Welcome to my blog!

Here, I’ll be talking about what makes up my personal representation. Different aspects of my life, personal experiences, funny moments/memories, family events and much more. I will be talking about anything from my different hobbies and interests to life lessons that I’ve learned along the way.

Everything You Need To Know About Me

My favorite quote is “The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.” By Victor Hugo. In this he describes how if you do a little bit of something everyday you can achieve the bigger picture. Almost like building or breaking habits, you always have to start somewhere. And that first step can push yourself to become something different. I like this quote because it reminds me to always be kind to others. With that, always providing small acts of kindness, because you don’t know how they can affect people.

My favorite YouTube clip is this video of a little girl who took lipstick from someone in her family and was trying to convince her dad that she bought it herself from Home Depot. I found this video with my mom last year and it has become one of our inside jokes.

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My favorite picture is one that I took while I was in Disneyland with my family and one of my very close family friends. We did a road trip down to California together during Spring Break, all 7 of us in one car.. But it was one of my favorite trips. The last time I went to Disneyland with my family was when I was 6, we flew down with my aunts. We went in the summer, so it was blistering hot. Going to Disneyland is one of the best workouts you can honestly get. The smell of churros and all the really fun rides are a huge motivation to spend all day at the park walking around and waiting in lines. This picture was taken in California Adventure Park. In the picture you can see the iconic Pixar Ferris wheel.

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My favorite website is Connections by the New York Times. It’s sort of like Wordle, but in my opinion its much better than Wordle, because Connections is about making patterns and finding links between certain words. Some of the examples are rhymes, different categories of animals, music and sports. It can be very simple things, but this game really makes you think. I play this game almost every night with my mom, if you work in pairs, you can get more done.

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My birthday is on April 22 and the day I was born, April 22, 2009, Earth day was made an international holiday, which I think is pretty cool. Especially because I quite enjoy being outside in the nature, going on walks in the forest or just looking out the window to see the beautiful sky.

Passions

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For the grade 9, take your kid to work day, I went to work with my mom. She’s a grade 3 teacher at Leigh Elementary, while I was there, I got the opportunity to help younger kids with their spelling, sentence structure and grammar. Later in the afternoon, the students in my mom’s class had PHE, I participated in a game of bench ball, as you might assume, playing against young, elementary school students wasn’t that complicated. Although, it does make yourself a bigger target compared to them. Literally and figuratively. I went outside for both recess and lunch, I got to play with the younger kids and two other grade 9 boys from Riverside. After lunch, we did some simple math games and then had a lesson on weather changes in different environments. Shortly after that, we went outside with the class Ipad’s and took pictures of erosion on the school grounds. I quite enjoyed my day at my moms work, I wasn’t kept in an office all day, I was able to interact with the students and I also knew many of the teachers from previous years.

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This is a picture of me helping out a kid in grade 1, while my mom was in a meeting, I went to another teacher’s classroom, mainly because I’ve known her since I was in elementary school myself. As well as I know  her son who also came for take your kid to work day because we went to summer school together as kids.

1. What did you hear, see, smell, and feel in the work environment on Nov. 1st? 

I heard the younger kids playing in the background, the pencils taping when they were working, the shuffling of chairs during lessons. I saw the teachers talking to each other about school related subjects, such as projects and routines. I felt the welcoming environment of the students and the staff at the school.  

2. What about the environment would motivate you to wake up every day to attend work? 

Being in an elementary school is a very welcoming and warm environment. The younger kids look up to the older ones, and their bright personalities make everything a bit more interesting.  

3. What about the work environment would discourage you from waking up every day to attend work? 

I feel like the students in the class would take up a lot of patience in the long term. They require a lot of emotional energy from others, especially the adults that surround them. 

4. What is ONE thing you found interesting about your workplace visit?

I thought it was interesting how the younger kids are constantly surrounded by screens, even if it’s a T.V projector. Unless they’re working on an assignment by hand, they have access to iPad for reading and writing. And even when they work outside for nature. Such as today, my mom took her class outside to document weather changes after periods of rain and strong winds. And instead of writing things down, they took pictures and made a slideshow. It was interesting to see how much their curriculum depends on technology.