Hello, and welcome back to my blog. Expect more posts this month because I was lazy all the other months prior and I’m late on a bunch of stuff, but that’s besides the point. Today, I will talk to you about your finances.  Before you run away and cry, I should specify!! This isn’t actual financing, it’s fictional financing!

Now, you may be asking yourself “what does that even mean?? Please tell me!!!!” And to this I will reply telling you to calm down and that it’s not that serious. I will tell you now what exactly I mean by fictional financing.

I have a teacher named Mr. May, and he thinks that our class is irresponsible with money (that’s a joke) so, he decided that it would only be right to teach us all how to save money for the inevitable end of our lives, college! (That’s also a joke)

Now, we all scratched our heads at this. What’s saving? What’s a college? I don’t understand. Well, Mr. May gently took our hands and lead us through how to save for our futures, how to be smart with money, and even how to choose what credit card would be the best fit for our lifestyles. I don’t know about everyone else in that class, but I was reasonably confused, I didn’t know there were so many credit card types… but we learn something new every day.

Enough of the nitty gritty in between stuff, i‘ll actually get to the point. Mr. May instructed us to create a presentation on how to effectively handle our money in multiple different ways and situations. Now, if you could’ve guessed, I didn’t do it on time and instead did it two weeks after the due date, and it wasn’t very great. But I’ll get to my critique on my work in a little bit after I explain how exactly we were supposed to create a presentation.

We were all given a subject. That be in a group or alone, we all were supposed to present a slideshow on how to effectively shape for or futures, like what jobs to look for, how to save and how to find affordable housing in this day and age. I was chosen to do something about saving for college. Now, after all this hard work of doing research, how do I think I did on my presentation?

Quite honestly, there is little I really like about it. Especially since, and I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t really try on it. Sure, I did the research and stuff, but when it came to writing the presentation it lacks professionalism. Although, the graphics I used are pretty cute, and I like that I decided to put personality into it, instead of it being boring and bland. Here, take a look for yourself:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGhWQoARwM/EVGnQQYTzOtg1zaSC3Ccsw/edit?utm_content=DAGhWQoARwM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton 

Now, I’ve got to hurry and work on a multitude of other late work. Thank you for sticking around!!

Hello, and welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be talking to you about dogs.
Nah, I’m just kidding. This is much less enjoyable and joyous than dogs. But hey, dogs are involved… so I hope that helps.

around two months ago, me and all my other classmates were assigned a project; to make a 10 minute podcast talking about whatever we wanted, and I mean anything. So, in typical Hazel fashion I chose dogs, because I love them and they’re easy to talk about for me. Well, 2 months later I’m lying in bed eating chocolate and waffles, presenting you with a project that I had forgotten about until an hour ago. Crazy how the Human brain works, right?
Anyway. To sum it up for you, I made a podcast about owning dogs, and that it’s not all butterflies and rainbows; sometimes more dogs is not good, despite what many may think. If you’re an outsider looking in, seeing puppies and thinking “that’s so cute, I should get one!” I warn you to do research on the topic before committing. There are so many dogs out there, so many toys, and so much food to choose from. And to best to choose things that fit you, and your pups lifestyle.

Now. What did I learn from this project? Is there anything I would want to change about my work? Anything I like?

Yeah, I guess I liked writing about dogs, especially my own. I even got to draw my own podcast thumbnail, which is neat. But the goods are unfortunately outweighed by the bad. I didn’t get this in on time, and I didn’t even make it long enough. I probably didn’t even add music, just turned up the volume of me speaking and handed it in.
Quite honestly, I have almost given up on even trying multiple times. Not to sound like a bummer, but what’s the point in trying so hard if this is what you’re going to be doing for the rest of your life? Work, work, work. That’s all I’ll be doing. I’ll never be free from the clutches of this dollar society has made up, a mere number that makes up everything this world has to offer. It’s a shame! But at least dogs are cute.

Thats it. Thanks for reading. Feel free to listen to the podcast below if you want.

https://open.spotify.com/show/4SvgDtEsAv2fTFANctb5PK

Hello, and welcome back to my blog! Today, I’ll be talking about my DI journeys of misfortune. I’m just kidding around, but I don’t really like DI.

DI started like any other, we were put into our groups. That’s normal and fine, until 2 of our members quit our group, that’s fine too. I was put with three girls who were super best friends, and a dude. So, things were off to a bumpy start, but our team persevered even after all these disasters.

Next was to start on our story. What did we want to do it on? The question was “how can something small make a big impact?” My initial idea was the wheel, But I was quickly outvoted by the three girls in my group when someone suggested bees. I was a bit upset that I was outvoted so quickly, but I didn’t let it get to me as it’s a pretty stupid thing to get upset about.

We continued onward, working on the story and characters over a few weeks, alongside the props. We were on a little bit of a time crunch during the last week, as I was given the task of making the backdrop and my group hadn’t told me what they wanted until a week before.. it’s fine, though, I got it finished.

The day we went to Seycove to present was nerve-wracking and exhausting. I practiced my guitar for a while, but got distracted by the library and ended up missing my own instant challenge. Which is wild. I didn’t have a phone or iPad, so I couldn’t check the time although that’s not really an excuse to flake out on one of two presentations. At least I was reading.

The presentation of our play went fine, nothing crazy. I accidentally dropped my guitar and my group member hit me in the head on accident but that’s just fine too. We finished up and I left instantly, but not without grabbing another donut.

Oh, but what about the nationals? Yes, destination imagination has two parts, and they’re pretty much the same thing; but one has more people in it. Nationals is essentially your presentation but revised and better, but I can’t really say that ours was really revised since we just got rid of the guitar. Speaking of, THE GUITAR!!! That was pretty much my only part in the play and WE WEREN’T EVEN USING IT!!! Dang. That’s a shame.

Anyway, it basically went the exact same as it did last time, except I had no guitar and we were doing it in the music room instead of one of the math rooms.

NOW. What did I learn from this experience? Well, I learned that I hated DI, but I also learned that, for next time.. I should be more prepared for presentations in general, because stuff like this can’t just be whipped up in a day. It takes weeks of commitment by multiple people.

Okay that’s my post!!!!!! It might look rushed, that’s because it kind of is because I have 37868468486487 other assignments to do, but I’m getting to those later. Goodbye!!!