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Saxophone – Final Reflection

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#LO 3: Planning and initiating activities

While at the same time taking my saxophone lessons, I did a lot of individual practice. I mostly played pop songs but sometimes Jazz songs. I found playing these songs very fun and relaxing especially since I am in grade 12 and there is just so much on my plate. As always my greatest setback to this was time. There was barely enough time to rehearse which changed a lot of things. It meant I had to practice for a few minutes and then go back to doing my school work immediately. To solve this, I just practiced everyday but for less than 30 minutes instead of the 1 hour that I used to practice. The following are some of the recordings for songs I used to play.

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LO 3: Planning and initiating activities

At the beginning of the year, I formulated my own training program for track and field. The training program was not necessarily just for track but also for cross country. This was the plan I put into place to ensure my success at this sport and most importantly, I decided to join the Singapore Shufflers Running Club. In this club, we get to run with different people on certain days of the week including even those athletes that compete at an international level so having become a member of this club gave me the platform to learn valuable skills from other people as well as to improve myself in athletics. This kind of plan really worked in that every time that I trained in school I could feel a whole lot of difference in the way that I was running. Fo r instance, my stamina, my personal bests as well as my engagement overall. I faced difficulties here and there with this planning in that the club was really far from the campus and the training sessions were held in the evenings. This meant that I had to be strategic in the way that I trained and that I came back on campus on time to ensure I did not breach the curfew rules. Sometimes there were also a lot of assignments I had so this made my schedule even tighter. I overcame these challenges by simply adjusting my schedules realistically and most importantly developed better time management.

The picture below shows my member profile for Singapore Shufflers Running Group.

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#LO4: Planning and  initiating activities

#LO2: Undertaken new challenges and developed new skills

Memoirs of the Pioneer generation truly gives me and probably everyone involved in the service the ability to think critically and make sound decisions when dealing with seniors. We mostly played board games and some other simple exercises that the seniors were able to do. I planned and organized this other board game known as Uno Stacko in which I basically just had to stack up blocks with the seniors and then remove them one by one from the platform without letting it collapse.  It was a pretty funny and interesting game. On the other hand, I also became a  bit creative and played a game a card game with the seniors, in which we stacked up cards and strived to make something that looks more like a house or just a simple platform. These games were preferable from my perspective since they did not really require much thinking or anything of that nature.

Despite the fact that the games were interesting, I did encounter some complications working with the seniors which had the tendency to make it difficult for me to execute my plan at some point. Most of them were Chinese and couldn’t really understand English so no matter how simple I tried to put my English they never understood a thing. Nonetheless, we were not alone, we enjoyed the company of the CareGivers at Tampines Home Care. Every time that there was a language barrier between us and the seniors they made sure to intervene and eliminate those barriers obviously because they could speak both English and Chinese well. The critical thinking skills I acquired when working with seniors ensured that I planned out activities that they were capable to play and that I was always mindful to not do anything stupid.

 

Here is a picture of the games that I planned out during one of the sessions with our service partner:

 

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It is only unfortunate that we are not allowed to take pictures during our service thus the above pictures were sourced from the internet just so I could provide an idea of what kind of games we played with the seniors.