For my 20 Time Project I only had a few ideas. Almost all of my ideas were revolving around children. They had to do with tutoring younger kids, or kids in my grade, in math especially, babysitting, working at a daycare, writing a children's book, or knitting for the homeless. I really like the idea of helping other people, children especially. It makes me feel good to know that I'm helping other people and helping them gain knowledge. Ever since I was younger I always wanted to do something that involved younger kids like working at or owning my own daycare or being a preschool, kindergarten, or elementary school teacher.
Today we did a bad idea factory. For some reason it seemed harder for me to think of bad ideas since I already had a pretty good idea of what it was that I wanted to do. My ideas were weird, random, and bad, but I guess that's exactly what they were meant to be. One of my ideas was to eat nothing but junk food for thirty days, but I guess that could be a good idea if you really think about it. I could document my weight gain and other health related things. Another one of my ideas was to race snails. That one was definitely bad. My third idea was to make real like Krabby Patties. When I thought of that one I just happened to be thinking about Spongebob and I always wanted to know what they tasted like.
A lot of this project I don't want to do. I really don't want to do a proposal or the TED style talk. I honestly really hate speeches and talking in front of a class, so imagine how bad it would be to talk in front of not only your class mates, but also upper class men that I don't know as well as administrators and parents. I'm going to faint or have a heart attack. I won't be able to do it. Also, I don't know where to find a mentor other than Ms. Conrad, but I guess she would be able to help me since she's a teacher and teaches, which is basically what my project is about. I could also ask my math teacher, Mrs. Witham, for help since I'm better at math. All in all, I have mixed feelings about this project, but we'll see how it goes.
