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My Class Was Ore-Gone, But I Was In Bali!

This is my Bali adventure book! I will explain more about this below, but feel free to read!

Hi everyone! I know this post might look different from some of the others about Oregon but that’s simply because I didn’t go to Oregon (I know I missed my first PLP field study 🥲) Instead I was somewhere much much farther away… BALI!!! 💕

🏎️ Driving Question: How Does Language Inspire Adventure?

Even though I was away that didn’t stop me from wanting to figure out the answer to our driving question “How does language inspire adventure?”. For me I interpret this question quite literally such as an actual language inspiring us to go on an adventure!
  Interpreting this question literally can be like how does actual speaking language inspire adventure? My answer to this is that the idea of discovering or learning new languages is such a fun and captivating idea that lots of people travel so that they can maybe try out a new language they have learned or even try to learn a new language while away. Have you ever hosted an international student? Well I have hosted 6 and the reasons they all decided to travel to Canada was to learn more English! (And also the western lifestyle but language was number 1!). I find this amazing how a language can convince you to leave your family and friends in another country and travel somewhere new completely! Thats an adventure alright!

Adventure:

A question we were asked at the very beginning of this project was what does adventure mean to ourselves? I found this a really hard question to interpret but as the project has gone on I have found it easier to come up with an answer! 

The meaning of adventure to me is going somewhere, doing something that maybe you haven’t done before or is outside your comfort zone. Adventure isn’t always a physical thing as well it can also be an adventure in your head such as a captivating book or a dream.

What does adventure mean to you? (You can tell me in the comments)! 😋

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What makes an advertisement and advertisement? What about an advertisement appeals to you? This is what we learned prior to leaving for Oregon. We learned and explored design protocols, made some ads of our own and found what actually drew our attention from advertisement so that we can imply them ourselves into our own!

Quarry Rock! (Launch 🚀)

I love hiking! Like if your friends with me you would have to put up with me and you going on hikes and walks together all the time. So when I heard that our launch activity would be hiking Quarry Rock and creating a advertisement for that place I was very excited!

During the hike we were tasked with taking pictures of our surroundings, people, the view! Anything you would be able to use for your advertisement! With whatever you photo or photos you may have chosen you need a catchphrase or slogan that goes with your advertisement mine was “BE A QUARRY ROCKSTAR!” You’ll see why in a bit…

There it is! This is my final version of my Quarry Rock ad. As you can see the play on words of being a rockstar… The amazing models in ad are Brooklyn and Elsa here are their blog links so you can see their learning portfolio!

Brooklyn 😍

Elsa 😍

Week Before:

The week before my class went to Oregon I was already away in Bali! Instead of packing my rubber boots and my flashlights I instead had to pack a lot of Indian dresses…

Yep! I was in Bali for a wedding but not any normal wedding an Indian wedding (Which is so much better)! That week before I had just come off a 35 hour journey of 2 flights and a 15 hour layover in Manila. 

Lol I don’t know why I’m holding the water bottle up (its not that interesting) 😅

Wedding 🥳

This wedding is where I learnt so much about my own culture and how much there is I didn’t even know about! Such as traditions, foods and dances! Indian weddings usually last a few days because there is so much to do! I can’t even imagine a wedding with only one day now… The reason there are so many days is because there are many blessings and parties that actually take a while.

The wedding I attended lasted 3 days and there was a total of 5 celebrations. The first night was a welcoming party! There was dancing, food, speeches and more dancing! The morning after was  a Puja (Pooh-jua) a Puja is a blessing ceremony where we put  yellow turmeric paste all over the bride and groom! Then later in the evening there is one more blessing ceremony which was veryyy long (I may have gotten bored…). The next day the actual wedding was held and during that is when the bride walks down the aisle and meets the groom on the other side. During this is another tradition where the kids on the brides side (Including me!) have to try to steal the grooms shoes after he takes them off as he enters the chapel, the grooms side is supposed to protect the shoes from us by either hiding them running away with them and anything else except locking them up in a safe or a room. Spoiler! We succeeded and I had to chase one of the groomsmen through the hotel but it was fun 😂! The last celebration was a party! And a really big one! It started at 7:00pm and ended at 3:00am!!! It was a big dance with speeches and a lot of loud music! It was definitely my favourite, very chaotic but very fun!

          

Touring Bali!

We spent a whole week touring Bali!!! I am not going to re-cap the whole thing because I kinda made a whole book to do that for me 😅

I can give you a small summary which will probably turn out to be a paragraph in the end but who cares!
So we toured around 17 places!!! How did we do that in one week? You may be thinking… well we had to get used to a pretty strange schedule, Wake up at 7:00 or 8:00am then go down for breakfast and leave straight after! We would usually be in the car for around 1 hour to 1 and a half hours just driving to all the different places (it was a good way for us to catch up on sleep) we would then go out for dinner and then get back at the hotel at around 10:00pm. We did this for 5 days 🥲… Overall I had an amazing time and if you want have a flip around my book! I think its interesting (well I hope it is…)

Scroll To The Top! Thats My Book! ⬆️

My Revisions 🔄

Feedback = After I got my feedback I realized that there was so much I missed and that going forward I need to check my work so much more and get multiple people to review it before I submit. I used this feedback given to me by fully reading the notes and corrections she wanted me to fix. I then noticed that my link to my blog was not working at all! I figured out how to fix it and I also got a few people to read over my book to make sure my grammar and spelling was all good!

