Leadership Report Card

This is my first year taking leadership as a class and I can already see myself growing as a leader. I said in the beginning that I wanted to become more involved with in the school and I most definitely have. I have become one of the announcers for the daily announcements, I was recently one of the MCs for the Remembrance Day Assembly along with Thara and Kevin, I have continued co-running the GSA with my friend Alex and even help organize and sort of MC Sullivan's first ever Whisker Wednesday. Along with the rest of the class I have removed brambles near the school pond and planted trees and Salmon Berries in their place, and organized group bonding exercises for the grade 8s on their grade 8 day. This is more school involvement that I have ever done and I am very happy with this. Not only have I been part of the class organized activities, but I have also volunteered for any special events that were optional, such as MCing the Remembrance Day Assembly. In class I like to come up and help organize things such as the setting up of the Whisker Wednesday and the writing of the "As Sullivan Leaders We Value" thing. Outside of school I volunteer as well, this is were my passion for LGBTQ issues really shows as all my outside involvement is in this area. I am part of a LGBTQ Advocacy group that does workshops for schools on things such as Homophobia, Healthy Relationships, Sexual Identities and Orientations and Homelessness. Last year I presented a presentation on Healthy Relationships at Earl Marriott. Lately along with my friends Caspar  Caroline and Alex I have been developing a presentation on Sexual Identities and Orientation. For the past 3 years I have also volunteered at the Surrey Pride Festival, being a runner for the venders  and helping out where ever I am needed. One other project I am starting outside of school is a Surrey Trans Youth action, it is still in slow progress, but the idea is to eventually raise a lot of awareness for transgender youth in Surrey and help make their lives easier. Obviously I am not alone on this project and I have reached out to one of my community involved contacts to help me set this up. Some things of improvement for me would be to be more of a leader in P.E, because I feel as if I seem to fall behind in that aspect and widen my volunteering areas outside of school as well as continue on my goal of being more school involved. However I feel that I have grown massively as a person and a leader since joining leadership and would put my grade at somewhere between 90% and 93%, as for my work habits I think I deserve a G, I am always there and ready to work and get going and prepared for whatever our activity is for the day. This has been my first blogged leadership report card, thanks for reading Byeeee.

P.E. 10 Report Card

So this I just started getting used to deciding my own grade and now percentages have been thrown at me. -.- I do not believe I enjoy this, but oh well that would be the awkwardness of my life XD. Lets start shall we? Basically P.E. is my favorite class because I can run around like a complete eegit or act like a normal person. I definitely would say I participate in P.E, I like getting into the games and fitness is my favorite day(s) of the week. I think I get unnaturally excited for fitness sometimes, but that means I always try my best in fitness. I would like to say that I get people motivated to keep running or playing, whatever we are doing in class and that I can make people smile and like P.E. a bit more for maybe a split second, but then that would be for them to decide. So TELL MEHHH!!! MWAHAHA... I mean HI! Continuing as a leadership role in P.E I can get people to shut up, and listen, and I know how to organize things, for the most part. I usually help set up, if helping out will actually speed things out and I try my best to avoid slowing things down during set ups. Although I feel that, as I am in a leadership class I should probably be a bit better here, but I guess that becomes a goal for next term then. 

(Since my mind has no order I decided to do paragraphs)

Practically on a different note, I am always prepared for class, with my P.E. strip. As for food, all I really have to say, is I like salad or light wraps before P.E, because you don't really feel them afterwards (I swear that made sense OK??!!!) and yea, but nothing big otherwise you DIE!! I would have to say that my biggest barrier would be that my joints are absolute crap. Basically everything crack and pops and shifts so sometimes I cannot reach my full capacity because I don't want to get injured. Sometimes my mind is a bit of a barrier, because if I'm tired or stressed it's harder to push myself when I start to leave my comfort zone. (Wow this just got serious guys... or not) As I said earlier I love fitness, but I also really like our class, because everyone contributes to a great atmosphere which makes P.E. much more enjoyable. The only thing I would like to have is like a fitness week, where everyday is fitness and stuff like that, but I'm pretty sure most people would not be very happy with me for that so yeaaaa...

