Assignment Blog: Retreat

        The Leadership Retreat (: Bring me back ): I miss it already. Anywaysss, the Leadership Retreat was a camping kinna thing. We would go to a beach house and sleep over there for 3 days and 2 nights working on the whole calendar for the year and assigning jobs for the next events that are coming up next. We would have fun, eat, work, and all that stuff yo usually do when you go to retreats lol. I think that we have this Leadership Retreat as a kind of reminder that you are and always will be apart of Leadership. The retreat gives us amazing memories for us to remember and had us bond with our group more than we do at school. It helps us see our groups' strengths and weaknesses. It helps us to see how our group works together and how our group has its errors. It lets us see how well our group works together as a team. We would work on the homework we had to do over the 2 days we would miss of school, and work on Leadership related stuff. Like assigning jobs for Winter Fair, ISA, Intramurals, (lol idk how to spell it) and everything else, I kind of forgot.... But we would go on breaks and look for crabs on the beach, work with our groups, and have all those group bonding moments. We'd always play cards and always do everything together. But what I didn't like was that not all of us would always hang out together.

             SOME highlights of the retreat was the talent show. I laughed so hardat the talent show, "My name is Deriecka, and I like sparkles." OMGGG, Hope was crying lolololol. It was so funny, and Jayde's on too!!! "My name is Jayde, and I do the hula, but with no music" lololol that was so funny. I think the talent show was the best time where everyone could laugh together. Another highlight was when we were switching around all the sessions and everything. My favorite session was the bracelets and the pic collage. I found my beads in the dryer, an lol Petriese doe, she found her's behind the trash can outside. Our music isn't that junk. And then when we were all taking pictures. Petriese made it so confusing, lol she was like, "You guys should carry me" and we were like all laughing so much because we couldn't hold her and she was gonna fall on the grass. SOME lowlights of the retreat was when we were getting ready to leave I was so sad because I wanted to stay there for the whole because I didn't wanna have school. Lol, and when we were still working on one of the planning sessions. Some of us went outside beause we thought we were done. I should've stayed inside instead of going outside because even thought I knew that we weren't done yet, I still went outside. Its a mistake that I will never make again. I think that there should be a change in the numbers of days we stay there. We should be there for the whole week lololololll, and thats probably it. I had a lot of fun at the retreat and I don't wanna change anything because I loved all of it. I didn't really like the retreat, I  LOVED it. I've never been to a field trip as fun as this field trip was. I've had more fun there than at home or at school. I loved the retreat so much, its made me think of joining next year. Idk, ever since the retreat, I wanna experience that with a group of mine next year. It makes me really want to join Leadership next year.

             I've learned a lot about my group. A lot of things. Like how Taylor is so embarrassed to dance in front of people. Lol, and how like Petriese always say things that she hears other people say a lot because it gets stuck in her head. I learned that when we work as a team, we're better than working individually which is something that I usually am (independent) I always thought that it was better to work in by yourself rather than in a group, but ny froup showed me that it is better to work as a group than being by yourself (: I learned a lot of things about the chaperones. They're all super nice and I never knew they knew my names, until they said "Jenaya" and Im like "Oh my gosh you know me" I wanted to get to know them better though, they all seem so funny and fun and entertaining and all that fun stuff. I've always wanted to get to know all of the chaperones. I learned that all the chaperones are more fun and creative than I thought they would be. I also learned that they've all been to the retreat at least twice. I've learned a lot about Mr. Ing too. When you do something wrong, he lets you find out that you've done that wrong. He has you fix that problem. He doesn't tell you that you did something wrong, you have to find out what you did wrong and fix it. I also never knew that Mr. Ing doesn't vote during the chopped and the talent show. I thought he was the one that chose who won and everything. Honestly, I think I forgot what I learned about Mr. Ing....

