Unplugged, December 20th 2019
on Tag: LO3
on Project Week reflection 1# 22nd March 2019
on As of right now, planning out the project week has been harder then I have imagined, there have been many challenges such as managing the price and also setbacks such as having to change the location which we wanted to go on a project week, and having to plan with another project week group has also been hard to do. My goals for the planning part of project week is to be able to have a set plan about what to do as well as having a plan as to what to do our creativity on. It has been hard to plan out both because we must confirm all that we do with Ms. Toth and because of how busy she is having to support all the other different project week groups, makes it hard to confirm with her and when we are not confirmed we can’t advance to the next stage. Also planning our documentary is one of the hardest aspects of the trip as we are not fully aware of the country and the surroundings. it is also hard because it is a documentary which has a lot of unpredictable aspects, such as the weather, people we are interviewing and the places which will be best to add to the documentary. Our group has been showing a lot of initiative by taking different roles in the process. As I am currently assigned video editor, I have been learning many different skills on editing in order to be able to make the video by placing footage together. And as a group, I have had taken part in the decision making on all of the different tasks needed to do throughout the preparation of the trip.
Tabitha GC #1, 13th November 2018
on When working in Tabitha my initial goal was to learn more about why the people in Cambodia was in need of help, but soon after entering the GC there was a talk about going to Cambodia for the grade 11s which can use their project week in order to give a much more direct experience to Tabitha GC, then my goal became to be able to go on this trip and see and help the Tabitha people in Cambodia, this will prove to be very fruitful as I will learn to plan a larger scale for a trip, with a larger amount of people. Unfortunately, because of the scale and timing of the trip, I will only be able to achieve my goal on a later date. But I will be able to record the progress that the GC group including me has made.
Currently, our GC is starting to plan joint events in order to try to gain funding for the trip as it will be more expensive than others because we will be buying and building houses in Cambodia, The LOs which I have been focusing on include, LO 3 and LO 7. This activity required me to use initiative because as a group, although I was not leading the GC, I had supported in giving my opinions and ideas on things we could do when we go on the project week in Cambodia, although my ideas were not fully used I think I should show more initiative by giving different iterations on my ideas.
I have used ethics to think on the people which I am learning more about and trying to support. It is really important to do so because it is hard to understand their situation so adapting our plans on how to support them in the way they need is crucial, especially when planning out more about our project week.
Special Olympics Badminton #2, 1st November 2018
on At this point of the Service activity, all of us are quite familiar to the athletes and know quite well on how to interact with them, I have now had a partner athlete called Alex, something which I enjoy doing is playing badminton with him. At first, I had heard from many other members of the service that Alex Isn’t quite good at the sport and that he wasn’t very able to play it well, but I really doubted it. Touching upon LO7 I really think that all should have the same amount of opportunity, and those with a harder difficulty can still be able to achieve great heights regardless as long as they put effort and are given the opportunities to improving to such lengths. When I first played with Alex he was struggling with hitting the shuttle but as we played more in the session, I tried giving him tips on what actions to do and tried to be very supportive, to most peoples surprise he was then able to play quite well as we reached a rally of 9. I was not very surprised as I knew that Alex was able to achieve such a great feat with a short period of time.
Something else which had helped him improve was giving him some drills at the beginning of the session which we ran through, this shows LO3 which was when I created some moderated exercises in order to facilitate the progression on Alex’s hitting skills. Overall I am looking forward to having many more sessions with Alex and see the progress which I know he will achieve as I have already set up a goal of reaching over 30 hits of a rally between me and Alex.
