This year in PSE I have learnt lots of different personal and life skills that have been useful in my day to day life. We started the year off with Unit 1, learning and covering all things to do with emotional intelligence and mental health/wellbeing. I felt like learning about emotional intelligence and what it actually means was especially useful to our lives, growing up as teenagers in a world where mental health as an idea, is becoming more and more popularized. One thing that really stuck with me for that unit was learning about empathy and sympathy, and the difference between them. This was especially helpful when learning about how to interact with others, even friends and how to best support them. About halfway through the year we started to explore more about our futures. This unit was especially relevant in terms of preparing ourselves for meetings with university advisors, and potential internship opportunities. The resume writing learnt in class was useful to me when I had to send in my  resume to a dental clinic regarding a job shadowing opportunity. Working through personality tests and other surveys was helpful in terms of opening myself up to the vast range of job possibilities that the world has to offer, for example, a job that especially intrigued me was working in forensic science. Towards the end of the year, we started to look more into issues regarding gender privilege’s, consent and healthy relationships. All these issues are important to converse about at a young age, and to spark dialogue regarding these issues.