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2nd weekly reflection

 Monday, May 22      This week went pretty well. We got a shipment out to Africa which I was very happy about and I did many other things. The shipment going to Africa was a lot of hard work to put together, but when we were done, the feeling was amazing. I felt like we accomplished something amazing for a town in Africa. Many people will get bikes and be able to use them for transportation and all sorts of things. I am happy that I was able to take part in helping pack the shipment to Africa. It was an amazing experience meeting the guy from Sierra Leone.  What I accomplished and the team accomplished over the last week was amazing. We worked on bikes from 7 - 8 hours a day and unloaded many bikes as well as packing a shipment to Africa. I had fifty bikes get picked up for donation. I was amazed at how we could fit all the bikes into the trailer. The feeling of accomplishing those things is amazing. I was super happy to be able to work on bikes, because usually I just ride them and ne
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Day 12

 Monday, May 22 The bike shipment to Africa went really well, I think we were all happy about this and then the bike up that happened Friday went well. I think everything that happened at Working Bikes went well. To recap the two weeks, I worked on bikes, stripped bikes for parts, worked a couple days on a shipment to Africa and donated around fifty bikes to Working Bikes. Working Bikes is a cool organization and what they are doing is amazing. I am glad I was able to work with an organization like them. Sending bikes to South America and Africa is really cool.  Hours: 2 Total hours: 76
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Day 11

 Saturday May 20th I spent the whole day working on my  paper, presentation and blogs. Since I was a slow writer, It takes me a while to write anything. I did procrastinate these blogs pretty badly. I wrote more of them today. I also started my presentation. I did a little bit of what my presentation was going to say. I wrote a lot of my paper. I spent some time thinking how I was going to present my project and how it was going to look. I really went deep to try to remember all the things I did in the two week, so that I could add them to my blogs. This was a lot of time spent on just writing things.  Hours: 6 Total Hours: 74
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Day 10

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Friday, May 19th Today I went to the location of my bikes and spent about 5 - 10 minutes looking at each one of them. I was looking at the chain, frame, handlebars, basically everything on the bike to make sure it was ok to get picked up. Most of the bikes we were donating were either at some point were going to go to South America or Africa. I mostly had mountain bikes. Which was weird because why would you need a mountain bike for a very flat city. Most of the bikes had pretty old derailleurs. After checking them out. I texted Gabe to see where he was and he was only a couple minutes away so, I propped the doors open and got ready to bring bikes outside. As we loaded bikes, we kept count of them.                                                                       This was the first bike to be loaded After loading many bikes, my arms started to get a little tired, which reminded me I needed to workout more. Here is a picture of me loading more bikes and being halfway done.  We were
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Senior Project Day 9

Thursday, May 18th, 2023  Today I went to Working Bikes and finished working on the shipment to Africa. Since the guy from Africa was here he helped us out carry the bikes up the ramp way. My main job for today was to hand the bikes up to the people putting them in the shipping container. After a couple of  hours, Alex, the guy I was helping had to leave, so I was the only one putting the bikes in the shipping container. I needed help stacking the bikes, so I got Colette and Jerry to help. I helped with stacking bikes and carrying the bikes and after many hours of sweat and backbreaking lifting, we were done. We added some bike rims, helmets and we also added more tubes. At the end of putting all the bikes in, we had a problem. We had to cut some of the plywood so it would fit inside of the container and we also added some straps to make sure the bikes didn’t come crashing down when they opened up the container. After finishing the container, I talked to Gabe the delivery guy about the
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Senior Project day 8

Wednesday May 17th   Today I went to Working bikes and packed up the shipment out to Africa. We sent mountain bikes to Africa because they don’t have paved roads. We added some hybrid bikes for good measure. We stuffed bikes into a massive shipping containers like the kind you see on cargo ships. We first put in a layer of bikes that stood upright and each one was opposite. one bike went in handlebars first and then the next bike went in rear wheel first. I also twisted the handlebars sideways so the bikes took up less room and we could fit more. One by one we fit 35 bikes into one part of the container. On top of the stacked bikes we added more bikes on the sides. We also put bags of cassettes, cranks, pedals, chains, brakes and more. We started by putting hundreds of tubes over the bikes and then added two or three pieces of plywood. Then we started the same process over for about sixty to eighty more bikes. It was an amazing day, I would have never thought that, that many bikes coul
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Senior Project day five

 Monday the 15th of May Today I am going to talk about what my senior project is actually trying to achieve and what the organization I am working with does. So firstly I love mountain biking and just bikes in general, so when I  thought of doing my senior project, i was definitely going to do something with bikes. Bikes are another way of transportation and they are also a lot of fun. So I came upon the idea I am pursuing now for senior project which is collecting bikes, repairing them and donating to Working Bikes. Working Bikes Collective collects bikes, repairs them and then sends out the mountain bikes to Africa. I love to bike, so being able to send bikes out to Africa is amazing and I hope that they will have fun riding bikes like I do.  Hours: 7 Total Hours: 33
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