Finally Meeting my Mentor

Throughout the month of November me and my partner Enrique Gonzalez searched for professionals in the video game industry, but we either got ignored or rejected by every person we contacted. During the last week we were able to get credit for a mentor agreement signature, we contacted everything from the International Gaming Network in San Francisco, to Computer Science teachers at the College of San Mateo (we attempted to branch out from the video game industry in an act of desperation). We continued looking for possible mentors into late January, when we were able to contact Neil Prasad- a professional computer repairer from Bay Area Computer Repairs in San Bruno. We asked if we could meet him in person to get the mentor agreement page signed, and he agreed. On February 28th we had our parents drive us to his office to get the paper signed, but once we arrived he explained that he had left to fix a computer. We waited for his return for two and half hours, but he told us that he still wouldn't be back soon, and that he could scan the mentor agreement to us. We were able to turn in the mentor agreement through this method the day of the agreement deadline. Since then, we've attempted twice to meet with Neil to get lessons on fixing computers, and to receive a training video on computer repair. The first time was on Tuesday, February 18th, when we waited about an hour for him to return to his office, but he explained that it would be difficult for us to meet that day, so we agreed to meet later. The second time was on Thursday, February 20th. He again told us that he was away from his office fixing a computer, but that he'd be at his office at 6. We waited two hours until about 5, and then walked from SSFHS to his office near the Bay Hill shopping center, only to find out that he wasn't at his office- but at another house fixing a computer. We had our parents pick us up and drive us down El Camino to meet Neil outside of his client's house. He told us that he could give us the training video so we could have some content to work on while he went out of state (he left on February 21st and will be returning in March). We finally picked up the training CD's at about 7 p.m., and met Neil for the first time. He apologized for not being able to meet with us before hand, and explained how busy he was with his current job. Today we checked the length of the CD's to make sure we have enough content for a few weeks, but the total length of the tutorials ads up to only about 10 minutes. So far we have 0 hours of content, but have spent a large amount of time trying to get content. I would have posted an update earlier, but we have no official hours yet. We will continue to advance on our Capstone Project, however.