Journal

On the week of October 10 I worked with my mentor on finding a date and location in order to find out when and where my project will be. I spent about two hours over the course of the week not only working with PJ, but also trying to work things out in my schedule. We thought we found a date, but with me playing hockey it is hard to do because games are on the weekends and PJ has work during the week. When I though we found a date we started looking for locations. It is a lot hard to do because PJ being a resident has so many places in mind that i have to narrow it down to just one or maybe as we talked about host another date and location a second clean up if I can organize a second group large enough to help my cause. It is getting frustrating because we thought we had a date for the first one, but the other day my mom told me that I have a hockey game that day that wasn't on the original schedule, so now I'm back at square one trying to find a new date or trying to work things out with my coach so i can miss my game for this project. Over this week wasn't a fail because even though I'm still not sure when and where I have a rough estimate of possible dates and places. Also I have decided that I am going to make a commercial to promote my project and mostly like a documentary to display my research part of the project. I have in mind two photographers that would be willing to help me make it and now all i have to do is ask Mr. Meder if it would be possible for me to use his cameras and computers to film and edit these two parts of my project. It is starting to get a bit stressful because i still don't have dates and places, but I know from past experiences i always get the job done so I'm not worried to much. 2 hours

Journal #2 On the Week of November 14th I spent, about an hour and a half talking to PJ about places. We called and emailed several organizations trying to get ourselves a permit to clean up. 1.5 hours

Journal #3 As of November 21, no one as gotten back to us. We spent about three hours worth of conversation over the next three days talking about alternative options. We came up with the idea of cleaning Fort Washington State Park. It is not filled with trash, but there is some. The hardest part of cleaning up here would be the clearing of the trails. The trails that were once clear are now covered in branches, brush and logs. We decided that this would be our best option, so i went home and tried to find contact information. I spent an hour online look for the right person to contact. I planned on talking it over on last time with PJ at practice but he wasn't there the next day. So i waited for the following day. Over the course of those two days the lady had contacted PJ. 4 hours

Journal #4 On November 20 and 21, I called her back to get details as to when and where I could host the clean up. We talked for a good three and a half hours between those two days. She asked me questions like, how many people plan to attend. What time of day? Is it an organization? I answered all her questions then I asked her a few of my own. I asked her about the conditions of the parks and play ground. I ask which playground would benefit the community the most. How will the playground look a month after I clean it up? Will it be maintained or will it wind up like the way it was before I it? She answered my question. She told me more about the process that has to be done on her end and told me she would make it work. 3.5 hours

Journal #5 November 28th came around and neither PJ nor I have heard from anyone in the organization. PJ sent her and email that day and on Monday he got and email back saying “sorry I no long work here.” She left use contact information for Frank, who she said would help us. PJ and I spent about an hour talking about the pros and cons about getting in contact with Frank or if we should take the plan B route. PJ was in favor of sticking with Belmont, while I wanted to go to Fort Washington. 1 hour Journal #6 On the 30th of November I still wasn’t completely sure about this Belmont thing. The woman took forever to get back so what if the same happen with Frank. I brought this issue up with PJ. I explained to him that my friend did her project in Fort Washington State Park and the guy was great. He responded quickly and helped a lot with her project. PJ still wanted to stick with the Belmont idea. He believes it will benefit more people, especially young children. We spent all of track practice debate this issue once again. Track lasted about two hours that day. 2 hours Journal #7 On December 1st I talked to Sam about my idea to switch to Fort Washington State Park. She gave me all of the contact information that I needed in order to get in touch with the People from the park. I texted PJ letting him know that I have all the contact information so if something goes wrong we won’t have to waste any time trying to find someone at Fort Washington. PJ and I decided that if we haven’t heard back from Frank by the 12th, we would go with my idea of Fort Washington. We talked for about an hour. 1 hour Journal #8 On December 10th Frank got in touch with PJ. PJ talked to Frank and guided Frank to get in touch with me. I talked to Frank about all the stuff I talked to the previous person about. Once again this conversation lasted about 2 hours. 2 hours Journal #9 On December 12th I went out to the store to by gloves and trash bags for the cleanup project. From the time I left my house to the time I got home, it took about two hours or driving around. Finding the bags was easy, but I had a hard time finding gloves. I went to the Acme first and then to the Home Depot up on Horsham Road. This took longer than I thought because of all the mall traffic. 2 hours Journal #10 On the 13th I talked to PJ asking him if it would be ok if I were to buy water and pretzels for the people who came to my event. PJ said it would be a good idea. We talked about how much or each that we would need. I told him that I didn’t plan on having a whole lot of people, just a few people from the track team. He suggested that I get 50 pretzels and two case of water. After practice I went out and bought the water. Between talking to PJ and buying the water, this took about an hour. 1hour Journal #11 On the 14th PJ and I talked about a date. We originally planned for December 5th, but that obviously didn’t work out. We were stuck trying to find a new date. I suggested the 30th but PJ said he could not make that day. PJ had the 26th in mind, but I told him I can’t because we were going out as a family for my brothers birthday. After that I asked if we could do it on the 29th, this way we could have track practice at Belmont, going for a long run through Fairmont Park. He liked the idea so because he would be free and we could still have track practice as we normally would. We talked about an two hours during track. 2 hours Journal #12 On December 16th, Frank had called me back asking for a date to be set. He had done all the background work now he just needed to fill out the paper work. I told him that we played on going December 29th at around ten a.m. and stay as long as we needed to. We talk about 30 minutes. .5 hours Journal #13 I talked to several members of the track team and asked if they would be willing to help me on the 29th. They agreed to help me if they were free. By the time I talked to everyone at practice it was about 30 minutes. .5 hours