For my example of learning I chose my blue sky. I know that is the most recent piece of work but I think that it truly shows me as a person and what I can accomplish, I think that it’s is also a good example of the launch cycle.

Lucky for me over spring break during the observation part, I has in Tofino surfing with my family and paddle board friends. Up until that point I had wanted to design a perfect world, I continued on with that idea for a week after or so, but even then it didn’t feel right. I knew that in truth the world is perfect. The only problem is its smartest species, humans. To try and help the oceans pollution I wanted to pick a pollution track close to home. So I picked the storm drains.

The yellow fish, as I learned from an expert and from people at the exhibition is getting a little old. ‘We feel that this program may have lost some of its original effectiveness as people are not that familiar with what the fish actually means,’ Richard Boase, Environmental Protection Officer. That quote almost drove my entire project forward.

From the conversation I had with him I came up with two pieces to catch attention and to educate.

For work that I am less than proud of I picked my poetry. I love to write and I do enjoy writing poetry, something that I found out in this unit. Unfortunately for me my writing style is not very poetic, and trying to rhyme, include theme, and make it sound effortless is very frustrating. On some of my later poems it got better but to me I still feel regretful about the poetry I wrote. Let me give som examples.

‘Adam’
The first man
Half vowels half not
Half A’s half not
Mada backwards
A branding of a human
A label
A name of men
Great and destined to be great
Men like

Adam Sandler
Adam Levine
Adam Driver
Adam Savage
Adam Blair Gerbrecht

I took the inspiration from an example we read. But even to me when people started reading theirs aloud in class, my need to share left me. For me whenever I write poetry I always feel like I could’ve done better. I felt that on this poem and many others. Not all, on some I took the time to slow down, think, not to rush, and to slowly review the criteria. When I did that I felt very good about my poems. Unfortunately I only did that for a few.

For something I have improved I picked this blog. In my last SLC I got grilled on my blog. Since then I have changed it for the better. I am writing better posts, and more of them.

This is what my old blog looked like (theme and name)

In the last SLC I was especially not pleased with my blogs physical look, it was boring, it lacked personality and I did like the title or tag line. So I asked my friends and I found a theme I liked, I also found a great photo of Vancouver. My tagline is a bit of an adventure. As my parents can tell you I can get very grumpy and angry. Especially after a loss in hockey, or an unsatisfactory paddle board race, and I was in such a state when one of the best quotes was tossed at me.

Oliver Smith was my brothers 7/11 buddy so I kind of knew him already when he started working at the kayak shop, and I started paddling there. He is one of the happiest and easygoing people I know, he is an amazing kayaker, and has recently took up paddle boarding. (Even though half the time he is in the water. I was grumpy and he yelled at me across the grass. ‘CHEER UP, LIFE IS TOO SHORT NOT TO SMILE!’

I don’t think he meant that to affect me so much but it’s did.