Service Learning: 15 hours! Overall Diagnostic: 38 hours! Bastille Day: 3 hours Child's Book: 25 hours French Presentation: 10 hours (1 hour everyday in class for 2 weeks) As my time in the IBCP world comes to an end, I feel that I have grown in the fluidity of my target language (french). After four years of learning this beautiful language, and two years of dedicating a specific portion of my curriculum to it, I find myself much more comfortable and confident in my writing and speaking. With a wider vernacular, I feel that I am now able to speak with the confidence needed to truly master a language. Activities, such as going to the Bastille Day celebration with my partner allowed me to both observe and interact with the french culture naturally and experience different food, music, and taste that I would most likely would not have opted to take advantage of. Even creating my own book was something I did not think would be possible for me to do in a language that I had studied critically for only two years! It was a very long and difficult process because it requires much focus and attention to detail, but it was also quite enjoyable because I branched outside of just writing, but also discovering new music that many french children are familiar with, such Au Claire De La Lune, and reading books such as Le Petit Prince, which is a really interesting read. I discovered astrological and scientific terms that are useful to know, especially if I am reading literature and textbooks in my target language. I also got a better understanding of how to use the certain tense; past, present, passe compose, imparfait, passe simple, etc., and how they alternate and work together to essentially tell a story. This really enhanced my confidence and capability to be creative and really use my skills in writing in english, in french as well, and it has truly helped to improve my dedication and interest in continuing to further my experiences and skill even after I have graduated from the Career Related program. Focusing more on speaking, I feel that my speech is much more fluent and it comes out much more natural. This is because I have a better understanding of how to conjugate verbs and tenses a lot quicker, which comes with reading and writing because now I, in a sense, think the way I write. I feel much more comfortable and speaking in front of natives or those who speak the language quite well is much easier for me to do, especially because I've learned to accept the constructive criticism that is given to me when I make mistakes. As of today, I have found an interest in french, as I always have had one. I find myself really loving how sweet and crisp it comes out, how the hard rrr lunges from the throat so forcefully. I have enjoyed composing a book, and even doing presentations that link to my pathway, such as the power point I have linked below on Impressionism. I have thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot over the two years that I have dedicated out of class time to the project. I am so thrilled to go out into the world and learn more and exercise the language and take it up as a second language that I thoroughly understand and speak!
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This process has been long but truly something I enjoyed! In my target language, I learned much about the French culture and the depiction of storytelling. Many of the stories I have read are very humorous and bizarre! For example, 'Le Petit Prince' was such a funny book, and I based much of my story off of his life; living alone on a planet,or moon. I constantly had to rewrite some parts and change the format so that it made sense, as one cannot directly translate from English. It took about 20 hours to complete my story and the entire book. I faced of course the challenge of conjugation. This year we learned a tense, Passe Simple, for storytelling in French. It basically is the older version of how the French people spoke. That was extremely hard to use, thus I used something much more modern; Imparfait and Passe Compose. This are all past tense, however the format is different. I found it quite helpful to have a supervisor, Ms.Cousin, who checked over the majority of my work. Overall, it was quite a fun experience, epecially learning new phrases/words like voie lactee (milk way in astrology), and I enjoyed writing. I hope you enjoy it!Bonjour à toutes! Pendant l'été, je suis allée le fête pour le jour de Bastille ou Bastille Jour ici à Chicago! Le festival s’est passé au plage Montrose de 5:30 vers 10:30 pm (a nuit), mais j’ai resté jusqu’à huit heures. Pendant le fête, j’ai vu et fait beaucoup de tradition francais avec mon copain est son famille: J’ai mangé cous-cous, des crêpes, et du riz avec un sauce rouge. Honnêtement, j’ai appris un peu de le langage parce-que j’ai appris un connaître avec la culture. Mon copain est français, alors je parle français souvent avec son famille et lui. Digression de cette, le gens français et le gens qui célèbrent la culture ont eu beaucoup d’excitation pour les activités la-bas. Le peuple sont très franc avec leur blagues ( j’appris aussi de mon prof Mdm.Cousin). Ils parlent un sujet de la meilleure histoire de le jour de Bastille. “La prise de la Bastille est un des événements déclencheurs de la Révolution française,” un homme a habillé dans le couleurs rouge, blanc, et bleu (le drapeau de francais). Apres ca, il a parlé un peu un sujet de l'attaque à Paris, qui un homme a conduit son fourgon sur un foule dans Bastill Day dans le soirée. C'était très tragique et tout le monde faisant son deuil. Avant cette événement, j’ai ne connaît pas que le Bastille a représenté (c’est très vital parce que c’est un independence de les gens francais). Mais après, je sais que le Bastille et que le signifiance de cette dans la culture français. J'ai apprécié l'expérience de parlaient avec le peuple en francais et mangeait avec les gens. Alors, c’est ici le vocabulaire vital: histoire (history), revolution, (revolution), déclencheurs (initiative, release,trigger), apprendre (to learn), vital (necessary), meilleure (great), Digression (Aside), blagues (jokes), drapeau (flag), et honnêtement (honestly). Merci Beaucoup!
