Reflection #5 Friday, July 6th, 2012
This was a fairly easy week. We didn’t do much due to the
holiday and everything was pretty smooth sailing. In total, we had five
worksheets, a test, and this blog. I can’t really remember Monday, but Tuesday
was pretty good, for the most part. We had to study family terms and everything
was good up until the part where kumu told us that since we were missing a
whole day of work, we had four worksheets. Now, the worksheets were pretty
easy, it was just the longevity of the papers that got to me. I tried to complete
the two papers the first day and two papers on Fourth of July but I ended up
doing three papers on Wednesday. All the worksheets were on verbs and I was
never good at remembering terms like pronoun, adjective, ext. but I remembered
verb, as anyone should. On Tuesday, I had gotten home and lay on my couch. I
was tired, mentally not physically, and I had decided to give my brain a rest.
That was a mistake, I learned because my laziness made me miss and entire day
of work and put my entire workload into one day. When I had woken up on
Wednesday, I had realized that all the papers were on my bed and that I had
only completed one. This came to me as kind of what I expected by sleeping with
my work but I had looked at the clock and it was 10:45. This is SO much later
than I usually wake up and it kind of worried me. My philosophy is that if you
wake up the day before at a later time than usual, than you’ll wake up late. I
also believe that if you sleep later, you do the same thing. I got straight to
work and it took me the whole day because I didn’t really want to rush through
everything and get it wrong. I wanted to take my time because, honestly, I had
no plans for Fourth of July. Once I had gotten to the last worksheet, I was
better and more focused. I had turned in my work on time and totally completed
to Khmu Kalani and felt better because now I knew that if that kind of even
happened again, I could accomplish it. On Thursday, we had done a little
preparation for the test that was today. I was pretty worried because I thought
that the material that we were translating was going to be a two pages like the
one we had gotten earlier in the week. But today, I had completed that portion
with ease and went onto the second part of the test, which was writing a story,
kind of like the day when Kumu got very upset and told us to write an entire
page in Hawaiian. Actually, it was completely the same thing. Well, it was fun
and hope that I got a good grade. Now it’s the weekend. Four weeks over, two to
go. Awesome.