Month: February 2018

I’ve trained Muay Thai for 4 years before joining this activity, so I didn’t have to go through the process of learning it, what put me in an advantage compared to the other people in the activity. However, it was a great experience because I met new people and I also got to help my friends, as I have experience. It was a bit challenging for me as I was a bit out of shape, but in the end I got to train a lot and enjoy it.

This activity, showed me that I have the initiative to help others and that I enjoyed doing it. Being able to share all the experienced I gained throughout the many years of practice with my peers was a great opportunity. In a class with many people and few coaches, it was hard for them to keep constant attention to everyone, and me by helping them not only helped the coaches but also helped me practice my technique but also made me more motivated to take initiative in other things as in my Film class.

Joining this activity was a great think, I had the chance to experience a lot of new things, like working with different equipment and learning how they work, learning how to use them properly and also practising and training to understand the best settings for a camera when taking picture under certain circumstances. The great think is that I also got to use the skills that I learnt in trips and also events that I went to. For example, during the CNY break I went a family event and I had to take the pictures, and I knew that as it was a small and dark place I would have to use a flash, and in the activity I learnt the proper way to use flash under those circumstances to make the picture have a better lighting, and because of  this the pictures were really good with proper lighting.

This activity made me more aware of my skills, and what I’m good at. In film it is essential we understand completely ow to use the camera and its settings. Therefore, in this activity I was able to learn a lot more how aperture and shuttle speed works. At first, it was hard to learn everything as I had never used a camera the way we did in the activity, and compared to the my colleagues experienced made me a little bit worried. However, with time I gained more confidence and was able to express my creativity better, using the skills I learnt.

Lastly, whenever I take a photo and I like it, I usually don’t share with anyone as i’m not confident enough it’s good. However, this activity made me more trusting in my work and that is good.

For my service I made this video reflection that summarises our entire experience in this half year. I’ve learnt a lot about Alzheimer and I got out of my comfort zone when I had to interact with elder people with a disease, as I never had done it before it was really challenging in the beginning, but by the end of the half term I was really confided and comfortable in doing it making the service and my meeting with the resident even better.

In the video I talk about how I engaged in conversations while setting the equipment to be used. I did this as a way of making the resident more confortable with me, as if he understand he is in a safe environment makes the entire process much more enjoyable and effective. In addition, in Grade 10 during a service trip to a local village in Bintan we learnt that whenever you are working with a group of people, trying to help them, firstly you need to understand fully their needs and interests.

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