"Kuleana" Priveleged and Responsibility

Fall break doe

             Monday was ok.. I couldn't work though.. We didn't post the fricken music for the week, so Mr. Ing said we couldn;t work. I mean =, we kinda did deserve to not work because of that so yahh. But we got to work the next day. So I'm pretty happy about that. I wasn' expecting that tho lol. So Petriese told us to start posting things early. I had to post the lunch music playlist for next week Thursday, this week Thursday. Yaas being prepared boiii. Anyways, Tuesday was pretty much normal for me. Honestly, its hard for me to make summaries of the week bc like I can never EVER remember what ever happened. I think I can only remember like Thursday and Friday..  I have memory issues.. lolol. ok so, Wednesday, I have no idea what happened on Wednesday, but I think that was the day when Tiana got pooped on by a bird. LOLOLOL it was so funny, I feel so bad doe for Tiana. LOL I'm sorry Tiana. Ok, so I think Thursday was ok, Idk what happened on Thusday either wth.. But I bet it was fun or whaterrrr. Friday was fun because period 3 was last. Yayayayayya. We worked more on our talent for the retreat. Omg, its gonna be so embarrassing. Taylor doesn't wanna say the words doe!! Lol she's so shy, and then Petriese is like trying to open Taylor's mouth and omg it was so funny. But, I think we got our talent down.. Maybe.. Oh yaas, We got report cards back on Friday, I think I did pretty good. I got a 3.8 Actually, I'm not proud. I was aiming for all A's... I wasn't happy because my older brother's gonna be like, "Ooh Naya, you're in trouble." But i'm still alive, my mom didn't kill me yet. And I finally almost finished my envelope ticket!! I'm so proud of myself lol.

              The highlight of my week would be Sunday and like 12:00 in the morning on Monday. I finally got to see my most favorite cousin everrrrrr!! Omg it was funny because like she didn't have school on Monday, but I did -.- I'm not happy about that because thats gay. We weren't supposed to have school Monday. That's not fair doe. I mean, I know Columbus day is only for America, but bruuuh, I didn't wanna have school on Monday again. And then on Wednesday it was funny because Tiana got pooped on lolol, and then some of that poop got on me and I'm like fricken screaming because it was so disgusting. LOL, and then Tuesday after school was a lowlight because I found out that I had jiu-jitsu practice, but I had like so much homework due on Wednesday that I could NOT finish in the 4 hours I would have left when I get home from jiu- jitsu, so like I started to argue with my Uncle Garry because I couldn't go to jiu-jitsu because I had like wayy too much homework and so like he was getting all mad at me because I didn't want to go to practice, so he just left without me and I'm like, "Yayayayya I don't have to go to jiu-jitsu." And Monday wasn't that good either because we couldn't work so I had an F for the day, and my over-all grade was an F, so I couldn't work and I'm like, " well this is nice." Lol, but I got to work on Thursday, so I'm happy.

              Lesson learned, always be prepared. Being prepared is one of the most important things in life that you would need to live life. Being prepared is very important or else you wouldn't know whats gonna hit you. If you aren't prepared for whatever's coming, then you should start being prepared. And always do things earlier than when its supposed to be done. It'll help you because then you wouldn't be rushing to do things last minute. Doing things last minute suck because it makes things harder for you because doing things last minute can backfire and something could happen which leaves you to have to do that one things that you're supposed to know later on which'll lead you into a pretty bad situation.

Cuzin :)

Almost done with envelope!

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Assignment blog: Zumbaa

            This project was actually the weirdest and most embarrassing project we had done so far.. A zumba routine to "exercise" to, in front of the whole entire school. It was really embarrassing, especially since no one participated in our routine... Just like 9 people..  Anyways, the project was a zumba routine (obviously) and we had to choose a song to make a routine for. Petriese chose Ice Ice Baby, it was hard for my group and I to make a routine because, unlike everyone else's songs, our song didn't repeat words except for "Ice Ice Baby." But we figured everything out anyways. We just kept on repeating the moves we had and we were fine. We also had to make sure that everyone understood how to do the moves so we had to go over the moves before we started the dance. One of the requirements was also to make the transition of the moves slow that everyone would understand what they're supposed to be doing. Our first routine didn't work out so well because our transitions for the moves were too fast, so we just decided to change the routine to something slower so that it'd be easier for everyone to understand what were doing and so that no one gets lost. We also had to practice the routine more than 20 times just to make sure that everyone has the routine on lockkk.
             
