Final blog

This semester of PE 10 has been an amazing experience for me. I have enjoyed doing most of the activities I have done in previous years, as well as try out some new ones this year, such as atomic volleyball. I have also enjoyed going to the YMCA every friday to play basketball and work out with friends and also going to friends' houses to work out as well. I have also learned a lot of things that involve being selfless and being prepared in class, and some moral things. There are many ways I could go on about how I have evolved as a person and as an athlete in PE 10 this semester.

One of the first things I ever learned in PE 10 was the importance of participation. in the previous years, I didn't really care much for participation. Okay, it was there and I had to do it, but I didn't realize how and why participation was important in PE. I could say here that I always bring my PE strip to class everyday and that I always do my best, but those are so common that they don't even sound good in my opinion, so I'm going to sum up my participation in a different way. some of the time I don't feel like doing PE because I'm usually too tired by the time PE comes, but I realize that my negative energy creates an impact, especially to the younger kids, who are to take PE next year, or the year after as well, depending on their choices and what they feel about PE, and I can almost guarantee that what they do this year will definitely contribute to PE next year and/or the year after, unless they go through this massive change that all of a sudden changes their attitude. I realize that many of the kids in the other PE classes don't care as much as others about participation, as many of them just go there, do activities, and go to their next class (or go home if they don't have period 5) PE is also a class, and one of the main goals of a class is for people to learn, and I certainly learned a lot about my mind and body as it relates to physical exertion and effort in fitness this semester.

Participation also shows a lot on leadership. I like to set up for volleyball before we play it because what is the use of playing volleyball if there is not net to play it with, thats my motivation to setting up volleyball. Of course, motivation varies depending on which activities we do. So one time, when we did choice, I chose to play ultimate with some of my friends. Being the inconsiderate jerk that I was, I decided not to help out, well a little, with setting up and everything, but not making teams. 5 minutes later, I went to observe and see what was going on and it turns out that no one was able to get themselves organized. This was because everyone wanted to be with their friends. I should know, I am a person that gets affected by that a lot in PE, but I sucked it up, went there, got the people to split, and we got them into teams of 4, 2 per each group, because there were going to be 2 games going on, with the amount of people. That day, I saw a sense of leadership in me. One that has been laying dormant since grade 8 and never knew how to get it out. I guess a sense of leadership comes and goes for me, though I am now working to maintain that leadership so I will be able to apply it in future classes because leadership can be used in and outside of PE. Part of me that got me to do this was also the fact that I am very competitive and that I would want to do the activity as soon as possible, even if that means setting up the entire thing myself. Unfortunately, thats not always the case but I'm learning to motivate myself of taking initiative by anything other than the spirit of competition. I like to get people into activities a lot, no matter who they were and what grade they were in, the more the people, the more fun the activity because clearly if you are the only one playing, not much is going to happen and they will get bored immediately. Getting people involved in a way that they would enjoy this activity is a good factor towards contribution to the class and the entire PE block for that matter, and leadership, and taking initiative.

As much as I enjoy  doing activities in PE, I also like to be at home and play basketball in my neighbourhood. At fridays, I like to go to the Y and also play basketball with friends and also work out. I believe that as i further progress with outside activities, it will make the activities at PE a lot easier because I can apply the level of exertion that I use in the Y to PE and not break a sweat, unlike last year, where whenever we do fitness, I would hate it because I couldn't stand the exertion, but I realized that that was my lazy butt at the couch talking and in reality, I am capable of doing this, and perhaps, even more if I really tried. I have also started jogging around the neighbourhood and also to some places not around my neigbourhood. Jogging to the Y, then up highway 10 to king george and down 64th avenue was one of the routes that I will not forget jogging because that was what took the most out of me. Back then, I would hate jogging for the exact same reason i had about fitness, but once I did a jog the first time, it got easier from there. I learned that the first time is sometimes the hardest try, but once I was able to conquer it, I was able to adapt to the fitness and be able to do it again and do it in different ways to make the activity more varied, as opposed to the same thing everyday. At least I can make the activity less boring to do. I also learned about proper jogging posture in order to extend my running time without having to stop and to prevent factors that would stop my running such as pain within my ribs. Another good factor is also my diet, how much food I eat everyday. Since day 1 of my reformation, I have started eating less, while staying to the same eating routine I do everyday. Starving myself wont exactly speed up the process. Gaining stamina and weight loss is a timely process, and I believe anyone can achieve this, if they were patient enough with time. Most of the time, time is against a lot of things we do. It is practically impossible to defeat time, but time can also help us as we can and should do what we can to achieve goals within a given time, but with fitness, one has all the time in the world to improve and extend it.

Now for the final pillar, the blog. Well, I must admit I am not the best at making blogs at the time I should because I get lazy and I won't deny it, so I try to use the lack of quantity of my blogs with quality. For example, I made a blog post about my workout at my friends house and made 3 videos of me working out. I couldve easily made it to 3posts with one video per post, but I should be able to create one good post with the 3 videos on it. I don't rely on just the visuals to show off my blog, mainly because I am not the best with inserting them anyway. I have a reflective background also to back up what I say in depth and with reason. This portion of my final blog is never the best for me, but it shares its part with my overall mark as this is where my thoughts about days of PE.

In my overall final blog, I would say I evolved as a person and an athlete (I know im repeating this, but its my thought) and that if I would to take PE next year, I would definitely work on my reflective side on PE in terms of my blogs and definitely digital evidence. According to my entire blog, I think I deserve an A (89%) this year.