7hills Garden Project Reflection

7Hills Garden Project Reflection When our class decided to make a community garden for 7hills, I was excited all quizzes and tests were dropped. Everyone including myself thought this project would be a breeze; little did we know we would be struggling a lot. Every one of us got along before we started this project but then our personalities began to show. Assigning roles was difficult because a lot of us did not want to hurt feelings; there were a lot of feelings hurt during all of this. Our main leader for this project would say she could handle everything and then would message all of us to help her do her job and then she would take all the credit for herself. This is what caused a lot of stress, pressure and tempers to rise. I had a lot of ideas that were put down or our leader took credit all the credit. I felt like she didn’t take me serious and thought I wasn’t capable of doing things for the class. It was very stressful …show more content…
We were definitely not as organized as we though we were. We had so many issues come up and a lot of us did not want to fix them. I believe there was maybe one person who offered to do everything and that was Stephanie. She was so sweet to help out with everything we did I felt like she should have been our main leader. I felt like we should have planned ahead of time to get donations and spread the word. If we could have perfected our flyers before the week of the event I think we may have been able to target more of the community. We also had a difficult time spreading the work on campus because of rain days, which shortened our time to spread the word. Overall, this experience was a great way to learn more about macro practice in social work. I had a different image of what it was like and this experience really opened my eyes to show that macro is harder than it looks. It’s a lot of hard work and putting yourself out into the community to be able to accomplish a