"What you see is only half of what there is.": January 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

City Connection Reflection

1) What did you do well on the project? I think I did well with speaking with a clear voice, grabbing everyones attention, explaining the details, etc.

2) What would you improve for future presentations/projects? I think I want to improve on finishing the project earlier so that I have more time to practice, find more information, maybe put some sound effects in my presentation to make it more interesting and more.

3) What did you learn from your preparation in addition to the presentations of others? I learned that being confident with your work is very important, I also learned that repeating the same words such as 'like..." because it may irritate the audience, in addition to that I think that I should change the tone of my voice and look at the audience more offen to keep there attention (although I already had their attention...).

4) What did you learn from the city presentations of others? From Mao's presentation I learned that, because of the great samurai sanada's house, that was full of cherry blossom tree's (Sakura tree's) the national flower of Japan became the cherry blossom tree.

5) How did you meet each of the requirements on the rubric? By following what the rubric said. If I don't then I would get bad grades.

6) What is your analysis of your performance? I think I did well, I felt good because I satisfied the audience. I think I should make my slides more interesting instead of just a prize so next time I am going to have to have a quiz to get a prize so they have to answer it right!!! Better pay attention to my presentation if u want a prize!!!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Learner Profile

1. I learn best when I am not stressed out. I get stressed out easily like when I get shouted at, when I am trying to work, I get stressed out when I am lonely too and other people are talking and when there is something moving while I work. I also learn better when I am listening to music to comfort me. One thing that will help me best is if the class is really fun.

2. I need to get something squishy so that I dont move around because I cant stay still when I am listening to someone talking. I need a good work space so that I can stretch out and chill-ax while I am working. I like art so maybe working with something colorful or working around some art in the class (I think working a little artistically can help everyone improve in class).

3. The strategies that would help me in my learning is if you give me longer time to read (SSR). Give us free time when we are good to do like board games, drawing, reading, etc. Another thing that will help me learn will be where you place me (desks). In addition to that 'WHO' you place me with as partners or as desk buddies can really effect my concentration.

4. I would like my teachers to know this about me: I see ghosts (so when I am a little abnormal then maybe there is something spiritual going on) I like to dance (LOL) I also like Warhammer 40,000. They are mini figures that you have to put together and paint. I got some from my friend and my mom is going to get me some when she goes to Singapore (tommorow). I painted one at Dylan's house when I went over.

Well thats about it!!!

Picture of Warhammer that I painted at Dylan's!!!

Monday, January 10, 2011

My New Year Resolution Post!

My first resolution for the year is to get organized. My locker is so messy ( and so is my room...) that I can't find anything in it and I get worried that I might have lost something like my library book but it is still in the messy piles of things in my locker! Plus one thing about organizing that I really need to improve on is to put things back. In my house I leave my things in the living room then I think that I lost something and it is actually downstairs in the living room. Thats why I need to improve organizing during 2011.

Another resolution is to remember things that I did in class so that I can get my grades up to its maximum. I need to start remembering what I have learned in class I keep forgetting what we have already learned and so my test results were not as good as last years results. I need to remember and study hard on things that we have already learned so that my test results can be really good ones. I really need to carve all the good information into my brain. I need to remember things especially in Math and Science... My father always says "Reviewing every day even for 10min is better than reviewing once a week for 2hours" I am going to take my fathers advice and study everyday for 10min and get those grades up!!! ( Not that my grades are bad or anything)

This Christmas Holiday was really good! I went to Sipadan for Diving. We stayed at a resort that was ontop of the sea so if you were to jump in it would be pretty steep and fun!!! We dived 3 times a day and if we were lucky we could go for 4 dives. There were a lot of things to see like Sharks, tornado of Barracuda and Jack fish, Tuna, etc. Diving wasn't the only thing we did though. We jumped off the jetty when it was low tide and when it was high tide then we jumped off high places like the bench on the resort (Real high).

We also rented a canoe. My dad was getting ready like putting sunscreen on etc. Then we got on the canoe and went to a resort not too far away from ours. The resort looked like a huge ship (it was a cheap resort, lucky we didn't stay there). So we slowly paddled there and when we got there we tied the canoe onto the ladder that the resort had. My dad told me to get off the canoe first so I got off and went up the ladder (it was a short ladder). Then a few seconds after I got on the platform of the hotel my dad stood up and the whole canoe sank, just like that. I jumped back into the sea and tried to pull up the canoe before it sank to the bottom but me and my dad together could not get the water out of the canoe so we were stuck there trying to keep the canoe from sinking. Couple minutes later 2 boat men came to our rescue one got on the plat form the other jumped into the sea. The man in the sea lifted the canoe enough so that the man on the platform could get all the water out by tipping it towards the sea. As soon as he got the water out of the sea he dropped it and luckily the canoe was still floating. My dad and I got cuts while we were climbing the ladder because of something growing on the ladder. After me and my dad got on the platform my dad asked has anyone seen my sunscreen? we all bursted out laughing as the boat man handed my dad's sunscreen back to him. We looked around this boat hotel and they had never had a child in there hotel before. When we got back my mother was worried because we took so long and we told her the whole story.

A talent that I have that hardly anyone knows about is that I can see ghosts. In fact me and Mao have the same talent. Mao saw ghosts at the MS party and so did I. Let me tell you about one ghost that I had spotted at the MS party. It was in miss Narsiman's room ( Not that I was in there) I was walking looking from side to side to see if there was anything interesting and at the corner of my eyes I saw a head (sort of blue). It was impossible for anyone to stick just a head at that window because there was a book shelf there. I would have seen her body but I only saw her head. When I turned to look at it however it had vanished. I was scared I described it to Mao. I had said " OMG it was so scary the head was sort of blue the head had long hair so I knew it was a girl, she had big eyes and she was smiling freakishly at me!" At that moment me and Mao were terrified. We ran back to the canteen and took deep breathes and tried to calm down. And that is my scary talent that I don't think many people know about.

Here is a picture of a barracuda tornado.