For the first time in my 4 years of this program, I didn’t go on the big trip! Why you ask? It’s simple; it’s not simple. Basically, for the first time, I got to find out what it was like to be at home during those faithful days where most of the class is living it up in exotic locations!

All in all, it was better than I thought it was going to be. The ten of us who stayed behind managed to get quite a bit of work done during this time, although to be honest, I think I did most of my work outside of class. Doing work while you’re actually at school is kind of a hard blow to take.

Or at least, it is in the last three months of high school.

Our assignment faced some interesting challenges to say the least. Part of the reason why we were assigned a project on the Iranian Revolution is because there is a very large Persian population right here in North Vancouver! Our teachers, and by extension, we, thought that it would be easy to get first hand accounts of living in Iran before, during, and after the Iranian revolution.

As it turns out, there has been an Iranian spy problem in Canada in the past. This problem seriously hindered our ability to get people to speak with. We did manage to get sources and conduct interviews, but all of those interviews ended up being audio only and all of our sources remained anonymous. Getting interviews took a lot longer than we thought it would, meaning that our entire first week of classes was spent trying to coerce people into talking to us. Although, in the end, I think we got some interesting perspectives.

We completed our chapters for the most part, but when our teachers came back and told us we had to re-format to make our chapters look….somewhat similar, we fought for a bit over what that would look like, but eventually just went with the chapter that our teachers thought looked the best. We were all going to re-do our chapters, make the last chapter together, and then be done quickly. Except, we didn’t really get any class time for this project after that. This project kind of went to the back burner for all of us. It was May of our grade 12 year, which means about half our classes were doing their final assignments and exams because they don’t want us to have to do them during grad season.

Essentially, the actual coming together of this book….took awhile. But I think it’s ended up looking nice, and it’s probably good that the chapters look the same.

(SO I DON”T HAVE THE ACTUAL BOOK YET BUT LIKE…..YIKES I HOPE I WILL!!)