Our project was very fun and interesting to do. The project went along very smoothly, we didn't really have big issues. The only issue we really had was with technical stuff regarding our survey, but we made it work.
Our communication with Kerala was amazing, they always replied within 12 hours and always sent us their things on time. The team was very nice and friendly.
When we had a plan, we went through with it. Each week Anabel and I made plans on what we wanted to have prepared until the next lesson and it worked very well.
Our interview with Anabel's half-sister, Liliane Sutter went just like we hoped. We got more than enough information for our project and because of Liliane's character, it was very fun and went very smoothly.
Our survey got filled out by many people because we asked the school's secretary to send it around to all students and teachers. The only issue with it was that when we changed a few questions because of grammatical errors and redeployed them, a lot of answers were lost. But we quickly found a way to work with it and in the end, we got more than enough answers.
We also tried to contact Eugen from Guerillagardens to get some input and maybe even plant our own little plant. Sadly he never replied to us, so we couldn't do that.
All in all, our project went exactly as we wanted it and we are very happy with our end result.
Anabel & Karla
How far have we come?
In this semester we worked together with Team Kerala. We had a very good time working together and they were very friendly and helpful.
We learned a lot and we did a lot of research, which I think is going to be useful for the future as well.
For me personally, I liked the interview with Anabel's half-sister the best. The conversation was very fun and I learned a lot. We got a lot of information and I thought it was very interesting. She was very helpful and showed us fun things. There were a lot of cool facts, which I think I can also use for myself in the future.
So what have I done in my first semester for my project
I tried to colloborate with Students from India. First it started well, but because of Corona, they had a lockdown and suddendly I could not make a colloboration.
I also have a colloboration with students from Basque Land, but they have summer holidays, and the communication didnt go well at the end, because I was in the Army for 3 weeks. I couldn't make anything for the project.
I made surveys by my own on the streets of Zurich. The people who I had interviewed were really interested and said i am doing a good job.
But why haven't you not seen any results? All the steps above need a lot of time. And I didnt work much with the horse and OneNote.
I hope its a good understandable update and if there are any questions just ask me
Working on this project showed me, how big the part of the environment problem is caused by the clothing production. Nearly everybody who works in the clothing industry knows about these problems but no one is doing anything about it. Many stores are trying to sell their clothes as cheap as possible and hope that many customers are buying their clothes. In order to the cheap production, they can sell their products cheaper than stores, which have a sustainable production. It is sad to see, that most of the people in the world do not care about this problem. I think, if there were more people who would be interested in helping our environment and would be ready to change this part of their lifestyle related to buying clothes, we could make a huge change.
Otherwise the working process was very difficult for me in the beginning. Firstly, my team partner left school, so I had to continue with the project on my own. Then not even one of the ten clothing stores in Switzerland I firstly asked for an interview were ready to support me with my project and last but no least two of my three collaboration teams finished their project and their school without doing any collaboration with me. But in the end I had a great collaboration with India and I could finally finish my project.
I have finished my assignment in german. I want to write it into english. The survey are already in the document.
The Project from the students of basque land need to send me their documents about their project, but they are in the summer holiday.
So I need to wait until they can send me their informations. Than I can add them in my documents.
And the students from Kerala had many problems because of Covid-19.
I am very happy with this project and everything went smoothly. The communication with Team Kerala was very good and they always wrote back and contributed. The research for our project was also not hard, we found many helpful articles.
Anabel and I wanted to get in contact with the people at Guerilla Gardens. Our idea was to plant a dandelion and get more information for our project. We wanted to ask a few questions that we could incorporate into our project and how to better it. We thought it would be pretty cool especially planting the dandelion.
Sadly, they never wrote back to us, so we couldn't get in contact.