The aim of my project

The aim of a project is really important. This is the purpose and intention of the project so it has to be specific to what you want to do and what you want to achieve during the period of time given.

My project is about breast cancer and my aim is to spread the knowledge about the disease. I want to make girls and women aware of this awful disease in this early stage of our lives, even though we are only just 18 years old. According to statics from cancerfonden.se only 5 % diagnosed with breast cancer are under 40 years of age. Even though this number is so low I really see the importance in spreading the awareness and knowledge right now.

I want to achieve this by selling Rosa Bandet, which is the Swedish symbol for breast cancer. Also I am going to start and run a fund site on Cancerfondens website where people can donate money to Rosa Bandet. Searching the internet and talking to doctors will be my sources for information to get the knowledge about the disease and then on the day of the culture café I want to hold a presentation to spread the knowledge I have learned and also go through the different steps of how to check yourself at home for the early symptoms of breast cancer. 

Thoughts started coming to me

So brainstorming here we go. Ideas, ideas and ideas. I want to do something fun and something that I can enjoy doing for 100 hours and not get tired of. Also, I want to do something that is close to my heart and not something that will be useless after the project ends.

I talked to my dad a couple of days ago and somehow we got in to the subject of my grandmother who died a few years ago. She died in breast cancer. This got me thinking. During that same day, my mum got back the result from her mammography and thankfully it come back positive. This has to mean something, I mean talking about it and then seeing that letter about breast cancer, that has to be a sign of some sort. So I thought about it and started to look around the web for information and so on. I got in to the Swedish Cancerfondens website and found out a lot of things about fundraisings and selling diverse products for the fund.  

I want to do something concerning breast cancer and Rosa Bandet.  

Summer changed everything

Before the summer, we had to decide on what our projects would be about, what we wanted to do and what we wanted to achieve by doing them. We got to write a small description of them in a survey that was collected on the web (I think it was SharePoint).
 

What I wrote then, was that I wanted to research and find out what “snack” is the best before training and practice, depending on how much time you have to eat or consume it, either just a few minutes or maybe an hour or even more. I would research this myself, doing it together with my own tennis practices since I play six days a week and on an elite level. Then during the practice I would feel how the “snack” would help me perform throughout the training. If I would feel hungry and tired with no energy it would clearly mean that the “snack” was not the best one possible or maybe it would get me really energetic and alert and then it would of course be a good snack. To complete the research I was going to talk to health and nutrition experts as well as keeping track of what every “snack” contained in form of fat, calories and sugar etc. 

However, during the summer I was told by the doctors at Sophia-Hemmet (hospital close to Stockholm Östra which has an extremely respectable athletic department) that I have an injury in my cap that is inoperable. This meant that my tennis six days a week would suffer and that I would no longer be able to play so much each week. So the bottom line is that this project that I had planned cannot happen due to my injury.

So what to do now for my 100 point project is my new question that I have to figure out. Think, think, think…

Who am I?

My name is Amanda Olsson. I am 18 years old and I go to the Spets program at VRG Djursholm. I chose the Spets program because of the English and the University courses we would take during the third year. I play tennis in my spare time almost every day and sports have always been a big part of my life. I live in Täby and before VRG I went to Bergtorpsskolan in Viggbyholm.