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During this part of the design cycle we began the steps needed in order to successfully remodel the room. Jorge, our construction specialist helped us a lot in the whole creation stage. The first thing we had to do was clean out the room, leave it completely empty from all the junk inside and pile of sand. To do this, we had to carry all the unnecessary things and lift it high, passing it to the other side through the top open half of a wall. This took us effort and strength but we were able to get through with it. Once the room was completely clear we bought most of the materials necessary for the room. On the weekends, Jorge and three other workers went and put up the wooden roof with strong wood that was also donated. During these weekends they also filled up the cracks on the ground with cement. We weren’t able to contribute in the process of the roof because it was too dangerous for us and we had no experience in constructing one, so we just learned. Then, we began sanding the walls, especially those that were varnished because if we painted on top of the varnished walls the paint would not stay on. Once, we had three volunteers go with us to the hospital to help sand the walls since it took extreme time and effort. As we sanded the room, the man that we hired to cut the window donated into the right size and fit it into the margins did his job. This was also dangerous for us because we had no idea how to work with glass, especially cutting it. Jorge, with another man put the door and this left most of the room ready. Although we weren’t able to sand all the walls completely due to limit of time, the painters that were donated to us went ahead and painted over the varnished walls because they said it wouldn’t be a big problem. The walls were painted a soft melon and the columns of dark orange. Melina’s mom decided to buy the carpet because we were too busy painting the games outside, on the garden of the day care. We decided to do this job as an extra because we had some orange paint left from the stimulation room and all we had to do was buy more colorful paint and work on the outside games. Jorge pasted the carpet that Melina’s mom had bought onto the ground. Finally, we brought out the stimulation set that had been stored by the day care and cleaned them with spray, cloths and sponges. When they were free from dust two daycare teachers came and helped us arrange the toys in a certain order they were supposed to go in. At last, the stimulation room was ready. It looked way different than the room we had started with. All that was left was the inauguration before the CoFo presentations. When we were working in the creation part of our project, we also experienced some interaction with the kids of the day care from ages four to five. As we spent time with them, we read them books, played games, sang songs, read poems and performed a craft in which we made picture frames with popsicle sticks. We took a photo of each student and brought their picture developed on the inauguration so the teachers could help them paste it on their picture frame. Creation is a part of the design cycle where we put in action our design and plan. Even thought our design and plan wasn’t that organized, our creation turned out to be pretty good, and we know this because our final product was basically what we expected. |