Blog Evaluation - Music

 What have you enjoyed learning in music this year? 

- I really enjoyed learning keyboard and some of the drums towards the end of the term, but everything was really fun to learn. 

What have you found challenging about music this year? 

- I found the guitar quite challenging as I really wanted to learn a song but I didn't have enough time or patience.

What did you preform for your final assessment, who did you preform with, why did you choose that song?

- I preformed beat it by Michael Jackson with Nature, Anneleise and Hassan. We chose beat it because it was stuck in Natures head and it sounded good with all of the different instruments we can play.

How did you find preforming? 

- I found it fun, I was nervous at the start but when we were playing it felt good and I was having a lot of fun.

Were you happy with your performance? 

- Yes I was happy with it as we got up there, did it with out hesitation and it came out better than I thought.

Any other comments about music 2020?

- I really enjoyed learning new things and getting to be in the amazing Mrs Beers class, if you're reading this miss thanks for a great semester!

Health Blogpost

In health we were set a task to get information and research about something that is health related. The topic I chose was anxiety. Firstly we had to get our 5 big questions and then answer them. 

Here are my questions 

Why is anxiety harmful? 

Anxiety isn’t just mentally harmful but is harmful to all areas of your hauora. Anxiety has a lot of effects on the body/taha tinana such as rapid heart rate, palpitations and chest pain. When having anxiety you may experience palpitations, this is when your heart skips a beat, is beating at a very fast paced or fluttering. If you ever experience a panic or anxiety attack your body is very uncontrollable and your breathing increases a lot. These can influence coronary events if you already have a heart disease. 

Obviously anxiety is harmful towards your mental health as it is one of the most common mental illnesses. Anxiety can cause your brain to release stress hormones on a regular basis, this can cause you to experience headaches, dizziness, depression and can stop you from doing everyday things as your stress level may be too high. As I will mention later anxiety can lead to other mental illnesses such depression which is another common illness. 

Anxiety can also affect your taha whanau or your social wellbeing because sometimes people with anxiety distance themselves from friends and family. The consequence of this is losing relationships with people or being unable to make more. 

What other issues link with anxiety?

Anxiety can lead to a lot of other issues including other mental illnesses such as depression. Depression can also cause anxiety, they are two of the most common mental illnesses that unfortunately affect many people. Depression can be caused by many things, for example if you have anxiety it stops you from doing many things which can cause your life to become lonely or uninteresting then you can become depressed and face that awful feeling. 

Anxiety can also come with other issues or lead to other issues such as insomnia, social isolation, digestive or bowel problems, eating disorders, problems functioning at school or work, PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and many more dreadful issues. It’s important to have control of your anxiety and know how to cope with it so you don’t have to experience the other issues that link with having anxiety. These can be short term issues or long term issues.

Who/what influences people to strongly experience this mental illness? 

Many things can cause or trigger anxiety. I think the most common cause is stress. Stress or worrying isn’t good for our bodies. In fact it can get so bad that someone will have to stop doing daily activities due to the stress or worry. Trauma, loss, poor family connection, difficulties socialising a lot of factors can cause poor mental health. 

Not only do feelings trigger or cause anxiety but people also. Surrounding yourself around the wrong people is dangerous in many way, big events can be scary for people with anxiety especially social anxiety. Some people with certain personality types can experience anxiety in a more awful way then others, others are more prone to this feeling. 

Anxiety can also be genetic.

How does society affect or trigger anxiety?

Society can have a very big impact on those who experience anxiety. Some people may have social anxiety and big events, big groups can trigger their anxiety. 

Sometimes anxiety is recognised and treated as a joke in society which can affect people really badly as they may feel like they’re alone and no one believes or understands what they are going through.

Anxiety can also be played around with which is not okay whatsoever. Some people may trigger others by worrying them and making them stressed and feel like something big and bad is going to occur. I think it’s important that anxiety is recognised in today’s society as many people suffer from it.

How do you overcome this?

The most important thing you can do to overcome anxiety is making sure people know how you feel and that your voice is heard. It isn’t easy to overcome this by yourself, with someone by your side who can help you and be there for you is great. 

By improving your anxiety and overcoming it, it can strengthen your hauora in all areas which is really 

Here are some ways that you can overcome anxiety overall.

• Get moving: It’s important to get up and do something useful with your day instead of staying in bed and accomplishing nothing that can make you feel worse. 

• Go to sleep earlier: Getting a good night's sleep ready for the next day is really important for your body and mind.

• Don’t skip meals: If your anxiety causes nausea the thought of food is as appealing as eating bugs but if you skip meals it can make anxiety worse, your blood sugars drop when you don’t eat which releases stress hormones. 

• Live in the moment: Living in the moment is a way to not let anxiety take over. If you’re thinking about an exam or test next week that will ruin your mood in that moment, it is important to forget about your worries and think about what's happening right now and just enjoy life.

From there we had to list 3 strategies to prevent or deal with our chosen topic. Here are mine.

1 - Shout it out: All areas of wellbeing.If someone knows how you're feeling they can possibly help you or know of someone who can provide help. They can help you with all areas your physical health can improve, you can build new relationships again, focus on your beliefs or religion and get back to a good mindset and good mental health.

Long Term.

2 - Get moving: This can especially help with your taha tinana as it can get your body back into shape and moving again, it can also help every other area because if you’re up and moving it’s distraction from worrying all of the time and overthinking.

Long term.

3 - Live in the moment: Living in the moment is the most important thing, it helps strengthen all areas of your wellbeing. Instead of worrying about something that is a week away think about what's happening right now.

Short term.

Here is my create task, I chose to do a collage on how anxiety and I chose photos that I think best describe how it feels.

I used these images from cosmopolitan, here is the link: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/news/a40721/photos-show-what-it-means-to-suffer-from-anxiety/

Challenges Chart - Coraline

Here are my challenges chart for Coraline and Wybie 

What am I learning? 

I am learning how to understand how a character is developed in a film.

How does this work show my learning? 

I have shown a characters problem, how they solved it and how that describes them. 

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? 

I am not wondering anything!

Here are the links to the photos I used of Coraline and Wybie.

- Coraline: https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/102738435220997623/

- Wybie: https://coraline.fandom.com/wiki/Wyborn_Lovat