I have accomplished the first portion of my two part project. We set out to make 7 blankets and that we did! A couple things we did not expect came our way but we reached our goal in the end! The fact that we got off schedule for missing one of the day's shows that we were very determined. We actually completed 6 blankets in one period which is crazy. We started right as the bell rang and tied the last string as the last bell rang. I felt that we did a good job working together to complete our goal. Now it's time to move on to be productive with the second half of the portion of the project. I'm transitioning over in to research for Africa. Although we have not gotten to start this we are kind of running into the problem of Ebola now, so I predict that this will have some impact on our studies.
Moving forward I am starting to shift my focus on to something else. Africa is my desired passion for this project so I am excited that I get to jump into this. Over the next four Friday's Taylor and I will start to research. As mentioned above out research may be thwarted a bit with the uprise of Ebola. I'm excited to learn about Africa and see what we can do regarding it, maybe even from the U.S.
One thing that has been made more clear to me through working on this project is that when I am challenged outwardly I suddenly get really quiet and I have my mind set towards whatever it is, and only that. I tend to want to get it done quickly, because I know I need to. Sometimes this changes depending on the circumstance whether I have a month to finish it, or if I'm rushed to finish. I guess the word for this would be determined, and you could see this happening in the process of tying blankets. I think this could have negatively effected the project in a sense. I don't know that a whole lot of thought and love came out of me tying those blankets that day, I think I was driven by completing a task. moving forward I don't think this will be that much of an issue considering our circumstance but I will definitely watch out for it not only in this project but in the way I complete things in life.
