Blog Post #11 2011

My Learning Profile

Everyone learns in their own way. Someone might prefer to doodle on papers when at the same time they are taking in or learning the information, others sit still and steady, taking in every word the teacher is saying. Some people need to see pictures before they're going to learn anything, others will just hear and process the information. In this blog post I'm going to specify on my Learning Profile.

My learning style is tricky. If the learning topic is not something that I am necessarily interested in I'm not as willing and happy to learn about it compared to something I would like to learn about. I catch myself day dreaming all the time on a boring topic or a big lecture. I find I learn best when I am not disturbed or distracted in my learning and writing surroundings. A lot of the time when I am put next to a person that talks to me a lot and makes lots of distracting and annoying sounds, I don't get my work done very fast or at all. Another thing that helps me is soft, gentle back round music playing while I work.


Firstly, I need to keep myself awake during the big important lectures. Second I have to stop daydreaming during the lectures. Thirdly I could ask my teachers to put on gentle music while we work, but that of course is up to them. When the teachers are giving lectures (which are not all that bad, for some people) I should tune in. If I would stop day dreaming I wouldn't have to double check about the homework. I think if I tried to follow those two or three rules I would be a much better student.

A strategies that would help me in my learning are when I start day dreaming is I should remind myself about what I should be concentrating on now what I am dreaming of. I should start concentrating from the very begging, instead of start daydreaming of the Hunger Games from the beginning of class. When my teachers are starting a lecture I should try to tune in. If I do I think I might actually find it interesting! When someone beside or close to me starts the annoying piano on the desk or start chatting their head off I should tell the to stop or simply ignore them so they would stop.

I would like my teachers  to know this about me so that maybe they could change the seating arrangement to something I would approve, a table without any annoying class mates. I would also like my seat to be near the front so I would be most visible to the teacher, and so I could concentrate more. I would also like my teachers to know I work well with music on.

This is my Learning Profile. Hope you enjoyed!

Blog Post #10

My New Years Resolution

Each year comes with goals you will try to pass. Those goals leave eventually when you have worked on them enough. As the years zoom by so do challenges and goals that will eventually get harder.

One of my many new years resolutions is to be more open to choices, and when I do try them, to be positive and challenge myself. Once I take that path there is no going back. For example I will try to challenge myself into taking the harder way of challenging myself in Physical Education which I normally do not, and try to go above and beyond my normal routine of choosing the simplest task in a school project. I am very picky about my food as a vegetarian, so I would like to open new choices and try new foods, as long as they are still vegetarian. I would also like to begin reading books on a daily basis.

Another goal I will attack this year is gaining self confidence. For the past 11 years I have been on a low self confidence level, which means I haven't been supporting myself very much. For example during a huge project I tell myself I'm going to get a horrible grade, I should be telling myself I will get a wonderful grade. And when I'm doing sports such as rock climbing I put myself down instead of telling myself I can do it. I should be bringing myself up not down.

Christmas Experiences

One exiting experience I will never forget during my Christmas break was horse riding on the beach in Bali. I was able to complete all the riding speeds. This is  a memory I shall never forget, because when I move to Finland (a place there is hardly any beaches, and is cold almost all year round) I will probably not be able to horse back ride on the beach. I have always wanted to ride a horse on the beach and gallop with the horse in the water, this is a memory I have for filled and will never forget!

In some ways I did get the cold weather were you have to huddle to stay warm and wear those big fluffy winter jackets. I went to genting highlands. The air was to advanced for my everyday shorts and t-shirt. Despite my stretchy almost too small to wear jumper, I was toast in the cool air, or should I say frozen toast. Even though the rides were great I could hardly see 10 meters in front of me, because of the fog. Almost the whole time my teeth were chattering so hard I thought they would fall out! Despite the freezing weather and my everyday Malaysia clothes genting highlands was a blast.

The first two paragraphs on the new years resolution was what I wish to happen in my future, the last two paragraphs were a blast from the past! The new 2011 the old 2010. :)

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