For my Exhibition, I decided to do cooking. Going into this I thought I was a good cook, but I was so wrong. Some things I wanted to improve on were time-management and managing myself. I also wanted to improve my eating habits because I used to eat unhealthy snacks and desserts with lots of sugar. First, I wanted to do a healthy lifestyle Exhibition, but I decided to do healthy cooking to improve my cooking skills as well. I wanted to do even more, I wanted to push myself to the limits. So I decided to make videos, more specifically how to make whatever I was cooking videos, and then edit it. I also made Zahra’s Healthy Cookbook With the meals I made and how to make them.

In my artistic piece you can see a camera and in the camera I am standing with my thumbs up and doing well but on the other side of the picture ( the reality ) the kitchen is on fire and I’m very stressed out. You can also see that I’m looking at a clock which says ‘one minute remaining’. This shows one of my approaches to learning; Time management, and it shows that I’m running out of time.

On the right is the reality because during the Exhibition I was very stressed out and not only when cooking but also when editing, updating, reflecting, and much more. Then we had to do Home Based Learning and this was when it really got tough. All I wanted to do was watch YouTube all day but I set up some to-do lists and got my work done. It was all worth it in the end.

For my exhibition I chose cooking. There were a few reasons why I chose cooking. Firstly , my ATL’S I needed to focus on were time management and research skills. The reason I chose these ATL’S is because I’m very bad at managing my time. When I don’t work well,l time flies very fast and I don’t get much work done. For researching skills, I’m not good at taking notes or researching good questions. They usually don’t even make sense and I can’t understand what I even wrote.

I also chose cooking because I want to improve my lifestyle. I wanted to be healthier and learn some cooking skills along the way like knife skills, sifting and whisking skills.

For my art piece I made a watermelon with green on the top, red in the middle and yellow/orange on the bottom. The reason I chose this is because my journey had some ups and downs and sometimes I was really focused and sometimes I wasn’t. A watermelon represents my journey because when I made my fruit punch that was one of my favourite ingredients in it and also my favourite thing I made during exhibition. The colour I chose was yellow/orange/peach because on a traffic light there’s green yellow and red and during my exhibition I was in between because sometimes I didn’t get my work done and sometimes I did get it done and maybe even extra.

Exhibition helped me with my ATL’S which were researching skills and time management the reason exhibition helped me with them is because I learnt how to manage my time by remembering when I need to cook and when I need my work handed in. Exhibition also helped me with my research skills by making posters for different cooking techniques and taking more bites then usually to get more information.

Text cut and paI chose time management as my exhibition because i find completing my work a challenge

When I first started I never got my work done on time because I could not focus well. I would just get distracted or procrastinate. I sometimes start something but never finish it or sometimes not even start the work till the last minute.

Fortunately I searched up some strategies for time management and one of the strategies was doing your work right away so you wouldn’t procrastinate and help getting your work in on time. I also faced some challenges like me not being able to get much work done since I just played video games.

So now I'm using a calendar to alert me when my lessons are and to plan my day better.

It was hard to just switch what you do straight away so I am working on getting better at time management.

My symbolic piece is about me climbing a mountain so it is me struggling with my time management because it's not easy to climb a mountain.

During my PYPx I decided to start public speaking because I’m not very good at speaking and I did not enjoy speaking in front of people, so I thought it can help me to build my confidence and make talking to my friends easier. I started the play and made a presentation for my speaking. It was hard and I did not like speaking at first because it was hard to remember everything and I kept forgetting to make the presentation, but I started to enjoy speaking as the time passed. I noticed that I was feeling confident every time, on the other hand I did not notice that I started to like public speaking until yesterday and heard that we will not do public speaking on Friday. I was very upset about that. Anyway, I really really really like public speaking now and I know it will not happen, but I want to speak in the auditorium someday.

About my artist piece, I have a person who is speaking in front of people, and has two colors which are blue and green. Both colors show what I'm feeling while speaking. Blue means nervous and green means relief. And the yellow thing above the girls head means excitement and confidence. Two people who are colored red and blue are what they are talking about. One person has two colors (red and blue) because one person can talk about what they like and what they don’t like at the same time. And the microphone in the background is a symbol of public speaking and communication skills which is my ATL.