April 25, 2012 Presentations this week

This week i've really enjoyed listening to everyone's presentations. I feel like we all had great visions and intentions that will make us great future social workers. The project was an awesome, fun experience for me despite all of the struggles, frustrations, and detours.

I enjoyed reflecting on my groups progress. We took a long journey through our project to get to the point that we ended up at. Even though we didn't quite gain what we expected, I still think that everything we did accomplish was worthwhile. My favorite part of this experience was when we actually went inside the Capitol. I was impressed at how beautiful it is inside there and it was really cool. I've lived up here for three years and never even thought about going inside until the project. Our struggles and change of ideas led me to a great experience that I think every person in the Austin area should experience in their lifetime. It was also pretty cool that I got to share that moment with fellow classmates that I would normally never see outside of classes. We had a great time, but at the same time we learned alot.

I also enjoyed the other presentations this week as well. I got to learn things, such as facts and stats, about the homeless and educational disparities that I didn't know before. Of course I was aware that there were problems within these communities but I didn't understand the full extent of them. I thought everyone came up with great action plans and events, as well. The food drive for the homeless is a wonderful idea and truely helps the homeless community. I also liked the idea for the Suena event because like Catalina said, kids always feel more special when something like UT is involved. I didn't ever get that opportunity when I was in school, but I know I defnitely would have enjoyed to. I thought it was also pretty cool how alot of the other groups found ways to incorporate their project into the Afterwork Activism group. It showed how well social workers can network with each other.

Great job everyone who presented so far!