Blog 12 revised (again)

1. Tell me about the different housing options clients have here at Union Station. How are they different, how are they similar?

2. Which have you had experience working in? 

3. Is there anything you especially like about one of the facilities?

4. Do you have a favorite facility? In terms of either, what they do inside there, or favorite in terms of favorite to do work inside of?

5. How much of an impact on the homeless community do you think each facility has?

6. Which has the largest impact?

7. Can you tell me about the new facility, Del Mar?

8. How long had Del Mar been in the works? 

9. Do you expect it to be just as, if not more important than the other facilities already in place? 

10. If you had to work in one of those facilities for the rest of your career, which would you choose? Why?

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1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I plan to do 30 hours of extra membership at the different facilities of Union Station Homeless Services.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will keep a log as well as take pictures of my experiences and activities.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

I will be working in all the housing facilities, understanding them more and experiencing how they all work and function.


4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

Blog 12 revised

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1. What's the best thing about this job, in your eyes?

2. Is there ever a time you think about getting a different job, or wishing you never got into this organization?

3. How has doing this as a career changed you?

4. Do you see yourself doing this until retirement?

5. What makes this so enjoyable to you?

6. If the college you saw what you were doing right now, what would their reaction be?

7.  If you had to make a pitch to someone to get into this organization, what would that pitch be? What would you say?

8. What is one thing about this career that makes it more unique than others?

9. If you had to talk someone into chasing this a career, what would you pitch to them?

10. Name one moment that speaks to you the most. Like, where you just thought "man, I love my job" when it happened.

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• LITERAL
  (a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
  (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.
• (d) Explanation of what you completed.    
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

LITERAL

a)I, Bradley Yamashita, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b) my mentor, Octavia Sisley

c)

d) Extra mentorship hours

INTERPRETIVE

I worked extra hours at mentorship, which I believed was the best idea for my independent component. I spent time in the office, the kitchens, or in the family center. When in the office, I created logistics, spreadsheets, and prepared envelopes to be mailed out to volunteers. In the kitchen, I helped prepare meals and organize volunteer groups (telling them what to bring, how many, proper attire, etc.). In the family center, I was essentially a housekeeper, cleaning the facility and taking care of chores.

APPLIED

I think it helped me understand because of how much work is put into the organization. It's not just giving out meals to homeless, it's really devoting yourself to different events, logistics and several other things that go into the organization running smoothly. For example, our annual event, Dinner in the Park i a huge event. We have around 600-700 volunteers, and we serve around 4,000 people. Planning it with my mentor was tough work, what with all the volunteer names we had to keep track of, boxes of supplies we had to prepare, and letters to volunteers that needed mailing.

This is one of the many things i do in the office. This is a wish list for the Station that we send out to all our volunteers. 

This piece of art was created after our Thanksgiving Dinner in the Park. It's called the "Thankful Tree", where volunteers wrote down why they are thankful and we put this together.

Final draft of the wish list we sent out to volunteers. Looks a lot prettier right?

I also have to file a lot of papers. A LOT.

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Content:

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why? 
I think my talking was very strong, my content and information was precise and I believe I made time, as well. I think overall I did pretty well.

2. Questions to Consider
       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AP

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

       I think I did very well with eye contact, speaking loud and clear and engaging the audience. My activity could've used some work though.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

Just talking about my topic, as obvious as it sounds. Letting the knowledge I have on my topic kind of speak for itself, and try to be as informative and thorough as possible.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

Remember to bring my final lesson draft, and not worry about time so much, because I ended it kind of awkwardly at the end trying to get as much time as possible.

5. Finding Value
What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?  

"Providing resources necessary to allow homeless to build themselves toward self sustainability."