Ambidextrous level 1

Creativity+Action

After a week of practicing my left hand is now more or less able to write the english alphabet and some easy words.
As you can see on the left of the page there are some of the practices that I have been doing so far. Fun fact- in the sentence"The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" every letter in the alphabet has been used. This makes it a good sentence to practice because all of the letters must be written out.
It is clear that some of the letters are still a bit wiggly and not up to standard, but at least now it is recognisable which means a successful progress!
I will try to post more about my progress and my next goal is to write a small paragraph of text about myself.


In ambidextrous training I have achieved:
-undertaking new challenge
-be aware of my strengths and weaknesses
-develop new skills (one day my left will substitute my right)
-showing perseverance and commitment to the activity  

Did I tell that my group won an award?

Creativity+Service

It's a bit late but nevertheless my group won an AWARD!!(alongside other group)
As I mentioned before there was a challenge for us to make a mission statement for our school linking with IB learner profile. Two of my friends and I have composed a mission statement which has been recognised by the school's committee of teachers and has been chosen as one of the best.
 From this activity I found out that collaborating with others is really fun and surprisingly progressive. I would never come up with such a good piece of work by myself and I truly thank them for this matter.
 I would like to participant in more of those challenges to show my potentials as an IB student. I also delivered a little acceptance speech when my group was receiving the awards. It has been a good practice for me on public speeches and it is clear, that I have many things to improve on. Nevertheless it was a good day of my semester.

Here is my certificate!

Basketball Week 13!

Action

This week we are back to normal full court games which is awesome. However less people came this week which cause us to split into three teams which was fine for everyone. The games were pretty dynamic after few weeks of half court drilling sessions.
 I felt that I played much better than few weeks ago. The movement and passing awareness has improved but still a bit lacking on shooting accuracy and re-bounce timings. Those are the things I will be working on and hope next session I will be a better teammate and a player :D
Like always here is the video:

 Thanks to the film recording person <3

Possible outcomes achieved:
-awareness of strength and weaknesses
-worked collaboratively with my teammates
-showed perseverance and commitment to basketball
-developing new skills

One hand is good, but two hands is better!

Creativity 

 From the beginning of this week I started my ambidextrous training( such a fancy name :D )This is an awesome skill to have and I take this challenge. This means I will start to do actions with my left hand in order to strengthen it till the level, when my right hand is tired I could use my left.

 Maybe because I am possibly a lefty when I was small, but the school and parents forced me into using my right hand. This caused some communication issues back then but now it's better. So this means I do half of my work with my left hand since I feel that it is my stronger hand but not sure if it is dominant or not.

 The writing part was really hard first few days because of the uncomfortable position and strange feelings when writing.

 My current result is pretty good. I can write the whole alphabet without too much effort but writing whole sentences is a bit of struggle. 

 I will try to ask some lefties for some tips and will continue my path to ambidexterity. My current goal is to able to write nice circular and straight lines when writing alphabet and numbers.Fighting!   

Basketball Week 12

This week I finally felt some major improvement in my play. Now I got the hang of the movement and how to always open up for a successful pass and a good teamwork.
 From Mr. Gray I got some valuable feedback which consist of positive factors and places that I could improve.
 Positive:
    -my movement was much superior than from when I just started.
    -I am aware where my teammates are located and almost always ready for a pass
    -overall performance was better than last time
 Improvements:
    -I lost many rebounds due to the fact that I can't get the right timing since my height isn't the issue. I would need to work on that next time and hope I will improve on the timings and direction of the falling ball.
 Suggestion:
    -I could have tried to shot from a close range when I wasn't blocked by defenders instead of passing. My mid-short range shots have high percentage of scoring but this could be a personal choice under various conditions.
 In conclusion, I want to say that this session was great because I scored many baskets and finally our team won. YES!!!! Sorry for lack of video due to the fact every person participate in game so there is no one who could record :( 

How do you make a paper boat?

Creativity

Today I decided to make another origami post since I just happen to have the moods to make something creative. This origami is pretty simple and here is how to make one:

A you can see there are only 8 steps to it but the most difficult part is the 7th picture. It seems to be very easy but if real life the paper can easily rip and this makes the move much harder. I have make one myself and it only took me few minutes so maybe I will teach someone else in future for my service part :D

The boat!

Basketball Week 11

From last session we started to play half court games in order to drill on our passing skills. This way will able to collaborate more efficient such as better passes, open up to receive a pass and create better shooting opportunities for ourselves and team mates.
 So this week I felt that our team played better than last one, at least on the passing and shooting. Last time we heavily depended on one player which caused us few games. This time our coordination is far better and I found out how to move which in offence. I will keep improving my shooting skills and movements so I can help our team to earn another basket.
 Hope we start to play normal full court games soon, but current games can be a basement of our future skills. I want my team win next time and I will prove I am stronger than I think I am. GO red bulls!!! XD