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Culturama Final Reflection

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Now that Culturama has finished, it is time to reflect back onto this experience. The whole experience of Culturama was amazing and much more fun than I expected it to be. I got to work with my friends and learn new things with and from them as well. In the end the commitment and hard work that we all put into the dance and performance was all worth it. The energy on the stage that night was amazing, something I will never forget. Although I still don’t think I am the best dancer, I do think I learnt a lot from this experience, how to learn new skills and focus my attention onto doing so. Performance night was a very good experience, with my parents watch as well, the energy on stay was so energetic especially when we performed the Can-Can. I learnt a lot from my amazing dance leaders and although I don’t know if I will try dancing again in the future, it was defiantly a memory I will never forget and was 100% worth all the hard work I put in. I am so proud of myself and my fellow dancers, especially my dance leaders, for the final show we put on, although we went through some bumpy times where the dance was not a good as it could have been, we managed to pull everything together at the end and have an amazing show to perform.

Final Reflection

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Finally I have submitted my final EE, the whole process has been really stressful for me but also very rewarding. Having to do so much research was very tiring, but it was also very fun as my topic was genuinely something I am interested in. I think from my first draft, my EE has improved a lot and I have learnt not only about medical marijuana and social anxiety, but also important skills such as finding educational resources and learning how to insert in-cite citations into an essay. Although throughout the process my supervisor did change, both of them were extremely helpful in guiding me through this past year or so. Lastly, I also learnt a lot about how to navigate myself through all of the online resources out there, to be able to find the valuable and educational ones as well.

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Culturama Initial Reflection

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I have never previously participated in Culturama before, but since this is my last academic school year at UWC I decided that it would be a nice opportunity and experience to join before I leave. I had a few difference dances that I was thinking about joining as a possibility, but the France dance was run by 2 of my good friends, and they expressed to me that they thought their dance would be a good fit for me.

I have been participating in practice for a few weeks now and I find the commitment really similar to Kahaani. I am finding it a lot easier not as I have had the experience of Kahaani last year so I know how a weekly lunch rehearsal(or more) can feel like even when you don’t feel like participating sometimes. Unlike Kahaani, in my Culturama dance I have a lot more friends and people I know, making the commitment part of the activity a lot easier and making the dance a lot more fun overall. I have not missed any practice for the first couple of weeks and we even had an extra optional practice that I attended since dancing is not something I am very good at, I feel a responsibility as part of the group to put my time in to make sure I do not fall behind and cause any trouble to my dance leaders too. I am very excited to keep working hard on Culturama for the next season, our dance seems to be turning out very well and I’m looking forward to seeing the final product !

 

 

Project Week Final Reflection

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Now that project week has ended, I can finally reflect on a wonderful and amazing trip and experience that the school has helped organised for me and my group. We managed to do 2 full days of service and 3 half days of surfing, as well as taking a local train for 3 hours all the way from Colombo to Galle. The service was not what we were expecting, we thought we were going to be working closely with the children/students there but instead we ending up only interacting with a few and our main focus was painting pillow cases and weaving matts for them to sell and raise money. Surfing was an amazing experience, it was extremely tiring but I think we all think it was a great idea and such a fun new skill for us all to learn. We filmed another video after the trip to reflect on the best parts and most valuable areas where we learned. As well as things we learnt on the trip, there were also many things we learnt to be careful of. We learnt about safety and being on our own, but also about how our actions can effect others.

Especially in our service, we saw how our contribution and actions effect all those working at the service, either in a bad way or in a positive way. We did our very best tone careful with how we spoke to the children in the service, being aware of how they would interpret our attitudes towards them. Making sure we portrayed ourself as comfortable with them even if we didn’t feel that way, as we knew it would have a bigger impact on them than on us. I think we did this pretty well as we never really felt too uncomfortable, and if we did we were able to laugh it off with the staff and/or with the children themselves. Our service really focused on children education, which is a very large global issue as many children around the world, the majority even, do not have access to education or cannot afford to attending schools. By helping out by weaving the matts and painting the pillow cases, we hope to help raise money for more children in Colombo to be able to have the supplies that they need for their education.

Final Reflection

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Finally I have submitted my final EE, the whole process has been really stressful for me but also very rewarding. Having to do so much research was very tiring, but it was also very fun as my topic was genuinely something I am interested in. I think from my first draft, my EE has improved a lot and I have learnt not only about medical marijuana and social anxiety, but also important skills such as finding educational resources and learning how to insert in-cite citations into an essay. Although throughout the process my supervisor did change, both of them were extremely helpful in guiding me through this past year or so. Lastly, I also learnt a lot about how to navigate myself through all of the online resources out there, to be able to find the valuable and educational ones as well.

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Intermediate Reflection

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After submitting my initial draft and receiving verbal and written feedback from my teacher, I have realised that my draft was not as good as it could have been. Since my initial draft was actually a fail, my teacher gave me a lot of advice and work that I have to do now. Some important notes from my supervisor was about some of my information/paragraphs being in the wrong order or even some paragraphs were unnecessary or repeated myself. I took all of my supervisors advice and reread and reevaluated my whole essay, deleting paragraphs, and moving others around. Another really important mistake I made with my initial reflection was my citations, specifically my in-cite citations. I was not sure how to do in-cite citations and forget to seek help before hand but after speaking to my supervisor and asking her to explain it too me as she understands as a teacher, I managed to try my best to add in-cite citations in al my paragraphs, linking my facts and knowledge to my citation list at the bottom of my essay.

