The first ten weeks of wise work meant a lot of things. It was an indicator that showed me how prepared I am every day in my life and my first step towards living in the real society. Numerous values that I wasn’t exposed so far in my life were needed in completing the Wise project and every time it was a moment of something new.
One of the things includes hands on experience. Unlike other English classes, Wise is all about actually moving around and accomplishing something. Since my project was multitrack recording, hands on experience wasn’t a hard problem. Although I didn’t meet up with any of the specialists in my fields, except my singing tutor, I have already spent numerous hours singing and playing guitar. Some were related to my project and the other times it was just what I wanted, but everything ended up contributing to my project, because they were all valuable practices. Before working on this project, I’ve had a yearning for the ability of playing guitar and singing at the same time, but never bothered to try. But thanks to wise, I was able to develop a new hobby that I will possibly be doing all my life.
Although I’ve been doing researches in other classes, research in Wise class was entirely different one, in a sense that I was able to look up something I wanted to, and this has provided me with a great motivation. Also, because I wasn’t exceptionally talented at singing, research has naturally been an essential tool for me. While searching for tips and advices, I’ve visited various websites, read countless number of articles and watched a great number of videos. I also tried to try out a few books, during that, there is no doubt I’ve learned lots of valuable information.
I’ll have to admit. Journaling was my weak point so far. Since it’s my first time journaling regularly, there were some difficulties writing journals. At first I thought I could keep my blog like an online diary, a place where I can write my progress and thoughts. However, there were little bit of constraints, and there were some essential things that needed to be included in daily journal entries, which I tried to follow. However, there was a dilemma because I’m not doing multiple things every day, when I need to track the progress of with some useful thoughts. Also, procrastination has been a bad habit of me, which can only be ‘cured’ by stricter discipline and vivid goals.
Weekly mentor meeting was one of the new aspects of the Wise program. Well, frankly it’s been a whole new thing for me, and presumably to others since I’ve never had a mentor in my life, besides school teachers. When I heard about the concept of mentors before taking this class, I was skeptical, doubting that they will not be that much of a help. But actually having a mentor and meeting up with Mr.Lesser regularly changed my thoughts. Meeting once in a week, and talking with my mentor, I was able to find myself where I am in terms of all the works and was able to get resourceful feedbacks from him and even encouragements. For example, when I told Mr.Lesser that I was finally able to hit the highest note in my song, which has been the most annoying burden ever since the launch of my project, he congratulated be warmly and encouraged me to work towards the goal. We also talked about possible concussion instruments, and he asked me what if I can use a Korean drum, which was a creative idea.
I am not sure if I’m spending more or less than eight hours on my project, but it seems like that I’m spending a great deal of my free time on this project. Some other things I do are also interrelated with wise project. For example, working out at the YMCA is also beneficial for this project since it trains my core, which is helpful when I’m holding breath. Also in the morning, I swim every other day before coming to school, which is purely aimed at increasing my lung capacity. Even though I don’t spend all eight hours singing and recording, I’m spending fair amount of time on things that are also important in my project.
There are ten more weeks to go and from the experience I have, this quarter will also zoom away really fast. Reflecting upon my progress so far, I need to step up a little bit, especially on journaling. From this week, I’ll have to practice and focus more on recording, since AP is coming up soon and as the end of the year comes, I know that things will get crazy as hard as it could get.
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