iBelieve...

In Korea, there's an idiom "Genius can't overcome the person who puts efforts but the person who puts efforts can't overcome the person who enjoy themselves.

I believe I can go beyond my capacity if I enjoy myself rather than trying my best effort to achieve something. This thought first came to my mind when I started to become talented and achieve my goal at music. The story began when I was 5th grade student. When I started to play my 2^nd instrument – saxophone, I had put lots of effort to play this complicated, heavy instrument. However, it was hard and complicated than I expected and my efforts were pretty useless.

The time passed on and I still couldn’t play this gigantic instrument but I wanted to play this saxophone well. I tried and tried, but didn’t work. But at least I was better than other sax players who never tried to get better. However, I wasn’t satisfied. Then, I just started to enjoy learning instruments.

Over few days later, I became the best sax player in my whole grade. Then, I started to enjoy music and I started to learn more instruments such as oboe, drum, flute, piano, bass, trombone, etc. Now, I can’t remember how many instruments I learnt over one year. My music skills and the adapting new instruments skills were much better than before because I started to enjoy music, not just putting my effort. Then, I was proud of myself and thought I should learn more music instruments because I enjoy it and it has lots of benefits of learning new instruments.

As I started to enjoy music, music became one of my favorite subjects in the school. As I enjoyed myself, my music grades got better. My music skills improved. So, I thought. If I enjoy myself rather than trying my best effort to achieve something, I can go beyond my capacity.

How about you?

Battle of Hasting Game - Reflection

Briefly explain the game.
What did you enjoy about this game?
What did you learn whilst playing the game?
Explain what happened during the Battle of Hastings. (Use your information from class and any other reading you have done to fully develop this answer).
Why do you think that this type of game is a valuable learning experience?
Any other comments...





I played the games from Mrs. Whiting's blog and it was about the battle of hasting. There were two games and I personally liked the 2nd game. Let me introduce these two games breifely. 1nd game pretty boring - I suggest you not to play. This 2nd game was mostly fighting game where you really get to control the army and attack enemy - really suggest if you are boy or like fighting stuff. The reason I liked this game was that this was actually war game which really attracted me. From this game, I learnt that war isn't easy to do and it's better if we just don't declare a war. I also realized how many people died from the invasion.


This history - battle of hasting begins in 1066 at England. There was a king named Edward who was really sick and old. He needed a successor but he only had one nephew named Egar. However, he was too young to be his successor so instead, he chose Harlord Godwinson. Everyone knew he would be Edward's successor because he had control of army and he was very noble man. Most importantly, his sister was Edward's wife. Therefore, he became a successor of Edward. Soon, Edward died and the day of Edward's burial - Harlord was crowned.