Week 5 Blog (Ilima Intermediate Blog)

     This week at Ilima was pretty normal, for the first part, all I did was just help in the flag football for the whole Ilima school. All I did was I had to just write down the student's behavior, and if the teacher came on time for the game. I will firstly explain what flag football is and how I had to help. Flag football is basically the standard game of football, throwing the football (or soccer ball) trying to get to the enemy goal to score points. The twist is that there are flags around your waist. People can grab the flags on your waist if you have the football with you, which makes it a lot harder.  Basically, we graded the classes on how they acted. Not how well they did, but how well they were at sportsmanship and being friendly with one another, and so far, most of the classes did good. I worked with another girl who we had to work together, and we had probably some of the most hectic teams ever. One class literally stepped out the boundaries about 100 times, another class kept swearing and taunting for about 70+ times. And another actually good class had cheered and been supportive about 120 times or so. It was very hectic, and I don't know how I could handle the chaos. I basically stood in the sun for 60 minutes peeling my eyes out to make sure they didn't step out the boundaries. Or if they cheered or something else. And I couldn't even rest or relax to go eat my lunch, because I don't eat food. Don't ask. But it was fine. Anyway, for the final day of the week, we had to go to the cross-country track race. The track students of Ilima basically met with other track students at different schools at one specific place, and they had to run. We went to a school called Honouliuli Middle School, and all I had to do was take pictures, interview some people, and just record what happened. I will say, I had no opinion on the "field trip" which is what it was technically. It was okay, but I had no personal opinion. However, I just sat through it and followed everything. However, it allowed me to skip 4 periods, so I will say I enjoyed it.

    The highs and lows of this week are many different things, I'll give the bad news worst. The lows of this week for flag football would be standing in the blazing sun for 60 minutes. I had to stand in summer heat for a very long time, and I basically got redder by the day. It was absolute hell, and I couldn't even go inside because I don't eat lunch. It was so exhausting because I also have to stand up, and I'm only a weak skinny Asian boy. I cannot stand for more than a few minutes probably. I'm more mentally stronger than physically. Another low might have been having to talk to the students a lot. I literally had to keep reminding the students to stop swearing, to cheer, and to stay in their boundaries. But they violate it after I just told them that. It feels like I'm talking to a wall, I don't know why they don't listen. The highs of that experience would be meeting friends and talking to them. And that's all I can think of. The cross-country race is another story, the lows might have been standing in the blazing sun for not 60 minutes but 3 hours. So, it's 3 times as worse. But I also think another SERIOUS low might have been being clueless as hell. If I will be honest, I didn't expect the cross-country race to be like this, there was nothing I found amusing or fun about it. Of course, I lied and told some I had a good experience, it didn't really make that much sense and although it was a good way to kill time. It was an okay experience. The highs may have been obviously skipping 2/3 of the day for class. But another high may have been that I was able to takes notes and write, which I liked a lot.

                                                           School Students Track Race!

                                                                    Good Job Ilima!

                I don't exactly know a good moral or something I learned from this week, except this. It's very hot in Hawaii, and I'm dying inside. In all seriousness, I learned a lot about competitiveness and sportsmanship. In many competitions, winning is a big importance for me, I would know. Because if I didn't win It'd be a yelling from my very strict parents. But mainly, the whole thing is about patience and taking your time. Yes, I understand that older kids don't care for just doing their best, they want to win. But the thing is, it doesn't happen just like that. It takes time, and unless your unnaturally gifted in some way, then it'll take a long time to get what you want. Patience and working together is what can make you a better person at what you want to achieve and succeed in. You can't speed or skip through time, but you can use that time you have to do your best to get ready for your goals. It's like studying for a test, if you study and take your time, you eventually succeed. Patience and doing your best are all that matters, and if your best is studying for the test then you can pass it. If you don't study, you lose, if you just rush through it and ignore everything to get ready for it. It doesn't end well. Time is of the essence, meaning it's important, and you should make the best of it. If the best of it is to talk to others, improve sportsmanship, and taking your time and patience. Then you can see it'll be worth it in the end. Also, happy summer I'm so excited for fall it's so hot I'm dying.