In this disorganized blob of a report card I shall now talk about my strengths, weaknesses, etc. I would say that my strengths are encouraging others and keeping myself going as well as being an active person in the class. Weakness would be that some days I just seem to lose this and fall into the background as some one who stands around and does nothing. So to improve on this I will focus more on what I'm doing and the beginning of class and make sure that I don't fall. My one other thing to improve on is leadership as I find, I am not taking as many opportunities as I should be in the class. Something I find that pushes me further during fitness is the positive attitude of people around me, I started noticing this in grade 7 when I wanted to try hard, but nobody else did so then it was really awkward and I didn't want to, but now with teachers explaining it I'm really starting to notice how much the attitude of the class can affect you. I think our class is good at this, we seem to be a very positive class and get into the games and fitness for the most part, which makes me happy. I don't think I've had a class this positive about P.E. since grade 3 where everyone was an energized bundle of hyperactivity and just ran around like eegits. Which is basically what I do in class now, this is possibly not all good, but I'll see how it works out and what I should change about that. It's only been 2 months I still have time to figure out who I am in P.E. and to change my goals if needed. Lastly, I am thinking of doing P.E. next semester by joining one of the first block classes, if I'm allowed. I think that is all I have to say for this report card.

With all this said I hope it justifies my grade/percentage and that habit thing (GSN)

Grade: A 90% 

Habit thing: G

P.S. I realize this probably is very disorganized and badly written and I apologize, for these blogs I like to just write things as they enter my head which turns into that ^, I hope it still makes sense. Since I don't know how to organize it/ I don't want to touch something that could mess it up because blogs and I don't seem to get along very well. Feel free to critisize the writing or any aspect of this. Hope the video works, thanks byeee.

.So it looks like this video might load now so I thought I might as well attach it my report card. It is only half of my form, but yea. XD

30 For 30 x2

So with the fitness I have discovered a slight flaw in my goals, but I have also solved it so YAAAY!! (I do that too much.) If you look up about 3 line you will see that fitness was 30 for 30 and as we have done this previously I had some goals to accomplish, however as I was focusing on completing the activities I did not think to count my reps for each activity. My temporary solution for this is to go with how I felt afterwards since I am supposed to know myself best. Right? However I did remember to pull out my phone so unannounced goal accomplished!!! Anyways, back to somewhat of a point in my earlier post for 30 for 30 I said that my goal was to achieve more reps for each activity and I do feel that I did push myself harder during this activity and try to go faster. For the most part I would say I reached my goal to a certain degree, but the goal still stands and I still hope to put in more reps for each activity the next time. As I am now sitting here typing random words that you may or may not waste your time reading, I will go ahead and say that this is the end of this post. Enjoy the following videos and have a magical whatever is appropriate for the time of day that you are reading this. XD

Since these never get names (Poor activities :() I shall give them some!

Front Kicks:

Both sides? Okay click or don't click it's the same thing, I just don't feel like deleting it after waiting 20 minutes for it to load.

This is as far as my wifi made it so there may or may not be another video uploaded sometime in the future.



Goals
~ Count reps and improve

Cross Country

          For some odd reason I decided that running outside for 30 minutes every week for about 6 weeks, up and down hills on gravel and forest paths would be fun. This is also known as cross country. YAAAY!!! Anyways, back to the point, this takes not only physical fitness, but mental fitness, because it involves a lot of self pep talks to keep yourself going throughout the race. At least I think so, however I could be the only one that has mental conversations when I run, but I'll pretend like I am not for the sake of this post. YAAAY number two. Since pictures was not exactly the top thing on my mind as I was doing this I am going to post links/pictures of the results. I feel that I did fairly good, for the most part. It definitley challenged me and, until I got druchet in the BCs on Saturday it was fun as well. Yes this implies that getting drenched for 22 minutes was not my definition of fun. I only have my times for Fraser Valley's and BC's (24) and (22). I do not have pictures of these, but my placing should seem reasonable with these times. I am definitely planning on doing cross country again next year and would encourage others to do the same since Sulli only had 4 grade 8 girls and 3 Jr. Girls and NO boys this year!!! To those who did participate YAAAY!!! (If you ever find this. Which you probably won't, so ummm yea...)

