I started the first session of mentoring for my capstone today. I have been setting dates, schedules and plans for weeks. I had to wait about an hour after my arrival at the school to meet the five girls that I am mentoring. One of the after school teachers—or whatever title fits their role—warned me, “They are a handful.” I listened to her advice, but I figured they would not expose that mischievous side in my presence. We entered the “mentoring room” and the girls immediately asked, “What school [do] you go to?” and ”What grade [are] you in?” along with ninety-nine other questions. I decided to make the first meeting an introductory session i.e. explanation of my plan and what they should expect. The girls wrote down questions, comments, and concerns they have and want to discuss. When I asked questions one of them was sure to ask me another. Surprisingly I was not frustrated. When I left I did not expect them to have written questions and concerns that would help me assist them, but they did. There are some grammatical errors and some questions that I can’t answer, but the content is helpful. I look forward to meeting with the girls again and successfully mentoring them.

Shouldn't be harder than college acceptances... 

Getting off train, guy pees himself

My benchmark is going okay. It more or less just finishing up my story that will determine the next step. Otherwise I know where I want it to got and what I want to do. 

SO far, my benchmark has been going well. i have created a twitter and a facebook page for my character I have also researched other blog sites to make my character.  I am close to completely most of my story and i plan to be done by the time the deadline arrives.

Thus far, I have a pretty solid outline for my project. I have mapped out the events that will happen and when they will happen on the designated social networking tool. I struggled with how I should go about presenting the story because a lot of the story consists of flash backs and considering social networking is all in the present tense, I didn't know how I should relay the information. 

"Damn, another 20 missed calls. I love her and I hate her. It's a funny twist y'all."

I am a little behind in starting the benchmark, but I have made a twitter account for the main character in my story. I have not yet  posted anything on twitter at the moment but I will start that tonight. I'm am still trying to figure out how to start the benchmark in terms of what part I should start tweeting from in my story. Th beginning of my story is sort of a flashback and I don't know if I should add that part yet. I still don't know if my benchmark will take longer than the rest of this quarter to finish. I haven't really been focusing on this benchmark as much because I am backed up on a lot of work. Starting tonight I will start to put more of my time into this benchmark so I can have a good finished project. 

First, I would like to address the work I have done so far for my benchmark: I have created my character's Tumblr and sent out my first few posts. Next, I would like to discuss how terribly difficult it was to stop after completing the aforementioned tasks. Tumblr is so terribly interesting! I set aside a half hour to complete the work on my benchmark because I thought the registering and posting would take all of ten minutes with the most time consuming portion her blog's creation being character appropriate decorating or customizing (to use the Tumblr lingo.) However, by the time I had logged off her account, a good hour had passed. I just wanted to keep posting! I wanted to pick a favorite book for her, a favorite movie, a favorite weekday dessert, a favorite place. So I did, condoning my actions with pointing out that had she really just created this account she would have been as over zealous as I was. What I neglected to note is that I had known this would happen and had built such excitement into the timeline. Tomorrow was the day I was supposed to go buckwild on the site, posting each menial thought and seemingly inconsequential like or dislike.  Oh the horror! I had deviated from the timeline on the first day! Wishing to return to the clearly laid path, I took down everything I posted excepting the first post and saved it in a word document making my deviation preparation. In summation, I think things are going well for my benchmark. ​

First, I would like to address the work I have done so far for my benchmark: I have created my character's Tumblr and sent out my first few posts. Next, I would like to discuss how terribly difficult it was to stop after completing the aforementioned tasks. Tumblr is so terribly interesting! I set aside a half hour to complete the work on my benchmark because I thought the registering and posting would take all of ten minutes with the most time consuming portion her blog's creation being character appropriate decorating or customizing (to use the Tumblr lingo.) However, by the time I had logged off her account, a good hour had passed. I just wanted to keep posting! I wanted to pick a favorite book for her, a favorite movie, a favorite weekday dessert, a favorite place. So I did, condoning my actions with pointing out that had she really just created this account she would have been as over zealous as I was. What I neglected to note is that I had known this would happen and had built such excitement into the timeline. Tomorrow was the day I was supposed to go buckwild on the site, posting each menial thought and seemingly inconsequential like or dislike.  Oh the horror! I had deviated from the timeline on the first day! Wishing to return to the clearly laid path, I took down everything I posted excepting the first post and saved it in a word document making my deviation preparation. In summation, I think things are going well for my benchmark.