Final Reflection- End of the project

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.-Roger Moore

My classmates at Village Fest

    Ok so, at the beginning of this project, my partner and I didn't talk much. I think that completing this project has bought us closer together. We were initially paired together because both our philosophies were centered around helping animals in need. Aside from that, our philosophies were completely different. We started working together and I could see how our philosophies were starting to connect. We both liked volunteering and being generous towards animals and we both realized, over time, just how much animals benefit from generosity. In the beginning we were going to volunteer once a week at a different place each week. we ended up doing something completely different. Hannah and I went to a place called Ferdinand's Familia over the weekends and we went to the Greyhound Adoption Center during the week. I feel like I really impacted the animals lives for the better and I find myself wanting to go back, even though the project is over. Near the end, I feel that both of us felt really accomplished in what we had done to help the animals. It seems like we really changed the views of people around us and we changed our own personal views as well. I feel closer to animals than I ever was before and I think that, with a little bit of effort, everybody could be closer to animals. 

   

Final Reflection

Feeding Horses at Ferdinand's Familia

Washing Dogs at the GAC

For the past couple of weeks, Alex and I have been working on our generosity project with animals and tracking our progress on this blog. At first, our plan was to work at several rescues, walk our neighbors dogs for them, and feed strays all in certain designated weeks. We soon found that that was a challenge. To volunteer at rescues you had to do an orientation to learn more about what you do and how to work with the animals they have, then you're able to volunteer. By the time we had set up dates for volunteering and orientations, we had completely forgotten to set out to do the other things we planned on doing. I felt that that was worked in our favor a little though because it helped teach us better time management. Volunteering at the two animal rescues, Ferdinand's Familia and the Greyhound Adoption Center, were really eye opening. I was able to see how much generosity affected the animals they rescued, especially at the Greyhound Adoption Center. Every time you leave the GAC you feel like you made a difference in the dogs' lives because you could see how much happier it made them. I loved being able to see the difference generosity made to these animals. I believe that people should be generous towards one another, but also towards animals. Overall the project was a great experience because it helped show me the effects of generosity in a different way than most people see.

Grooming at Ferdinand's Familia

Watching the Dogs at the GAC

Socializing Dogs at the GAC

Week 5: Village Fest

Some of the people that pet the dogs

Today was village fest. We walked rescue dogs around to show that rescue animals can be good pets. We also handed out cards that tell people to go to our website and comment their acts of generosity towards animals. You can comment here to tell us about your generous acts. Hannah and I both handed out cards, we finished handing them out pretty quickly. I was surprised that so many people came up to us and listened to us talk about our project. within an hour we had handed out all of our cards. People seemed genuinely interested in what we had to say.

My classmates working on the generosity project

Village fest stage

View of village fest

Walking around village fest

Week Five - Village Fest Cards

Frontside of Cards on Publisher

Backside of the Finished Cards

This week Alex and I worked on making cards and getting ready for Village Fest. Village Fest is a festival our school community puts onto show their work. For Village Fest, we made cards which has one side to tell people to visit our blog and another side to explain what our project is about. For the cards we had to learn how to use Microsoft Publisher and how to make templates on the program, which ended up making it easier to design the cards. The only challenges we encountered were making sure the wording sounded right and lining up the header's on both sides.We'll be giving out these cards while walking around at Village Fest. As we hand out the cards, we'll explain what they're for.

Backside of Cards on Publisher

Alex Working on Publisher 

Frontside of  the Finished Cards