Grateful To Music

Sadly this was my last year at the People's Music School. The age limit for this school is from 5-18 years old and next year I will pass that limit. I am grateful that I have been at that school for 13 years learning to play the piano, the fundamentals of music and learning to play the harp. This year has gone by fast and I am happy to witness a beautiful harp that was donated. I was able to practice on it and perform with it. I started harp classes and I am happy to see that it's becoming a popular instrument that many kids want to play and that the future kids that come in will get the chance to play. Harp classes are growing, but it's hard with only two harps and one teachers. I recently had my recital and I gave it my best. I also had my juries which were a little hard because my teacher was sick and sight reading was different, but I enjoyed playing the harp for the last couple of times. I have also enjoyed being the only senior in my choir class. I kept my old friends and I had a class with my cousin which was so nice seeing her grow as a vocalist. We also had a choir recital and we sang three songs. My music program ends on June 3rd and on that day I will be performing with the choir and we will sing one song on our Performaloozathon. I am so grateful for everything I learned, everyone I met and all the support. Although I am not majoring or minoring in music it will still be part of my life. At the People’s Music School I accomplished a lot; I learned how to play piano, sing, harp, and on the side I learned how to play the ukulele.

Max Pixel. Pianno Score Sheet Music Classical Piano. 

Dipping my toes in the business world

In this school year, I interned with the Health and Wellness teacher Alison Rootberg. I helped her with social media, sponsors, schools, getting grants, donations, making flyers better, helping at the shamrock shuffle, helping Blessons and hosting a student showcase. Through my hard work, I got many service hours. I would meet with Alison every Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. During the week I was only able to do 1 or 2 hours because of my other extra curricular's and on the weekend I worked with her for 3 hours. I learned a lot from her and saw how much work it takes to keep an organization up and running is a lot of work. There's a lot of stress, headaches, early mornings, many discussions with employers, and many hours spent on maintaining the organization.

Reflection On A 12 Hour Journey

In the second unit of the course Endurance, we studied saw videos of people who have endure in a journey and Dante’s Inferno. One of the videos was about a journey a boat crew took to explore antarctica and they got stranded there for several months because of the coldness. Another video was about a magician holding his breath for 17 minute, we saw how he prepared himself for it and what he had to do with his body to hold his breath and not die. A movie that we saw that impacted me was about a 14 year old girl sailing the world by herself and she spend two years doing it. All of this people have in goals that motivated them to do their journey. For our action project, we had to do something for 12 hours it can be scattered or some hours straight. I chose to do an IMovie because I haven’t done one in a long time and I thought it would be nice to show my GCE high school experience. I chose my high school experience because there has been many students and staff that have graduated or transferred from GCE and I thought it would be nice for my fellow classmates to see them again in pictures and remember them. Besides making the movie for 12 hours I had to keep a journal of the process. Every day I worked I would record myself saying what I did and how long it took. Then I would put them in a Vlog form. During this project I struggled with keeping up with my journals because I would sometimes forget to do it right away so then I would have to do it later on and sometimes forget some details that I did. In this project I learned how committed and determined you have to be to accomplish your goal and go through the journey. To know more about my 12 hour journey check out my Vlogs and final product below.



VLOGS of process:



Special Materials:

• IMovie
• Music in order:
• Before I Sleep by Muciojad
• Energy by Pokki DJ
• The Other Side by LukHash