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Today we listened to the principal of Compton Drew, Susan Reid. She gave us a description of the building and set up the rules for us. After setting up the rules she established her expectations for us. They weren't high expectations but ones that I know we can accomplish. Her presentation was positive and she welcomed us into the Compton Drew family with a smile on her face. After the presentation made by Susan Reid Lady Gywanna had us go over the rules and expectations/guidelines for the summer teens. We ran into a little road bump when it came to the rule of staying in uniform. Some of the supervisors felt that we should highlight that the teens shouldn't sag but others felt that it would have no purpose because it's essentially part of being in uniform and the teens should know it already. After about 20-30 of debating we all agreed that we wont highlight it. After coming back from break Heather told everyone where they will be working and we split up into our groups by components. He broke up into our components and where told exactly what we will be doing in our groups this summer. We went through the guide made for us by Tim page by page and he answered all of our questions that we had. I feel so much better about Monday after today. I'm ready for the summer and to be the best supervisor.

Today we heard from the students of the NOSA organization. It was a great experience. They had a slideshow that explained what their organization was about. They showed us how they have fundraisers and different events in their community. The slideshow also showed their networking experiences. After the slideshow they let us play around with their equipment and ask question. The students were cool and I liked their presentation.

Today was a good day. In college prep we talked with Diane about the changes made in the Y.E.S. program. She asked us how we felt about it all and we told her. After speaking with Diane we went into our components. My component is Design It. In my component we are making ovens out of materials you can find at home. We used cardboard boxes for the actual oven. You start off by cutting the flaps off the top of the box. Then you cut a door and a window into the box leaving their flaps connected to them. After that you cut a hole in the front of the box for the light bulb. Now you make a top for the box. When you’re done making the top you must insulate the box so that the heat won’t be able to escape. You’re going to need all the heat you can get if you want the oven to get hot enough to actually cook something. Place the light bulb into the oven and plug it into an extension card. That’s as far as my group got today. I’ll tell you the rest next time I’m back on. Have a great week. This is Aaron and I’m out.

 

It's been a week since chaos and i don't believe it but the supervisors are actually listening to us a little. It feels like they are really hearing what we're saying instead of brushing it off. They're talking with us and helping us too. I also feel that the teens are starting to work a little harder but they need to keep workin on it. There hasn't been any arguements lately either. Now we're working on our long term projects. These are projects that will last for the rest of the summer & maybe even next year. The supervisors are helping us with them which is cool. Some of the other teens and I came up with the idea of building a life sized car made out of wood. It's gonna take us a while to make it but we'll get there in time.

That's it for me so DUCES

Hope u havin fun down there Felix.

Today at Adams was cool. The investigation wasn't stupid today. It was actually kinda alright. I didn't see anyone who was bored with the investigation. I think everyone had a good time today. The subject for today was optics. We did a investigation with our shadows. Where we saw how our shadow height was different from our real hieght. The we went back to the taylor building. WAZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP FELIX. HOW IS HAWAII FOR YA HOMEY. WE MISSING U UP HERE IN ST. LOUIS IT JUST ISN'T THE SAME WITHOUT U DUDE. DUCES

Man it's been crazy these last three weeks. Everybody's doing something wrong. The teens are getting into it with the supervisors & each other. See we feel that the supervisors aren't listening to us when we talk to them. They say they are listening but i think they listen but then later forget what we say like it isn't important. We've done all sorts of things to become a better group. It's like this when we go over the investigations for the sites sometimes they don't go with the kids at the sites and we try to explain to them that it's not going to work but they don't listen sometimes. On the other hand the supervisors feel that some of us aren't working. So now they're trying to give us things to do. I agree that sometimes some of us don't work when we are supposed to. I think that if the supervisors start listening to the teens they'll start working harder but if they don't start soon this will be a long boring & horrible summer for everyone.

Just to let everyone know, this doesn't affect our work at the sites. We still go hard and do what we're supposed to with the kids.

I hope that next week is a lot better

This is our first week at work and it's aight. So far we've just went over what we are going to do for the summer. We also met all the new  teens in learning places. We've done icebreakers and team builders to open up with each other. We met up with Kit and she told us what she'll be doing this summer with us. The supervisors told the new teens about the grant. And thats about it for this week.

Peace out