Reflection

Reflection

I worked with Jaczelt Lozano, our capstone project was about getting to understand the hardships of dealing with motherhood at a young age. We learned that at times they are left alone and have nobody by their side. We learned that some of the challenges they dealt with were losing family and friends and in some cases, the father was also absent leaving them completely alone without a support system. Jaczelt and I went through a lot of struggles trying to raise money for our capstone. Jaczelt and I were very frustrated trying to raise money for our project. The account we made for people to donate received very little support, the only support we got was from family members. Another struggle was the timing of meeting with the girls. These girls never had a set schedule, Monday worked for Jaczelt and I, but the girls did not have school on Mondays. In addition, if the girls' child was sick they would not go to school and it would throw off our meeting schedule

I think our entire project could be considered unique, there wasn't something specific that stood out. The part I'm most proud of is that we actually got the capstone done. I felt like giving up because my original proposal was not working. Jaczelt asked if I wanted to join her on her project we asked Ms. Eliot, and once she approved for us to work on it together we got to work.

When we presented I was nervous at the beginning, but then as people kept coming and listened to our project it felt nice to know that it was something others also felt interested in. We had a lot of people come up to us and tell us that they loved our project which definitely gave both of us more confidence in presenting. I feel like I learned a lot during this whole process, Jaczelt and I both learned that we work really well together. The most surprising thing we learned about all the girls was the hardships they have gone through, but the thing that stuck with me the most is how they all said that their child was a new friend that they would have for the rest of their life, one of them went as far to say their child was giving them a reason to live. We are so proud of is managing to get the girls a 50-dollar gift card. When we gave it to them I felt like it was not much, but one of them said that it was actually a lot, it made us both happy to see that the girls were happy too they were very thankful and said that it was a lot of help toward them.

I wouldn't change anything from the project, because we both tried our best to complete it and it helped me feel accomplished. We felt we did something good and tried bringing awareness to it and it was a great experience to talk to the girls and present our project. The one thing both of us would have liked was getting a bit more support from the school and our peers, We made an effort to put out posters with the go fund page, we put them all over the school it was disappointing that nobody felt enough to donate or ask about the project.

At first, I hated the fact that we had to do a capstone project, I found it pointless and a waste of my time. However, as we progressed more on the project and met the girls I was glad that we choose this as a capstone project, It allowed us to meet the girls cause if we hadn't we would not have gotten the chance to get them to speak out about their lives. Working with Jaczelt was great, she's my friend which made everything so much fun and easier. She was very helpful. What I learned from working as a group is that you will face difficulties, but you will get through them. Jaczelt was usually that calmer one, but I would get mad when we could figure out how to get the money, so she definitely helped me be calm. I'm glad I got to work on this project with her.