Reflection: 

Wow! This has been my favourite trip I have ever done! I loved how we were able to experience and learn so much more about Balinese culture and even my own Indian culture. I feel like I have a better understanding now of Balinese people and culture and I definitely learned a lot while visiting. I hope I will get to experience more trips like this in the future and be able to record everything like how I did with this trio and my adventure book!

Thanks you so much for reading! Stay posted for my next post! 👍

2024 Spring Exhibition 🌷

The end is so close! The fact that we are already at our spring exhibition is crazy! I can’t believe how fast time flies, but instead of reminiscing on the good (and not-so good) times let’s recap the spring exhibition where we created an advertisement campaign!

I sadly was away during Winter Exhibition so I was super excited for my first exhibition! 

What Is An Advertisement Campaign?

Ad campaigns are a set of advertisements that focus on a single message. They are intended to meet a specific business goal as well as lead to conversions. 

So basically it is multiple pieces of advertisement that relate to the same thing. So if I showed you a t-shirt with a slogan on it, it could also tie back and relate to a regular paper advertisement. Some example of ad campaigns are here is you would like to see them: ⬇️ 

https://www.peppercontent.io/blog/best-advertisements-ad-campaigns/

Back To Oregon (Even Though I Never Went)

This exhibition was an advertisement campaign! Advertising what? OREGON!!! Even though I technically never went to Oregon I still had so much fun working with my group and creating our advertisement campaign!

You may be thinking “Oh okay cool they are prob just saying go to Oregon or wtv” NOPE! It was a lot more that all started with theses 5 different groups…

Excitement and Escape (Mine 😁)

Discovery and Learning

Challenge and Growth

Connection with Nature

Bonding With Community

Excitement and Escape!?

While my class was in Oregon (and I was in a different time zone) they visited multiple places that touched on every one of these groups main focuses. My group was Excitement and Escape! While in Oregon I’m sure they did a lot of exciting things like Bullwinkles Family Fun Centre and Whale Sight Seeing but the one that we decided to focus on the most was… ZIPLINING!!!!!!

Ziplining seems pretty exciting and fun doesn’t it? Well we thought so, so our entire advertisement campaign is all about the zip line course that my classmates went on in Oregon.

Here are my group members blogs! You should definitely check them out!

Eloise

Elsa

Cole

Sam

I really loved collaborating and creating with my group and although I have worked with a few of them many times before I still think new found new ways to communicate and share our ideas.

Slogan

Our groups slogan was something that they came up with while I was still away but honestly its awesome and I wouldn’t have any other one:

Escape the Ordinary
Embrace the Excitement

I feel like this showcased what we were advertising really well and I also feel like we tied our slogan in well with the rest of our campaign.

Individual Ads 🔄

This is my personal Oregon ad and the reason I added the revision sign to the title is because everyone received at least one while creating these ads. These advertisements had to still tie in with your group and match the advertisement campaign this was really difficult to match everyone’s font and have the same idea but showcase it in different ways. Only once you had received and 👌 emoji were you able to continue (we nay have started before) and In the end we had a lot of successful ads that all looked amazing! 

Moving On… And Creating!

Area Layout

These are the areas we would be performing in and we had to prepare everything to fit in that space. We made our props after we had received an 👌 emoji and that meant we could start creating our props and anything else for our presentation. We decided to make a zip line out of some scrap wire a big branch and a curtain rack. I know we sound crazy but it worked! What we did was measure the length of the staircase that we wanted the zip line to go down. We attached one side of the wire to the curtain rack and the other to the branch. You can see the pictures below!

OG Plan

This was our original plan our plan now looks really similar to this one but with the one we ended up with we added a lot more! We deliver water balloons down the zip line like shown in this sketch (drawn by Eloise) then once it reaches the bottom our guests were able to answer a few questions and then if answered correctly they are able to throw a water balloon at any of us. That is our interactive element every group needs one and the reason we chose to let them throw water balloons is because while they were ziplining in Oregon they were dipped in water and we wanted to tie that into our presentation.

Apple Juice and Cookies 🧃🍪

We were giving out apple juice and cookies to our guests that visited our stand because while ziplining they were served those exact things! It was interesting telling people why we were serving those things because I wasn’t there but it was still an overall fun experience!

Exhibition Day!

It’s finally here!!! The day of the spring exhibition!!! I don’t know for sure of everyone was as nervous as me but I was very nervous! Starting at 1:50 we were setting up and getting ready for our guests. My group was near the staircase so that it would be easier to set up a zip line there. When the doors finally opened we had quite a few people ready to pelt water balloons at us. We would tell them about our campaign and also tell them about our pamphlets and show them where we had visited on our Oregon map, we would then explain to them about our zip line we had made and would also explain why we were delivering water balloons down it. After that we would ask them a question and then they would have permission to throw a water balloon at us. Even though we did end up completely soaked it was a lot of fun!

Conclusion

Although we only had a week and a bit to make our exhibition advertisement campaign I think it turned out really well! We did have a few bumps in the road with our decorations and during our presentation running out of water and everyone accidentally getting into a water fight, but it was fine! It was so fun! I hope that for our next exhibition (winter) we will have more time to prepare and it can be even better!

Thank you so much for reading! Stay posted for my next post! 👍