I have been dancing since I was 4 years old. I have improved with age and with confidence in ballet and I have started to do competitions. I remember one time I had to leave camp early to do a dance competition. The day before leaving camp we did a 6-kilometer walk carrying all our belongings. I got home that night shattered, tired and aching, hardly able to feel my legs. I was so tired I went to bed. waking up the next day just as tired, I was so excited about the dance competition. I wanted to win so bad and I thought I could too. I had a fixed mind set thinking that winning was all that mattered. I went to my studio to practice barely able to get through one run of my dance. My legs were shaking, I tried over and over again not willing to leave until I had it perfect. I wanted to win! I needed my routine to be perfect. In the end, mum had to make me leave as I was exhausting myself and getting frustrated. I went home so tired and upset but still with a fixed mindset thinking I would win. After relaxing for a while we left for the competition. I performed the best I could considering how tired I was. Then it came time for the judge to adjudicate. I didn’t place. I was so devastated! That night I felt so sad and upset, mum comforted me and told me that it should never be about winning it should be about taking part, dancing for the love of it and enjoying it. I needed to remember why I dance and it was because I loved it made people happy. Mums advice made me change my mindset. It made me realize that I had just ruined this experience for me. Instead of just trying my best and enjoying myself and listening to feedback and why I lost as a way to improve, I took it as I wasn’t good enough and didn’t try hard enough. Remembering that it was only one person’s opinion was also important for me to move forward. I would like to say thanks to my mum for her reminding me of all the things I missed out on, the reasons I love to dance and for changing my mindset to think positively. I now enjoy dance competitions and take them as a learning experience.
Month: August 2019
Service partner problems
As part of the innovate ED
program at All Saints, I was able to work for an organization to help solve their problem. I chose RAAFA. RAAFA is located just down the road of our school, and we were provided with the opportunity to help their residents by designing a food transportation service.
Our challenge was to produce a prototype of a food transport system to help there resident when they are ill and can’t make it to the areas where food is provided so that they don’t miss out. I was really excited to hear about this as I am passionate about helping people and I want to make a difference and help people. I also have some good family friends that like at RAAFA and I want them to be comfortable and fed and happy.
First of all We went threw the planning faze thinking of multiple ideas to solve this problem before choosing that best few ideas to combine to produce a prototype then it was time to research we researched all the different components of our food cat to find out what products are the least expensive and what could be locally sourced. Then finally we came up with a final prototype and presented a pitch to a member of RAAFA.
Some of the school’s values I have displayed are empathy I have empathized with the people of RAAFA and what they are going threw and trying to help them. Courage I got up the confidence to speak in front of our class and to pick in front of a person from RAAFA and finally respect I respected all my group members and their ideas.
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