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.
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.
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
Those are the three behaviours I want to improve emotionally. For the first one, I wanted to improve that when I was young. I am so use to sleeping late so I feel like I never had enough sleep. Even when I moved to the boarding house, I feel like if I sleep early before curfew time, I might miss out on things so I ended up socialising more and going out even though I want to sleep. However, I plan on getting a quick nap after school.
The second one is more of a personal thing for me. I tend to think deeper on a matter whether how small or big it may be and ended up stressing out more. I plan on enjoying myself more. I’ll give myself some time to breath and let myself be a little loose.
The third one is kinda difficult one for me – neutralising toxic people. I plan on avoiding them and pay them no attention or maybe guide them to a right path.