25th November:
As our first campaign for endometriosis has come to and end, we have to select a new direction for the community action and start to focus on another issue. For the next project we will be focusing on sexual assault and harassment because this issue is quite prevalent in our everyday lives, and we feel like it will allow us to contact a local school and share out thoughts on this issue. One of the important aspects of sexual assault and harassment is to identify where it comes from and what causes it as well as how to protect oneself against such attacks. We had Sara Jensen come into demonstrate some karate moves as she has been practicing it for multiple years and is one of the leaders for the self-defense class in school. Sara came into our T-GO and we had a small tutorial of the different moves we can conduct in order to protect our selves. The plan after december break is to contact one of the local schools and have a similar session with them. Our previous partnership with Oysterbay Secondary school wasn’t entirely effective due to multiple communication errors. Despite the school being the ‘perfect’ school for a partnership as they were close by and spoke english fluently, the partnership wasn't entirely effective and sustainable, partially since the girls at the school thought that they were only part of a project so no real connection was established.
From the beginning of the year I feel like the activity has drastically changed, as in the beginning we were unsure of what we were doing but now are slowly getting a forthright sense of direction that we need to head towards. The most influential part of the development of T-GO has come from having simple conversations with people and learning about the wide range issues and skill, firstly it was Shufaa educating us about endometriosis, and now Sara will help us execute the self-defense sessions. The connections and progress made through chatting with people reminded me of Rakesh Rajani’s talk we received before induction; how talking to different people can enable you to change the person you are and get and exposure to new things. We have decided to structure T-Go by projects and not semesters/terms, and we attempt to do a project per term.
We have also been approached by Ms.Park and the MS girl group she is running, as she would like us to go int and talk to the middle school girls and answer the questions they have since we have gotten through the ever so terrifying middle school. In my opinion, this is a great opportunity as it will allow us to connect with members of other grade levels and be helpful to member of the IST community. Abigail and Cecilia are talking to Ms.Park about the logistics.
As our first campaign for endometriosis has come to and end, we have to select a new direction for the community action and start to focus on another issue. For the next project we will be focusing on sexual assault and harassment because this issue is quite prevalent in our everyday lives, and we feel like it will allow us to contact a local school and share out thoughts on this issue. One of the important aspects of sexual assault and harassment is to identify where it comes from and what causes it as well as how to protect oneself against such attacks. We had Sara Jensen come into demonstrate some karate moves as she has been practicing it for multiple years and is one of the leaders for the self-defense class in school. Sara came into our T-GO and we had a small tutorial of the different moves we can conduct in order to protect our selves. The plan after december break is to contact one of the local schools and have a similar session with them. Our previous partnership with Oysterbay Secondary school wasn’t entirely effective due to multiple communication errors. Despite the school being the ‘perfect’ school for a partnership as they were close by and spoke english fluently, the partnership wasn't entirely effective and sustainable, partially since the girls at the school thought that they were only part of a project so no real connection was established.
From the beginning of the year I feel like the activity has drastically changed, as in the beginning we were unsure of what we were doing but now are slowly getting a forthright sense of direction that we need to head towards. The most influential part of the development of T-GO has come from having simple conversations with people and learning about the wide range issues and skill, firstly it was Shufaa educating us about endometriosis, and now Sara will help us execute the self-defense sessions. The connections and progress made through chatting with people reminded me of Rakesh Rajani’s talk we received before induction; how talking to different people can enable you to change the person you are and get and exposure to new things. We have decided to structure T-Go by projects and not semesters/terms, and we attempt to do a project per term.
We have also been approached by Ms.Park and the MS girl group she is running, as she would like us to go int and talk to the middle school girls and answer the questions they have since we have gotten through the ever so terrifying middle school. In my opinion, this is a great opportunity as it will allow us to connect with members of other grade levels and be helpful to member of the IST community. Abigail and Cecilia are talking to Ms.Park about the logistics.