In-depth 2022 Post #6

Hello, my project is coming to an end! In this post, I will discuss what I am going to prepare for In-Depth Night. Progress Report Since the last post, what I have done is I washed an entire bike. Indeed, I scrubbed every inch of it very diligently, including the frame and tires. Video: I also started replacing the brake pads on the purple Nevada bike. Obstacles/Frustrations I would say…

In-Depth post #5

Progress Report Welcome to the fifth post of this project, which I would like to preface by saying that everything is coming together! It has been a wild ride and now I will share what I have been up to these past few weeks. Once again, I’ve had two mentor meetings, each extraordinarily valuable. At the first one (really the seventh), I learned about wheel truing from my mentor. Here…

All About Eduland – Blog Post by Anita

Click here for Featured Image Source Hello! Please allow me to present to you our brand-new theme park, inspired by the book Educated by Tara Westover…drumroll please… Welcome to Eduland! To learn all about our wonderful theme park, please click the button below to see our brochure! Additionally, for your geographical benefit while visiting Eduland, please take a look at the park map: About how I contributed to the project,…

In-Depth 2022 Post #2

Progress Report It has been a while since the last post, so here is what I have done so far. The afternoon of the same day that I posted the Introductory Post (January 28th), I had my first meeting with my mentor. Photos from the first meeting   We spent almost three hours together in my mentor’s open garage/bike shop and crossed off the following from the agenda I had…

In-Depth Project 2022: Introductory Post

Hello! In this post, I’ll be discussing my In-Depth Project! This post will be answering the following questions/points (the main elements of my contract): what, when, why and how, mentor, process, and timeline. In short, an introduction! What my chosen skill is. My chosen skill is bike maintenance! I will be operating on bikes and learning about how they work and how to maintain them, as a bike mechanic would.…

Eminent Learning Centre – King Bhumibol

Good evening dear friends, My sincerest wishes that all is well for you this wonderful night. For this eminence-filled occasion, I have created a book, titled About Me, that I welcome you to read. To get an optimal experience out of my learning centre, please click around on the flipbook; different-coloured boxes/shapes hold different photographic treasures! Please find it here: Additionally, below is a podcast that a Grade 10 student named…

Developing the Leaders Around You

Featured Image Source Letter from Anita Over this past week, our class has been learning about developing the leaders around us through a training course by John C. Maxwell. Please find below three nuggets of wisdom that I leaned from this valuable course that I chose to write about! Your friend, Anita #1: Be an Unselfish Thinker In session two, John Maxwell went over the ten kinds of ‘thinkers’ leaders…

Partner Interview Reflection

Introduction From doing practice partner interviews, I learned that my strengths include being very friendly and appreciative, good listening, and connecting to answers, while my stretches are to move a bit quicker, connect questions more/give questions a bit more flow, and to be more in-depth with each question topic. This information is great and insightful because I could not have come up with it on my own, as it is…

Reading Eminent Introductory Blog Posts – Reflection

Reading my group’s eminent person introductory blog posts turned out to be a very enjoyable and educational activity! I think this was a nice ‘assignment’ because often we post to our blogs, but nobody really reads the posts other than the occasionally curious and the teacher. Therefore, it is nice to know my blog post will have an audience, and it is nice to explore others’ blogs. Additionally, I am…

Eminent Person Introductory Blog Post

“Thailand was built on compassion.” Bhumibol Adulyadej (Adulyadej, n.d.) To have my chosen person be the former king of Thailand may seem very random at first. However, I personally experienced this king’s reign when my family and I visited Thailand during our travels. We stayed there for months and made great Thai friends. I distinctly recall the compassion and kind nature of all Thai people, including our friends; I believe…