Wow, time really does fly. Surprisingly, I am already half way through my senior year and soon I’ll be off to college. That still being the future, I am looking back at this semester and my performance through out; however, I know there are many aspects I still have to work on in order to achieve the best of my learning potential. Moreover, in class last week we had a couple days set up to figuring out our grades. The way in which we figure out our grades is through an activity we do called straight talk. Straight talk is when we all huddle up in a group and begin discussing about each others grades. We ask ourselves what grade we deserve for each class and why. Although based on how we performed through out the semester. We also give each other the opportunity to challenge ourselves to become better learners. In my case, for this semester I was challenged to improve in several aspects of my learning. How was I challenged to improve my learning? First off, in regards to my english grade I was challenged to try and take more advantage of myself being a native english speaker. I was told that I needed to start portraying it more in my writing and in my presentations. In that case I have to practice my creative writing skills and not only that but my presenting skills in the sense that I need to give myself enough time to have it down perfectly. Moreover I need to practice to play with words, have fun with them. I need to become Shakespeare, I need to play with the words as if they were an instrument and I am the musician. Moving on I was also told, rather than being challenged that I needed to look at people and focus more when they were speaking to me because at times I space out completely. Realizing this I know that it happens but at times I feel like it is inevitable. However, in order to fix this struggle I feel like I need to read more. The reason is that also when I read I have problems concentrating and focusing on just reading because I am so used to multi tasking and thinking incredibly large amounts of thought in my head. Therefore, if I continue to read more it’ll help me practice my concentration skills and improve my vocabulary. Going back to english, even though I was told that my voice as a writer is exemplified and I can tell a story pretty well. I was challenged to try and reflect more. That even after mentioning examples I need to prove more of my understanding towards the anecdote. In this case as challenging as it may be it is something I have to continue working on, reflecting on an anecdote I explain in order to show the true valuable importance of it. Something that was said and truly caught my attention during the feedback session was that someone told me that despite my love for art, as in painting in drawing, I should try and explore more of art with words, as in poetry, etc. The reason behind the astonishment for myself was that ever since I was a little kid I loved poetry. I would always read different poems, learn about it in school and sometimes even write my own poetry. Take these two poems for example: 1) Life is like a waterfallLife is like a waterfall, as we are the water. Reaching a point in our lives where we hit rock bottom. However, we find ourselves flowing along the river, blindly. Falling Tumbling moving along Into the endless possibilities of what lies ahead... 2) Life in unityThey might be having the nuke while we are having the bomb but in the end they will be asking why were they so wrong! Why were they wrong? They were wrong because they were acting where they don’t belong All along we question, Life is a question with a quest that we must overcome, Its a test to see what we could become You must see that every possibility can only be accomplished in unity. Now forever u must see That together brings now sorrow but together don't bring me Forever no tomorrow but forever with me Now Together we will show them how we came to be It started with destiny and ended up with happily. Besides only the aspect of english we also looked upon how I was doing in the business terms. In that regard I need to start taking more initiative. Also I need to move away from being myopic with my fruit characters, I need to innovate— take a risk. I need to be more creative in the initiatives I take. Therefore, I was challenged to step away from my fruits and design different ones. That is my plan for the christmas sale, to make different faced fruits, to change/spice things up a bit.
Finally in terms of my media straight talk feedback, we will find out tomorrow :)
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BloggerMy name is Stefan Stangl and I am originally from San Francisco, California. Currently, I am senior at Colegio Franklin Delano Roosvelt in Lima, Peru. My passions are sports and art. Personal: @Stefan6 School: @fdrinnovationacademy ♫Tweet me ♫
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