The Horse 2020/21

These are the questions we are going to ask my half-sister in the interview next week:

1. How did you start this line of work? Why did you choose it? (What would be interesting about this job)  
2. What are the positive sides of herbal medicine? (To see the benefits) 
3. What are the negative sides of herbal medicine? (To know about the dangers) 
4. Would you always recommend using herbal medicine? If not, why? (Her opinion about it)
5. Why is it, that some countries use more natural remedies and others don’t? (What is it like in other countries?) 
6. What kind of plants can be used for medical reasons? (How many plants are there?) 
7. Which ones do you think actually help? Which ones do you use? (Her experience and opinion) 
8. Is there a chance of reduction in the number/amount of medical plants available due to constant usage? Have you ever faced such a situation, or do you think there will be a situation like that in the future? (Possible shortage of medical plants)
9. Artificial fertilizers can also reduce the effect of medical plants. What opinion do you have about that statement? (Are artifical fertilizers dangerous for the medical plants?) 
10. How is the use of medical plants beneficial or harmful for the environment? (Does it affect the environment?) 

We are positive, that this interview will go very well and give us important information for our project.

Anabel & Karla

What we have accomplished so far: (4^th February - 1^st April)

• We have contacted Anabel’s half-sister, who works with herbal medicine, to do an interview with.
• We have prepared the interview questions.
• We have recorded our audio pitch (Post: Audio pitch)
• We have contacted a team from Kerala and successfully formed a collaboration.
• We have thought of some questions for a survey and started to prepare the survey for publishing.

Things we do every week

• Update our word document where we write down our progress.
• Send the project progress document to the team from Kerala to keep them updated.

8^th April

• Start with our internet research.
• Continue with preparation of the survey.

15^th April

• Do the interview with Anabel’s half-sister.

22^nd April

• Finish up our survey and publish it.
• Put the interview in writing.

13^th May

• Continue with our internet research.
• Maybe create a website informing about herbal medicine.

20^th May

• Evaluate the results of our survey.
• Continue with our internet research.

27^th May

• Join all parts of our product. (Research, interview, survey and product of the team from Kerala)

1. What do we need for a collaboration?

• Good communication in general
• Ways of communication (Teams, Zoom, Whatsapp, etc.) 
• Clear instructions (Who does what?) 
• The horse (to update everyone on our progress)

2. What are the important questions?  

• How do we divide the project work on the teammates? 
• How much time do we have? 
• How do we set the timelines? 

3. What are the advantages of an international collaboration project? 

• We can get an insight on how their country is different from ours 
• We can use our english and maybe improve it even 

4. What difficulties could arise? 

• The different timezones could become difficult 
• If communication isn't going smoothly 

 5. How can you get connected and involved?  

• First concact them and see if they would even consider to collaborate 
• Get their contact information (phone number, E-Mail adress, etc)  

 6. How can you become a team? 

• Be friendly with each other  
• Be considerate and accept all opinions

What is our progress on collaborations with other teams?

We saw a post on the horse by a team from Kerala about medical plants. We thought it would be a great idea to collaborate with them, so we contacted them by commenting on their post. They luckily commented back to us and agreed to collaborate on this poject together. Now we are waiting to exchange our contact information and start to work on our project.

Anabel & Karla

These are our goals for this project:

- Do some research on our projec topic on the internet
- Do an interview with my half sister and maybe follow her around on a day of work
- Do a survey to see how much people know about medical plants
- Do a collaboration with a Team from Kerala

[in progress]

Anabel & Karla

Here is our audio pitch for your project idea:

Project pitch medical plants.m4a (355,03 kb)

Thank you for listening!

Anabel & Karla

What am I interested in?

I am interested in renewable energy resources. For example; water, the sun, wind and probably so many more. I would like to research this topic further in a project. Especially what kinds of renewable resources Switzerland is currently using and how it is planning to update it in the future.

Today we continued with editing our post on dontwastemy.energy. We decided on our title picture and made some minor adjustments, so that our post is ready for publishing soon. 

Anabel & Sandra & Joelle

Text:
In our project we wanted to learn more about wild animals in our cities. How do they affect our lifes? We did research on the internet and interviewed Mr. Nagel, an expert on this field. Go check out our projcet post on www.dontwastemy.energy!

Link: https://dontwastemy.energy/2021/01/27/city-animals-in-zurich

Photos:
Source picture: www.zuerich.stadtwildtiere.ch

11. November 2020

Today we contacted Mr Ueli Nagel to do an interview with us. He is an expert in this field and hopefully he will agree to talk to us.
Also, we started to prepare a survey and the questions for our interview with Mr Nagel.

18. November 2020

We will finish preparing our interview questions and will send them to Mr Nagel. He responded to our request for an interview yesterday and we are thrilled to be able to get answers to our questions from an expert. Also we will email him back and ask him for time and date for our interview meeting via Zoom.

Anabel & Joelle & Sandra

[in progress]

Animals in the city - How do they affect our environment?

We want to research the topic of animals who start to life in the city. Us humans take away their habitat and as a result of that action, they have to evade to our cities and our enviroment. How do they affect us? Can we do something to change it back to the way it was before? 

We plan to do interviews with people involved in that topic and maybe even go on tours to see the impact and the consequences with our own eyes.

Anabel & Joelle & Sandra

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