Game changer post #7
The main idea will be discussing in this post just refining the ideas that I talked about last week.
After doing some research I re discovered the name of the place I helped with. The Esperanza on Escalante Veteran Transition Home was the place I went to and did my Eagle project at. This place is the place where Veterans do not have really anywhere to go and go here in order to have time to transfer to a home that is more accommodating to their needs. I just hope that what I did for Esperanza and Escalante actually will help those who stay at there will seem more comforting and community friendly and open.
Taking from what I said last post that:
“What I think I may have taken away from this was a sense of closure and understanding. Just knowing that what I did made a difference in someone’s life could be another big point that my project could potentially have produced. Also that understanding a true idea behind my project and what it could have done for that community is also very awe inspiring. Sometimes just discovering what you have really done and the effects after wards could actually mean the most.”
Pretty much covers up everything I can think about it so far. Maybe a deeper meaning that lies with in this Game changer could be that any person can make a difference. Now whether or not this difference is big or small, change in any amount still sends a message to others who may be less discouraged to change. Through standing out and helping others for difference it might lead to creating a better community and society for all of us. In the end, that is what we are all truly trying to accomplish. In this day and age it is these projects and these instances of community of service that our society needs in order to grow.
Some of the things I need to do before my presentation about my game changer and what I took away from it is:
Take pictures of the site.
Talk to some of the residents of the area, including the groundskeeper.
Actually create the presentation.
Now what is on this list is probably not everything I still need to work on. But for now those are the big points I still need to complete. Taking pictures of the site pretty much validates that I actually did something, which I need or else I would receive a zero for doing nothing. The picture I take will also help me in my presentation so that my class has a better understanding of what I did and the kind of community it is before and after I went there. The main point, which probably matters the most is the actual account of some person at Esperanza and Escalante. By having this, it would be the backbone of my project, which would be the basis of my project. I do have an account of what the groundskeeper said to me right after the project about how it really helped him out and gave him some free time from a 7 day per week schedule. The last part about creating the power point or whatever presentation, I might complete it a little bit later when I actually have a better idea about what to talk about and what order to talk about it.
An interesting quote I found from a book we are reading in class is:
“I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now.”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner pg. 224
This quote from the Kite Runner kind of explains how I felt about my Eagle project when I was reevaluating what I did and what it actually did for the community. This was obviously a positive discovery, but nonetheless it was quite different that what I had first thought of. In my class we are discussing this book and just like I stated in my last post how change is always present, and I feel that this book, in a way showed me that change can happen anytime for the better or worse.
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