Hi my name is Linh from year 6! For this exhibition, I decided to choose learning Chinese. I choose it because I want to learn more about Chinese culture and be ready soon for next year if I choose Chinese to be my LOTE. The exhibition has a lot of different challenges to face. I needed to organize my timetable and practice every day and make many attempts in a week, which made me a little bit bored. But whatever the challenge was, I tried my best to overcome it. My ATL’s is writing and time management.

My Artist piece is me holding a paper with the word “Thank you”! (Xie die) I drew an owl(which represents Duolingo, where I am learning) and some small stars, which represent those who have to help me like Mr Zack, mom and Mr Jonathan. I want my background to be a mix of colors because it contains all my feelings/emotions in the exhibition. For example, yellow represents hope and to keep trying. Purple represents anxiety and depression, while blue shows when I am tired and bored.

After the long journey in the exhibition, I feel like I’m doing better than everyone! I learn many simple things like “Hello”, “Sorry”, “He”, “She”, …. I just learn some simple words in Mandarin because it takes me a long time to learn and organize. Also, I always record myself practicing and doing it every day! But it kind of went down at the first time we learning off-campus, I forget to do things and many more! But for me, I think I done my best already.

For my exhibition I have chosen Magic. I chose magic because I knew that it would help me when I am trying to find resources, take notes, using dexterity improve motor skills, and presenting to other people with style and confidence. I worked on those by trying to present to other people so I could obtain feedback on the way I present. I think those could help me for the heavy load of classes I am going to do in secondary. So I would need at least some of those skills that I was worried about doing. Since we are going to start drama as a period I will need my presentation skills. I would mainly need to have more confidence when I am speaking, or I know that taking notes is a big priority in Year 7 so I would need to be good at that.

For my artistic statement call it “Stepping Stones” because it’s kind of like me hopping between the stones, however, instead they are cards. When you step on stones you usually want to get somewhere like the other side of the river. I am trying to reach that stage. I also put the background as a sunset because it’s like me in the sky and it sets a place, although also that it represents me being in the yellow section which is all “cold, scared and worrying” and moving up to the blue which is like being on-track and knowing what to do.

I originally had this moving from place to place with the idea of visualising train tracks and how they help things move. I thought I could do something more magical so I put up a stage because that where we present to the guests and audiences that watch us (mostly). Cards are like “bold” magic, so if someone says “magic” I am pretty sure the first thing they would think of is cards

For what's next, I decided that I will try to continue doing magic and presenting. I think I will because it gives me more confidence and I know that confidence will come in handy some time in the future. I think I will also continue to get feedback because that is a good way to improve. A second opinion is always good. I think I might not do a journal because I know that I will forget to put stuff in most times.

For my Exhibition, I explored art through Illustrator. I am not good at art. It will be good to get better at creating digital art and it can help in the future because if you have to make a poster you can make a poster that stands out and make it look cool. The attitudes and skills I developed in my exhibition were creativity and perseverance.

I am proud of how I improved on my ALT. For example, perseverance. I used to get stressed when I worked in illustrator or IMovie, if it doesn't work, I would get annoyed with the app. But after this Exhibition I got better and kept trying until it worked. So I am very proud of what I did.

I had some challenges with finding the tutorial and updating my journal was really hard because sometimes you get stuck. Like when I can’t find tutorial I get really mad because I find what I need.

My photo is inspired by my journey because sometimes I felt very hard working but sometimes I don’t feel like doing much.

My symbolic piece is all about how sometimes I am lazy but sometimes I feel ready to do all my work. I am very happy because I think I did really well. If I did this again I would start with something different but it was a good starting point. I think that illustrator helped me a lot in this project because if I did it on a different app it would not look that good. This will help me in the future so I am happy that I chose to do this.

For my exhibition I am doing the paint work ,and I am practice more and more and to make more good of my draw and become better at drawing. I wanted this for me so I can be more confident and I can draw for my parents.

For my first try, I didn’t ask for help and I didnt get any help. For my second try I was nervous but I still did not ask ,and I thought the exhibition is about me doing it, again and again. So I tried more than once,and I try one time to try on paint, so I could see if my paint was better. I have to learn more about the paint and I am thank for Ms. Janna for helping me with my project and exhibition. I have improved in my drawing and my painting.

My artistic piece shows me making different attempts.