Health Without Borders

In my anatomy class, we have an ongoing iTunes U course about health and wellness that anyone all over the world can access and use as a learning device. With much more popularity than we expected,  we have continued to add our own projects into the curriculum to help our viewers learn how they can be healthier. This six weeks I am especially proud of  my group'so final project in which we wrote and recorded a song that teaches bones and bone health. We took the popular song by Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, "Beauty and a Beat" and came up with our own, original lyrics. Our message is catchy and clear and hopefully will be a great learning tool for those who like learning through the ear and incorporating music! Below is the link to the song that you can download.

Beauty and A Bone

Using My Strengths

In my second six weeks of senior year, I have worked on assignments within my extracurricular activities, including Red Jackets, which is a group of 32 senior students that are chosen each year as the "face" of Coppell High School. In our monthly meeting in October, we used the book "Strengths Based Leadership" to which strengths we all possess. Specifically, we took one of the most well-known personality tests online, called Strengths-finder where we each went through a series of multiple questions evaluating our personality types and how we favored certain things or not. At the end, it evaluates your answers and presents you with the top 5 strengths you have. Not completely shocked, my top 5 strengths were Achiever, Discipline, Strategic, Developer, and Responsibility. Although some of these were not a surprise, some of them did come as a shock. In addition to finding these out, we worked all day on understanding our strengths, where and how we use them, how they are beneficial and sometimes also work against us, and most importantly, how to work together and compare our strengths to those of others. It was an assignment I had never done before but thought was very interesting and cool to figure out, since most of the time we, as people, focus primarily on our weaknesses. We then took it a step further and developed a mission statement for our lives that entailed using our strengths. Below I have attached the definitions of my strengths and my mission statement. I encourage everyone to take the test at strengths.gallup.com to uncover the traits they may not have ever realized they had.

Strengths Based Leadership

Sharing the Gospel

This past six weeks I have also had the chance to progress in work outside of school. I am a leader for a Young Life Girl's Bible Study organization called Coffee Talk. We meet once a month and discuss relevant high school girl issues, ultimately bringing girls to the word of Christ and spreading the love and grace of Jesus. As I have been involved in this group over the past four years of high school, I have been blessed to have the opportunity to move into a leadership position in which I-and my partner- get to mentor over a small group of freshmen girls. We meet them, love on them, pray for them, and pour into them as much as we can. We get to give them advice over high school and be there for whatever they need. This month was the kickoff and we had our first meeting that went better than I could have ever imagined. I now have met the girls that I feel have been chosen to be in my group for a specific reason only God  knows and has planned. This privilege is important to me, for I get the chance to mentor girls inside and outside of school and teaches me responsibility, commitment, and accountability to pursue the Lord and His path for me.

Obsession Essay

This past week, I wrote my first Dual Credit Essay in which was a reflection over our Unit 1 topic-Obsession. We-as human beings- are all obsessed with different types of things whether it is a physical product or specific activity, routine, etc. Our assignment was broad-we simply had to write a 2 page paper over something that we are obsessed with. It was free range, being anything and everything our unique selves enjoy on a daily basis. For me, country music was the first thing that popped into my head when brainstorming. Writing this essay came easy for me, and I enjoyed writing about something I am so passionate about. In my essay I explained my personal encounter with country music from the beginning of my obsession and how it has transgressed to now. I think this piece not only reflects my strength of writing a personal narrative, but also is a clear insight to a part of my life that I've never had the chance to write down my feelings towards. Country music is a big part of who I am, who my family is, and what I know will never change about my personality. It is my escape, my strength and weakness, and the thing in life that I could not live without.

Country Music Obsession Essay