SLCs are back…yay?

Just kidding, not yay. More like a noncommital grunt. I don’t hate SLCs, but they’re not my favourite thing.

PART 1:

First of all, I’m supposed to show you something I’m proud of. I actually have two things so I’m gonna show both of them so you have less time to ask me questions. First of all, I have my narrative essay thing. I thought I did a pretty good job on it. For the essay, I worked on and edited an outline until I had something I was happy with and then I wrote it, and wrote it again, until I was happy with it. I actually didn’t put this on my blog because it’s a more personal story that I wouldn’t want to put on the Internet, but I’ll read a little bit of it right now. I am also no longer aware of how the first sentence makes sense AT ALL.

I’m not going to read any further than that, mostly because I hate the fake names I gave my friends and saying them out loud would be weird. Although this is something I’m proud of, that doesn’t mean I can’t be critical of it. As I read it a few months later, there are so many things I want to change. The thing is, I can’t, because it’s finished. My biggest worry about that essay is that I made it too conversational, and because I was just writing down an experience I had, it didn’t feel like work and was super easy. But I guess that might be why it was good. I’m not really sure.

The second thing I want to show you isn’t actually finished yet, which is why it too, is not on my blog. It’s my podcast! I actually thought my podcast was going to suck from the get-go, but it’s actually turning out pretty well. When I started working on this thing, it actually was going pretty mediocre. My story wasn’t strong and I felt like everything was all over the place. And I really didn’t want to start over, but I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to get a strong story out of what I had. So, I started again. I grabbed a notebook and started writing an into. I felt like I needed a story to connect the whole podcast instead of just aimlessly talking. So I thought about what everything I was talking about in my podcast related to, and came up with a main idea, challeneges. Then I came up with a metaphor that I thought was really cheesy and lame, and I was like super close to taking it out, but since my teachers say it’s good, I guess it can stay.

I WILL LINK THIS LATER

There’s still a few linear and editing things I want to fix, but it’s pretty close to being finished.

PART 2:

So now I’m supposed to show you something that demonstrates my learning. This is hard for me because I have no idea what I’m supposed to put here. So instead of actually picking soemthing, I’m just going to talk about my growth and use my example of wow, look, I actually handed it in. So I’ll use the example of that explain everything I had to do, because it’s already on my blog. Even though it was a partner project, I ended up having to do the whole thing by myself, and honestly I just think it shows my growth that I did it. I think if I had of ended up in this situation before, I would have just done my part and then blamed my partner for the fact that it wasn’t done. Instead, I just buckled down and did it. Even though we weren’t supposed to do this project for homework, I did a little bit, because I had no choice, and I just got it done. It’s obivously not the best work I’ve ever done, but the point is I did my best to just finish. And I did. And I handed it in. And sometimes, that’s literally the best I can do.

I mean, it’s not like it sucks that bad. I’ll show a little bit of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSZX4ij6JEI

PART 3:

GROWTH MINDSET TIME. First of all, I actually don’t hate the concept of growth mindset that much, because it’s kind of what I’ve been doing to fix my anxiety. Except in the real world, people just call it realistic thinking. If you think realistically, then you probably have a growth mindset, because if you think realistically, you realize that things are things and you can improve at them if you try.

So for this part, I’m going to use DI. although DI was mostly hard to take seriously because of the name, it’s actually not that bad. It would be super easy for me to say that I came over a fear one direction performing or something, but I don’t have a fear of performing. I have no issues putting myself in the spotlight. I might lie and say I did, but I would probably be called out on it. I have to come up with a way that DI actually helped me grow.

So since  I’m obivously not a timid performer. So I guess the thing I had to get over was the fact that I couldn’t take this thing seriously. I had to admit that it wasn’t like THAT stupid, and try a little bit. I mean I definitely tried at it. My group met up almost every weekend, and we worked really hard on story and script, then we worked really hard on practicing.

So my growth mindset here is probably the fact that I was willing to try. That shows way more willingness and growth than anything else in this project. And although I’m like the only person in the class not moving forward with provincials, I actually have a valid excuse. So it’s not like I’m just giving up out of complete bitterness.

I’ll show a tiny bit of the DI stuff, even though it kind of makes me cringe to watch me act on video.

ALSO INSERT THIS LATER I’M REALLY SORRY.