What I Have Done This Week

This week, my group and I got a decent amount done, yet I am still not satisfied with what we are doing. For the storefront project, we split up the group for that three part document, which should be complete by next class (today), so we are on the ball for that project. However, I'm not happy with our $200 project. We wanted to do something holiday themed, so we decided to have a movie night. We are trying to reserve a place for this either in the auditorium or in the MLK room, so we do not have to pay for a space. But the MLK room is very tight and they don't know if we can use the auditorium yet, since it may be being used by someone else. The bad news is that the majority of holiday movies are Christmas themed while most families in Brookline are Jewish. I personally don't think it's a big deal, since we were only planning on showing Elf and How the Grinch Stole Christmas- both of which are classics and movies that many people love. Another service we were planning on doing in addition to this movie night is to help people who need assistance in buying gifts, baking cookies for a party,etc. We had gone to Ms. Holman on Tuesday and she said we could use the Weekly Blast to advertise this and she gave me the email to contact the head person of that. However, the head woman said that the only way she could send this out on the Weekly Blast is if all the profits made would be sent to charity, which defeats the whole purpose of the assignment. If we can't get Ms. Holman to allow us to send this out via email, we might have to drop this holiday themed project and do something else. Rachel had this idea to make those live-strong bracelets but targeted at each BHS class. Seniors and sophomores would get blue bracelets with red writing and juniors and freshman would get the opposite. These bracelets would also include their graduating class and say Brookline Warriors or something. We will need to discuss more in class today, but it seems that our holiday idea is falling apart and Christmas break is coming up very soon. I hope we're able to figure something out today that we can all agree on. I'm starting to become frustrated with this holiday project because it seems to be falling apart, but at least it fell apart now and not closer to when we would show the movie.