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Special Olympics Final Reflection

In this reflection, I will be focusing on the learning outcomes 4 and 2. I think if there is one thing I learnt from 3 years of special olympics, it is patience. I have had to deal with a new kind of obstacle: working with intelectually disabled people which has thought me to proccess my thoughts rather than instantly acting on impulse. I had to all learn new skils, like being more expressive with my facial expressions as that was the language they understood best. I could not physically display emotions of anger as it would stress them out which would result in them feeling down for the rest of the badminton session. I can transfer all these skills to other parts of my life as having patience is something that is integral in say a work environment, where your idea and way of doing things may not be immediately accepted.

I feel like my commitment to this service has helped contribute to the GC tremendously as I have been able to build meaningful relationships with the athlethes by showing up consistently to the sessions. I have also been able to monitor the progress of the athlethes more accurately and this has helped them as I have been improve their badminton skills to a greater level as a result. I have thoroughly enjoyed this service and it has been eye opening for me. I am proud to have helped improve the lives of the intelectually disabled athlethes and it has made me even more grateful for what I have.

Jakarta Street Kids Final Reflection

In this reflection, I will be doing my final reflection on Jakarta street kids. I will be focusing on Learning outcome 7 and 6. To end my 4 years of commitment to Jakarta street kids, we actually had a lot of work to do. We had to organise the money we made from the event which we helped organise for the business students in grade 10. We had to spend a lot of time performing careful work because I knew that the work we were doing, had a lot of significance on kids in Jakarta. We are estimated to have made around 4000 singapore dollars for the NGO XsProject in Jakarta and this will significantly help solve the issues of low education and poverty in the community in Jakarta that the trash pickers work with.

Looking back at my experience in this service, my ethics have been challenged numerous times. For example, I previously thought that selling products produced by XSProject is the best thing we can do to help make the world better slowly. However, I never conasidered the cycle through which the products go through. For example, many of the products which we sell are not actually used by their buyers and are instead just kept in a corner as they have very specific uses. I think that we could advise XSProject on making products that are more versatile and that have a high shelf life so that they dont end up wasted and back in landmines, affecting our planet neagtively.

DJ Club Reflection #3

This is my final reflection for ther DJ club activity which I have done for the past few months. Even though a lot of our meetings had to be shortened due to the coronavirus, I still managed to make the most out of our meetings. I can attribute it to my ability to plan my meetings so that I can get the most out of them. For example, for one of my meetings, I wanted to learn how to fade one track into another using the audio mixer. To be able to achieve this better, I watched a youtube video at home, which let me have some knowledge so that in the meeting, I was able to spend more time actually working on fading songs and this let me achieve my goal much more easily. For my final product I decided to combine my love for movies and the knowledge I learnt about producing musical beats in DJ club. I created a dub of a animation piece, I found online. I created the audio by myself and used garageband a software to help create the beats. I used knowledge of synthesisers which I learnt in DJ club. Attatched below is the piece I created. Overall I think that I could have worked more on having smoother transistions between the different audio tracks. I also wish I could have spent more time working on getting instruments that worked more smoothly with each other.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C4VrBQK0inwM2MDGna5N7t87SOsQEurD/view?usp=sharing

Social Media- Body Shaming

On social media, it is very common for adolescents to use it as a medium through which they can make fun of and shame other people without facing the consequences. For example, back in the day, I use to be extremely skinny and whenever I posted something, the comments would always be very negative, and I would be called names. This caused me to feel very insecure and since I care a lot about what other people think about me, it hit me a lot worse. For this reason, I have stopped using Instagram.