This is it...

Wow my final blog post.... Never thought I would feel sad about this being it. Overall, I enjoyed the project. Although this has been one of the most stressful projects EVER, I also felt the most accomplished and most proud of myself when this was over. I think because it originated from us and it wasn't like we followed different guidelines from a teacher that I feel that we were really independent. We as a group needed to make decisions and solve our own problems. It just felt more like real life.Things that went well were that we finished the project with two bags and our second bag protected the laptop. I also think that our presentation went well. I personally like our final paper and I know Mr. Blake will too. (Well he better or else there will be some Punching Face going on :)) Things that did not go as planned were everything. Our construction process was heavily altered and adapted because of different sewing problems. Our theory was good but actually making the bag turned out to be harder. I learned a lot of life lessons. I learned that working in a group is harder because you need to rely on others. You need to be able to trust your group members. We also learned accountability. It is a different story when it is also someone else's grade on the line. All of our actions affected everyone in the group. I learned how to sew a laptop sleeve and how to hand sew a double thread cross stitch. I also learned how to use Google Docs. I would have liked it if we could have picked our groups. I mean I love my group but I would have thought it would be easier to work with other girls, just because of different work ethics. I would also have liked to see this as a class, instead of being incorporated to a Physics class. The idea of improving Kamehameha is great and if this could be translated into a class, it would be even better. Overall, I kind of think I was doing science. I think it was more like Mr. Blake tricked us into doing science. Most of the challenges I felt came from working with the group and not so much from the science aspect. But our whole bag needed to be science based, so I guess we did incorporate science. Thanks Mr. Blake for everything!!! We love yah!!!