Inside The Mind Of Gabi

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Date: March 6, 2016

A Little Bit About The Camo Flock

“What time is it? SPRING BREAK TIME…” Nah, it doesn’t really flow. That’s cause there’s still a week until the break… One week, that’s all! But before I throw all of my papers into the air and shimmy out of the school building breaking into song, I wanna talk about a thing called “Destination Imagination”. If I were to explain it all, it would take up ten posts, so you can click here to learn more about it. I’m going to talk about my experience with DI, and, yeah… Enjoy.

Near the beginning of the school year, my class and I were introduced to Destination Imagination, and were told we would be participating whether we liked it or not. We were split into four teams of about 6 people, and assigned to different team focuses. I was put into the scientific category, where, in short, we had to camouflage one person in our group and create a skit to revolve and display different camouflage methods. We decided to name our group “The Camo Flock”.

It was a very long and hard working process, from planning the different elements of our costumes and skit, going out and buying supplies within our budget, and painting…lots of painting.

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During this whole process, my group and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to attend the presentation day, as I was leaving for a two week vacation a few days before the big day. We did a great job at planning around this, so I could still contribute to the project, even though I wouldn’t be there to perform with my friends.

We even won a few ribbons, and won first place for the instant challenge and our team challenge. Even though the group may be thinking I abandoned them and that I wanted to get out of it, I was so happy for their success, and they did so well without me.

And that’s all I really have to say about DI. I know I was brief and short, but as I said before, it would take ten or more posts to describe the stress, laughter, and craziness of the Camo Flock. But I do have a few videos of our performance, there might be a few cut out parts, but otherwise, here it is:

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The Right (Or Wrong…) To Vote

Hello, blog that I sometimes post on, it’s me. Wow… I sound like Adele, well, sort of. Anyways, class has been super busy lately, with our English exam out of the way, we started “Canadian History” in Social Studies. We were told that as we work through the unit, there will be a few large performance projects.

So in this post I will be sharing with you a performance task, diving deep into a the right to vote in Canada and how it transitioned from a privilege to a right. I worked with Anatolia, to create an Explain Everything, that was informative and interesting. We had a pretty small time frame to finish our project, mostly because we should know the drill. We should know how long it takes and all the elements that make a good Explain Everything. But Anatolia and I had a few difficulties in finishing it.

The first being that I don’t think we are the greatest partners for these kind of projects. We are best friends and we do a lot of talking. Mostly not related to the work. So that’s why we agreed to not work together on small important projects anymore, it makes more sense and we will probably work harder and more efficiently.

The second difficulty was the fact that I went on a two week vacation halfway through the project, which meant we had to work on it long distance style. Honestly, I just didn’t want to do it, and I began calling it “The Right To Vote Explain Everything That Never Went Away”.

***insert cringe faces***

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I was putting it off so I could relax like I should have been, instead of worrying about it. But I did end up pulling my weight and working with Anatolia to complete it.

Here it is:

For this Explain Everything, Anatolia and I decided to split the work in two ways, because we knew that I was leaving. But before I left, we managed to make an outlining storyboard to aid us in the creating of the “EE”. So, afterwards, I was in charge of writing the script, and she was the creator of the actual “EE”. This wasn’t a terrible idea, as long as I finished the script quickly so she could make the Explain Everything, which didn’t happen as planned, as I said above.

But eventually it did, and we finally finished our dreaded performance task and answered how the right to vote went from a privilege to a right.

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