WORKING ON SENIOR PROJECT

When it was time to start working on our senior projects, my mind went blank. Totally blank. I thought and said to myself that I wasn't going to do it because I didn't know what to do. Through my three years in high school I thought that my senior year would be easy for me but I thought wrong because 1: I don't have all my credits and 2: I don't have the grades I want. I struggled and failed my freshman year because I made decisions to go the wrong way. But I've managed to pick myself up again and get back on track. I did everything I could to catch up. When I look back I think about all the bad choices I made that could of helped me but I chose not to let it help me. But things changed, I've changed into someone who is working harder than ever before, someone who has learned from their mistakes. Failing my freshman changed my decision making and my time management. Overcoming the challenges I've face my freshman year helped me get through my sophomore and junior year. I thank God for helping me, my parents also. So therefore, I now use my experience as motivation.

My senior project was hard for me to figure out. My capstone teacher started giving out papers on what a senior project is and what we need to do. I didn't even think about it. I wasn't even trying to think about it. But time went faster and I needed to start working on my senior project. We were assigned to write a essential question about our issue in our community. But I didn't have an issue about anything. My teacher Ms. Fry helped me on it and she asked me what do I like to do. I told her that I love to sing. So we tried to figure out a question about music. We finally came down to "How can diverse cultures be united by music?" As soon as I finished writing down my question, I still didn't know what to do. But I had to do something because time was ticking.

I started thinking about throwing a music performance night. My purpose is to bring awareness of the fact that music can be appreciated productively by creating a positive outlet for the culturally diverse students at Evergreen and/or bringing together a culturally diverse audience. Basically I am uniting diverse cultures through music at Evergreen High School. We started working on our proposals but I needed to write an outline of my project. I wrote my thesis which was my essential question, then I wrote my purpose, an my process. Monday I went to the attendant at the HS3 Office and asked for a breakdown of different cultures for my research. I also came up with questions for my survey to find out what people thought about our school ethnically and what is the most common interest among a culturally diverse group of people. I passed out my surveys today to only freshman's and sophomores. My results were that the most common interest in freshman's and sophomores was food and 21 freshman's said yes to the ethnically divided and 16 to no. And for sophomores yes to 31 and 23 to no. I am still in the process of getting juniors and seniors input for my project.

After my research I am going to be working on my proposal explaining what I'm going to do for my senior project. I know that I will have to manage my time well because I not only have my senior project to work on but I have to complete my work for other classes as well. I know that this will take a lot of hard work and time but I am going to try my best to put this together and hopefully everything will turn out good. The most thing I am worried about is finding an exact date for the performance, getting help to set up for the performance and getting performers and hosts. This helps me a lot because I am learning how to prioritize myself and manage my time. So right now I am in the process of getting all the results for my research for my proposal and networking with people. I am learning more and more about myself and also others. My worries are the number of people showing up and how the people will react to the performers. But a close friend told me not to worry too much because if I over think it then I won't be able to think. That helped me and made me laugh. I am now getting more and more in to my project and hopefully I continue to keep working on my project as well as my other classes.