This is the first run I did. The person spelt my last name wrong I am Jasmine Braede. Ummm WHAT? (Distance: 4km)

So these are the results of the second run and apparently even if I have a sticky with my name written on it people still can't spell my name since I am still Jasmine Braede. (Distance 4.2km)

This was the 3rd race and ran and they finally learned how to spell my name!!!!! (Distance: 4.6km)

These are the results for the 4th race. Hardly anybody showed up.... (Distance: 4.8km)

 












This was the Big Rock race. (Distance: 4.3km) Why is it shorter???!!!!

This was Fraser Valley's. My phone screen was too small to capture the fact that there was actually 116 people in this race. SOOOO MANY HUMAN BEINGS!!!! (Distance: 4km)

The last race I ran was the BC Championships, I haven't found the results for that yet, but it was 4.3km and my time was 22 minutes.

Taekwondo(Re-done)

This is my 3rd Degree form. It's a major balance form and involves a lot of focus. I have been doing Taekwondo since August 2006 (Over 7 years), I am currently a 3rd Degree Black belt. This form is actually still new to me and there is much improvement still needed. Next year when I have my passport I will be going to ALL tournaments in hopes of getting into Top Ten and getting District Champ or Canada Champ. I doubt I'll get Canada Champ though since this is will be my first time competing at the country/worldwide level, but I may get District Champ. Only students in leadership can compete for Canada or World Champ because the only way you can get points is by being in leadership. I've been in leadership since 2009. Leadership is a class/group for students that wish to become instructors. For each level of teaching you get a collar on you uniform jacket. I have a red/black collar which is the first official level for juniors as you start out with a red/blue/white collar for level 0. To get this collar it is necessary to pass a teaching test, I took this test last year. It involves teaching a short 5 minutes class and trying to hit all the criteria of the level one teaching curriculum. Back to points, since I am in leadership I can earn points when I go to tournaments. The points are the same for sparring/forms and weapons 3rd place:1 point 2nd place:2 points 1st place: 3 points, but you can also get points for helping out either as a score or time keeper, which needs no previous training or for judging. I recently became a level 1 judge over the summer. This means I get a blue chevron on my uniform jacket sleeve and can judge people stances and kicks during a tournament. The qualification for this is very simple, you must be 15 or older and pass the online ATA (American Taekwondo Association) Level 1 Judging test with a 90% or higher. This year in training for next year I am going to all the local tournaments. The first one of the season that I am going to is on November 9th. I am competing in forms, sparring an weapons. I am going to post the videos and pictures from that afterwards. That's all for my Taekwondo byeeee.

Made in Bangladesh, Leadership Video

      "Made in Bangladesh", a fifth estate episode about then collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh. At first thought it was sort of like watching a video about the animals that we eat and how they are abused, you get this urge to not buy from those places anymore, but when you think further into it that might not actually be the best solution. I highly doubt that if these people had other options of work that they would choose to work in these factories so if the consumer market went down all these people working in factories, good or bad, would be out of the only job they can get, which wouldn't be helping them. However, as much as we don't want to put them out of a job our conscious and human morals don't want to be part of something that makes people suffer and work in dangerous situations for 25 cents an hour. As well not buying clothes from places that use these factories is not as simple as it may seem. Stores like SuperStore have a list of factories that have been inspected and deemed a having healthy working conditions, and these are the factories from which they order, but those good factories sometimes sub contract these orders to other not safe or healthy factories without any say, knowledge or control of the store. So you may think you are buying clothes made in inspected and well kept factories, but really you aren't. I understand that this post might seem like a bit of a jumble of words and opinions, but that is because the knowledge of this is very conflicting. In short terms, not buying clothes made in Bangladesh or other places that use bad factories would put these garment workers out of the only job they could get, buying them would be being a part of such bad treatment of poor people and any attempts to only buy from stores which use safe factories may be not actually work do to safe factories sub contracting to not safe factories. 