The senior home was a little rough for me yesterday. I didn't expect it to be easy, but I don't think it went so well for me. I didn't want to talk or interact at all because it was hard to see the world function and continuing on while I had lost someone so close to me. Fortunately though, I was able to see how life should be appreciated and cherished. The seniors seriously gave me insight on to how I should cherish my life and enjoy the things I love most which is music. I should do these things so that I am able to have love and support and established in life. It not only gave me a positive outlook on my personal tribulation, but also on how I should be thinking about my career and what I should be leaning toward in life and that is my education and my relationship with others. I cannot thank them enough for how they helped me, unintentionally! All I can do is continue to give my services to them and make this worth the while for them! They seem to really be engaged and enjoying it, and I see the smiles on their faces when we come in, especially because some of them have no family or friends outside of the facility to really show their love and appreciation to. That is why I am so happy to be a part of this project and I am truly happy to see what is in store on our last day there!
New Vocab Words! I. Appreciation- Reconnaissance II. Unintentionally- Involontairement III. To Cherish- Cherir It is almost impossible for me to stay sane and be able to reflect on something at such a low time in my life. I have not been here for the past couple of days and I don't really have much to say about what is going on in the classroom. I am extremely drained now and although I am feeling this way, I do still want to participate in the senior home project. I feel that it will help me relieve myself of what is going on in my life and allow me to focus and give light to someone else other than myself. I haven't involved myself in anything lately and I haven't been here to know exactly what is going on. I can't seem to think straight, but I know that I would like to at least go to the senior and get my mind off of things. I feel that what they have to offer will help me coop with what is going in my life now, and I surely do hope that I am right.
New Vocab I. to focus- mettre a point II. drained- epuise III. participate- participer C'est presque impossible pour moi rester sain d'esprit et reflechir sur quelque chose a un triste point dans ma vie. Je ne suis pas ici pour un quelques de jours et je n'ai pas dire au sujet de le projet. Je suis extremement epuise maitenant, mais je veux aller a la senior maison. Je senti que il ira aider moi avec des relief et aide moi mettre a point. Je veux participer dans le projet, je pense que cette sera aider avec que va dans ma vie. Merci... Now that I have performed and gotten my nerves out of the way with my performances, I am able to help out a little with the other activities that we will be involving ourselves in. So far I see us doing well with managing our time at the senior home and in the classroom. The performances aren't so much of a problem, but what I am questioning are the other activities that the ROTC is doing with the seniors. I haven't seen much of an art thing going on, and that's why I specified it in my last reflection I stated that they should be doing something that doesn't involve too much instruction. I've noticed that many of them want to do things on their own time and their own pace, so they tend to not want to get involved with the much more instruction based activities. I also don't see any work with the scrapbook being done. There has been little to almost no talk about what theme or set-up we want to use and that is a little odd. Aside from complications with the smaller projects, I think we should focus on trying to get more pictures of us and the seniors. We have a lot of individual photos of them, but not much footage of our interactions and time during the different "tea talks" and such. These are things I am just seeing that are making the rid a little less smooth, because it seems that we are always scrambling a day before our visit to finalize things. In all, we can do so much better than we are! New Vocab! I. Impliquer- to involve II. Footage- sequences III.Reflection- reflexion Maitnenant que j'ai joue, je peux aider avec les activites. Pour l'instant, j'ai vu nous faissons tres bien avec les temps a la senior maison et dans la class. Par contre, les activities ROTC ne sont pas tres spectacular. Les seniors surtout ont ecoute a la musique parceque cette implique trop d'instruction. A part de ca, je pense que le scrapbook n'est pas tres succesful. Il n'y a pas beacoup de conversation au sujet de scrapbook, et il n'est pas beacoup de sequence de leur temps dans le 'tea talks' et autre choses. Je ne veux pas nous nous percipitons un jour avant leur visit. The seniors loved every bit of us! It was such a successful day and I rally felt like we made them sooo very happy! Right when we came in their faces lit up, and they were so welcoming. I have become so familiar and happy with them and how positive some of the are when we show up. They really enjoy the music and you can tell that this is something their spirits long for. They want to enjoy the music and activities we bring, and we are doing such an awesome job spreading that love with them. My performance wasn't what I wanted it to be, however, it was enjoyable and thanks to Otto, it was more than I could really ask for. I thought the Ave Maria, performed by Sheila and Otto, was amazing and I saw that some seniors even requested it to be played again! That really let me know that they were engaged in the performances and really listening to the music. It also showed how talented we are, and how we really give them something to forward to every week. We had complications with the microphone again, and it did not project the violins like we wanted it to. I later found that the microphone wasn't even on, and that is what caused the piano to overpower the strings for the most part. Aside form some technical difficulties, we managed to pull off a pretty awesome day at the senior home!
