Starting Off With A Plan

The start of last Thursday's trip up to Palo Alto was a fun one. Kate Ryan and I drove up to visit Florence and Philip La Riviere at their place to discuss what is to come of our final project. On the way up, we actually talked about what pizza to order so when we get to Florence and Philips house we could have dinner. As we arrived to their house it was grey and green. What i mean by this is that it was raining and has a large abundious of green plants everywhere. We then came to the front door and greeted ourselves with "hello's" and "nice to meet you". After our greetings, me Ryan and Kate made ourselves at home while Florence beings to ask what our American Studies assignment is about. we of course, told her and Kate asked her what she would like to come of this to really benefit the organization. This is where our volunteering will come in to come up with an idea to help. What are idea is to create a video for the Citizens Committee To Complete The Refuge. This organization was created a long time ago and today, not many people know how it started or really have any documentation of it all. So the idea of a video help people of the bay area and organization learn a little more about it. So Ryan. Kate, and I would simply create a video showing pictures of land that was saved and also interviews with some of the main people who helped start and carry on this Organization. What Florence had told us to do to help out was to get a hold of some main people who were involved in this Organization and get an interview. We need to get some publication and figure out a good video in which to show people how they can help get involved or just learn about it. We did all discuss this plan about the video over dinner and also sitting down on the couches when we first arrived. But, as the time went on we wanted to learn a little more about this Organization for ourselves and get to know everything a little better for ourselves. Florence and Philip showed us to a room in their house that has all sorts of documents, newspapers, and awards received for Citizens Committee To Complete The Refuge. This room could date all the times that this organization had come out to the public for acknowledgment and issues about land being lost from more building sites. I had found it really interesting and I wanted to actually look through every newspaper clipping and read them all. I found it very intriguing. But, of course that would probably take a day or two. From this entire day though, i found it very helpful getting to know what this organization did and how many people are actually involved with it as well. I cant wait to do actually start his video in later weeks and help out this organization.