FEEL,THINK,ACT!

This third term we've been working so hard to submit a project in a contest sponsored by Eusko Jaurlaritza with the option to win a trip to Brussels, as I explained in a previous post. Therefore, this new post is to explain the work we've done and all the effort we've put on it and how we really wanted to finish it. Unfortunately, we've had a mass of work which we weren't able to finish although tomorrow we're going to try so that we may submit it on time.

Firstly we chose the slogan: FEEL, THINK, ACT as we think it's the ideal one for the subject: the crisis. What's more, as we consider that the youth is the future we decided to take them as a target group and do some research about their situation: we interviewed some, and we made a document explaining the unemployment and their future prospects, which we're a bit sad (if we don't do something).

All of our ideas to help to face this huge problem were great: we tried to contact NGOs as Banco de Alimentos to collect food and give it away, we tried to raise awareness of the crisis in school and partially we got it. Our idea for the children was simple but yet effective: we wanted to do a gymkhana with them so that they could understand better the issue and also to be concerned about it, to talk about it, to share ideas, to make them speak... The problem: the campaign was never done because from the beginning the school tried to stop us. However, we got the permission although it was too late (three days before the exams and the end of our course). When I say we partially got it is because of the ad we made inspired in the UEFA's new one: we took some students willing to collaborate and explained our project; they were really happy to help and said it's something we must confront.

In addition, we also did a presentation with information about the current situation and surveys as well as a colorful and moving poster for the campaing: everyone put their hand on a big paper and we formed a tree with the following meaning: roots build us, roots build our futures and at the same time roots depend on leafs so it's our task not to let fall those leafs neither leave the roots alone.

What is left to done? A kind of magazine in which we're going to introduce all of our work and the difficult task we've been talking about: tackle the crisis.

I must admit we've wasted time chatting, but I don't think that the teacher can say we were not enthusiastic about the project and that we didn't work hard enough. In fact, none had the thrill and excitement our class had had. 

Nothing more to add. Judge for yourselves.