              My highlight of this assignment was finally getting our routine on lock. I used to have a hard time with my group's routine because it was so confusing, so I would always mess up, or I's go the wrong way, do the wrong move, and be a little on some moves. I was just surprised that I finally got our routine down. I was really happy, so I practiced at home and I got better at it!! But then we changed our routine a little, so I was like, "Oh... I just got our other routine down, and now I have to change it???" LOL, I was just really confused the first time we changed it because I used to follow the other routine wee had, and I's get lost.. But then I finally got that routine down, so I was happy about that too. The lowlight of this assignment was finding that only 9 people danced to our routine. I was pretty bummed because I knew that if we didn't get a lot of people, we'd get the C.. And I can't afford to get a C because if I get a C, it'll bring my grade down lower, and then I'd have a bad grade, and then I wouldn't get to go to the college I really want to go to, and I wouldn't be happy. I just didn't like that some of the friends I asked to come and help because its a grade, didn't show up. I wasn't happy. I was more than sad, I was disappointed because at that time, I asked one of the best person in my life that I knew to come and help me because it was a grade, and he didn't even show up. He stood in the crowd watching me embarrass myself. I was disappointed in him. I asked him a billion times, he said "I'll try" but then on the day of zumba, I go out there and dance, I see him in the crowds laughing.

             GLO #1: [Self directed learner] I took the time to practice at home so that I would better understand the moves and memorize the routine.
             GLO #2: [Community contributor] Our group made sure that everyone understood what was going on and made sure that everyone was in sync.
             GLO #3: [Complex thinker] Our whole group wrote down the steps of the routine so that we would know what we moves we had and how far we were on the moves.
             GLO #4: [Quality producer] I didn't care if I looked like an idiot dancing in front of my group and everyone else, as long as I did my best and participated in the event and in the practices.
             GLO #5: [Effective communicator] My whole group made sure that were good with the routine and if we didn't understand some of the moves, we wouldn't be shy to say we didn't, we'd just say that we weren't understanding some of the moves.
             GLO #6: [Effective and ethical user of technology] I took a picture of my written paragraph for the zumba routine belowww ⤵ And we also used the computers and speakers and a microphone during the assignment.

   

Zumba routine in paragraph form

                   

                 Grades for this assignment were supposed to be handed out to the group that got the most people to participate in their routine. I'm sure that period 5 got the A, I wish I was there to see their dance, but I had the opt out stuff to do -.- And period 1 got the B, and period 3 got the C. I'm not being, but we had the least amount of people to participate, so we have to get the C. In my opinion, I think grades should've been based on how well our group worked together as a team, and how well our group was in sync. It's all based upon the crowd to give us our grade, and that's not really fair because people these days are too lazy to participate in things like zumba, so they won't do it unless they want to be embarrassed. I just think that grades should go to the people that did the best performance and on how well they worked together.

Period threee

Old routine

Tb to when I had to say the directions because Tay wasn't there LOL

Octoberrr boyo

             This week was just... Something... LOL, Idk a lot went on this week, especially on Friday. Monday was the worst day for me. I was really disappointed in myself because I was on porbabtion -.- Ms. Sky turned my grade into a D because I didn't turn in my essay and I'm like, "Why couldn't you keep it at an A and just put in the grade as a NG???? Like girl, are you cereal?" I was so mad at myself for not turning it in OMGGGGGGG I was just shocked because I couldn't work just because I didn't turn in a stupid sheet of paper, but I was really happy when she graded my paper because she was all like, "This is a perfect paper =]" then she gave me a 100 and now I have an A in her class LOL. I wasn't done with AR either, I hate AR its a waste of my time like omg this one time, I spent almost both of the lunches just trying to find a book that was was 7th grade level. Then in like 2 minutes Petriese asked Ms. Sumita lol however you spell her name, for a book that was 7th grade level and it was just really simple. I should've just asked her to find me one instead of going through the basically the whole entire library by myself trying to look for a .5 book -_- Anywayyys, I got the book and then I read it, took the test and got a 60% -.- wow, I was shocked, I was like, well this is just great.. Then I retook the test and got a 90%, but nothing on my bottom bar changed.. It just stayed the same and I was like, what the heck, I thought I did good. Now I can't be recognized =[ Well, this week Wednesday didn't go so well either... Zumba was a pain in the butt, we got 9 people. Yay -.- thats nice.... And Wednesday was just really tiring for me, my brothers were irritating me in the morning and I couldn't get sleep because my older brother didn't want to turn down the volume on his phone while I was trying to sleep. Then came along to Thursday, not much happened, just visited my baby sister in the hospital =] And before I left, in the morning, Julia gave me these circle stickers and put on my face, and when I went to first period that day, I still had the stickers on!!! And everyon's like, "Naya, you have stickers on your face." And Friday wasn't so good... We got our cubbies taken away from us for a little, and we had a little pep talk in the morning and we were a little late for class.. My good days and bad days kinda went in a pattern
Monday sucked
Tuesday was ok
Wednesday was tiring
Thursday was awesome
And Friday was frightening.. Frightening Friday