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Project Week Initial Reflection

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For 2018 project week coming up soon, I am in a group with 3 other girls who I know all. Originally we were planning to go to Ho Chi Minh City to do some animal based service, as I am from Ho Chi Minh and have lived there before we thought it would be smoother to go someone where one of us is familiar with the area, and none of the other girls in my group had ben there before. Our initial proposal was rejected because so many groups had wanted to go to Saigon and only 2 groups in total could go. So we started thinking about a second location we could go to be we were stuck on the idea, while I was away for holiday and missed one day of school, the rest of my group had a meeting and they decided that we were going to Sri Lanka. At first I was a bit uneasy about the decision as none of us had gone to Sri Lanka before, and it’s a bit out of our comfort zones regarding safety as we are used to a certain lifestyle here in Singapore. Even my parents were initially concerned about the overall issues we might face in Sri Lanka, regarding safety, navigation, language, ect. None of us have ever been to Sri Lanka before and it is going to be a brand new experience for all 4 of us, came initially as a shock.

Now planning on our trip to Sri Lanka we have chosen a GC which was already given to us as an idea by the school, and we have chosen to do some surfing in Galle as our activity section of our trip. Following is a video reflection of us reflecting on some problems we have been facing and the overall planning process.

After being finally accepted, we made another video on our new progress and what we did to overcome our previous challenges.

Final reflection

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After some months of participating in MINDs Tampines, I have really enjoying my time in this service. It is a really collaborative and enjoyable service, where mix service and fun very well together. Although the main purpose of the service is to come and dance with our clients, it is a very collaborative service as well, as when we dance together we are facing together as a group, and working together to entertain our clients. We have also had sessions in which the clients don’t come to school, and we sit together and discuss what is going well, what needs improving, and how we are going to improve. We have shared with each other about what everyone individually thinks is going well, and also compliment each other on what we think is going best with them if they re contributing well in the group. Something that is also really effective, is when we watch a video of ourselves during the session in which the clients came, and we reflect on how we acted, if anyone was just dancing with their friends without a client, and we give feedback to each other and share ideas on what we can do next time to prevent that from happening as much as we can. I feel like during these sessions, everyone in the team is willing to help others and work collaboratively to give feedback and work together to come up with new ideas and methods to improve our service work.

Something that I have also learnt from this service is about the significance of working with metalling impaired clients. I have never worked with mentally disabled clients before during service, so this experience has really opened my eyes to that issue. This new experience has really educated me on the issue on how not all mentally disabled people have a support system like our clients do, a well as how their disability affects their life. I think that issues like this should have more awareness and help as it is a big issue in the world, and not as looked at as other issues in the world right now. I’m really intrigued by issues like this regarding then brain and such, so I feel really grateful to be able to have been educated this way as it is a really impacting experience. U also learnt about the choice we make around them and how we have to be careful with how we acted as they were a lot more sensitive than the people we are normally surrounded by. Our actions and words towards them could have a bigger impact on them than we anticipated, therefore we had to learn to be more sensitive as well towards them. There were some times were some students felt a bit uncomfortable with maybe the way our clients were communicating with us or perhaps how close they would get to us, but we discussed during our classroom sessions, that even if we felt uncomfortable we couldn’t publicly express that but instead speak to a teacher or staff privately regarding the matter. This would be because we didn’t want to make the clients feel bad or make them uncomfortable as they are much more sensitive than we are. This was a very important thing to think about ever session we had with MINDS.

Final reflection

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After taking swimming back up for a year now, I have been able to reflect on the past couple of months. I have come across issues regarding the commitment I have made to the sport, and have had to deal with them. Although I have been able to learn and develop some of my skills in swimming, I have come across challenges that seem to be getting in the way a little bit as well. These challenges are many regarding my commitment to the activity.(LO2) As I can choose the days that I go, I find that I have been not as regular in my training as I would have liked. With lots of work from school, I have found that once I get home from school, I would much rather prefer to take a nap than go to swimming. Although this is the case, my mother does remind me that this is a commitment that I have made and I need to be more present in trainings. My participation in the activity has not been very good recently, as even when I do go to training, I don’t seem to be as engaged as my other team members as my head is normally somewhere else. When it comes to sport or exercise, I tend to enjoying working alone and focusing on myself rather than working as a team, which is something that I have had to work on the past few years, being part of a team. I find that during trainings, I am more detached than my teammates, not as involved as they are, or as interesting and dedicated than them. In order to improve on these issues, I think I need to work on my time management at home, making sure I have enough time for everything, and still leaving time to go to training. Managing my time to make sure that I have time for a nap if I need one, without disrupting my scheduled activists, such as swimming. This is going to be a difficult job to do as I tend to be a procrastinator and put work till last minute, which is when I have to go swimming, but then I have work to do that takes up that time.