Me, Sophia, & Ms. Mcguire

So today I finally did my interview it went great Ms. McGuire can talk a lot but everything that she said was important & very interesting she talked about so much I would have to go back to remember some stuff...I thought we weren't going to be able to finish...We made so much connections with Ms. McGuire well at least I did when she talked about how she was just a parent and her child didn't want to do METCO that brought me back when I almost cried when I heard my mom put me into it...She showed us some books and we met people around the office well 2 ladies and 1 man...

Jean McGuire

Wow, she's such an amazing woman. The whole thing was mostly like story time for me like back in fourth grade. Without the lights, mics, camera &&the posture. She mentioned a lot of people's names and I wish I knew what she was talking about. I think the most interesting part of the interview was when she talked about what she personally did. Like how she went to the schools and actually counted how many free seats there were in the schools that has shut down parents who went earlier to ask if there was any free seats. It's amazing what parents would go through for their parents. It was amazing how she was able to talk about everything as if they all happened yesterday. The dates and the key events, she just seems to know it all.
She was not shy. ..at all. It was great though Howard and Julie had a hard time getting us to leave the building. She did not look like a 70 year old at all &&she moved like she was young. I have much to thank her for what she has done through out the thirty years that she has contributed to the METCO program, I wouldn't be me without it. It has been an amazing journey as my years in METCO wind down for my last year as a senior in Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School.

a`more sophie

Reflection : Interview of Sarah Ann Shaw

SARAH-ANN-SHAW...what a person..she's very a intelligent woman...someone who still have a great dreeam for the future...she wants the best not for only herself but her community as well. i really enjoyed caring a converstation with, she the type of person who would make u feeel like you need to be doin something your community. '' i think that the media do a poor job in our socity today" says SHAW. " the media shows all these paris hilton and not showing kids getting hurt and killed in the streets"....i really do agree on what shes saying and how she feels...the media really do nothing for the socity.

Mel King interview

OK SO TODAY ME,SEVON,AND JESSICA HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH MEL KING.IT WAS SO COOLLLLLLLL!!! WE WERE UNDER SOME HOT LIGHTS BUT, IT WAS OK. AT FIRST I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE SUPER STRICT AS JUAN DESCRIBED HIM BUT HE WAS THE TOTAL OPPOSITE. HE WAS FRIENDLY AND REALLY EASY TO TALK TO.I HAD FUN DOING THE INTERVIEW. HE KEPT ME LAUGHING AND I HAD SUPPORT FROM MY TEAM MEMBERS. IF U GUYS ARE READING THIS...JESSICA AND SEVON....THANKS A LOT AND I LOVE YOU GUYSSSS!!! =] OKKKKK SO LET ME STOP BECAUSE I'M GETTING ALL MUSHY,LOL.ANYWAYS, IT WAS A VERY GOOD EXPERIENCE TO LEARN FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SO LONG.HE WAS SO WISE AND I COULD TELL THAT HE MENT EVERY WORD THAT HE SAID AND HE WASN'T BEING FAKE.ON THE VERY LAST QUESTION OF THE INTERVIEW WAS WHERE I FELT THAT I CONNECTED WITH HIM THE MOST.HE GAVE SOME OF THE BEST ADVICE FOR FUTURE ACTIVISTS. HE SAID THAT YOU SHOULD READ BECAUSE THERE IS POWER BEHIND WORDS, AND THAT YOU ALWAYS NEED TO BE DEDICATED AND FOCUSED ON WHAT YOU'RE DOING.HE ANSWERED EVERY QUESTION PERFECTLY.HIS STRONG INTELLECT MADE ME ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT OUR SOCIETY TODAY AND HOW MY GENERATION CAN STILL MAKE A CHANGE.I FELT EVERYTHING HE WAS SAYING.IT WAS DEEP! MEL KING IS THE MAN,NO DOUBT!! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE TENT CITY.

It's Finally Over!!!!!!!

