Week six. It's friday and the end of the marking period. We've been doing a whole lot of creative writing all week which I love. I've had some pretty bad predicaments this week and I feel like our big creative writing project has helped me mentally deal with and understand what happened. I really do enjoy writing probably more than any other activity in the world (besides painting, ceramics, or anything art). To me writing is an art. I haven't found anything that helps me sort things out/communicate more than writing. I'm not very focused today so please forgive my incessant rambling.We've been doing a lot in class with learning about what you need to incorporate to make your story appealing. I've been trying broaden my use of vocabulary both in my writing pieces and within my verbal communication. I have also noticed the daily poems in which we are read, have brought back my desire to express my feelings in that form.
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It is week four. we've been working to create, maybe for some of us, our first video ever. We started off with the topic "this I believe" and wrote about something we firmly believe in. Now this wasn't like oh, I believe in unicorns or leprechauns with pots full of gold, but a more concrete, yet broad belief that we have come to over the spans of our lives. Some of these things go from "Animals are like people" to maybe say "war is completely unnecessary". We then recorded ourselves, which was a challenge in itself to some, then we began creating our video. It was time consuming, yes, but I found it very fun. I loved to see how my paper went from, maybe not so emotional, or not something people may have felt they could connect with, to transforming into this (in my eyes) very deep, project in which I put a lot of time and hard work into, to get the reaction I'm hoping to get from people. I used soundtrack and imagery very much to my advantage, and when I listen to it, it makes me want to go out and do what I'm saying in my video, and that's to change the world one person at a time, and do one small thing for them, to pay it forward. I feel like this project has really helped me a lot in doing so, and I found something I really enjoy that I never knew existed, or that before, I didn't think I could do or find fun in creating.
It's the third week of school. I feel like stress is slowly starting to creep up on me. I've had a headache every single day and between school and my jobs, i have to say I'm extremely tired. We wrote a "this I believe" piece and after watching some of the example videos, I ended up deleting majority of my paper and rewriting it. I wrote a ton at first but then when I learned we had to record it and it had to be about three minutes, I had to reduce a whole lot. I really enjoy writing every day. These reflective learning blogs and creative writing pieces have been really nice. I don't have barely any time after school to do anything and I used to write to myself every day in a journal about anything. It relieves a lot of tension and stress in my head because I find it way easier to communicate through writing than through speech. I've always found it a lot easier to do so because then I have time to actually think about what I mean then to have it come out all jumbled up and stuttery. I'm not really sure what to write about because I have a headache. I need to figure out how to manage my stress levels and I need to have an organized schedule. It's so hard for me when I don't. I'm really anal-retentive when it comes to things I have to do. I hate it when my routine is interrupted or randomly tossed up like a salad. It really irritates and stresses me to the point of crying. I think if I had some kind of time management counselor that would help a lot, but then again when would I have time. I feel like my life is that of Sisyphus.
This week, in all my classes, we've been doing a whole bunch of writing. I really love writing, but I have a very hard time focusing on the topic in which I chose. My brain generates so many ideas that I end up slowly trailing away from my topic because I'm finding ways to tie in another example so instead of erasing all my work, I can just hit word count while writing about something else plus the topic I chose. My pieces are usually overly long and drawn out, and I while I'm writing them, I just hear my teacher's voices in my head reminding me to stick to the point, have a concrete statement and make sure it's tied in together. I really need to work on that this year so I can excel in my writing abilities. I believe that if I keep practicing and writing way more and have more variety in what I write instead of just reflection pieces, I know I will be able to reach my goal in getting my point across in less than the million words of rambling in which I write. My mission is to write a different piece every week and find people to edit it and make corrections and find ways to shorten it, then I’ll rewrite it and compare. After I compare the two, I will write a reflection on that about what I learned and how to make my writing better. I need way more focus.
It's the end of week one of senior year. I switched into this class on Wednesday and I feel as if I've been fairly good with participation. There haven't been very many singular options to be very involved but I feel that will change in the weeks to come. I am very excited for what we will be doing this year. I'm very eager to start writing again and trying to read more. I feel that is participation in itself, being more engaged in what we're doing. I would say my attitude towards school and people has changed immensely for the better this year. In all my years of high school I haven't been very positive or motivated or even happy, but that is totally different this year, I've been really forcing myself out of my comfort zone and introducing myself and trying to connect and talk with more people. I feel like working over the summer has helped my appreciation and comfort with people grow. I've also really tried taking the lead this year in group activities and with presentations. I've been working through a lot of anxiety and I feel like putting myself in more difficult situations makes every day obstacles easier to deal with. I am really trying to stay on top of my grade game with year as well. There’s nothing I want more than to get my GPA up a whole point, and to do that, I know I’m going to have to work extremely hard. Through every goal I have though, I'm very excited to see what this year has to hold for me.
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