There is no end to growth, and every day is becoming a different version of myself. 

     I have thought about what kind of person I want to be in the future for a long time. It’s hard for me to choose. I always feel confused because there are so many role models. Until my friend Angela said something inspiring to me. 

     Angela is an ordinary person, not a celebrity or a rich person. But her actions influenced and inspired me. As an international student, Angela moved to Canada after living in China for 12 years. But after spending a year in Vancouver, she had to move to Winnipeg because of her parents’ work. In that time, she had to move twice and leave her newly familiar environment. Angela studied at a French school in Winnipeg so she had to learn two new languages at the same time.

     Angela went through all those things, but she never gave up or became negative. She works hard on learning and trying to make friends with the local French speakers. Angela records the good things and posts them on social media. She is a really happy person. One day when we were talking, I asked her, why don’t you feel bad because of all those things? She said to me, “I just want to try to make life better, instead of sad every day, try to make yourself happy.”

     I was touched by her words. Adults and my parents often talk about optimism, but few of them did that. Angela is the one truly cheerful and optimistic. She is now studying at secondary school in Winnipeg, has a lot of friends and good grades. In my opinion, all these good things are due to her positivity and courage. (Video of the interview) 

     In the project “Who Are You Gonna Be” the driving question is “How can we use our blog to communicate the kind of person we want to be?” However, before this project I already knew what kind of person I wanted to be. Although it is hard to do, I will learn from Angela. I want to become a person that isn’t affected by bad emotions and full of positive energy. I wants to live with a positive spirit, work hard, and move forward.

     In the class, I watched Michelle Obama’s speech, which she asked a similar question “What kind of person do you want to be?” After hearing that, I am interested in her. I want to know how Michelle and her husband became so successful and even became the first family of the US. So I read Michelle’s book “Becoming”.

     Michelle’s book does not feel superior, and she does not make readers think that she is in a much higher class. She just like a good friend to talk to readers. Her narrative style is intimate and natural, without preaching and slogan, but simply telling her life experience. I was deeply touched. It wasn’t just Michelle’s sincerity that touched me, but many other wonderful qualities, and I wrote about my feelings in the notes. (Picture of the notes)

In this project, we learned the techniques of interviewing. Interviewing has always been something I’m interested in, I like to watch videos that people interviewing scientists, celebrities, or passersby. However, I didn’t think about making those kind of interesting video myself. This project has made me change the way I look at interview videos. I used to think that making videos like that required professional equipment and a lot of knowledge, but that’s not the case. Anyone can make an interview video, and the teachers summarize all the things you need to be an interviewer. If you want to know more about the interview please keep reading my blog post.

We learned about the movie avatar and the connections between it and the real world. We also learned how to do interviews and make a interview film. 

The plot of the movie is that on the beautiful planet of Pandora, where live the Na ‘vi people. Humans invaded Pandora for the Earth’s energy problems. Due to the toxic environment on Pandora, the artificial Na ‘vi, known as Avatars, connect with the human brain and work on Pandora. A paralyzed ex-marine travels to Pandora on one Avatar and falls in love with a Na ‘vi. He drawn into a war between man and Na ‘vi for his love and Na ‘vi’s survival. In the end, man was defeated.

I think Pandora is a metaphor for Americas, rich and dangerous, beautiful and deadly, attracting intrepid explorers. Five hundred years ago, European explorers were tempted by the Golden Empire. As same for the humans who have invaded Pandora, but the advent of “Avatar” has ensured the safety of them.

We made an exhibition to show the videos made by us. The theme of my room is exploration. I talked about how the technology in the Avatar movie changed the way human explore the new world. The exhibition was very good. Everyone put on a good display. I hope we can do better in the next winter exhibition.

How to interview: https://www.craft.do/s/bzKgi7o23gNY2Q

My video:

     Destination Imagination is a hands-on, project-based educational experience that encourages creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking skills. In the DI program, students work in teams to solve challenges and improve creativity. DI challenge helps students understand problems better, ask better questions, come up with solutions, and learn from failure. In the process, children learn important life and career skills — creative thinking, critical thinking, acting and collaborative problem solving — that lay the foundation for their future success. DI allows students to learn and experience the creative process while fostering creativity, curiosity and courage. (Form: https://www.destinationimagination.org/)

     My group in DI is called The Hazardous Heroes. Our story is about some students that had an accident during their online class, and they created monsters (I played a monster). The students attracted the monster with a toy car and then turned the monsters back into some toys. Our group made several obstacles for the toy cars to pass through. 

     As an artist in our group, I decorated one of the obstacles and drew the team poster with my team. On the obstacles, each student drew their favorite things, some are the sea and seahorses, some are books, and some are games; I drew small animals and nature.

The most important thing I learned in DI was teamwork and communication with my classmates. Creativity and imagination are both important parts of the DI challenge, but I think they are all built on the teamwork and good communication.

     If there is DI challenge next time, I think we can rehearse more. During the performance, our group’s car often fell down from the obstacle, maybe it was the operation problem. If we practice more, this kind of problem will not happen.

I think the best part I did was instant Challenge. We played a story of an Italian restaurant. I was the customer who ordered. I think this is the best instant challenge we’ve ever done, our challenge ended just in time.

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My favorite part of the DI challenge is drawing. I love drawing, It makes people feel calm and happy. But the part I didn’t like was looking for the place of the performance, I stumbled into another St. George’s High School, I was there when the show was about to start, I hope when the DI challenge, teachers can give us an exact address next time.

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     I learned a lot of knowledge and skills during this field trip, and I had a great time. What I learned is helpful for my future growth as a learner.

     The loon lake’s website  https://loonlake.ubc.ca

     This is the route from school to Loon Lake, my classmate Mackenzie sit next to me. It took one hour to got there.

When we got to Loon, we started our first activity called Nature Walk, looking for all kinds of things like leaves and branches in the woods.

My favorited photo, the scenery of Loon Lake, peaceful and beautiful

      After the first activity, we got the luggage from a small school bus and found our room. I live in a room with four other classmates.

      For dinner that night, we had lasagna, which Garfield likes. I tried lasagna for the first time (because lasagna is not very popular in the place where I was born).

We have a group called Advisory, my teacher is Mr. Hughes. My group has a name but I forget. In this group activity, the teacher asked us to write letters to each other, the content of the letters is to praise others.

     The next day, breakfast, lunch and dinner were delicious. My favorite activity was to build a tent with branches. Several classmates and I formed a team to build a tent beside a small tree, which could accommodate four people. In the tent activity, our team cooperated well, everyone had their own work, my job was to find and carry wood and decorate the tent.   

The most interesting activity in this field study was archery. I never dared to participate in this kind of game before (because I thought it was dangerous). But this time I bravely participated in the archery game. I was out before the picked up arrow, but I was happy.

After the archery game, there was the laser gun game, in which the students were divided into two groups and shot each other with laser guns. I did not participate because I was tired

In the field study, we also did the DI challenge. My team and I rehearsed a story called Hazardous Heroes. It is about the experimental accident that created several monsters (I played one of them), but the main characters destroyed the monsters.

     This field trip let me to learn knowledge and skills, and it was also the process of my growth as a learner. It was the first time for me to join the travel activity organized by the school. Looking back now, I feel I have grown up a lot. This journey is very valuable.

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