3 celebrations

This year was a rather eventful one regarding social, education and family life. Each day was a
new adventure especially coming to school not knowing how the day would form itself. I believe
it was towards the end of the first semester when I would begin to cry at school because I wasnt
sure what else to do. Although there wasnt always a reason why I cried, I think I needed it every
time. This continued through the launch of our happiness project. I wish I could thank Ms.Britt
for years for completing that mini project with us. Not only would I walk out of each class
feeling more aware of my emotions, but I felt at ease with myself. I wasnt trying to force
anything to happen and those few weeks seemed to spark a new sense of happiness. My journal
entries turned into positive celebrations and I could no longer complain of my situation. Im
privileged beyond compare to others. This is a celebration in my life, I couldnt have ever grown
and accept this sense of awareness in the middle of class anywhere else.

Ive been infatuated with writing since I was young, more specifically creative writing and
poetry. Theres no doubt that my love for writing in a creative perspective has only grown this
year. With each journal entry my expression for everything surrounding me only became more
apparent in my writing. The passion been able to exert into my independent pieces such as the
poems we creatively wrote based off The House On Mango Street or our shakespearean
sonnets was indescribable. Very surprisingly poetry and creative writing doesnt require much
thought for me at all once I get started. My sonnet was complete within 30 minutes and I enjoyed
the challenges of following the format! Ms. Britt has only been a positive encouragement and
viewing how natural both structured writing and creative writing comes to her is astounding. The
examples she could give of the same restructured sentence made me think she was actually a
reincarnated genius writer. I aspire to one day sound just as literate and entertaining.

After so many months of feeling like I tried to overtake and independently tackle every task
thrown at me, Id say this semester I was carefully able to balance the amount of work I gave
myself without completely stressing myself out. Starting second semester I came in relaxed and
ready to finish off the second half of the school year. Even Ms. Regina had reminded at the end
of first semester not to overload yourself if you know you cant handle it and I really took that to
heart as we came to an end of group work. My group mates became very dependable which even
if they were before, I hadnt noticed because I was so involved in my own stress. Along with
group work, I also balanced my work independently. Regarding time management and
completing my work on a more consistent basis. Compared to my beginning of classes where I
completed all of my work , yet I didnt always turn it in and when I had began slacking halfway
through the year and just never completed what was asked of me.
2 Areas of Growth

Before this year I had no idea what to expect not only of my teachers but as well as myself. This
year seemed to give me more of an open mindset. My ability to adapt and change to my
surroundings or whats expected of me has shaped my perspective on everything in my life. I
feel a sense of encouragement in myself for wanting to take on new tasks, more tasks, just to
make the most of my time. Its shown most noticeable when Im given a task that might
alter/change or seems experimental. Its noticeable even when Im sitting doing nothing, I feel
the need to have a task, so I find one for myself. Before this year, there had been many instances
where I would completely disregard extra work or responsibilities in and out of class.

Transitioning from being higher up eight graders to measly little freshman intimidated me at first
and I felt that I would recede from a leading position that I held among my classmates in classes
that I had before. Thats how all my teachers had described me before, but even transitioning to
middle school I didn't feel at a loss. I began exerting myself more throughout the second
semester and felt that I had improved the leading version of myself. I feel like this all was a
result to me having to push myself all throughout the end of the first semester in our Tiny House,
Big Community project. Our group specifically for that project seemed a little distant from each
other which caused our productivity to be dysfunctional. After pushing through all the problems
that stood between us I wasnt as afraid to take a more consistent role everywhere else in my
classes.

1 Question

What is the relationship between mind and body? Why do they correlate so closely? Why do you
believe what you do?