When I first heard about the project, I didn't feel anything, no excitement, no disappointment, nothing. It was only till I started the project that I felt frustration, confusion, excitement, and a more bundles of emotion. My group and I, at first, seemed to already have an broad ideas of who to choose but we didn't even have any idea for the word or symbols for it. I was really confused with everything but as the days went on and we continued to learn, it either made more sense or it further confused me.
In Physics, we learned about forces and torque in order to balance our mobiles for the project. Even after the project, I still don't understand how to find the torque or forces of some problems. When we were learning them, I was so confused as to what to do, I did feel a lot of frustration, and it made my brain hurt. I would mix up the steps, forget what to do, I didn’t even really know what to do but I kept trying, looking online, and asked my classmates. I was able to do some of the work but I’m still confused. I hope I’ll be able to learn this soon, it’s fun some of the time.
Spanish was very interesting so far and during the project. The classes were fun so it added to the learning and everything. It was easy to learn because of the way our teacher explained it and I had barely any trouble memorizing what we learned so far. Which was surprising because, before even starting school, I was so afraid and nervous to learn Spanish because I forgot how to speak Vietnamese and I don’t even understand Khmer despite my family knowing how.
When we started on the trait/behavior paper for Humanities, I didn’t what to write or how to incorporate perseverance, our trait, into a story but when I actually figured everything out, I had a lot of ameteur mistakes. I didn’t really notice the minor ones until our teacher told us to read it aloud or to share it with others to help further edit my story and it did make a huge difference. I never really feel any frustration when I write, it actually soothes me, so it was nice to write for a project and not feel too many restrictions. I felt like my group and I collaborated extremely well. We didn’t fight, slack, or do anything to waste time or mess with our products. We were able to split the work evenly and communicate easily without any trouble. We all chose our single symbol, hero, and question and we all worked together after that. Even when we couldn’t all do something together and it meant some of us had to wait or not really do anything, we made up for it in the mobile-making process and at the exhibition.
The exhibition was very fun and interesting, to be honest; we shared our project with complete strangers and at a public event instead of at our school. We actually got lost for a hour and a half but eventually found the location (Haha!). At first, I was really nervous and scared to talk to strangers but after a few rejections and some others, I was able to draw a little more people in. I was kinda rushed, self-conscious, etc, but I thought I was an ok speaker but I didn’t stand out at all. The beautiful women who worked with schools really did pay attention and were personally interested, it made me feel more at ease. There were some people who just ignored me, but it made me laugh because like they didn’t even turn or anything. Most of the time, I just led people in only for them to speak with the other group and they just spoke with them, it also made me laugh and enjoy the exhibition more.
If I had to be honest, I would probably give myself an A/A- because I felt like I could’ve had a better attitude, been more confident, and maybe did better at the exhibition. I tried really hard though, at every process for any of the products, I checked over everything, helped my teammates, brought people into the exhibition/talked to them, and helped with creating the mobile. I didn’t slack and I persevered through the obstacles. And if I could give my group mates a grade I hope they receive an A+ because they really do deserve and they have been my motivation for this project beside many others. I’m glad that we were able to choose the trait Perseverance for our project because it represented us in the process of this project and it’s a trait that everyone should have, like helping to give everyone a fairer chance at things. This project was stressful but loads of fun, it took me out of my comfort zone and it made my brain hurt!