Weekly reflection 1 (Sunday May 7th) 8pm

This week was a very fun week. It was a good way to start off senior project with some hard work and some fun on the side. We started off the week meeting Jen our on project supervisor who was extremely nice and opening. She helped us so much with getting out project passed and letting us into her organization with opening arms we couldn't be happier. She was able to put together a very nice schedule for us mapping out all of our time with her for the whole project. She gave us brochures and other information so we could study up on BOS. She then inserted us into the starting lineup for the Skip the Straw campaign. She told us she wanted us to kick off the project and hen have people take over this summer in our footsteps. So this was a very important task for us because we will impact a lot of people's work including our own if we are not focused. We then had a massive beach clean up picking up 850lbs of trash which was a record amount. We did this cleanup with Liberty Mutual insurance which has a volunteer program through BOS. So a lot of the Liberty people come and help out. They have been there everyday of the week we have so we concider them pretty dedicated. There were 150 people at the beach for the cleanup and they were all stoked! We then met with Jen again at the offices in Portsmouth. From there we created a letter in which we could give to businesses about the skip the straw campain and what we want to do with it. We also created a flyer for people to have a visual of how straws are bad and how they effect lots of wildlife. Many of the people were extremely open and excited that some highschool kids are taking such a big initiative. We were especially happy at there response and corporation. With Gray filming everything we have documented a lot of our adventures and work so it will be cool for everyone to see what we've done. Much more to come with a big week ahead!