Task 12
We were able to define our goals and can base decisions on those goals. We are confident that this project will bring a clear message and will remain in the minds of readers in the long term. This project makes us more and more curious and we are glad to have chosen such a diverse topic.
Unfortunately, we had problems with our collaboration partner from Sweden. After several unanswered emails, we felt that we should take our experience with him and put our energy into other collaboration partners from now on. We are looking forward to our final result!
Task 13
In this post we would like to show you where our collaboration partners are located. We are very happy that we have found partners all over the globe. This way we can incorporate even more different knowledge into our project.More...
At the moment we are collecting our trash for two weeks. We started on Monday, February 28. We will collect our waste until Sunday, January 13.
We are happy that we could fix the data with our collaboration partner, my cousin in the Netherlands. Because the communication is rather difficult, because our partner has a full-time-job.
We will ask our partners to send a few pictures of themselves and their collected waste. Then we will also see how much waste she has consumed within two weeks compared to us. We will share our experiences, difficulties, highlights and more from those waste-collection weeks.
Starting Monday, January 14, Yara, me and our Collaborationpartner will reduce our waste consumption as much as possible.
Best regards,
Yara and Julie
State of the art: 7
Challenges:
Firstly we were not able to get in contact with the Tiefbauamt Wetzikon. When we finally had the ability to call them, they hadn't any good information for us. They told us it's to difficult to plant in Wetzikon on privat and as well public places.
Our collaboration partners are at the moment no that supportive. We try to get pictures of them but they're no sending any. We hope they will in further future.
One of our collaboration partner left the group. It seems that Arda (member that left) wasn't that interested in a group project to help the environement.
Chances:
We asked Florians neighbour if we could plant our trees in her forest. She was delighted of our idea and gave us the permission to plant the trees. So we are planning now on planting trees in her forest or in Jasmins garden.
State of the art: We're probably at a 6 or 7. We've already had 2 meetings with our collaboration partners, where we talked, got to know each other and discussed a lot. Now it should be clear to everyone who has to do what.
Changes:
- weekly meetings will not be necessary. We only want to meet when there are things to discuss.
- in addition, Emina will take care of the exchange with Bosnia and Sandrina with Turkey. We find it easier this way, as we sometimes have issues that don't affect both countries. Of course we will inform each other about the exchange.
New:
- We have agreed on a deadline for the photos, at the latest after the sports holidays, on Friday, March 4th, 2022 we want to have photo material. Emina will take care of material coming from Bosnia and Sandrina from Turkey. Also remember them of our deadline we agreed if necessary. And until that date we will also take care of pictures from Switzerland.
- We will still compile questions that we will answer ourselves (Switzerland) and let our collaboration partners (Bosnia and Turkey) answer. Possibly we can also collect audio material with it and otherwise just record it in writing.
Difficulties:
- since we are related and/or well-known, we do not want to rush them to deliver material, but we must also move forward. So we need patience.
- we also have a lot of school things and other things to do, even if we would prefer to only work on this project
Positive:
- we get along well, it's fun
- because we know them, it's cozy and not weird
- they are great sources of information for us and once we get material we have a lot of useful and truthful stuff
State of the art:
On a scale from 1-10 we're on a 5 at the moment. So far we've had one meeting (Liranda with her relatives and Angela with hers) with our collaboration partners, where we explained what our project is about to them. We informed them that we're currently working on a survey, which we will send to them in due course and also that we are in need of some footage of their plastic waste that they create during one day. We also did a good amount of research already, so we can start writing our texts soon. All in all, it is clear now who has to do what.
Challenges:
As expected, our relatives asked us to translate the survey in their mother tongue, which is kind of stressful for us since our skills in the languages concerned aren't perfect. But most unfortunate is the fact that our relatives aren't as collaborative as we've expected them to be. As mentioned above, we've asked them to send us pictures. Up until now they haven't sent us any, despite several reminders. We figured that they might not be very interested in the topic of our project.
Chances:
Even if we're not in the best situation with our collaboration partners right now, we'll take this as a chance to work on our responsibility. From this, we can conclude that, you shouldn't give up even if things are not going according to plan. It is important to be as flexible as possible, in order to make the project work somehow.