RSelf Study

Honestly, I didn’t do the best in Japanese. I didn’t pay attention and fooled around with my friend a lot. If I were to do something different, it would be to have better time management.

An example of something I have spent a lot of time learning is particles. There are so much particles and it was such a pain in the neck to learn them all. So far, I know O, wa, ga to, no, ne, yo, and a lot more.

When faced with ambiguity or setbacks, I just walk it off to advance my development of ideas. It doesn’t matter to me what type of setbacks I face. In the end, I need to finish what I do and follow through.

My long term goal is to improve my time managment and pay attention in my class. If I manage to get those down, I think I would be able to have an average of high Bs/As.

I will take Japanese 11 for the sole reason of graduating with a language course so I have a better chance of getting into college.

If I were to tell my past self something, is that writing and reading is the best way to learn the alphabet. Memorizing isn’t the best way and you’re just overloading your brain. If I had taken my time and read and write, I would’ve learned hiragana so much faster.

Core competency Bio 11

Communication skills

dichotomous key

In this project, I had to use my communicational skills to cooperate with my partner to get this done. We discussed all the possible families each button was in, the structures that made each one unique, and sort them accordingly. This would’ve been hard if we weren’t on the same page. Using communication skills helped me finish this on time and I would say I did really well on this and I’m proud of what I accomplished.

socials reflection

In this pryamd worksheet, I presented my critical thinking through analyzing the pyramid and pointing out contradictions. I pointed out the contradictions of each pyramid and the people who released the info. I got 100% on the sheet and I’m really proud about it.

R3 – Japanese Mascots

Mori-ken

I think for the most part, people in Japan really like mascots is because they’re all cute. In Canada, the main place to find mascots is in sports shows but in Japan, it’s pretty much everywhere. In Canada, we make our mascots to look enjoyable and to relate to the actual company/brand they are working for but in Japan, they just make mascots purely off of how cute they are. For some reason, they like things that are cute a lot more than we do in Canada. If we had a similar take on mascots, I feel like it would mainly appeal to teenage girls around 14-18 because this is the stuff I see a lot of teenagers takes pictures of like hello kitty as an example. If Coquitlam had a mascot, it would be a raindrop due to the fact that it never stops raining here.

R4-School life

In Japan, it’s a lot more respectful and way more strict than Canadian schools. The teachers are way less lenient than Canadian teachers. The upside is the fact that there’s swimming pools, the cafeteria food is amazing, and we have the same teacher all the time. I feel like we should have more responsibilities in our school because in Centennial, we leave the school as if it went through world war 3. If we have more responsibilities, we would be more respectful and better students overall. I am a demon in Janken. They call me the Janken demon. real.

Core competency assignment

Communication Chemistry 11

I can think about what I am going to convey and to whom I will convey it. When I worked with my lab partner, we were friends already so conveying it wasn’t hard at all. We had a lot of fun and we did the lab efficiently. I did not need to speak formally or in a way a random person could understand because my partner could understand me clearly with the way I talk.

R1 – うらない

I don’t really believe in horoscopes or blood type personality test. I’m pretty sure my blood type is A-B negative and in Japanese blood personality test, A-B blood types have a “hybrid” of a personality. My personality is pretty straight forward and I think horoscopes are BS.

I’ve been judged by those people who base their whole personality about Zodiac signs. They said I act the way I act because I’m a “Libra.” I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean but I feel like I’m getting judged. It feels disappointing to be judged by them astrology people. Not disappointed in myself, but the people who believe in it.

I think people believe in fortune telling because they have the Barnum effect and they think it’s going to happen because they have no sense of direction or guidance of where they are going in the world so they cling on something so vague, they can picture something else to fit the description.

The only thing I believe in that seems slightly superstitious is karma. I do believe in Karma not because of pure luck, because the people around you will act accordingly on the way you act. If you act like a good person, people will treat you well. if you do something bad, people will treat you bad.

R2 – ようかい

Tofu Kozo

I chose the Tofu Kozo because it caught my eye when I was looking for one. I have no other reason why I chose it.

A lot of unique features vary between picture to picture but what is common is that it always has a bamboo, has a tray with tofu on it, its tongue sticks out, and wears a Yukata. The one I picked has one eye and has some facial features like whiskers. The Tofu Kozo does not have any powers and is not harmful. It goes around a town bringing Tofu and Sake.

I don’t fully believe in Yokai or monsters in general but I think it was the distortion of vision. I do believe in some mythical creatures but I feel like they could just be misconceptions of other things.

My artifact

What I am most proud of this semester was my short story. I spent a good 5 hours on it and I am really proud of it. It’s about a man who hears wailing in a secret door in the basement. I personally enjoy it a lot and I enjoyed writing it. I wish I could’ve wrote more but I have to hand it in. The reason why I picked this as my artifact was because I would be willing to read this if someone offered me what I wrote. It sounds narcissistic, but I think it’s that good. I’m really confident in it.

Core competency

Creative thinking.

I have ADHD so I have hyper fixation. When I see something that I find the slightest big amusing, I decide to spent a week straight just learning everything about it. During the summer, I’ve learned how to code, binged watch old cartoons, and ECT. My most notable one is when I taught myself how to solve a Rubix cube. It was a big deal for me and I’m really proud of it.

Critical thinking.

I can tell the receive, and act feedback and judgement well. I got tutored for the majority on my lifetime and every time I showed my teacher something I was proud on, she looked at the smaller details to make myself improve on. I also was judged on soccer. I wanted to play striker and I was constantly hoping I got it. My coach sat me down and told me that my skills were more fit as a goalie and that’s what I should be focused on and I did. I took his criticism and decided to be a goalie for the span I played soccer in.

Creative thinking.

I like to use my creative mind to create new thing. I’ve created so many different stories and comics that I was overjoyed with. My most notable one was for the unit project for English 11. I had to create a short story based off of anything and I decided to do one about a man transitioning from a rich and wealthy man, to a person who’s going mental. I’m really proud of it and I’m glad I wrote it.