Design Project Day #5

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3. (1): The biggest problem that we encountered was when Sam's taping skills weren't as good as expected, and the project almost tore itself apart. Thus, I applied duct tape unto the project that I kindly borrowed from my fellow students in order to make the project not fall apart like it did when the very weak and transparent tape was applied by Sam.

(2):  Our biggest "AH HA" moment was when Sam put a piece of cardboard under the two trap doors in order to make the usage of the game way more efficient than planned. Instead of having two spaces where we had to insert a slice of cardboard, we just placed a slice of cardboard beneath the trap doors.

(3): Jeffery was the one who resisted most ideas because he didn't do anything, except cut pieces of recycles paper and shape them into little balls. One more thing he did was write numbers on the crumpled papers, and he didn't contribute to anything else after he did so, and was messing around while stacking rolls of tape on top of each other. Sam, on the other hand also resisted the idea of letting me work on the computer because he was working on it for quite some time while I was taping the rest of the project together; and he said "NO." Sam and Jeffery were being very out of task because we could have worked all together, yet he was being very out of task by switching from task to task while being negative about everything because he was personally stressed. Sam doesn't show any kind of determination to work with his easy distraction to other things that are happening around him, and he has to always do the good things in the project in order to look for a good grade on his project. I think that the main part of getting a good grade is by sticking to the task you need to do, instead of being drifted away with something else that is totally going to dist rub the working essence of our class time that we could have used in order to finish the project. Due to Sam's actions of not cooperating with the group, and due to Jeffery not doing anything after working for 5 minutes, we were not able to finish the project because of these two students being very distracted.

(4): Some doubts of the project we had were when we thought we couldn't finish the project in time with the limited amount of time that we had. However, we all decided to work together at one point which was the last second before we had to bring the project, so that we could bring the project to the children in order to allow them to have fun with their fellow students.
(5):  In my opinion no one was the Devil's advocate because no one questioned anything because we had no other choice but to listen to each other so that we could have time to work together. The process wasn't really good, because we had no Devil's advocate that tried to correct everyone, so we all made little mistakes towards each other which made our working group not so good.
(6): About my self I learned that I had a problem in trying to do everything perfectly, and the teamwork wasn't so good with everyone doing their own thing by themselves which made the amount of time we spent together very little. The design process was very well organized so we had an idea on what we were going to do during the time we had in order to finish the project, yet when we actually went into constructing our project, we had a very hard time doing so.

Community Service

Community service could be regarded as one of the most exciting experiences that I had in a very long time. Each day we had to go on a two hour drive towards the south to go to a foundation of Carulla, aeioTu. By the time we arrived, we all went into the gates of the school where a woman greeted us into their school. Many children could be seen playing on the fields, and children eating inside the cafeteria looked like they were enjoying themselves everyday. 

On the first day I arrived there, I had to work with documents for the children with two new students I met; Carlos and Gabriela. We had to spend 3 hours each day as we organized files that belonged to children who were recently accepted into the school. The following days were also days in which I had to work with some other students to organize files for an entire 3 hours; it really wasn't much fun. Thursday, was the time of freedom with me being separated from the documenting group to join the "in-class," activity time with my good friend Eric. I even met some news employees from aeioTu who wanted to go to South Korea for some weird reason, and I swear that I heard the word "comida." However, the most exciting day for me was Friday in which I helped a kid go to the bathroom to take a number 2, and even freed a kid who was trapped inside a bathroom stall. I even had to go into a room full of kids with a teacher who spoke little English to spend the whole day with them. I had to help kids wash their hands before they went to the cafeteria to eat a few sausages and drink some milk, and then I had to help them brush their teeth by putting toothpaste on everyone's toothpaste, and I even had to set up a screen for the children to watch a movie.

The overall experience at the school was very fun and exciting to be honest to meet new children which I could play with. Also, the fact that I met new students which I became friends with was very nice because it never hurts to not know someone.