First day of Video Documenting

On a Saturday, we planned to meet up at 11 am. Unfortunately, the school's plans for the Dzongkha nursery rhyme competition were disrupted as the contestants were granted permission by the principal to work on their video documentaries. Originally, Sir Mani Wangdi had suggested a meeting time of 9 am, coinciding with the school nursery rhyme competition. However, we were all too tired to wake up that early, so we ended up gathering at 12 noon instead.

We started discussing and planning on our next step, whom to interview in the town? where to do it? how should we do it? Never mind the serious thinking, we just got ice cream before starting everything to cool down our minds(ice cream image). After the delicious milk ice cream and aggressive biting, we headed down to the town to first of all, print our script as we needed to look as professional and ethical as possible. The printing was kinda hectic as there were some issues with the business owner but we managed to pay up and started our interview Journey!!!

Nobody is willing to be interviewed ;D

We tried asking a free shop owner for an interview at first, we gave her some time to prepare and searched for other people to interview in the process, Got rejected from all ends anyways. We got tired of being rejected so we headed up the road and took a short lil break from all the anxiety we got after asking strangers to smile at a camera and share their opinions over the media 

Ngawang's mother had kindly gifted us with leftover snacks and drinks from their yesterdays to consume during our work, we borrowed plastic cups from one of our teammates and while pouring the apple juice in every individuals cup, One of us pointed out how the apple juice seemed like alcohol and we looked like tired drunk students, we all burst out laughing from the ironic condition we were in and felt like sharing our usage of humour as a coping mechanism with the innovation contestants

(more like anticipating a reply from Sir Mani Wangdi) 

Consequently after the drinks and break time, we headed back to town to try and interview some people! [failed once again]. Shreya suggested we rest at her shop, we all agreed without hesitation.

The shop had a cozy atmosphere where we could rest without feeling anxious with the over usage of our social batteries on strangers, our team compromises of 4 introverts and only 1 extrovert who also struggles with socializing like us. I guess that's what makes us a team since we all lack at the same area

We rested in the shop, was on our phones and planned our next step, Shreya came up with an idea to go visit Khanduthang, as we wanted to target remote areas too for our interviews, Ngawang executed the idea by contacting her father and he took us for a ride to Khanduthang 

On our way, We faced a problem, An unfamiliar phone was in Rigsel's hands and when further inspected.. It was Shreya's mothers phone! We had gotten the similar looking phone covers mixed up that we accidentally brought her mothers phone with us, Very unfortunate, The car stirred in Panic with the Garbage Goblins trying to come up with solutions with our current problem, the ride ended up being chaotic and filled with laughter as we managed to joke around to lighten up the situation. Shreya called her mother through someone elses phone, as soon as she mentioned the missing phone, we got hung up-

Whoops

We arrived at Green Alliance, The area was filled with sags of Trash, the workers there didn't seem to get along with the idea of being interviewed, we respected that as we also value the need for privacy for others but after several rejections, it was just sad ;D

Took a few videos for our documentary and continued to head to another location

To the dumping area we go

We managed to get our FIRST INTERVIEW THERE, LETS GO, they didn't like the idea of being recorded through video but even a response for our interview was enough to spark us with happiness. We were shocked to discover during the interview, that the workers only get to take 2 days off once a month, and that too during Sundays, they take care of the scrap and recycle them which is an admirable job

After a successful SINGLE INTERVIEW in an entire day, we headed back and called it a day

Back at Shreyas shop, Her mom offered us free bathup which was deeply appreciated as we were ALL STARVING, we didn't even eat lunch while interviewing. The Gob had a calm and fun conversation where we were all sharing a thing or so about our life and enjoying every moment as a team. And that was the end of the day which ended around 4-5pm

Signing out

Garbage Goblins.