Lego Stop Motion – Block A

For English COL, we had to create a stop motion video with Lego on a story that we choose. Our group, we chose to recreate the Veldt. It was a great decision and I am happy with the outcome.

Here is the link to the video.

Category: ADL 10 Assignments, English 9 | 1 Comment

February 27

Community Connection

For this project: Community Connections, I chose to interview a person who had the same passion as me and that is Derek Epp.

Derek Epp is a professional volleyball player for the Trinity Western Spartans. He plays in the setter position and he and his team won multiple Canada West championships. He was on the youth national team and played for Team Canada National team. He is also the setter on the first all-star team for this year.

He is my role model because he is such a good setter and a good player in overall and I wanted to become a person like him. Not only is he good at volleyball but he is also a really good person in general. He is friendly and very kind. When I first contacted him, I thought he wasn’t going to respond since he’s very popular and he is busy with his volleyball life but very kindly, he decided to help me out answering a few questions for me. I am extremely grateful for this. I decided to contact Derek Epp because he was one of the best setters that I ever knew in volleyball. Of course, there are a lot of great setters around the world such as Micah Christenson, Bruno Rezende, and Benjamin Toniutti etc. but on that list, there was Derek Epp. I started to know him around an year ago when I actually started to get into volleyball as a sport to play even from outside of school and I knew he was close by and played nearby, I decided to go to one of his games and have a little talk with him. The biggest reason why I chose this individual is because he is my role model because he is kind, friendly, caring and most of all, a great teammate.

That is what the most important thing is for the sport and I want to be just like him. This interview opened up my relationships but also my confidence. It opened up more opportunities for me because I just started to play volleyball and I’m not amazing at it like my peers and all I thought about is that “Only the players that start when they’re really young are amazing at volleyball” but after I heard Derek’s story, I was inspired since he said that he started in grade 9 so it gave me more confidence of the chance of me getting better and having an opportunity on the starting lineup as the main setter.

There is no exact link/website to my interviewee so here, I just have the athletics website of Trinity Western. And to see his photos, you may just hover over the MENU button and click on the category of MEN’S VOLLEYBALL. Then you can see all the things on the website.

Why are you passionate about your job?

“I think my passion for volleyball stems from an internal drive to pursue the best version of myself. I love to play the game, and it gives me the opportunity everyday to try and better myself as a player and as a human. It gives me more opportunities to make and work on relationships, to work on my physical fitness and health, and gives me opportunities to pursue the best version of myself as a volleyball player everyday.”

What obstacles have you faced to get you where you are today?

“There have been many instances of adversity throughout my career. One of the biggest would be making the decision to leave home, and leave my family to come out to Trinity (Western University) to pursue my volleyball dreams. That was one of my hardest decisions I’ve had to make in my life, but also one of the best decisions I’ve made. There have been lots of volleyball specific obstacles, which can be overcome with determination, grit, and a love for what you doing.”

What advice would you pass on to someone interested in what you are doing?

“As far as volleyball goes, I would suggest to get in the gym as much as possible. Get as many reps in as you can. Work day and night trying to perfect your craft. Be the first in the gym and last to leave, all the while being the hardest worker there. A quote I really like is ‘Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard’. How hard you are willing to work and how many hours you’re willing to put in is completely in your control and allows you to fully maximize the gifts that you have been given.”

Would you be open to further contact from Riverside students and if so, how can someone contact you?

Of course, and my e-mail is derekepp98@gmail.com

What inspired you to become particularly a setter for professional league volleyball

“The thing that I love the most about volleyball is how interdependent it is as a sport. You always need to be working as a team, one player can’t win the game for you. Going off of that, one of the reasons I fell in love with setting is that you are always in the middle of the action and the ball has to go through you every play. I was drawn to the amount of action and control you have over the game as a setter.”

Was volleyball the number one priority for your future goal or was there another sport or anything that you wanted to do for a living

“I actually didn’t start playing volleyball seriously until grade 9. Growing up, I always wanted to be a professional soccer player. Soccer was my passion until volleyball took over in grade 9.”

Thank you for reading my Community Connections post. Hope you have liked it.

I have found all these photos on gospartans.ca and on the Instagram page of the Spartans

Category: ADL 10 Assignments, PE 9 | 1 Comment

September 18

Digital Footprint

1 – How might your digital footprint affect your future opportunities? Give at least two examples.

In the future when you do an interview for a job or some work, the people working there will search your name up and they will see if you have a bad digital footprint. If something pops up that is not the best content, high chance that they will not accept you. Also when you are being asked by the police because they think you are the suspect, you can be suspected even more if you have a bad past. So if you have a clean digital footprint, the police might suspect you less.

(Job Interview) (Investigation room)

2 – Describe at least three strategies that you can use to keep your digital appropriate and safe.

Do not post yourself doing bad things online so that everyone can see it. You’re the only one that is going to suffer in the future

Only use social media or the internet when you actually NEED it. Well you could play games or something but not something inappropriate or offensive.

Don’t be a part of the people who don’t do the right decisions at times. The more you spend time around those people, You will change and become one of them and you might not even know what you could do so always be extremely cautious of what you are searching and what you are doing.

(Use social media responsibly)

3 – What infromation did you learn that you would pass on to other students? How would you go about telling them?

I honestly think the technology as a distraction at times. Sometimes when a teacher is talking, I tend to look at my laptop. At my age I think technology in front of me is very hard not to touch because it is technology and I do like it because I could do almost anything on it. So except when I really need it, for example when I do homework or when I do class work, but when I don’t need it, I close the cover (It helps me at least) and put it to the side. It does me two things, I can listen well to the teacher and I can stay off the device because if my friend is beside me, I don’t know what I might search up without even knowing. I would say to other students to not go on their devices except when they need it because at this time of age, as an adolescent, you never know what you might do.