From my original plan this is what I have done and not done:
October
21st-27th: This week was MUN so I did not have time to work on CAS
28th-3rd: I sent out an email to Mr. Abel asking for information of business from La Paz and he told me to use the La Paz directory from the Website. I was going to do the presentation in morning meeting but there was no time on day and on Thursday IB class went to UCR to do research for our EE. I felt a little lost this week because I knew I had many things to do and to start working on but I just felt overwhelmed and that stopped me from doing several things.
Also it was Halloween week and I wanted to have fun. I did volunteer hours during the Halloween event of the school. I had a face painting station with Natasha (a parent), it was really fun I like doing face painting but I felt that I was out of practice. It was good, the table was always full and I barely had the chance to eat, I liked it because most kids wanted me to draw simple things expect this girl who wanted a princess on her cheek, which ended up looking like a triangle with a crown... It was a different experience because I felt that this year many students from high school helped with the event rather than participate in it.
November:
4th-11th: This week I actually did a few things:
- made flyer for mini golf event
- filled out risk management for mini golf event (it was really hard)
- contacted organizers and counselors from camp and they are all willing to help however they can.
- re-did the powerpoint presentation for morning meeting
- wrote the letter to send to restaurants * I will send the letters next week because the only restaurant that appears in the Directory is Seasons, but I know there are a lot more.
- Told Tanya I couldn't help with Beach social because I had many things going on.
The letter goes like this:
Dear (insert name of contact/restuarant)
My name is Camila Arguedas and I'm currently a 11th grade IB student at La Paz. As part of the curriculum each student creates their own project based on their passion, for a class called CAS (creative, active, service). My project for this school year is to fundraise money to send at least one student from the 10th grade class to attend a week long camp in Pennsylvania at Allegheny College.
Last school year I was able to attend along with another student, Selene; we were able to learn about the importance of water qualities in ecosystems and we were lucky to bring back science equipment that we used in camp, for the school to have. We also establish connections with students from the college who are interested in coming to Costa Rica and work with the school.
The camp is way to establish connections and enrich the knowledge of the students. My goal is to create a scholarship fund for the students so that each year at least 1 or two students from La Paz attend the college. I want to fundraise money for my project a different way, more indirect.
My idea is to have every month or twice a month dinner nights in different restaurants owned by La Paz families, and create alliances with the restaurants that want to join. The idea of the dinner night is that it will be encourage to La Paz families to go to a specific restaurant on a chosen date and a small percentage of the proceeds will go to help the project. It will be a win win situation because the restaurants will be known more by La Paz families and funds will be collected for the project.
Don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested in helping or have any questions.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
___________________________________________
List of restaurants that could help:
- Seasons
- Bamboo Sushi
- Patagonia
- Lola´s
- The Green house (maybe)
- Baulas (it's hard, put it's possible)
- Azul
- Falafel's (Idan's parents rest, I think that is the name)
- Eat at Joe's Witches rock
It's a pretty good list, now my goal for next week is get all the emails and send the letter!
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