Summary: During my experience, I got a role where I was able to meet new people, people I would never have met if I hadn't done this project. I was happy to have been given an important role, my role was to do block marches to help Carol Dingman's clear message get through the community more quickly. At first I thought it was going to be difficult to be honest since I had never been involved in anything related to politics, but it was actually fun. I saw so many different things Carol had to do to get a voice, and I thought it was impossible to talk to just one person for hours. Not only did I discover what was important to Carol and why she was applying to the Farmers Branch major, but I also discovered that I needed to be informed in order to help her. During the days I had to volunteer, I had to walk from house to house, street to street, and neighborhood to neighborhood. It wasn't easy, but I asked the community about the biggest issues in Farmers Branch. interact with the older generation. How have your experiences provided insight into the democratic process? While volunteering for Carol's campaign, I discovered that I enjoyed getting involved in American politics. I discovered what it meant to be an informed citizen. I used to think that being an American citizen simply meant having more opportunities than those who weren't. Now, I think being an American citizen is someone who actually knows what's going on around them and what they can do to change the things that need to be fixed. What have you learned about the importance of every vote? What I learned about the importance of every vote is that every vote counts, no matter who the person is or where they are from. This is especially in the middle of an article......about the world and nation in which I live. Even though I read about it, I think seeing it and doing it for myself was a lot different than just seeing it and doing it for myself. read something that I don't quite understand. I think I learned that even though I wasn't born in the United States, I should still be involved in what's going on. When I started participating, I involved not only myself, but also my family. I think in class I learned a lot, but going through it, it's different and I got opinions from different people besides the opinions from the book or my teacher. After such an experience, I am more inclined to get involved in politics now and I believe I will be again in the future. The reason I think this way is because it helped me understand everything in general better. For example, how my work permit works and why I was able to have such an important document.