clothing with tears or stains, and any clothing that we think no one would want to buy. I supposed this way they could get better clothes to people for cheap, which is one aspect of our project.
I think I did well on my project this week for the most part. I didn't do much but the volunteering, but it is nice to finally be volunteering.
This week I feel like I made more progress in my project than I have before. I contacted our organization, Neighbors Inc., and we went in for a tour of the site. We saw all the parts of Neighbors, not just the Clothes Closet we are working with.
I feel really good about the project. I feel like it's what God wants right now. We learned that they were looking for people in our exact time slot at the exact time we could start. Its funny how things work out like that sometimes.
I got a better idea of the scope of this project. I knew that we would be working in the So. St. Paul area, but I learned more about the problems unique to the area. So. St. Paul used to be a meat packing district for a little background. In1972, two of the major stockyards in the town got shut down, eliminating over 9,000 jobs. Neighbors was the result of six local churches trying to help the community through this.
This week Emma and I basically just straightened out some things with our project. I contacted Neighbors Incorporated, a non-profit located in South St. Paul. We will be volunteering at their Clothes Closet. It provides clothes to those who need them free of charge. We haven't been there yet but are planning on volunteering Friday afternoons from 1-4.
