Project Week: Investigation

I took initiative in forming a project week group with people who I knew I could work very well with, and who had similar goals they wanted to achieve during project week (LO3). I personally wanted to go to a country in which I could practice my Chinese speaking skills, and formed a group with three other friends who had that similar goal in mind, and we all take Chinese.…

Samba Band 2

The samba band always has two big performances each year. One in the From All Corners concert, in which we always open the show, and the other when leading the procession of graduating seniors around the plaza on their last day of school.   The From All Corners concert is one I have been in for many years and for various music ensembles, but I always find that this is…

Finding Your Voice

I signed up for the UAC college essay-writing workshop “Finding Your Voice” as a way to prepare myself for a summer of writing university essays. I’ve always liked writing, and I thought that this would be a good opportunity to develop a new style of writing (LO2) suitable for US university essays.   In this 6-week-workshop, we were in a room with 8-10 students (depending on who showed up that…

Samba Band 1

Samba band is one of the activities that I have committed to since Grade 9 (LO4). I started out not really feeling confident about playing the drums, as the piano is my main instrument. However, having a strong foundation in music gave me a good grasp of the rhythm. Initially, I was playing the surdo, the largest of all the drums in the band, which keeps the beat for the…

EE Reflective Conversation 1

I am genuinely interested in my EE topic, as learning more about my Chinese heritage and history has always peaked my curiosity. In our first meeting, my supervisor and I discussed the initial research I had done, agreeing on the two possible ways of structuring the causes of the war – grouping it by military position of the two parties vs degree of popularity of the two parties by 1945, or…