Response #1
I guess the one challenge I’ve had was when my brother went to camp for elementary school and just said way too much to his counselor and that lead to family issues. So it was like a little vacation for school, where you send your kid off to camp, and they come back a few days later. My brother being talkative, talked to one of the camp counselor and said that my Dad had a drinking problem. This distressed the counselor and CPS called and sent people to our house to I investigate and see if our house was ok. It lead to a difficult time as my parents started fighting a lot after this, and my brother was getting constantly yelled at. My Dad couldn’t really trust my brother for a long time then after as he didn’t know what he could say and couldn’t around Wyatt. We as a family overcame this as my Dad cut back on his drinking and Wyatt learned when to keep his mouth shut about family business. This challenge has taught me to realize what to say to friends, and others, and just what I need to keep to myself. It really hasn’t changed the way I talk to people, or my friend, but it really just educated me upon the topic of privacy and personal business that really other people outside of our family don’t need to know. Overall it just helped me realize that some things are better left unsaid as it can just create problems in the future.
Response # 2
In my elementary school, there were multiple opportunities for additional education. One, was a thing called STEM, which stands for Science, Technology, I think Engineering, and Math. It was an afterschool program where we learned basic things about computers, science, & it helped a lot with math. I think this was for my elementary but i’m not certain. It was elementary school or middle school. Also during my elementary school, there was this thing that promoted reading. As a young lad, I grew to enjoy reading as everyone in my family did. For this program, you would read a book, then you would take a little test online, and if you passed you got points. These points were cumulative and at the end of the year, whoever had the most points got some prizes. As I liked reading already, these prizes were just an incentive to read more and more. I believe this program lead to my great success in reading comprehension as I can typically read something and understand what the author is trying to say. This has greatly bolstered my already pretty extensive vocabulary as I still read, but only really if I see a book that interests me. Due to my ability to understand most of what I read even when I’m reading a pretty hard book, I can understand on the first time. This program was great and I really think if it’s not already employed in most elementary schools, they really should implement it into the schools as I think it’s really a help to kid’s reading comprehension skills and development.
Response # 3
My talents and skills are pretty much the same as they were a few years ago. My greatest talent is probably my intelligence as I can do pretty well in school without actually having to put effort in. My skills and talents have definitely been demonstrated over the years as I can get better grades than a lot of people by just doing nothing. This skill has developed over the years as I have gotten older, as I have gotten lazier, and done less and less and still gotten pretty decent grades. For soccer however, I think I have developed greatly as I have gotten much better at reading the game, understanding what to do, when to do it, and making the correct decisions in critical scenarios. What also changed from soccer, was my ability to run endlessly. As a kid, I could just run and run and run back and forth across the pitch. Now, however, that is much more challenging even though I can still outrun most people, but I will need a break here and there. While I lost the aspect to run around endlessly I think I gained the muscle and ability to hit the ball a good 45 yards at least without any momentum, which is pretty critical for much needed clearances. For all of my talents, I was blessed with them, and for none unless you count outside of school club practice as working towards it, I have yet to actually put any type of effort into these talents of mine. If i did however, I probably could have been either a really good student, soccer player, or a really good runner as I had all of these talents without actually trying.
Response #4
Typically my viewpoint is very different from others. I tend to have different ideas on how to do something, even if there is already a simple way of solving it, I tend to just think of trying something new in a different sort of fashion. While I am like this, I simply might just conform to the simplicity of the normal way to do that certain thing for the sake of time. I guess my creative side would be my problem solving and intuition. Not too long ago, for my job, we were playing a game where everyone but the guesser is in a circle and they pick someone to be the “indian chief” Then that person would do something and everyone would mime that one person. The guesser would then have 3 guesses to figure out who is the indian chief. Anyway, back to my story, in this game, I was appointed the guesser so I left to wait for them to pick the chief and once they were ready I walked back. Here, I used my intuition basing the fact that the last indian chief was on my front part of the circle, I figured that they would naturally choose someone on the opposite side of the circle. I was right and as I turned around, processing this information, I saw the person who was the indian chief changing the motions, and I ended the game in about 6 seconds. The game can go up to a couple minutes long, so this was extremely fast and just a little demonstration of my use of creative thinking via intuition. This also shows that my viewpoint is different as most people wouldn’t think to use intuition in a game like this, and would just base it purely off of luck.
Final Response
I guess I define my identity as my race and just my personality. Race plays a role in my identity, but it doesn’t affect the way I think or am. Just I realize what I am and I embrace it. Some people may be unsatisfied with what race, or how they look, but I just don’t really care. As long as I know who I am and what makes me me, I’m fine. My parents, and other members of my family may play a slight role, in the way I’m perceived but I for the most part stay pretty neutral and just in general my identity I guess would be just what I am and what I do. I consider myself at this part in my life, to be a white, soccer player, who is too lazy to do anything. That is honestly how I would think of myself at this point in my hopefully expansive life. I call myself lazy in my identity, too not berate myself, but to show that I’m taking honest consideration and really thinking about how I actually am and what I do. Laziness is a part of my identity like a dog’s hearing is an important factor of what makes a dog, a dog. If I had to describe myself in a few words, it would be this. Lazy, smart, and very laidback. Another part of my identity would be my nonchalant characteristic, as I don’t really care about too much, and for the most part just try to relax and let life take me along. I prefer to be this way, as it creates the most fun for me and entertains me which is very necessary for me. I guess I could also add that to my identity. It is very hard for me to do something, if it isn’t either hard, or entertaining. If something isn’t this way I get bored way too easily and I tend to start to either space out, or get extremely bored and do something else. These attributes really contribute to my identity and what others may think of me. It kind of is the same way I am with people and the way I come off. Not gonna lie, if I think someone is boring, I will actually avoid talking to that person as I doubt I will get any type of entertainment off it. I guess the last thing that contributes to my identity would be the fact that I am extremely shy. I won’t talk to people that I don’t know unless they start talking to me first. Which is also why others may see me in a bad light. Looping this back around to the topic of my identity, I mentioned all these things because they come back around in a full circle to really describe me as a person and my identity. Without all these things, I wouldn’t be me. It wouldn’t feel real and I would be lost and disoriented. I just wouldn’t be me without all these attributes that really contribute to my identity as a person.