Now that my group was the first group to be done and finished, I feel really good. As the camerawoman, I felt that i did a descent job. My team mates did very good during the interview and was well prepared for the interview. With the tips that i gave them yesterday, i felt that they both had amazing committment because they went home and typed up the questions and obviously practiced. Mel King was at first very intimidating to meet because he was so serious or perhaps grumpy because he had to wake up so early. But then again, he's probably used to doing early morning interviews. I amde connections to Mel King because i sometimes feel that there is a rival/war between teens and adults. Due to the fact that teens do certain things that adults just can not understand, he was basically saying that the new study that his text center is running is doing an experiment basically how teens text and create smaller phrases for words. He sometimes reminded me of my Papa becasue the he talked passionate about how the youth is the future and needs to basically have there heads on straight to make the world better and not repeat history with our ancestors mistakes.
Shout out to Cherly and Sevon for an amazing interview!!!!!!!

Anticipation of the interview

ummmmm...i don't know what to say. i think Demitrus and i are ready for Mr.Breeden. I'm must say i am very intimidated my his genius. he must be a very smart man after all the education he received. You know that would be madd funny if he wasn't smart hahahaha. think after all that education he got and not be smart that's kinda funny.but I'm sure he is smart he has proved it by the actions he took to help young black children get the best education and he also helped to unify the churches.I just hope that when he talks it will be interesting. i don't really mind it being long just as long as he can tell an interesting story.something to keep a sistah awake.Anyway i hope i take advantage of meeting him in a positive way. i hope shyness does not overtake me and Demitrus is talking to this man for like hours and hours. hopefully i take the time to speak with this man and learn something new cuz i don't know when i will be able to be this close to history again.( that last sentence is not true i wrote it cuz it sounded deep and good) the truth is we are always in the presence of history when every we are around anyone who has lived life or had a hard day!!!

MY FEELINSZZ ON DA INTERVIEW 7/19

My interview is on thursday && I am a bit worried becuase I might mess up or somfn lyk dat...I have met Mrs. Jean Mcguire before but not directly she spoke at a METCO conference we had in my freshmen year....I am also kind of happy in a way because then she'll know who I am && I am a METCO student soo it might give me some sort of advantage ;-) JK but yeaa for the most part I will be OK maybe OMG its gunna b so early in the mornin Im styll thinkn ov da tyme I want to wake up....prolly lyk 5:30 6ish grrrr....but yeaaaa I am kinda ov ampt becusz I mite c som1 I no @ da DIMOCK office omg I didnt even no Mrs. Jean Mcguire had her own office crazy ritee???

~Toodles~~ Misz Yana Roxsz

Interview is tomorrow!!!!!

I am excited to meet one of Boston's important African-American activists tomorrow. I'm only worried about my team mates feeling confident and being about to keep a flow during the interview. Since I am the camerawoman, I'm only worried about (and i always worry about this whenever i film) is if the shots will come out good enough. I hope to be well-refreshed in the morning. I'm glad that we are being fed morning tomorrow, even though i always eat before i leave the house. I have a feeling that everything will be okay. I have absolute faith and confidence. If anything goes wrong, we'll just be doing some serious editing!!!!!

Reflection : interview

About the interview tomorrow with Sarah Ann Shaw I'm not that nervous but the only thing that I'm really worried about is that she may not hear me so I don't want to be to loud or talk to low for her because she is elderly anyway. I cant wait to meet her and i just want to do my best at interviewing Mrs Shaw. I have alot of confidence about this interview and I hope that the questions that we made up are very intelligent questions and I also feel that she would be able to answer my group questions because there not revealing questions very understandable.

Reflection : Interview

i'm so nervous right now. this whole time when they were talking about interviewin`, there were butterflies in my stomache. we pretend interviewin` jean mcguire first with ourselves then with juan. it was fairlie easy, no big oopsies. i can't wait to hear sevon, jessica &&cheryl's interview tomorrow. i had my outfit all figured out but i'm not so sure now. hmmers. as i'm typin` this, my stomahce is flippin` &&floppin`. i'm excited about the breakfast, though. i hope they have coffee or caffine. but i'm kind of scared because i'm not sure if i'll be able to wake up on time. hopefullie, 3 alarm clocks will work. me &&teeyana got our questions down so that's good. but no matter how much you practice, it'll change once you're under the lights and infront of the person you're goin` to interview, and with all the people around you, tryin` to video tape you.

G`LUCK TO

SEVON, JESSiCA, CHERYL, JELLiE, KEViN, O.

Y sophieeee