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.