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Monday the 17th of May I started to think about what I could do to impact and help out the community. My first Idea was helping out the homeless in the Huntington beach area but I finally decided on a beach cleanup because that was something I could be truly passionate about.

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I decided to do a beach cleanup because my favorite thing to do on the weekends is go surfing with my friends. I hate seeing it dirty and so I decided that I would make the difference and make the beach a better place for anybody who wants to enjoy it. This was the perfect service project for me because I could do it about something that I feel very strongly about and enjoy putting effort into the project.

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We just needed trash bags for the clean up but Noah had some gloves in his bag just in case we needed them to pick up anything. It was always me and Noah K. because we decided that we were going to do the service project together. It was just me and Noah for the first two days and we had one of the people around us take the pictures for us. The last two days we had Dylan N. and Micah T. join us and help out which made the experience a lot better.

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The first day wasn't as much as we were expecting we didn't get as much trash as we thought. We went out in the afternoon when most people are out at the beach. We decided during the afternoon the beach will be the most crowded so more people would see what we were doing. We were out for like 1-2 hours we walked down a few towers on the wet sand and than walked back on the dry sand picking up any trash we saw.

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" In the backseat of the taxi, I dug the brochure out of my backpack and quickly flipped to the Nepal section. Civil war, it said again, in the same breezy font used to describe the country's fauna. Couldn't they have added exclamation points? Maybe put it in big red letters, and followed it with "No lie!" or " Not your kind of thing!" How was I supposed to know they were telling the truth.?"
(chapter 1, page 6)

This passage shows that Conner underestimated the brochure and the civil war. We can relate because we underestimated the amount of trash on the beach. We thought that we would be out there for maybe an hour but instead it took us 2 hours on our first day because we couldn't find enough trash.

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The second time was better we found out after the first day that walking up on the dry sand has more trash. We still went down to the wet sand to look and make sure we didn't miss anything. We went around the same time as we did the day before and because it was Memorial Day weekend it was pretty busy.

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When Conner met with Gyan in Gyan's office he made a plan that he thought would work the best. But he didn't know how it would work until they went into the real world and did it.
(Chapter 4)
We can relate this to our experience because we had a plan that we talked about before the clean-ups but we really didn't know how it would work until we were on the sand.

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May 29th, 2021

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The third time was better it just seems to keep getting better each time because we learn from the last time. This time we had 3 people. Having the extra person helped because we could have more eyes on the sand so we don't miss as much. This clean up was cool because I found a Churchill body boarding fin on our way back. We made sure to ask the people around if they were missing a fin before we took it.

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May 30th, 2021

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" This was the first time I had searched --really searched-- for the children on my own. If I doubted myself before, after the last two hours I felt pathetic, like an outright fraud for even trying. I took the path leading back to the main road and Godawari. I was going to find a way to make a difference for the kids in Nepal. Just not this way.
Then I saw her."
(Chapter 4 Page 126)

In this passage Conner had lost hope in finding his seven children and making a difference in Nepal. We can relate to this passage because we had not found anything very cool but on our walk back we found a really cool swim fin on the beach.

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June 5th, 2021

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Found on the last day by Noah K. It was buried under the sand with only a little bit sticking out.

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I found this near the water it looked like it got washed up. It was found on the 3rd clean up day.

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This was probably the most fun clean up because we had 4 people we talked the whole time and it made it go by fast. Having more people me and Noah had the idea to split in two groups Noah and Micah and Me and Dylan. To add to the groups we made a challenge to see who could pick up more trash. We ended up going a whole tower more than the last time. This was our last clean up and we ended up finding a short board leash almost fully buried under the sand.

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I enjoyed doing this project a lot because I got to hangout with my friends and contribute back to the community. Doing it with my friends made the time fly bye and we found a lot more trash. Overall I would say that this was definitely the perfect project for me because it was something that I enjoyed putting effort into. This project also made me realize how much trash is really left out on the beach and how much gets into our ocean, harming our wild life. For me this project meant a lot because I go to the beach often and seeing it in the condition it is now is almost sickening. Without a doubt I will continue this project and keep trying to make the beach a better place.

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June 6th, 2021

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"D.B. and I began putting together our teams We wanted eight men in total, including ourselves. He would lead one team of four and I the I the other-"
(Chapter 5 page 164)

Just like in the passage we split into two groups but we did it to make it more fun and make the cleaning go faster.