With us graduating from 8th grade soon, this marks the end of our MYP journey. I experienced various unique and normal experiences, ups and downs, and numerous failures and success we came across. Recently, our ELL class had a seminar retrospecting the fabulous or disastrous journey we had. The seminar is old fashion, with two hosts hosting and managing our discussion, and the other students being the idea-contributor. However, due to me response pointing out the problem we had in our Seminar grading system, which is valuing quantity over quality, Dr. Terrett, our English teacher, made another algorithm for our Seminar. Despite this, our scores for the Seminar have not yet came out, so we still do not have the answer on if the algorithm worked or not. With all due respect, if Daniel and Leo gets high marks, the new algorithm is a complete failure that is totally useless, since they two did nothing but to waste time talking about low quality ideas and stories that is not beneficial in any way to our Seminar. Looking back at my personal performance on the Seminar, I did not do as good as a job in comparison with last time. I did not share most of my thoughts, due to the lack of time we had for our Seminar (A main reason being someone wasting so much time on them sharing their thoughts.) Although I did not get adequate opportunities for sharing my thoughts, I did make great use of the opportunities I did get. I attempted to enrich my ideas with lowering the length of it while keeping the important points, which sky rockets the quality of sharing and minimizes the time consumed. Overall, I did a decent job, not being as good as the last two times, but is still reasonably good.

I will share some of my ideas that here in the blog, since I did not get sufficient chances on the Seminar. Reviewing my MYP journey, I had multiple major changes to me in various areas. First is a crucial milestone in the field of English. In 7th grade, which waslast year, we had the best teacher to be ever recorded in OCAC history, Mr. Stew, who was our ELL

teachers. We studied books just as how we usual study in ELL, such as The Alchemist, The Lord of the Flies ETC. However, how he is different from all the other teachers is the way he teaches. He makes us sit in a circle, and then reads the book with us. During the process, he would stop occasionally and inspire us on our analysis to reveal our true and maximum potential. He showed us that we can look not only at the story of the book, and also beyond it, the important philosophies that is worth pondering, the deep meanings of the content. That was truly an amazing experience which furnished us with excessive growth in English and our ability to think. Another obvious, in fact one of the most obvious changes I went through is my physicality. On the right is a picture of me at the start of the MYP, which was 6th grade, and on the left of the right side is me recently. I not only grew taller, and also lost more than 10 kg in weight at the same time. Basketball was truly the life changer for me, especially in the physical area. Lastly, I want to share my thoughts on my middle school journey, on what I went through and what I will go through in an abstract way of illustration. From the day we are born, we are given choices, until the day of our death, it’s only a difference in the significance of our choice, and the number of choices we get. The older we grow, the more important and significant our choices becomes. For example, when we are toddlers, we have the choice whether we want to share our toys with someone else or not. As a high school students, we are given the choice of what college we want to go to. As adults, we are able to choose where we want to work, how do we want to work, where we want to go, who we want to marry etc. As we enter the stage of high school, this indicates that we are going to have more and more consequential choices. Therefore, we have to acknowledge that, and enter the stage of high school being aware that we carry more responsibility over our lives. We only have one opportunity of existence, ensuring that we make the responsible choices is crucial to happiness and success to reach the maximum potential of our lives. 

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