Self-Reflection

It takes a lot more to be successful if you are just doing what you’re good at. You have to do both what you’re good at, and what you’re bad at. This year, I have set up some Everest Goals to help me become a better learner. My first goal is to be less shy and be able to perform in front of other people. This can help me because I cannot always play in front of 100- 400 people watching me. I want to be more of a risk taker. Another goal that I have is that I am not always honest but I want to be more honest. This year I will try and surpass that goal. Finally, I want to write better by challenging myself to write at least 1 page that makes sense and in 5 minutes. I want to surpass all these goals and it will help me be successful and become a better Global Citizen. I think that these goals can tie together with the other learner

This is my end of year grade 12 culminating self protariate. The project was to create two self portraits but to have them on one page. Initially, I did not expect myself to finish before school ended due to how long it took me to complete it last year. But by reflecting on what happened last year with my lack of time I was able to change my techniques up to fit the time span.

I got a 39 within UCLA Loneliness Scale on the textbook and I was surprised with my result because I did not know that my score has been this higher compared to other men scale which is average of 32. I did not feel any anxiety and fear when I took this scale in the textbook because I feel very confident with myself and relationships with other people. I always trying to respect other people during the conversations nor hanging out with them during a free time because they were always respect me as well all the time. Furthermore, I always listen to other people who needs advice because I want to help them with my experiences. Therefore, they could think that other people have hard times just like anybody else and it could happen to be anytime.

Going off of that, what I would like to improve has to be my retention of a combination. Throughout my dance career I have always struggled with remembering choreography especially when it is given very quickly. I need several round of repetition before I can confidently know a piece of choreography. While there is a pattern of what combinations we do in bar warm ups there is always variation that throws me off and when I am not confident of the steps, I either miss my chance to do them or I do some poor, late, version of them. This is something I hope also comes with time as it will really improve my dancing all around. It is very helpful however that I am mostly confident with what my arms and head are doing so that at the very least, I am doing two things right. I also mentioned in my last self assessment that I would like to improve my use of plie in jumps. This is something I am still working on making natural in my

However, I learned very quickly that I could not rely only on my natural talent. Although, I did achieve my goal, I was not satisfied with the end result. Determined to be successful in the activity I loved, I came to understand that the amount of effort I invested in this activity should correspond with my natural ability. The next year, I worked relentlessly on researching and memorizing. Free time was spent on practicing in my room for hours. Ultimately, my efforts resulted in two state medals and hopefully I will be able to return to the state tournament later this year as a senior and be awarded, yet again, a state champion title.

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

Over the many years I’ve spent doing gymnastics, I’ve become a determined and motivated individual. Always striving to do better in everything I do whether it 's in my routines or raising my grades on every exam. Because in gymnastics to be the best it not only takes having the routine with the most difficulty, but being able to perform those skills with precision which takes endless practice and repetition. First or second place could be set apart by a hundredth of a tenth based on even the smallest imperfection such as a foot not being pointed.

During my 2nd semester of freshman year, I started to work a lot of building strength in my arms. I started going to the gym and also using a Theraband to build up the muscles in my arms that I did not have. After going to the gym for only two weeks, I began to notice a huge difference. Not only in my inversions, but also in Chaturanga and downward dog. As well as working on my strength, I worked on dropping my weight in my plié’s so that it would be easier to just feel the weight dropping down instead of me holding back.

During the seated spine sequence, I noticed myself sitting on top of my sits bones and not leaning forward or extremely backwards. Also the articulation of my feet during prances has improved greatly. I want to keep thinking and working on the height of my prances rather than the distance. D    uring the jenga phrase I thought really accented the out and in rotation of the spine well. I noticed I had a good a sense of space when traveling in the monkey,  I can continue to work on dropping my pelvis when shifting from the side shuffle. I was proud of myself during the sissone phrase because my a la seconde jump to the back was clear and my leg was extended to my true second. This used to be a challenge for me, but I overcame this by accepting and knowing the true rotation of my hip placement and progressing from

At the start of this semester, I constructed a set of goals to work towards.

I think I am someone who has to master each part of something before I can really put things together, otherwise, I will just do all the parts sloppily and get a poor result. Something that comes and goes and I am not ever really aware of is where I am turning out from. I suppose that it is easier to turn out in some moves than others and while I always feel turned out when I need to be, I guess I am not really sure exactly what it feels like to be turned out from my hips or not. Something that I am really working on is my balance on relevé. I feel like I am so close to really being able to balance but because my core is not engaged, It is easy for me to start tilting one way or another. As for my goals for the rest of the semester, I would love to improve my balance all around. I would also like to be really solid with my French vocabulary. I know I would like to be comfortable using all of my technique with every move by the end of the semester. I am confident that I will keep making positive strides through the end of the semester as well as for the rest of my

The second goal that I set for myself in the beginning of the semester was to develop effective communication skills when working with a team of people. Prior to this class, I had worked on numerous group projects, but I always lacked the skills to effective communicate my ideas without seeing difficult to work with. This often lead to me being reviewed poorly by my fellow peers. When I came into this class I was placed in a permanent group in which I was to collaborate with three other members for both major

Furthermore, I have been getting into the habit of working out the upper extremity of my body to assist with inversions along with, being able to hold the arms in a certain position without dropping them. Not only will this benefit my performance in modern, but as well as ballet. In addition to strength training, I have been holding tension in my feet and shoulder

These three goals allowed me to focus on what was important and what I needed more work on since not being on pointe. Continuing my ankle strengthening exercises outside class, has given me more courage to trust myself when being on pointe in the center. Beginning the class, I was a little skeptic of moving off the barre, but I was not trusting myself fully. The exercises that I did not trust myself in was one legged relevés and the barre and soussous’s in the center. Not only was I only experiencing with those two moves, but also during pirouettes. From midterm to now, I have become aware that I can trust myself more than I was during pirouettes. However, I sometimes find myself leaning back because of the fear that I have. Working outside of class with my pointe shoes on has allowed to quickly find my center and rise straight up instead of leaning back. Although, I have been practicing this, I find myself standing back and not going for it at times. During my final, I believe that I was well prepared in knowing the pirouette combination. Pushing up into my balance I could bring my foot forward and put trust into myself. During the soussous combination at the barre, finding my plié helped me tighten up my soussous quicker on pointe. During the one legged relevés at the barre I was nervous more about the combination and how I was getting into the front coupé relevés. Performing this combination, I

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