Bake Sale

This past week at the CAP open house, my change project group had a bake sale. It was a great experiment and very beneficial. We raised almost $200 dollars which is way more than we expected to.
Every member of our group had to bake something. We had many bake goods including brownies, different types of cookies, muffins and homemade granola bars.
I decided to make snicker doodle cookies, ginger cookies and chocolate chip cookies.I ended up making more than enough cookies. Today, a week after the bake sale, I still have many containers of cookies in my freezer. However, the cookies were very popular, especially the chocolate chip cookies.
It was hard deciding what we should charge for the bake goods. We wanted to charge enough to get a substantial amount of money in the end, but not too much because than no one would buy. We settled on $1 for everything except for the smaller cookies and muffins which were 50 cents.
I learned that if you told people your cause for the bake sale, they are more willing to buy something.
Many people bought things,but when you told them that all proceeds were going to the Children's Medical Center, they usually bought more. A few people just gave us donations without even buying anything which was very thoughtful. Thank goodness the meeting were for teenagers because those we our best customers.
It was a good thing that we had  5 people in our change project group because at times our table became very chaotic, especially after the CAP meeting finished. After the meeting at times we had 10 customers at our small table.
If we are to do another bake sale, next time I feel that we should include a beverage. Many small children came up to us asking if we had anything to drink.
In conclusion, having a bake sale was a very fun and helped a lot towards our change project goal. We hope to raise about $300 in the end and because of the bake sale we've almost reached our goal.

2nd Weekly Post

 I babysit a lot to earn money. And every time I babysit, I am amazed about how different little kids are from teenagers and adults in the way that they think. Some times I babysit for a 8 month old boy and I every time I say anything his face will light up, as if he truly appreciates the magic of words. When we speak we don't think about how amazing words are, how they roll out of our mouths and is our manner of communicating. If only we we were as amazed with words as the 8 month old.When I babysit for children a bit older, mostly aged 2 and 3, I love how curious and interested they are about the world around them. Once I took a walk with a 2 year old girl and she asked me many questions about the environment, such as " Why is the sky blue?" and " Why do birds move together?" When I couldn't give her an answer, she would think for a long time and offer her own. For example she would say " it is probably blue  because the rain turns it that color" and "they move together,so they won't get lost." Although these may not be the correct answer, just the thought that she was so interested and almost concerned proves how determined and intelligent young children are. If you hand a young child a simple toy, they can play with it for hours without getting bored. Just the other day, I gave a 4 year old girl some bubbles and we played with them for 3 and a half hours. As teenagers we are exposed to so many different forms of technology and even with all that we still get bored. It is pretty sad how I get bored with a phone and laptop, but the 3 year old is entertained for hours with just some bubbles.  Adults tend to doubt the intelligence of young children. Although adults may know more things, young children are intelligent and posses character traits that many people, including myself, can learn from.

Weekly Blog Post # 1

 Last night, I watched the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. I thought Joe Biden did an amazing job, but i thought he could of brought the attacking down a bit. At some points he was overly attacking Paul Ryan. Even if I agree that what Paul Ryan was saying was ridiculous, Joe Biden should of not interrupted him every time. However,  Joe Biden gave the impression that he knew what he was talking about. He spoke with the tone of authoritative, but spoke in a manner that that felt like many people could relate to him. Unlike President Obama's performance at his debate last week, Joe Biden called Ryan out when he was giving false information. Biden did not let Ryan get away with lies. Joe Biden was filled with emotion and power which I felt was very convincing and a job well done.  I hope President Obama learns from Joe Biden at his next presidential debate. Although President Obama should not completely attack Mitt Romney, he should not let him get away with lying to the American public.

Music and Sounds for our Trailer

 Our trailer describes a society where the government has taken taken away all speech and hearing from the citizens. I found two music options that we can use for our trailer.

The first one is: Survival Theme  
This music will begin playing soon after the main character gains hearing. It shows the dramatic and suspenseful tone which I hope our trailer will keep. It starts off slow and soft and then begins to crescendo and become louder, so as the  music gets more dramatic, we will show more dramatic shots.

The second one is  Peaceful nature
We will probably play only a little bit of this music. It will be played when the main character becomes able to hear.  This piece portrays nature, for example you can hear the birds and crickets. As the piece is being played, the character is confused because of this peaceful noise she is now hearing.