Krazy Kimmy!

The other day, I interviewed Mr. Kim for some ideas for our 4th quarter project. I thoroughly enjoyed the hour long conversation. The conversation ranged from the problem of lack of discipline of students, to religious topics, to waste in Akahi Dining Hall. He gave us the idea of reducing waste in Akahi by making students thoroughly aware of the waste by creating large and visible graphs and conversions to post in Akahi every so many days. He said it was crucial for student leaders to be involved so that every group could be reached. He also gave me key important to talk to such as Aunty Kat, Mama Fuj and Mrs. Yamamoto. When Kalamaku and I discussed after, he brought up the great question of why students actually take so much to start out with. His insight was that we need to start with making the students aware of how much we are taking. He also brought up the great point that the students should not only have a reward if the waste goes down, but also a punishment if it does not or goes up. The project is still in planning, but we at least now have a good plan to possible work with. The picture above is of my friend Sean with his Akahi grinds. This is a lot of food, but believe me, Sean does not waste one bit. We want everyone to be like Sean.

Day 3

Today was another idea development day for the project. After announcements were made regarding objectives, Allie and Kalamaku left to interview teachers in order to find potentially fixable issues. However, Kalamaku was unable to meet with his administrator, so he emailed him to see if he could conduct the discussion electronically. Mahea conducted a conference yesterday, so our group has met the required number of interviews. The above picture displays one of the benches that are located near the auditorium. When it rains, the benches get soaked even though a roof technically shelters them because of the wind. I would not mind fixing this problem but I'm not sure if we could make a prototype that will be cost effective. Allie uncovered a variety of issues during her interview, so I think that our group will end up using one of them.

Day 2- Help us, Mr. Harvey!

Today was my day to blog, and I figured that today would be a great day to get an interview done, seeing as today was not a class day.
Since Mr. Harvey and I are bros, I decided to ask him what he thought were some "bugs" around campus.
Mr. Harvey is the head of the Art Department is, for the most part, confined to Haleakala. He doesn't go many places around campus, unless the office or The Kif (LOL.) That being said, I'm sorry to say that he couldn't offer me very many suggestions for issues that were tangible. He did, however, mention the problem involving Konia field and the mud when it rains.
After talking to him for about five minutes after school today, our time was cut short because he had to help the detention kids, so I asked him if we could continue our conversation at a later date. Perhaps he'll have better suggestions after conferring with Reid :)

Brainstorming Day 1

     Today was the first official day to start brainstorming about our project. To start off this project we had created a bug list of what we think needs to be changed. Mr. Blake has guided us to go and talk to teachers who, most likely, have a better idea of what needs to be changed because they have been here longer than most of us. With this in mind we decided that we should each find a teacher to interview and hopefully learn about something that can be fixed. Mahea has decided to interview Mr. Harvey, I chose to interview Kumu Chun and Allie chose to interview Mr. Kim. We plan to use the information from these interviewees to add problems to our bug list and hopefully use some of their knowledge to help solve them.
   So far we have not chosen what problem we are going to solve, but we have figured out whose doing the blogs. Our blogs will be posted daily and the person posting it will be cycled. The cycle starts with Mahea, then Amber, then Allie, and finally Kalamaku. This four day cycle will allow us to equally share the work.
   This is as far as we got today and we will start posting information from our interviews soon.

The Lorax

Over the break we were supposed to watch the Lorax. It was actually one of the first things that I did this spring break, watching it the Saturday after Song Contest. It was a very cute and enjoyable movie because of the singing/walking fish, the little bears, and the overall moral of the story.

Basically, the main idea was, "Unless someone like you cares a lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." which was from Dr. Seuss. Ultimately, it takes people to care enough about something in order for action to happen. You have to be able to see the underlying issues and WANT to do something about it in order to bring about change and show others.

Lorax Review

This cute little fellow is the Lorax. He is in charge of the well being of creatures (the cute little bears and fish) and the Truffula trees. He is basically the nature caretaker. All the Lorax ever wanted, was a safe place for nature to grow, thrive, and not be endangered. We want our school to be a place where the students can grow and thrive. This is why we are trying to figure out ways to better our campus in any way possible. In regards to the movie, I thought it was off the chains! It was definitely one of the best animated pictures I have seen. The cast was great, especially Betty White as the grandma, I loved her character. From beginning to end, I was engaged in Ted's quest for the Truffula seed (and love). O'Hare, though the villain of the story, was definitely a funny character. I loved that part when he stepped up to his car by stepping on the hands of his guards. I totally LOLed at that part. The Lorax was definitely an A+ movie experience and hopefully the rest of this project will be too!

Bug List

The picture above depicts a light bulb, often a metaphor for an idea, to symbolize how one should have an awareness of problems in order to initiate any solutions for them. The following is a list of some of the bothersome issues that plague our school campus.
- The mud and dirt on Konia field is a nuisance for those who have to tread on it.
-The students are not sufficiently sheltered from the rain when they are not indoors.
-The benches at the school can get drenched with rain.
-The drivers at school do not carefully observe traffic signs, other cars, and pedestrians.