Proactive or Procrastination ?

This one that everybody knows about me is I do everything at the last minute like when I get ready in the morning, my mom has to still tell me more than 3 times to get ready. And like when I'm done getting dressed my mom ready to leave in her car and I couldn't even get to eat breakfast. Its so hard and all just the start of me and all my friends with stacks and stacks of homework and projects. Once I had to finish three of my projects for Social Studies, and English I finished it by the last minute by staying up all night long. And one more thing I have a hard time focusing and when I first get home its just eat, sleep, watch TV, then I check what I'm doing for the week.

My amount of free time is like so little its because I'm that kind of kid that always has a after school circular activity so like I have Hula Practice on Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays , and Sundays then my shows on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. And so technically I'm busy for the whole entire week. And sometimes I end up crashing down on my bed and I forget to do all my homework and assignments.And I always end up doing it in study hall. My level of productivity is so low to its because like now for instance I'm a sixth grader and when I come home after a tiring day of school I eat, check what I have for homework, watch TV , and then I usually go to sleep. And when I wake up its like 6:00pm then I have to clean my whole entire house by the time my mom and dad get home with my brothers from his baseball or football practice.So technically I have to do my homework and assignments at night while my family is still eating dinner.

I would change so much if I could, like for example my habit of sleeping right after when I get home I could change that with doing my homework right away. And I could cut my hula classes shorter so I can get the rest that I need. And on Sunday nights I could sleep early as I can so I wont have to be all moody on Monday morning. And I could ask my teachers if I need help and what I'm missing so I could possibly try all straight A's. I can do all these things and I want to make a change and I hope to do better

Lessons Learned

 The most interesting part of our project is like the interviews the most because its like your learning something new and having fun at the same time.The first interview that I did was at Sweet Marie's Hawaii it was one of the best topics of our News Story. Its people who are affected by gluten and how it affects your diet.We spent so much time together on that day it's been so stressful for our team Leader but she had a lots of good laughs and good fun. I really loved that we had the whole day to enjoy and shoot and film some really great interviews.

The biggest road block in our project was we had so much time focusing on the interviews we did and we didn't think of more or less b-roll. Our group took some important pieces of b-roll sequences and some are not. We were the first ones when our video was critiqued by Mr. Sanderal he said "It's very amazing that kids like you can do the over and beyond " And I knew that his expectations are really high for us GT students. We just needed to edit a few things and do some more cuts and do better on the voice overs. I was really proud that my group and I could do such amazing things.

I think the most valuable thing about the film making process its the 5 W's and 1 h . And why it's because in your mind what the first thing that pops up in your head "I think this will be easy and pie." That's one of the quotes I always have in my head when we have a activity. And continuing on,for the writing  process you always have to have a topic that explains who, what, when, where, how, and why. It's so similar to the filming process. The filming process is a little bit more complications, there's supposed to be a yes side and no side so it would appeal the viewers eyes and so it would be fair.

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Back To School

I think my hardest challenge would be this year is trying to focus on all the new things going on like this is my first year in  the Gifted & Talented program. I learning new things about technology everyday. I never thought of doing my own Blogger to but its actually neat that we can share with many other people our thoughts.Creating my own blogger was actually harder that any of my assignments in the Gifted & Talented program too.And my way of finishing it is try harder on the thing you have trouble on like I ask my teachers if I need help and more time to focus and stop doing silly things in class like talk to the person right next to me.

 I think my favorite moment would be is actually to shoot a 2 - 3 minute video about gluten free diets and it affects other people. I'm working with a group of people that I never ever meet and now were the best of friends.It's been very complicated to because of the filming schedule,the questions for the people that were going to interview. And I think it's very hard to to film in one day. But it makes it easier for the rest of my team to we just have to focus on that very day so it's not that much stress for us and the parents.

So this past mid quarter I've learned many different kinds of technology on how to guides on the computer to it's been so amazing. I'll try to set many goals for me this year to and finish the difficult things in this past mid quarter.