Cancer Society's Relay for Life

This past Saturday, the Cancer Society held their Relay for Life, an event made to raise awareness and money for cancer patients, as well as to commemorate the survivors and victimes of cancer. In order to give my help to the cause, I had showed up the morning of the event to help shovel sand into plastic bags, put the bags into paper bags, and organize them so that they would fit under the tent. I was fortunate enough to not be stuck doing one monotonous task for the whole time that I was there, and moved around from shoveling sand, putting the bags into the bigger bags, and organizing the bags. This whole thing really made me aware of just how many people cancer was affecting, and how teamwork helps the job go by more quickly, as we had eventually made a production line of people working together to get the job done.

Peter
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Sporting activities

Tae Kwon Do

After about five years of not doing this martial art, I had decided to restart my participation in it. Before I had stopped, I was a red belt, a rank before black belt, and I had wanted to get my black belt before I graduated from the IB program. This past term, I had to reteach myself everything from the beginning with the help of my teachers. According to one of them, practicing a martial arts is similar to riding a bike. You never truly forget how to do it, and I had learned that when I reached back to where I was when I had stopped within a month of starting back. This really does amplify the idea of always doing your best, and to never give up, and I can't say that I'll ever regret starting it back up.

Peter
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Sporting Activities

This term, I delved further into my training, learning moves we could use in and out of the ring. We also learned how we could use the moves we did in forms in self defense, rather than for the sake of show. While, I'll admit, my reflexes need work, and while I can formulate a technique in my head, I'm learning to perfect the skill of putting that technique into practice. I have had days where I've thought about not going, because of how difficult and frustrating it was becoming, but I forced myself to keep on pushing myself, moving closer and closer to the black belt that I'm aspiring for.