Yo dawg (or dawgette) what up. Man, sometimes I think if I met me I would put me somewhere I couldn’t interact with other people. But then I lose my train of t… oH! A butterfly! What was I saying? Oh yeah, I remember now, TPOL’s. for my Mum, TPOL stands for transitional period of learning. (I thought we went over this in the car.) This is the successor to MPOL’s which you can find here normal person browsing my blog. Now, Ms. Willemes has advised us to not follow the basic/boring format and come up with something more creative and entertaining for our presentations and thats exactly what  plan to do.

Now some people who know me know that I have an unearthly talent for remembering songs. It is a skill I use a lot, but it only works with songs. Math facts? Nope. Spelling? Nah. Anything useful? No way. So, with this in mind, I decided to use my skills to my advantage and create a song. Actually more like a wre-write of a song I learned in grade 5. It’s called alphabet aerobics by blackalishious. Here is the original,

this year the product i am least proud of is me and my use of my time. i haven’t been spending nearly enough time working on me and spending time with the people i care about. so, to work on this, instead of spending time fixing all of my errors, i spent the day with one of my best friends Paige. school is one of the most important things in my life and i am a very organized person. i could have easily made the errors nonexistent but it was important to my mental health to take a break. (one of my goals) i am moving soon and I’m sure you can see how my grade 8 final term mark is not my highest priority. i always try my hardest but i have had to learn this year that you cant work at 110% constantly. changing my mindset towards rest was difficult. i am working on this actively and trying to take more rest days. I’m also trying to work on habit 3, put first things first, which in this case, is me.

I struggled with expressing my opinion in writing because.. umm. This serves my point. It’s hard for all the thoughts in my head to be expressed with the limited english language. It’s really frustrating for me and I want to work on it. It requires me to focus on the task at hand. Thats difficult for me sometimes because of all the thoughts in my head and the speed at which I can accurately express them. I want to work on typing this summer and practice typing for ten min. every day. I also want to start a daily journal to help me empty my brain and learn more abut my writing habits. This is one of the challenges I need to overcome for my humanities grade sake, and for my mental sake. It’s frustrating having the thought and not knowing how to properly express it.

I feel like I failed at the Destination Imagination project. I felt like I didn’t do my team and my school proud. I put in all of my free time and all of my energy and it just wasn’t rewarded. (I go into more depth here) It really sucked. My attitude was overall disappointed and infuriated. It took me some time to try and get over it. I had to realize that I did everything I could and theres nothing I can change about the result. I learned that I don’t have to win to be proud of the work I put in. It’s hard for me, and as my research has concluded, it’s difficult for lots of people. I need to work on this skill in my cycling and in school. I want to work on this by reflecting after the competitions with a growth mindset. I know that this will take some practice, but I’m willing to put in the work.

My goals for next year are to grow myself, maintain new + old relationships, and to learn enough French to get by with. Growing myself is an important goal to me because I have an amazing opportunity to live in a different country and to not use that for my benefit would be a waste. I also want to mantain all my relationships by staying in touch and up to date. Learning a new language seems like the biggest challenge to me. I want to do it and I know that there is no time like the present but it’s still scary being pushed into a new culture without any way to communicate with new people.

Science is one of my favourite classes. I am usually at my most engaged in science class and I really enjoy learning important and trivial things. I think I could work on taking notes on my own, (without being told to,) because I know that my notes don’t always make sense. they need work.

Math. I struggle with math but I have really pushed myself this year. I try my best in math but sometimes I get discouraged and have absolutely no motivation but I try to overcome it. I understand all the concepts, it’s just the execution that I have trouble with.

Maker has been a great opportunity for me to continue a project I am passionate about. My bluesky project is important to me and to many others who have gone through similar experiences. I was working on this a bit before the project arose but it’s been great to get back into it. I am really proud of the concept, the execution, the time management, and my somewhat final product. I know I could have done certain things better but I’ve come to terms with the fact that I have done my best.

Revision has been a big part of my learning this year. I have dEFINITLY improved and you can see that in my proir blog post here, and the most recent one I am pretty proud of, here. It really illustrates how much you can change in a year.

Responsibility has also been a big concept this year. I’ve had my work be under my control this year. That’s a lot of pressure coming from my elm school, where we had no freedom or responsibilities. I love this new change and I’ve learned way more this way than the former way.

I have worked hard on my team work this year. Its been a lot because one of the things I struggled with the year was delegating my work in group projects. I tend to be a total control freak. This has been the biggest challenge this year but I have learned a lot about myself in the process. In grade 10, I plan to put my iPad down while my group discusses our plan and delegate tasks during that time.

“True strength comes from accepting help from others.”

-Amy Santagio

Wow, ok. So hopefully I have successfully portrayed how proud I am of my learning this year. I have really learned a lot. I am a completely diffrent person than I started the year as. I may not have done my learning justice as I left my ipad at school this weekend and I despise computers. I did my best and hopefully you understand my learning and I, a little bit better.