               The highlight of my week would totally be Thursday. I got to visit my baby sister, and see my mom for once this week, and miss 2nd period. I don't like 2nd period. Ms. Sky is mean, I remember this one time she yelled at Dayna just because Dayna was getting her glasses case from out of her backpack. I was like, " It's a glasses case, just chill. Its not like she's trying to do anything wrong." I'm actually more scared of Ms. Sky than of Mr. Song.. But Thursday was gee'. Mr. Song taught me something important that day. Something that I think everyone would wanna learn. Anywaysss, the lowlight of my week would be both Monday and Friday. I was on probation on Monday just because I didn't turn in my essay that was due. I was so mad at Ms. Sky and myself because I forgot to print my essay out on Monday and give it to her so that she'd grade it and I'd get off probation. I was disappointed.. lolol, ok so then on Friday, the whole leadership class got into some trouble...

             Lesson learned from Mr. Song, "Slow down woman." As in my 1st quarter blog, Mr. Song told me to slow down because that's whats stopping me from being successful. I'm too fast. I do this fast so I get out of it fast and do other things. I shouldn't do that because living the fast life sucks. Once you get things done fastly, you might have to redo that thing because you probably did that job half-fast. As my mom says. You usually get it bad if you go the fast way. Slow and steady wins the race is basically what he's trying to say. All my life, I've been doing this fast, thats what stopped me from writing a little for like a week. I was washing dishes and there was a knife, obviously, I slide  my thumb because I wasn't paying attention like an idiot and was washing the knife too fast, so my thumb was like almost cut off.. But I'm fine now, but I usually always try to keep things slow and steady.

Because I had to read on Monday ):

                         Period ③

I don't like my face in this picture

Quarter 1 done bruuh

*I COULDN'T TURN IT IN YESTERDAY BECAUSE I WAS THE HOSPITAL AND MY CONNECTION SUCKSSSS*
              Anyways, this 1st quarter was amazing!!! I guess... I still remember the first quarter in 6th grade! I wasn't in Pohakea though. I was at Arizona, 1st quarter there wasn't as thrilling as 1st quarter in Leadership. In Arizona, all we'd do was work. It was really boring. Sometimes I'd try to ask sick or beg my mom not to go to school, but she'd always tell me, "If you're gonna be sick, you're gonna miss a lot of work." So now I just decide to go to school or I'll have twice as much work to do when I get back to school, but everything has changed a lot since I got into Leadership. I used to be this shy girl that couldn't even speak in front of the class, now I'm not that shy anymore. I'm not as shy as I used to be. I like socializing now lol. This class has changed me to be independent, hardworking, and basically, a multi-tasker because usually, I come early to school now so I'm usually the only one there, so I have to set everything up, for whatever job I have and if no one else comes in and its time to start my job, i start it. I used to depend on other people to do it for me instead of having me do it because I think i'm gonna end up doing something wrong, but actually, I'm just afraid that they're not gonna come and I'm gonna have to end up doing it. So I do. I now know how to muilt-task, oohkillemmememem, because if someone asks me to do two things at one time, I'm off, no matter how long it takes, as long as I finish the task at hand, and trust ,me, I've always been hardworking. Lol, because like if I wanna get good grades, Imma work my butt off to get the grades I want, no matter what. I've had so much in this Leadership class this quarter. Like, working music. Omg thats like the first ever time I've touched a mixer!!! I've always wanted to work one of those, but I just didn't until now!!!! That's why I love music, and being on TV, that's so much fun. Having people laugh at you because you messed on something you said. Good times, but I think the most fun I've ever had, was working ID's, heh NOT lolol you thought. ID's to me is the most boring job a group could have lol. I think that the most fun experience I've ever had in Leaderaship, was Zumba. Even if we did do a bad job and hardly had anyone participate, I had fun because I've never done something like that before. I've always been to scared to do things like that, but if Lori said, "IF it was fro a grade, I'm doing it." Yaaas girl. Anyways, the things we learned this quarter were all a review though, so it was kinda hard and kinda easy, filled with a lot of stress. There were so many assignments this year that omg I got scared that I would turn one in late and have no excuse for it, but then if I did have an excuse, my teacher wouldn't listen and they'd just give me a bad grade... But I actually didn't get that much bad grades this time. I actually have all A's and one B, but pretty soon, one of those A's is gonna turn into a B -.- All the work this quarter was only a review though so why do I have a B??? LOL idek, maybe cuz this Asian sucks at math, bruh, that's like basically impossible.. team 7-1 is hard, but my brother says that one of teachers on my team is a really god teacher. I agree with him because Mr. Song actually taught me something yesterday, "Slow down woman." Lol he's right, I don't take my time on things because I just decide to rush. Like on my AR test, I got one question wrong because I rushed through that question and I was like, "Oh my gosh!! I got that question wrong!?!? What the heck, I had it in my notes too!" So I'm still learning on how to take my time.. Reaching AR was the hardest thing to do in my life.

