For term 2 projects, I joined up with Kurtas, Saia, Tata, and Mathew to implement our project based on improving and maintaining a 'rain garden'.
Throughout the project, a challenge that genuinely appeared to me was adapting and adjusting to our timelines. I personally struggled to complete the practical tasks, especially with the theoretical tasks within their time limits since I was heavily relied on by my team. Our project involved a lot of ideating and prototyping before we got physical, so time mostly wasn't on our side. However, I challenged myself to finish most of the theoretical tasks by spending most of my spare time at home to improvise and get things done that would support the project. Another challenge we faced was taking in a lot of information from differing ideas/topics and processing it, remembering the key things. I struggled to cope with learning in our usual timetable classes while simultaneously worrying and trying to work on our projects. In the end, I was fortunate to have my peers learn beside me and would constantly support each other including myself in the learning areas we lacked.
I really enjoyed term 2 due to the challenges I faced. Looking back, I'm glad I took those challenges head-on since it also exposed me to different methods of learning and having fun. A new passion of mine I recently discovered was that I'm into gardening. I was never bored of the rain gardening we did in our project and I've always been eager to resume our project since the term ended. It was fun and of course educational which is why I love it. Furthermore, the learning trips we took were extremely helpful. My group's travel to the Botanical Gardens was very educational and aesthetically entertaining. I was able to remember and process what we learned much easier since we were physically involved; as opposed to listening to a teacher teach or reading, I'm engaged but not enough.
