I have finally achieved a new skill in track, which is high jump. On Saturday, the 15 and overs were shown a slow motion video of a proffesional jumping over the bar at the highest point. We were to notice his skills and the way he threw himself over the bar. Then we were shown the proper technique and we had to demonstrate it. I was able to observe the technique pretty successfully. But once it actually came to jumping, I didn't really jump that successfully. I think the fact that I was afraid of injuring myself affected the way I jumped. But then, in the end, after a few more tries I actually started managing successfully. Even if I didn't fully jump over the bar. Yesterday I managed to fully jump over the bar once, but still I need to practice a bit more. But even so, I still was glad I was able to achieve high jump at my own pace and I think that it's my favourite track event. I'm still not the best at running. I don't exactly know why this is but I suspect that it could be due to quite a number of factors.

I have done a lot in track recently. We have recently completed the time trials on Saturday and have now begun phase 2, which is event training. I have learned some new sport activities, such as shot put, discuss throwing, and high jump as well as did one that I was already familiar with, which is long jump. Most of them were pretty hard to do, and for many of them, it seemed to me like I had a harder time doing it than everybody else. Unfourtunatley, I am right in some sense. When I saw the list of people who came in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place when it came to the 400m/800m run I was at the bottom of the list in the lowest score possible (about 42 something). I also noticed that 99% of the time I was always running slower than anyone else. I guess this is due to a number of reasons. I think it was most probably because I am completley out of shape and have a certain routine at home. The high jump was also hard for me as I was afraid of injuring myself over the line. But there were some events in which I was able to perform averagely like everyone else. I got a pretty normal score in shot put ,discuss throwing, and long jump. But, like I said, I don't plan on making the team, I just hope to get more into shape. But even so, it's not that great being the weakest runner in the whole group!

For fashion design, I was able to help one person a bit. But I notice that no one asks me for help, they always turn to Ms Barnett. This then leads to a risk that I may develop a mind set in which I don't mind doing anything. It's going to be hard, but I have to try to improve things.