Friday, 20 May 2016

Conclusions


Creativity
1) Unfortunately I did not have much chance to improve my photographing skills. Still I accomplished photographing animals for at least one time.
2) I developed my drawing skills and I am really happy with the tiger picture (25 December 2015)
3) I learned many new songs and the ones that I have not yet finished, I will definitely continue learning them. I improved my piano skills quite a lot during these two years. I have not paid any attention to dynamics of the music and it is what I definitely want to start developing more.


Activity
1) I went to agility classes and we improved a lot. I actually competed on three instead of two competitions within 2 years.
2) I have improved my physical levels and I also decided to become a trainer and went to LesMills BodyJam initial training in January 2016

Service
1) I did a lot of hours of helping in the kindergarten and I really liked doing it. Also learned how to manage my time better, when you have to keep your eye on 5+ children.
2) I did help animal shelter and therefore improved the living conditions of the animals living there
3) I helped to organize two agility competitions and therefore also learned a lot of new things about agility


Creativity: Playing piano - El Dorado by EXO (20 hrs)

SHEET
ORIGINAL VIDEO



Studied since November 2015 until April 2016.
This is one song, that I have not managed to study clear completely. I still mess up quite a bit with the last pages. This is definitely a song, I want to keep practicing to master it without any mistakes. 
Since I live alone, I do not have a piano in my apartment and therefore I can only practice, when I am at my parents house.
14-15.11.2015 - 3hrs
12-13.12.2015 - 2 hrs. It is almost as I had to learn everything again, because I had not had a chance to play piano since the last time.
25.12.2015 - 1 hr
4-6.01.2016 - 4 hrs. I have changed some parts of the song, to make it more manageable for me to play, but the changes are not that drastic.
16-17.01.2016 - 2 hrs
19-21.02.2016 - 2 hrs. Since I am getting better and better with my playing, it is not that hard to pick up playing the piece again after 1 month.
11-13.03.2016 - 2 hrs. I have found that I repeat the beginning over and over and therefore I have not concentrated on the end of the song. I have to concentrate on the end more.
7-9.04.2016 - 4 hrs. It is definitely not perfect yet, beacuse it is still hard to study a piano song, when you do not have an access to piano all the time. But I have improved the end a lot more.

Since then I have just repeated the song few times, every time I got a chance to. Video was filmed in the end of May. Also I found that when I managed to master the ending of the song.

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Creativity: Playing piano - Lightsaber by EXO (5 hrs)

SHEET
ORIGINAL VIDEO


Filmed in the end of April
I studied it during one weekend and also filmed it then - 29 and 30 April.

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Activity: MyFitness trainings (within 2 years: 253hrs)

In addition to physically improving my performances I also decided to become a trainer and participated in LesMills BodyJam initial training in January 2016. 

Each workout lasts for 1 hour
Cardio/strength - group training
Gym: individual (approx. 1-1.5 hrs)

September 2014 (14)
Cardio 8
Strength 6

October 2014 (20)
Cardio 12
Strength 7
Gym 1


November 2014 (11)
Cardio 6
Strength 4
Gym 1


December 2014 (20)
Cardio 9
Strength 7
Gym 4

Januray 2015 (15)
Cardio 8
Strength 5
Gym 2


February 2015 (19)
Cardio 9
Strength 5
Gym 5

March 2015 (20)
Cardio 12
Strength  6
Gym 2


April 2015 (13)
Cardio 6
Strength 2 
Gym 5


May 2015 (12)
Cardio 4
Strength 3
Gym 5  


June 2015 (12)
Cardio 8
Strength 3 
Gym 1

September 2015 (10)
Cardio 6
Strength 3 
Gym 1

October 2015 (17)
Cardio 9
Strength 6
Gym 2 

November 2015 (12)
Cardio 10
Strength 2

December 2015 (16)
Cardio 13
Strength 1
Gym 2

January 2016 (13)
Cardio 8
Strength 2
Gym 3 


February 2016 (10)
Cardio 6
Strength 1 
Gym 3


March 2016 (10)
Cardio 5
Strength 2
Gym 3 


April 2016 (9)
Cardio 5
Strength 1 
Gym 3


Gotten from MyFitness home webpage (everyone has their own account, where they can keep track of their trainings). Shown example from September 2015 - April 2016 (my account).

Saturday, 9 April 2016

Creativity: Playing piano (non-finished or non-filmed songs) (24h)

Learned thorughout 2 years (September 2014 - April 2016)
Non-finished/ want to study
  1. Pirates of the Carribean ''He's a Pirate'' (Composed by Hanz Zimmer) 
  2. BTS - I Need U SHEET ORIGINAL VIDEO
  3. GOT7 - If You Do SHEET ORIGINAL VIDEO
  4. EXO - Baby Don't Cry SHEET
  5. Taylor Swift - Style 

Non-filmed
  1. Bastille - Icarus SHEET (7h)
  2. Bastille - Oblivion SHEET (5h)
  3. Bastille Medley SHEET (5h)
  4. Infinite - Bad SHEET/VIDEO (7h) ORIGINAL VIDEO
All the Bastille songs were learnt during the summer holiday. Pirates of the Carribean ''He's a Pirate'' I have been playing since the beginning of 2015. Also then I started to play the other none-finished songs and some of them I did not end up learning anymore

Infinite - Bad
11-13.03.2016 - 4 hrs. this song has some parts I cannot get right no matter what. Also I modified the song for myself quite a lot. For example in the bars 41-46, (left hand) instead going Es-B-Es-A, I go Es-B-Es-B etc. I tried to master it for over half an hour and I could not. I do not know why, because I can play much harder pieces. 
7-9.04.2016 - 3hrs. It was not really hard to pick up the song after 3 weeks, but I have modified this song even more to play it and to make it more likeable to me. 

Again I have kept playing the song after I finished ''learning'' it. I am not really happy with the outcome yet, therefore I do not want to film it. Also, I am not quite sure with the changes I made. I kinda want to learn the original way, but it will take a lot of time. I thought at first just by looking at the sheets, that it would be a lot easier piece to play - it was not. 

Friday, 8 January 2016

Service: helping at kindergarten (8 hrs)

Within two days during winter holiday (05.01.2016/ 06.01.2016) I volunteered again at my local kindergarten. I helped to organize free time activities for kids, served food and cleaned everything up afterwards. On the first day I was there during the evening shift and second day the mornings shift. Since during the morning they usually take the kids out, but this time the weather was quite bad and I decided to organize some games for the children. I decided to paint hedgehog with them from the stencil and draw a picture of their family also to put together some puzzles.