Hello! I haven’t written anything for a while and as my grade 8 school year added and I went into summer but now im back and in grade 9!

Alberta

We went Alberta at the start of the school year for our Grade 9 field study! It was a lot of fun and We did a lot of hiking!

These were some of the views from the top

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was really beautiful there but cold as you can see because there was snow on some of the hikes we did! We hiked almost everyday and they were long but worth it in the end! My favourite hike that we did was the hike from Lake Louise. It was a pretty long hike with the time of 8 and a half hours! It was very tiring as it was mainly up hill the whole way.

This is a photo of Lake Louise

I had an awesome time in Alberta! I had time to bond with some of the new PLP students this year and just have fun with my old friends as well!

The Driving Question

Like every project we’ve had there has been a driving question, and the driving question for this project was “How do we become the best version of ourselves?” We then went to Alberta where we had to make a 1o essentials video!

1o Essentials Video

The main part of this project was the 10 essentials video, basically for this we had to learn the 10 essentials of hiking which are

1. Navigation
2. Headlamp
3. Sun protection
4. Footwear
5. tools
6. Fire
7. Shelter
8. Extra food
9. Extra water
10. Extra clothes

We needed to have all these things in our backpacks as we were doing long hikes and it was essential for us to have these items, once we had learnt these we had to make them into 10 life advice questions. An example of that is for footwear we did “What steps in life did you take to get where you are today?” We then asked these questions to people in Alberta where they would then give us the answers and some life advice. We then took the videos and made it into a bigger video which was called our “10 Essentials Video.” It was fun hearing all of these different peoples story’s and There life advice to us.

Before we could just go into this and film we had to work on our film making skills so we made a practice interview and I interviewed Brooklyn! After our interview skills had gotten better we headed to Alberta to interview some of the people there! This type of video is called a VoxPop which basically means “Voice of the People”

The people in my group were

Carmyn

Evelyn

Silent Film

On our first night we stayed in a hotel called “The Three Valley Gap” and it was weird but also really cool!

Next to the hotel there was a ghost town and the ghost town was super cool! In the ghost town there were all types of buildings like an old dentist, barbershop, saloon, school and a bunch more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our first assignment for the trip was to make a silent film, this silent film had to be black and white, have a good story, be filmed in the ghost town but most importantly…NO TALKING! So in my group which consisted of Maggie, Cece, and Eloise we made a silent film. We had to think of the story and create a story board before we left for Alberta. We had to film this in the ghost town and I am pretty proud of the way our video turned out!

Our video!

Viral video

Another video we had to make was our “Viral Video” we had to find a trend and make a video using that trend about our trip to Alberta. The trend I used was the one where you basically just stamp on your phone camera and then when you lift your foot off your in a different place! It was really cool and this was definitely a fun video to make!

Banner In The Sky

Before we left for Alberta we had to read a book in humanities called “Banner In The Sky.” It was an okay book but it was very long and repetitive. Basically the book is about a boy named Rudi who wants to climb a mountain called the Citadel and no one has ever climbed to the top but his mother and uncle wont let him because it was the mountain his father died on because he tried to climb it. After we had finished the book and taken notes we had to make a character sketch on one of the characters and the character I got was “Captain John Winter” Winter is basically the main character (Rudi’s) mentor throughout the book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

In conclusion I felt like I really learnt a lot from this project especially when we got to hear all those amazing stories from the people of Alberta! I feel as if I did reach my peek potential by keeping up with the work, staying positive in all the hikes we did, making sure I could help, and being respectful. One thing that I could work on for the next trip our just the next project in school is making sure to go above and beyond the expected work and being prepared f0r somethings that might not go well. In our 10 essentials video we got 10 videos but then some of them didnt work and one got deleted and we couldn’t get it back so we didnt have enough videos for the 10 essentials video, so Maya’s group kindly donated one of their videos to us.  One thing that I feel like I really learnt that helped me discover how to be the best version of myself was when I asked a couple how to stay calm when you’re stressed or burnt out. The answer I got was doing something for ourselves like going away or just doing something for yourself that makes YOU happy. I really liked that because I definitely get stressed sometimes about work and school and just other things in general. So when I heard that it put me in a new perspective and I now know how to stay calm and just be happy when things get tough. Overall I had an awesome time on this trip and im really glad that I got to go on this trip with my class and just be in Alberta because it was a beautiful place to go and I definitely recommend it!

Thanks so much for reading my blog I hope you enjoyed it!😁