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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 💋 

The Wilderness Must Be Explored!- last blog post of PLP 8

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Thankfully, this is my last blog post. I wish we could make videos instead of writing. Like a GRWM and we tell you guys all about how school is. Maybe I’ll do that sometime. Anyways, today I’ll be telling you about our driving question, our PLP 8 trip to the Oregon Coast, my thoughts, and core competencies for the spring exhibition of 2024!

Before I get started, I just wanted to say that if I compared my feelings about this exhibition, to the winter one, this just felt like a little presentation for friends and family. I was also wayyyy chiller than the winter one.

Oregon Coast.

I want to start off with the best. Not the best for last. Even though I don’t really have a best in any of my posts. Maybe this’ll be a first. Anyways, about a week or 2 ago, my PLP 8 class and I took a feild trip down to the Oregon coast BC. I was very lucky to have my grandparents pay for me, even though my entire family thought this was a cool opertunity for me to step out of my comfort zone, as well as learning new things in a whole different environment and country.

I don’t got a clue on how the heck I should start this. Hmmmmmm. Okay, so in PLP, every class goes on a field trip. PLP 8 goes to Oregon. So that’s what we did. This was a very very cool experience for me. Last time I went across the U.S border was not recent. I thought this trip was super fun because I’ve never been away from my family for a week before. I got a little bit homesick but I was with all my friends and they’re almost like family too. We got to visit so many cool places. Here is a book we had to make and document every day in.

I would love to go back to Oregon.

Now, time for the boring stuff, classroom work. We had a driving question, How Does Language Inspire Adventure.

I think language inspires adventure because if someone speaks the same language as you, they could talk you into taking an adventure somewhere. Ooooor, if you wanna learn a new language, you can go to the country that speaks that language and learn it from there. But that’s just my thoughts.

About a week we came back from Oregon, we had to do a Spring Exhibition. PLP 8 had to make ads for Oregon and why people should go there. Im going to try to make this short because I kinda just woke up and need to get ready for school soon otherwise our engineering teacher will mark me absent. So I was in a group with Brooklyn, Oliver, Emilia, Sawyer and Robin. I think we all did a good job communicating with each other and letting each other know how we feel with a certain idea that someone had. We could’ve made much more improvement if we had more time.

Core Competencies That Were Involved.

I think for this overall project we had to accept feedback, contribute, be helpful, be respectful of your classmates and their ideas, and be a reliable team member. One big competency is communication. If you don’t communicate with your group or teacher, you wont get anywhere.

thank you so much for getting to the end of my zesty ahhhhh blog post. I might update you guys in the summer! Only 2 days of school left to go!