Journal


 * 9/14/11**-Today I emailed Yael Tacher at the Make-A-Wish foundation and told him about my idea. He emailed me back saying that he was not the person that I must contact and that he would contact the person I needed to talk to. She is on vacation until next week.


 * 9/20/11**-I am going to check my email again on Friday and if she does not email me back by then, then I will come up with another idea to contact her.


 * 9/25/11**-I have not recieved any emails back from the Make-A-Wish foundation. Today I headed out to Blue Bell to try and find the location but I had the wrong number so I was looking for a place that didn't even exist. I think that tomorrow I might be headed out again to try and find the REAL place.


 * 9/31/11-**Unfortunately, after finally finding the Make-A-Wish foundation a lady there told me that the only thing that I could do since I was under 18 years old is to hold a fundraiser. But since we are not allowed to do fundraisers, I have to change the topic of my entire project. I want to research Breast Cancer and help raise Breast Cancer awareness since October is Breast Cancer awareness month. I've offered to help with "Pink Day" at the high school on October 28th. I posted my proposal to my page and now I'm starting my research and annotations.


 * 10/7/11-**Today I met with Mrs. Ward about the arrangements for Pink Day and what I need to do in order to prepare. I need to look up and create announcements for the Morning News and I also need to start "advertising" Pink Day.


 * 10/10/11-**I met with Mrs. O'Neill after school and discussed the designs for the Pink Day t-shirts. I also finished the Pink Day flyers and they are now hanging up around school.


 * 10/18/11-**The class that I work with at Erdenheim (Ms. Scioli's 5th grade) helped today by coloring pictures of ribbons and writing inspirational words on them. I went to Mrs. Rodoff and Mrs. Grube to collect the t-shirt money and gave it to Mrs. O'Neill.


 * 10/26/11-**After school, Riley, Will and I helped Mrs. Ward make pink ribbons to give to people who donate on Friday.


 * 10/28/11-**PINK DAY!!! Throughout the school day I played bell music between the classes and went around school filming people in their all of their pink. There were a lot of people who wore pink and the ones who didn't or forgot to donated money to get a pink ribbon. Overall I think it was a huge success and I was very pleased with the outcome and everybody's participation. At the football game that night, I helped student council set up tables and pink merchandise to sell and areas for donations. The entire stadium looked fantastic from both student council's decorations and the senior night decorations. The pink firetruck came and people donated to get pink plastic firehats. The football team showed their spirit by wearing pink armbands and tape while the cheerleaders had their pink pom poms and gloves. I also got footage of this and the many fans who wore pink that night to put into my video yearbook. The part that I'm putting this footage into is a mixture of both No Place For Hate and Pink Day.