            The highlight of this quarter was Welcome Social. I'm not sure why, but actually before Welcome Social, Mr. Ing made a party thing, I forgot what it was called, but I ate like 20 million crickets that time lol. Those things are actually really good. I thought they'd taste gross, but you gotta try them before you hate them! And Jah and Kaylyn had such a hard time eating the crickets lolol. It was funny because they put in their mouths and then they spit it out!! They were so scared of the cricket. It's actually not that bad, but lol, they kept on trying to eat it, but they couldn't because it was a cricket. I thought they would eat it doe, especially Jah!! I thought she'd eat it because she's like the most strongest or toughest or whatever girl I've met, but lol she didn't eat the cricket. I was laughing so much because like she kept spitting it out, but I also liked the pictures we took together that day. We took that one picture of all of us, except for Lori and Dayna I think, but it's a nice picture. I think that BEST ever highlight of this quarter was when my group and I practiced the Zumba routine. It was fun because we all got to bond. We even took some pics on the computer. Omg I love my group. We're all close together and we have the best group leader. Petriese taught my group and a lot this quarter, but she also knows how to bring people together. Like when we were practicing for Zumba, she let us talk and have a little break, you know, talk story. Even when we're working ID's we talk stories and everything. I love my group :). The lowlight of this quarter was that one time when Mr. Ing sent everyone except the group leaders into A102, and Mr. Ing told Petriese or someone to call me inside the other room because I was, "In trouble," I was scared cuz Jah was like "You're in trouble" and I'm like "Oh my gosh what did I do..." Then he just started talking about what kind of work I've been doing, and I'm like "Jah you liar LOL" I was so scared when I went in the room because I thought Mr. Ing was going to yell at me and kick me out of Leadership for doing something wrong, but I didn't know what that "something" was. I was scared out of my mind. I was walking really slowly into the room because I thought I was gonna die. I hate getting in trouble because when I remember when I got in trouble from my mom like 3 days ago, she basically killed me lolol. Idk why I hate getting in trouble, I'm just scared all the time. Especially of getting in trouble because when i get in trouble and my mom finds out, I'm dead...

              I have learned like how many lessons this quarter. Like "Slow down woman." Mr. Song is right. I remember in English, we had to make a narrative about something that happened to us and a lesson we learned, and mine was about my thumb. I was rushing to wash a knife and I sliced my thumb because I was washing the knife too fast. I rushed a lot in life which is something I shouldn't do because it's going to cause a lot of problems. Another lesson I learned is that even if something embarresses you in front of like the whole school, you should do it because if it's for a grade, do it. So that at least you'll get a participation grade lol. It still counts because like its a grade, so if its for a grade, you should so that you can get a grade and show people that you did it. Show everyone that even if its embarrassing, you did it because it means that much to you, because its so important, you'd go up in front of A102 and dance Zumba to the weirdest song and the most tiring song so that you could get a grade. Now that is what you should in a crisis like that lolol. One of the most important lessons I've learned is to do things earlier than last minute because if you do things last minute, it's not going to end well. I always try to do things last minute, but then I get lazy, so when I do decide to do that task I was supposed to do earlier, I get even more lazy. I shouldn't be lazy because when you're in Leadership, there's a lot to do, and being lazy just ruins things because you won't be able to get anything done because you're too lazy. I was born with this laziness, I think... But I still shouldn't be lazy because it'll be harder for you to get important things done. If you're lazy, you won't be able to do anything or get any thing done.

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