Leadership Social Emotional Report Card

     Recently, in leadership, we have been making social, emotional report cards for everyone in the class. This consisted of everyone writing comments for each other and anonymously placing them in people's envelopes. Today we read all the comments and I learned somethings about what others thought of me. For example some people said that I was a natural leader and good at sharing ideas. Others said that I am very active in the class and that I am a good role model. Many people also said that they liked how passionate and dedicate I am about things that I feel strongly about. People also said that I am outspoken and help to distinguish individuality in others. For the most part I learned that people think I am a good and natural leader and that I am passionate about my causes. I found it interesting how many people actually noticed these things about me.

In The Weight Room

Being in the weight room is usually not my favourite place to be for P.E, I find it's too hard to keep people encouraged and working as well as keeping yourself motivated, but this time was different than times in past years. My group actually worked really well and got most of the sheet completed, we had laughs as well, like my little struggle to see my phone when I was doing the bridge. We had a fun and productive time. We did squats, crunches, pushups, burpees, stairs, high knee and the bridge and a modified version of fish out of water. We aslo did the plank. These things worked our quads, abs, deltiods, core and pecs, glutious, calves (Heel lifts), hamstrings and some more core work. The pictures for these have also been posted on Anastasia's blog, but anyone's that I can of me I will re-post on this blog once I get home and on my computer.

The Tuesday

Tuesday started out sunny and wonderful. Then came fitness, which was the tough mudder. Admittedly this wasn't my favourite and it sort of went downhill after the first part. My team did well for pushups, dips and leg lifts, the hill climb was fairly good, but afterwards we were confused and questioning what we were doing. Asking a teacher could have probably helped, but I don't think there was anyone nearby. We completed the stair run thing fairly ok, and leap frog was kind of low key, but we ran out of time and stopped a little early. This is not my proudest fitness day and for next time I would definately focus on motivating myself and my group members more and getting more into the activities, the evidence and videos for this are on Anastasia's blog, since I can't have pictures of my face on my blog or anything connecting my full name to my face or location. 

After school I had cross country with Brittany. I have been doing cross country since the 3rd run and my goal has been to not walk throughout any race, so far I have done well at keeping with this goal. I haven't walked yet. The race on Tuesday was our best so far, I got 9th place and Brittany got 11th. It was a fairly small group and they put senior and junior boys and girls together so I don't know if those places are actually that much of an achievement, but it felt pretty good and there were atleast 15 junior girls maybe a little more. So 9 out of 15 or more sounds pretty good to me. This race was 4.8km, our next race is this Thursday (So today) and its 5km. I'm hoping to stay mentally strong and keep my record of not stopping and hopefully get an even better placing than last time.

Cross Country wasn't the last thing on my list for Tuesday, once I got home I still had to do my paper route. Usually I can finish my round in 1 1/2 hours, but since it was late and my mum wanted me home in time for dinner I had to complete it as fast as possible. My solution for this was to try to not stand still AT ALL! Which I managed to do, until the wheel on my cart stopped working and I had to drag the thing, but I still got my time down to 1hour and got home by 7. I had started at 5:57 and the last paper was delivered at 6:52 then I just had to walk home. 

I was proud of myself at the end of the day, maybe fitness wasnt the best day, but I still did pretty well in cross country and got my fastest time yet for paper route, and managed to get home in time for dinner. All in all I felt it was a very successful day with lots of fitness efforts throughout the day even if the actual school fitness wasn't my proudest moment. Pictures will be up of times and the ribbon I got for cross country as soon as I can find it, (Its somewhere on my phone, or ipod, it think... shhhh) 

This is Jaskiran and I doing the push-ups for fitness.

Jaskiran and I doing dips for fitness, I think most of the videos are filled with my ongoing commentary of... ummmm... lets call it life, yes that works... for the most part. 

Leadership Assesment

~ Respecting others, ourselves, and the opinions of everyone

     G, I always make sure to take in everyone's opinion and give anyone who wishes to to put their input in on whatever we are doing. 

~ Individuality and being able to express ourselves freely

      G, I admire others who are different from the norm and don't worry about what others think when I am being myself. 

