Identity:
Who are you? What is above the waterline?
- Grade 11
- studying at UWC sea east, Singapore
- female
- turning 18 this 25th.
- quite short compared to others
- fair skin for an Asian
- have a wonderful family who loves me
What is below the waterline?
- Artsy
- Loves music
- Prefer the time alone
- Have difficulties in opening up to people
Ideal Personality Types:
One of the personality types that aligned with me was Speculating. I would like to know the big picture and the possibilities before acting. I neither want to rush and mess things up nor look too carefully into details. That doesn’t mean that I don’t care about other people’s feelings, I do care. However, I think my personality type is more of like the middle ground of the rushing and too organized ones.
Self-talk: What is optimism?
Even before having this lesson, I have a little bit of optimism within myself. It was just I didn’t really realize it. I would be optimistic about things that I do. However, after learning more deeply about optimism, I became more aware of the optimism that I originally have. There have been ups and downs since I came to this school but I think when there are times I am feeling very negative about things, I would remember to be optimistic about it and change it into a positive statement or sentence so that I would feel less stressed out about things.
Question for Myself:
Now that half term is over, what are my first thoughts about the experiences of the IB? Are they mostly positive or negative?
I feel like IB is both positive and negative for me. The subjects are quite hard since they are not in my language. I still feel like there is a language barrier between me and the subjects here. I could not fully understand when given a task and even though I am getting better, I am still struggling with it. On the bright side, I have friends who support me! I also enjoy this learning system even though it is a bit hard.
On the break, I am going to relax by listening to music and practice painting more pieces