Service Hours,

During this term, students of GCE were forced to stay in home and work on their service hours through home task.  I did three activities with the time I had at home. The first was garden and lawn work, such as taking out weeds and cutting grass. The second activity was sanding and painting the deck of my house, which took around 4 hours. The third activity was picking up trash from the streets. I used my sword to pick up trash and sort it out throughout the neighborhood, and walked my dog in the process.

I was cautious, mostly about getting the disease since I was picking random trash. I learned about being careful, and making sure I get all the pieces of trash. I also learned about optimistic as the hours would be in either heat or wet when I worked to pick up trash.

JN "Service Work" own work, 2020

Coral Health

This would be the last assignment of my high school life and so it is emotional for me to finish it. During my term in GCE, our grade experimented with a new class called "Frontiers". It includes the science behind oceans, history of exploration, and understanding how climate change affects our environment. We had no field experiences during this course do to COVID-19. We did however meet with Zachary and Phil of Urban Rivers to talk about the health of Chicago's natural ecosystems.

For this final assignment, we would create a literature review based around one of the eight challenges that marine scientist are dealing with. I choose number four where scientist have troubles finding the overall status of the ocean's health. I decided to study into coral as I saw that part of the ocean as an important factor in the survival of ocean life. The struggles I had with this project was finding the information that was easier to understand. The pride I have of this project would be it being the last one.

For an outro, there is not much I could say. Only that I would like to thank the teachers and staff for the past four years. I struggled hard on many things, and I learned to integrate my art with my schoolwork. I just hope college works as well as high school did.

Health and Service

What to do when your stuck at home. That's something I've been worked on for sometime and found several ways to keep myself occupied. But what I do consistently is walk the dog and cook with my grandmother . I specifically cook with her Colombian theme meals such dishes as rice, beans, omelets, arrepas, tortas, and soup. I also learned how to keep the kitchen clean, how to cut and cook certain meats, and how to use food when there is a shortage. It takes me an hour to cook and clean.

As for walking my dog, I normally walk him around the town in a square, which takes an hour and thirty depending on how he is feeling. Sometimes he stops, not because of tiredness but of stubbornness. He is a very lazy dog and walking him was mostly my time to get out of the house.

What I got from these hours was a sense of direction. It helped me stay focused during a time where it was easy for myself to get lost in your own house by yourself. It taught me to be a global citizen by learning new foods from my culture and exploring places in my town I hadn't seen before. I have a total of 61.5 health and wellness hours.

JN, "Walking Dog" own Work, 2020

JN "Cooking Picture" own work, 2020

Last Humanities AP

When do you know compare yourself in the future, how good you are at planning, or how you dreamed big compared to the past ? These are questions I ask for this assignment in my class, Endurance. In Endurance, my class and I studied history of people who were challenged such as those from the Holocaust, my classmates and their experiences, and people who enduring today, such as the people in the worst places for Corona. 

For this assignment, the class individually worked on a planning out their future. Normally for these assignments, I plan on being an animator. What was tiresome were the setbacks that kept happening for the beginning days and what I'm proud of are the blueprints of life I made.