For my exhibition I was learning how to control my feelings and form decisions. I chose this because I am moving to Australia and I will have a lot of feelings and emotions. This exhibition helped me feel more prepared. I know I will still have ups and downs when I move but hopefully less than I would have done. This exhibition was hard. I had to time manage, make sure I sat in a successful spot and research a LOT. I am glad I chose this as a focus for my exhibition. It helped me to prepare a lot and now I can help my family through this rough time as well!

I also started exploring third culture kids and culture shock. I learnt what it means to be a third culture kid. I learnt that in the past it was less common but now it is quite common. I also learnt about culture shock. Culture shock is where you feel confused, disoriented or nervous when you are introduced to a new culture or way of living. I learnt about how to prevent that as well.

My artistic piece is a picture of me packing my whole life into a moving box. My house? Goes into the box. My bed? Into that box. My friends? You guessed it. Straight into that box. I chose this because it’s like I am packing my whole life up and moving it. All the stuff in my box represents my life. The box is addressed to Australia. It has a fragile stamp on it. This is because my life at that moment would feel more delicate because we are moving. My feelings are more delicate. So are my emotions. And all of that is being shipped to Australia.

For my PYP exhibition I chose realistic drawing because helps me focus. It also helped me draw better because I kept practicing. Sometimes I need to be more organised and calm because if I'm organise I will know where everything is and what to do. I always have to stay calm when I’m drawing because when I’m calm everything is neat and tidy. If I’m not I can make everything messy and just give up.

Mostly I can struggle a lot and be very impatient, For my first attempt I got really inpatient because it took so long for me to draw. After I got use to drawing, I realise that drawing takes a lot of time if you want to make it realistic.

My artistic piece is called ‘FOCUS’ The outside is blurry which represents the things I do not know and when I am not focused. The inside of the picture represents when I am focused and lost in the moment. It is when I do my best work.

I think I made the right choice because realistic drawing helped me with a lot struggles and being focused. If I didn’t pick realistic drawing I wouldn’t have learnt all my struggles and wouldn’t be focused on my work.

My Exhibition challenge was writing. During the Exhibition, I was hoping to improve my time management and resilience. This has been a real challenge for me, as those are my weak points. I tend to procrastinate often and if I find something mildly hard, I usually move to an easier task. I have learned that checklists, timetables, and alarms are very useful. I use alarms to remind me to go to my meets.

My artistic piece is a rocky mountain that starts off smooth and gets tougher. I have also added stick men to show their progress and how they feel on the way. I started to procrastinate once I moved more into the project, but I started to improve later on, like how the stick men started to feel more confident.

This connects to my journey because at the beginning, I felt good, calm, and optimistic. Of course, I started to lag behind and felt like quitting because it was getting tough, and I started procrastinating. I kept pushing myself, and now I feel better at the ATLs I have chosen. I am happy that I improved, and will continue to use these tricks to perform better in secondary at my new school next year!

For my PYP exhibition, I explored something that I love to do but not necessarily confident about. Cooking! I chose cooking because it's fun to do. It’s a life skill and it was perfect for learning about perseverance. My aim is to learn how to cook confidently and provide delicious meals for my family. I had a lot of struggles such as not preparing ingredients on time and not keeping up to date with my journal. But I did have my fair share of success as well including creating a fantastic dish and being ahead and on track with my journal. Some of my ATLS included time management, resilience and reflection.

My artistic piece was an image called “climbing to gourmet” which is me climbing up a mountain striving to improve my dishes. I chose to add some thunder and lightning to represent my ATLS and the utensils were representing me cooking in my journey.

The connections between my artistic statement and my journey are, the pictures of the food represents my cooking journey from the bottom of the mountain which is burnt spaghetti to the top of the mountain which is gourmet spaghetti. My ATL is resiliency so I drew rain and thunder while I was climbing the mountain to represent resilience and perseverance.