As we prepare to go into our second day at the senior home, I am a little nervous about what is going to happen. I have been cleaning up the Czardas piece, which I have played a while ago, and I felt that on my part it was going great. However, with the pianist that was supposed to accompany me, things were not looking too sweet. To say the least, I was very unprepared and feeling like this was a train running with no direction. Fortunately, Otto was able to step and help out with this part of the performance. This was an awesome moment for me, and it really helped spice up the performance because in a matter of ten minutes we ran through the whole piece and switched some of the piano and violin parts up (Otto is playing the harmonics). Now that this is being taken care of, I am feeling so much better about performing for the seniors. I am almost certain that they will enjoy this piece because it is very different from the songs we have played on the first day. The senior home project, aside from the minor delays we have had, is going very smooth and we are doing a great job transitioning, although I wish there was more communication between the ROTC staff and the musisians so we are making sure there are no incidents like the one I had. Otherwise, we are going to have an awesome time! Harmonics- Harmoniques Pianist- Pianiste Accompany- accompagner (to accompany) Comme nous preparons aller dans nos deuxieme jour a le maison de seniors, j'ai un peu petit peur un sujet de qoui arriva. J'ai range mon musique. Dire le moins, mon accompangneur surprendre moi quand elle n'a pas arrive pour pratique. Heuresement, Otto a arrive a le sauve. Cetait tres cool parceque le tout musique dans son endroit. Maitenant cette a pris soin de, je senti tres bonne! I think the Jazz combo did an awesome job out there yesterday! They definitely put their best foot forward and rocked the home, however I think the transitions could be better. We had a problem with the mic and the flute's projection. The sax overpowered the flute and the piano wasn't well balanced with the rest of the instruments (sound projection wise). I think this had to a lot with the timing and set-up. The jazz combo wasn't very efficient with their transportation of the instruments, nor did they really have enough time to properly set things up. aside from this, we did have a very successful music fest and the seniors really grooved with it! They enjoyed jazz combo's performance and you could tell that they wanted to just sit and listen to their performance. The really didn't want to do activities, they wanted to enjoy the music. I am not saying they were not successful, however the activities really (i think) weren't for the seniors. They just want to chill, and if the activities are done then they should be activities that don't involve too much instruction. We should find some alternative activities that involve more free interpretation and hands-on activities so that the art an music don't clash.
Clash- affrontement efficient- efficace projection- projection Je pense que jazz combo fait un imposant travaille hier! Ils ajourtent leur plus de pied en avant! Par contre, je pense que les transitions peut etre mieux. Nous avons eu un probleme avec le mic et le projection de flute . Le sax a maitrise le flute et le piano n'ai pas ete equilibre. Le jazz combo n'ai pas ete tres efficance avec leur transport de les instruments. Je pense cette a beacoup faire avec les instruments. Les seniors ont appreciate le music et tu peuvais dire wue les seniors savourais avec ca! Ils appreciate le musique. Ils a eu relaxer et si les activities faissont, ensuite ils n'ont pas trop de instruction. So far we have been experiencing some minor delays, however that is nothing we cant fix up. I am pleased with how well the Jazz combo did yesterday, They executed the performances and were able to pull it together and make things work for the best, What I will, however say, is that we as team need to do better AS A TEAM! Everyone was so independent and concerned with their own performances or departments, that everything was falling apart last minute due to lack of communication amongst everyone. Music people, we need to interact with each other a little more and not just push it off to jazz being in one corner, classical in the other, and percussion somewhere in the front of the room. We need to talk about the pieces, make sure everyone has their part and is good to go. I know we can work well as a team and if the communication could be a little more stable I think things would go much more smoothly. For the tea-talk, I am a little concerned with how that went because not many people were offering their services and wanting to sit down and speak with seniors. I understood, yes this is the first day and we are just getting to know them, but I felt like everyone could've been a little bit more open to the elders because if we aren't doing that then we aren't doing what we came there to do. Aside from these conflicts, I think we are doing a pretty great job for this to be an all-student body constructed project. I am hoping that the same goes for next week (without the minor problems!) New Vocab! Minor- Mineur Services- Services Conflicts- Conflits |
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