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Garrett Scanlon 4/8/11 Journal #3 This week my Pastor finally responded to my email about using the church’s stage. She was fine with the idea and is more than willing to let me use it, provided it is available. I emailed the church’s secretary last night to find out what dates are available for the concert. My top choice would be next Saturday night, April 16th. I would prefer a Saturday night because that would give me more time throughout the day to make sure everything I need is set up. However, if the next few Saturdays are already booked, I think a Friday night would work too. I think it has to be on a weekend so more people are able to come. Once the secretary responds with a date, I’ll make the Facebook event and invite most of my friends to get the word out, talk to a couple of people about performing and making sure they are available that night, and start planning out what else needs to be done.

Garrett Scanlon  4/25/11 Journal #4 Saturday April 16th I met again with my mentor. We went over some final preparation things for my concert, since it would be the following Saturday. We discussed what I would say before the concert, and what still needed to be done to make the concert happen. The following Saturday, the 23rd, I had my concert. Me and a friend went to the church at 5 to clean up the room and set up for the concert. I had several people bake food to sell, and I had a couple other friends help by taking money, etc. The concert went very well. I had roughly 35 people show up, and I raised a total of $285. That is much more than I was expecting. Everybody that went to the concert had fun, and Chris and Katie both did really well.

Garrett Scanlon 5/5/11   Journal #5 I don’t really have much else to do as far as the hands on project. I have yet to send in the money, because I’m still expecting some donations from a few more people. However, I will send it in soon. As far as the powerpoint presentation goes, I’m working on it and getting a lot done, but I still have a lot to go. I’ve laid out the basics of my arguments and the background information, but I still need to discuss my hands-on project as well as how BPD has affected me personally.

Garrett Scanlon 5/17/11 Journal #6 I'm almost done my powerpoint presentation. I think I have all of the slides I need, I just need to add pictures to six slides, which I will do soon. I finished my works cited and put it into the powerpoint as well. Now I just need to practice my presentation and make some notecards.

Overall I felt like the format of this course made the entire project pretty easy. The spread out due dates and breakdown of each component of the project made it less overwhelming than I was expecting, and prevented me from procrastinating.