![]() 1) My sleep schedule has changed a lot throughout my life. When i was younger up until about grade 9 i had a very good sleep schedule and i was getting almost more than 8 hours of sleep every night. Once i moved to Whistler in grade 10, i began to take a lot of naps after school so i would go to bed pretty late and only get around 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night. Now in grade 12, i will usually force myself to go to bed by 11 which i think is a decent time and gives me time to do homework, hang out with friends and have some alone time as well. I find it really hard to get off my phone late at night when i am in bed just relaxing or turn off Netflix and that definitely contributes to my lack of sleep on certain nights. 2) I think that our start time at school (8:45) is really good. If it were to be earlier, i would have a lot of trouble getting out of bed and i would be late everyday. I used to go to school in florida in grade 9 and then start time was 7:20 and it was incredibly hard to get up and very hard to focus in my first two classes because it was so early and my brain was still asleep. I would rather start at 8:45 because getting out at 3:09 gives me a lot of time to do everything i need to do after school. Although it would be nice to finish school maybe an hour earlier just to give us more time to do things, i would much rather have a later start time. I wouldn't want to start any later than 9 though because in the winter it gets dark so early, getting out of school at 4 i would feel like my day is over. I think i should have a stricter sleep schedule and that would make getting up a bit easier for me. My mom sometimes has to be up early for work but that is only about once a week and my dad doesn't have a job that is time restricted so they would not be affected by any time changes with the school.
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1) When i think of resiliency, i think of overcoming my difficulties in life and learning from them. I think of taking negative aspects and events that have happened to me in my life and overcoming them even though they've caused stress and sadness. I know that i am not resilient automatically and it definitely some time for me to be able to be resilient to certain situations and events.
2) Im going to think of something that wasn't traumatic but just an every day problem. I've wanted to go into marine biology for about 4 years now and i was set to do it next year in university. I found a program called Earth and Ocean Sciences at UVIC and applied for it without doing much research about the actual program, only the school. After being accepted i was really excited to finally be pursuing what i want to do in life until i looked more into the program. It turned out the program isn't what i thought it was and is very different from what i was hoping it would be. After the devastating discovery i was very upset for a while and i realized i couldn't go to school next year because i wanted to go into my first year excited and doing what i really want to do. I was very upset about the whole situation but more at myself for now doing more research before applying. I had to adapt to this mistake and create a whole new plan for next year (travelling and then school the following year). I thought the whole world was over and i wasn't ever going to get to go to school and be stuck at home forever but when i got myself out of that mentality and realized how many more options there are and that this isn't the end of the world, i think that proved my resilience to even non-extreme situations like this one. 3) To improve my own resiliency, i think i can practice being more positive and finding the positive in all the negative situations that occur in my everyday life, no matter how big or small they are. Embracing any changes (negative or positive) is also something i can do more as well as talking to friends and family or teachers about any problems i am having so they can help me overcome them. |
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