Update on my Learning Habit

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I think that I’ve gotten good at persevering since the last time I wrote on this blog. My issue still is that oral questions in French class still frustrate me. In art, I’m not the most efficient but I still work hard until I finish my artwork and I finish it well. In humanities, if there’s something bothering me, I might go get a drink of water and then come back to it or I might stop for a minute and then go back. My work on perseverance has improved and I’ll keep improving as the year goes on.

This Year I’m Focusing On …

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This year I’m focusing on perseverance. Focusing on this will help me get good work done when I am stuck. This has hurt me in the past because sometimes I get frustrated and don’t get work done. This happens in almost every subject. In Humanities, I get mad because my colonial research paper isn’t going the way I planned. In Math, there’s always one math problem that gets me and slows me down towards finishing the page. In French, there’s normally something I don’t understand, and I get frustrated and forget to look the word up in our textbook.

Eye Drawing Project

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The eye drawing project has been one of the best art pieces I’ve ever drawn. It’s something I’ve been very careful and neat while working on it. The final process of my drawing is going to be finishing the eyelashes on my eye. I feel amazing about my art piece. The piece is, like I said, one of the best things I’ve ever drawn. If I had to change one thing, it would be to shade my eye better than it is now.

Still Alive: A Poem by Drew Kaufman

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Still Alive

We wanted more

There was no more food left in the cupboard

We were famished

Dad went out for some food

He didn’t come back

It was a long winter

We barely scraped through

Then Tommy started to freeze

And so did my aunt

It was just me and mom

We left home in search of food

Mom got tackled by a creature

She didn’t die

It was our father

Still alive

 

First Reaction: A Poem by Drew Kaufman

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First Reaction

Come into my cell. Make yourself at home.

Says the creepy man

Who operates the electric chair

I shot two men

They had blond hair

I didn’t mean to pull the trigger

I panicked

My hands trembled

They stole from me

Just as they were leaving

“BANG!” “BANG!”

My hand pushed the trigger

It was my first reaction

Now this will be my last

How to Run a Big Pakistani Family by Dadi

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Step 1 = Insert that you are in charge. Make sure nothing happens that could effect the family when you are not there. It could get a camel or your family member killed. I’ve experienced this with my daughter Shabanu when she ran off to save a baby camel that wasn’t going to die.

 

Step 2 = If you don’t have a son, make one of the daughters act like a son so you have somebody who can help you with work. If you have a son, you don’t need to pay attention to this.

 

Step 3 = If your sister-in-law thinks they are so great cause they have sons, remind them that you are a man, and they are a women. Then you show them that you’re stronger than them.

How to Beat a Grown Pakistani Man in a Fight by Dadi

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Step 1 = If they weigh more than you, you need to use their weight against themselves. If you do this properly, the opponent will fall to the ground when you move, giving you a easy position to finish the fight. If you weigh more than them, you will have the advantage of power and if you hit them correctly, you can end the fight quick.

Step 2 = Get the crowd on your side. You need to be the crowd’s favorite to frustrate the opponent and to give you more momentum.

Step 3 = Win the battle. If you have followed this simple steps to beat a grown Pakistani man in a fight, you will immediately see results in your fighting. Soon, you will be good enough to fight for prizes.

Medieval Pageant

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On 4/19/17, we had our Medieval Pageant for our guilds. I was in the Arms and Armor guild and we presented in the auditorium. For the first group, I was a little bit nervous because I had to host and describe my chess project but it turned out good and the rest of the tours went smoothly. At the end of the third tour, we were going to get knighted. We all lined up near the wall and Dan knighted us with a copy of the Dragon Sword which is the old sword that Kings knighted people with. I went to the Stonemason’s guild and saw Andrei and Matias and they were spectacular. They added facts about their topic while having a heated argument.

 

Muscular System

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The muscular system helps you move. It has tendons that connect the muscle to the bone. The muscular system closely interacts with the skeletal system because it has some of the same pieces. Another fun discovery that we made was that all of our body parts that we worked on individually connected in the muscular system. Our question is, “Can muscles ever control themselves instead of waiting for the brain’s signal?”

 

             

 

Things to Remember for the Rest of the Year

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A goal I have for the rest of the school year is to be more steady in a chair. Sometimes, I climb and hang from my chair in homeroom and that’s not the steadiest thing to do. I learned that the steadier people that I’m with, the more steady I am. I was with my parents for a week in California and I was more relaxed than I usually am. I had a week at camp and I was more relaxed there then I ever was at camp. A way I could get more steady on a daily basis is to have a conversation with my parents who made me more steady over the break. Thomas Szasz once said

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
And I have created a way for me to get steady.