Time to Start

     In one week, I will be starting my senior project. Most people say that senior year is a very important year because it is the year before you leave home and start living on your own. I guess that I am hoping that this project will test if I am ready to be on my own. I have always been a person who depends a lot of the people around them. For this project, I will not be asking my parents to drive me places or to help me find someone to interview. I want to know I can accomplish something big, all by myself.
      Yes, the main idea of my project is to expand my photography portfolio and learn how to edit my pictures, but I am hoping that along with all of that, I will grow as a person. I want to become more confident that I can do things on my own. I am going to be going into San Francisco and other areas. I will be taking pictures of things that people do not usually notice. I will also be helping in a few soup kitchens. I have spent a lot of time doing service projects and I want to continue that with this project. As I am working in the kitchens, I will hopefully get the opportunity to take pictures of the people I will be feeding and get to talk to them about their story. I find people and what they have experienced very interesting. Hopefully through this project I will get to do two of the things I love to do, help people and do photography. I also want to go to our sister school and take pictures there. Along with that, I want to ask some of the teachers what they need in their classrooms, such as paper, pencils, books, games, etc., and find a way for them to get what they need.
     I am actually very nervous to start this project. I do not think that I will have a problem with the organization side of the project because I have always been very organized. I have more scared of the final presentation. I have never been good at talking in front of people. That is also one reason I wanted to do this project, to become more confident with my writing and speaking because both of those are a big portion of the project. Hopefully, in some way, this project will help me with leaving next year and feeling like I will be able to do it.