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Video Analysis 100 Meter Sprint

In this video you see a new running technique that lots of people are now using. It shows the front and side angle along with the start. Something I need to work on using these running skills is that I need to work on not swinging my arms across my face. I didn't realize until I saw this video that my arms swing in front of my face causing me to go from side to side, so I need to work on that.

Helpful on CWW

I remember one time I helped a friend. It felt amazing to make my friend happy by helping her. All I did was tell her where the bathroom was, but it felt good. I learned that helping isn't just directing, it is also making others feel safe around because they helped you with lots of stuff. I felt better on the CWW trip. During the trip I got to be helpful many times, and not just by showing where the bathrooms were. Here are some times:

1. During the hike, one of my friends ran out of water, and since I had so much water, I gave her some of mine.

2. A friend I was walking with hated all the trash on the ground so I held out my trash bag to help her while she collected the trash with gloves.

3. When my group got into the room, I helped them by telling them what time we had to be downstairs, and telling them the time since I was the only one with a watch. 

4. During minute-to-win-it, one of my room-mates didn't feel great, so I did her events for her so that she could relax, and after minute-to-win-it she told me thank you and that it really helped.

5. At bedtime, one of my friends needed to go home because she was sick, and my home-base teacher told me to help my friend, by taking her to my home-base teacher's room.

6. The next morning, I helped my friend by making sure we were both awake and ready to go do activities.

7. When we were getting on the bus, I helped a little with luggage. 

Ever since CWW I realized that helping people is amazing. It has made me feel like I can do good in the world, and helping people makes me feel like I can do good in the world. Don't you want to do good like that too?

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Parent/Student Agreements

  I think I am responsible enough to take it home and bring it back because I use my mom's laptop at home, and I am very careful with it. Last year we had iPads, and as soon as I got home, I charged my school iPad.

  As I said, last year I always charged my iPad as soon as I got home. It's a thing for me that I have to save as much battery as I can, and when I could, I always tried to make it 100%. I will charge it on my desk as soon as I can. I will get in the door, and as soon as I start homework, I will plug it in to charge.

Be Healthy With Electronics

Before I discovered what happens when you use electronics too much, I thought that nothing would happen even though people kept telling me that it was unhealthy. I honestly thought that you could use electronic devices all day and you would be fine. Now I recognize that if you use electronics all day you wouldn’t have a social life. I learned that using things with screens too much makes you very lonely. I also learned that watching too much TV can lead to obesity. and I also learned that if you take breaks every now and then, you can spend time with your family, and go outside. I taught myself to take breaks, and now at school, they’re teaching us by making us look far away after we have just been looking at something up close. One day I told myself, “If I spend too much time on electronics, I will be a nobody. GET A LIFE!” Later on, I told myself that after a couple videos on youtube, I would go outside, go swimming or go for a walk. After learning all these things, I am no longer sinked into iPads, laptops, or TV.

When my family and I were driving around America this summer I had nothing to do. I had played on my iPad and watched movies the whole time, but once we got to Florida I noticed that I had spent too much time on electronics. I had felt light headed, dizzy, and I couldn’t see clearly. In boot camp, I found out that it is because I hadn’t been balancing using computers and staying healthy. At the time I didn’t know it, but now I realize that you have to balance using electronics, and doing things that don’t involve screens. When I use electronics now I know that I should also take a break from screens to stay physically fit.

What I have experienced over the summer has truly changed my whole point of view on electronic devices. I discovered that even if things with screens can help you, it can still affect you for the rest of your life. This will definitely change my future because I won’t be on electronic devices all day for the rest of my life. I will be out in the world having fun with friends and family. I know that it might be hard for you to take breaks every once and a while, but there are plenty of fun things to do. You could play a board game, ride a bike, do a craft, or even just go for a walk. I hope that you will become someone who grew up without electronics, I hope you become an amazing person without all that stuff. Don’t you want to be that person?

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About Me 2015

Caitlin is a girl who loves her family and school. She goes to an international school on an island. She likes reading but only when she is super bored and has to read. Same for writing. She writes at school, and only at home if she has a really great idea. She is more of a math person. Caitlin really likes to read fantasy and nonfiction books. She loves reading fantasy because it takes her to magical world, and she loves nonfiction because she learns something new every time she reads nonfiction books. She writes nonfiction, fantasy, personal narratives, and mysteries, but Caitlin writes nonfiction the best. She gets the concept that you’re trying to teach the readers about the topic, while giving them fun facts. Caitlin finds a way to learn about a topic, and then she makes it fun with more detail and a little humor, and then she types it all out and then she checks it and publishes it. She knows that it may never be perfect, but she still tries. She always tries to do her best. Caitlin will always try. If she can, she never gives up.

When Caitlin is not writing at home or at school, you will find her with her family, having fun. On the weekend, when she is not having fun with her family, once in a while you will find her at a swim meet.

She first picked up writing at school. She learned how to get ideas, and since that she always had ideas. When she thought hey were good, she typed them out. She started this way, but at school they started helping her to make her stories stronger. Now she writes at school and finds it fun. She will always have ideas, and she will always have fun.