Vannessa's CAS Reflection #3

My personal involvement in this activity was to contribute to the team as a partner with Alejandra. The main task besides effort was consistent participation and perseverance. I was expected by the requirements of the project to be prompt in persevering through the tough times of our project. This helped me with sticking to projects as I’ve always struggled with this. In the past, I have often given up and stopped working on it.  However, this project has made me realize that there is no excuse to not doing something and to always follow through. Besides gaining the skill of perseverance, I also gained a great deal of endurance and stamina. This project is both frustrating and joyful. I feel glad and inspirational that I am helping others but am not fully successful in my goals. My perspective of my project has changed since beginning of this project. Specifically, I gained insight by realizing that it takes a lot of planning to run a job and a lot of fundraisers to give back to the community. I learned that if your heart’s not in it, it will be a miserable experience. This is why I believed I loved helping others so much. I am completely dedicated to others self-improvement. I did this project because I enjoyed the joy I can give others and see their happiness. I know I want to continue helping others as I grow up, as I find personal enjoyment and enjoyment from others joy. I believe I am not very
successful in this activity so far however as I progress I can see myself gain a lot more improvement in this project.

Vannessa's CAS Reflection #2

Although I am still experiencing difficulties with financing for hats, blankets, and care packages, I wanted to start something so I began investing in this project. I began going around my family members and asking them to donate yarn to crochet our hats. So far, it has been a success and I have managed to get about 5 grocery bags full of yarn so my partner Alejandra and I can finally start crocheting and starting our project. Although, my dad did hep our project and bought us some yarn as well. However, at this point we still need products to make tie blankets. I still have the same ideas to fund-raise to buy the supplies such as the tie blankets I just need some initiative to actually start a fundraiser. The problem with getting money for my project is still so stressful and frustrating. Another problem that hinders our CAS project is the fact that I cannot crochet. I was relying on Honda to teach me but come to find out she is just a beginner as well so we will have to reach out to somebody else such as my grandmas to begin starting our long journey of our project to improve the community as we try to improve their health emotionally and physically health. By doing so, I have had the ability to tackle some global issues of emotional poverty and to help people who may not have the same opportunities and help that most people should get during their state of poor health physically or emotionally. By doing this, we make a small change in our community to influence the global problems we face