~ Creating and maintaining a safe and positive environment 

     I think our class as a whole is good at creating a safe and positive environment everyday and I don't think we need to evaluate ourselves individually for this point because this is done much more successfully in a group rather than by one person.

~ Keeping a tenacious nature about our passions

      G, My passions stand most strongly with helping LGBTQ youth and being an advocate for LGBTQ youth and people. I run Sullivan's GSA with my friend and I take homophobic comments very seriously and challenge anyone who uses them. I am also involved in many other LGBTQ groups along with my family and stick firmly to these issues. Whenever I have been asked about what issues I see in the world I always mention something LGBTQ. I do know that there are other issues in the world and take action to them as well, but my strongest support is in the LGBTQ community.

~ Providing others with similar opportunities as ours

      S, I find that this point is the hardest to work to, because I don't see as many opportunities to full fill this point on a daily basis. Having some homeless friends I do my best to help out any homeless or struggling people I see on the streets, but personally I feel that this is my weakest point out of the 5.

The Loco Locomotion

I like pretty much all of the fitness activities and days so I will be repetitive in saying that another one of my favourite exercises we have done for fitness was the Loco Locomotion, which I very often seem to call the Loco Locomotive, because, well I really don't know. Plus trains are cool. Anyways for this I was fairly pleased with myself. I didn't slack off on the activities of the locomotion, but I did slow down near the end. My goal for next time is to be more consistent in my pace and then increase the pace each time we do it. I would also like to have fit in more lines for the sprints and skipping.\

Goals:

Find a consistent pace (Once found increase)

Work towards fitting in more lines of sprints and skipping  

30 for 30

Another activity we have done for fitness has been 30 for 30, where we do 30 activities in partners. Each partner doing the activity for 30 seconds and then getting a 30 second break. I felt that this was one of my most successful fitness days, I was able to push myself through all of the activities without cutting any short and still come up with some difficult activities such as burpies and air jacks. I was still sweaty and red faced afterwards, but I was proud that I hand't slacked off and was able to mentally push myself past any mental obstacles. My only thing that I would like to improve on for next time would be to be faster at the activities to try and test my mental strength and push myself even when I am going faster than last time.

Goals:

Get in more repetitions of each activity

The Community Run

We have also done the community run, which is one of my favourite activities to do for fitness. I got 29 minutes, which I feel is quite terrible, because I know I can actually run much faster than that, which shows that I didn't push myself enough. Therefore this is my goal for the next time we do the community run, to push myself more and achieve a time of at least 25 minutes, hopefully less. Because I allowed myself to walk for some times I didn't achieve a time faster than 29 minutes, which means to reach improvement I need to be more strong mentally to not allow myself to walk during the community run. 

Goals:

Time: 25 minutes or less

Stops: 2-0

The Hill Run

The second fitness activity we did was the hill run. It consisted of running up the hill in thirds for seven repetitions of each third. I managed to run each set continuously and encourage my friend to run the last one with me. I really enjoyed the hill run, but would like to improve my speed for it. To achieve this I like to run up any hill that I have in front of me. I also run at the YMCA with the treadmill elevated to about 3-5% and increase it whenever I can feel it getting easier. After I finished the hill run I ran all the way back to Sullivan with Mrs. Philips. 

Goals:

~ Improve on speed

The Beep Test

Our first fitness this year was the beep test. I set my goal of 9+ and told my friends. I tried really hard to push myself past, but only got 9.1. I worked hard to on the after part of the beep test as well. I got 20 push ups, which admittedly isn't my best, but that means I have a goal for next time. For T-test I got 12.3 and I managed a full minute of plank. I don't completely remember the levels for the flexibility test but I got either 4 or 5. I was terrible with the balance boards and hit the ground about 12 times in the set 30 seconds. This is one of the biggest things I focus on, on each beep test. I don't remember my score for the vertical jump, but I know I have room for improvement on that as well. I have room for improvement on each part of the beep test meaning I have goals for the next time we do the beep test. 

Goals:

Beep Test Level: 10+

Push Ups: 30+

T-Test: 12

Plank: 1.30 min

Flexibility Test: Level 5

Vertical Jump: ?