Monthly Archives: November 2024

Take Your Kid To Work Day- police officer 🚔

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Why hello there. We got asked to do ANOTHER blog post so here we go.

So take your kid to work day is a thing that almost all gr 9 students (and only grade 9’s) participate in each year. You go to work with your mom, dad, uncle, auntie, grandma and so on. But you only chose 1 for the day.

So of course, PLP being different then what the other grade 9’s do, we had to document the entire thing and make a video on iMovie. So anyways, we had to answer a driving question, How does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices? Which I’ll be answering at the end of this post.

So I went over to the police detachment with my dad for the day. I was meant to wake up at 5, but I guess my alarm didn’t go off, so I literally had 15 minutes to get ready. Work started at 6 and ended at 6.

So we had to make a video on iMovie. We were supposed to interview someone and ask a couple questions like do you enjoy your job, would you recommend it and so on. Unfortunately, weren’t allowed to film inside the police detachment, but I did get my dad to take a couple photos. If you’re wondering, Carmyn, why didn’t you just film outside? Well most of the police officers were either undercover (face cant be shown + posted on social media), or just simply didn’t want to be on YouTube. So I decided, why not just get ready with me while I tell you about my TYKTWD experience. So here it is:

 

To answer the driving question (how does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices?), I think it shapes our view of career by opening our view to the world and living a day in the life of what the job you have a curiosity about. Obviously 1 day doesn’t show you everything they do in this world but its good to see even if it’s just a day. Who knows, maybe that’ll be your job until you’re old 🤷‍♀️

 

Anyways, have a good rest of your day:)

Xoxo, Carmyn 💋

Alberta! 🏔️

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Hey! First blog post of grade 9.

So my PLP 9 class took a week long trip over to Alberta. We stayed at  a few different hotels in Banff, Lake Louise and Revelstoke. The driving question for this trip was “how do we become the best version of ourselves?”.

So the biggest thing that we did in Alberta was hiking. I think there was 2 or 3 out of 7 days that we didn’t hike. But they weren’t hikes that were an hour long. They were multiple hours like 3, 4, and 7. The hike that I thought was the hardest was Sulphur Mountain. It was over 4 hours long and straight uphill with switchbacks. When I wanted to give up and turn around because I’d still have to walk over 2 hours down. I think the best part about this was the view and the feeling of reaching the top. On that hike you didn’t have the option to give up no matter how hard it is and you have to keep pushing through.

This trip definitely got me back in shape and helped me realize that the best view comes after the hardest climb. I think to answer the driving question, how do we become the best version of ourselves is by reaching your potential. Reaching your limit and seeing how far you can take yourself. When you reach your limit, you improve on yourself and your mindset. The more you continue to reach your limit, the more accomplished you feel like the Sulfur Mountain hike. When I got to the top I realized how much I am capable of (physically) and that I DO have the right mindset to finish what I committed to doing.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lau Tzu

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Xoxo, Carmyn 💋