Hey what a project!!!

The Teen Life project was a great discovery for me. Not only I learned a lot but I had a lot of fun. I felt communicating with people around the world made a great connection. I liked learning about the thought of different people. Once I wrote to people of east Asia as pen pals, however I didn't really learned so much about them as I learned here, so that's something I liked a lot.

Somehow I learned about technology. For example the wiki. A LOT of times before I've used Wikipedia, however I really didn't thought why it was called WIKIpedia. That was interesting. Maybe the next time I enter there and I see an error I will have the opportunity to change it. I will feel I helped a lot of people. Another thing I learned is about Skype. I had used Skype before and had seen the thing that said to make a call, but I didn't really know how it worked. It was really interesting the day we did the Skype call. I talked and was really nervous but still it was VERY fun.

Another reason of why I had a lot of fun was because of the videos. On sixth grade I did a play for drama in video and I did a lot of editing which was fun. Since then I wanted to use those abilities again. When Mr.Hide told us we could use video I felt somehow excited. Of corse nervous because a lot of people will see us! But still very, very excited. The hardest part of doing the video was when we forgot what to say. We did a script, but we thought, "Hey! We know a lot of these. I mean, It has been a lot of weeks of researches! Why don't we tell what we learned and now almost know for completely?" and that helped me a lot!

The TLP also had its dark side. Or maybe not really, because working hard isn't bad. However it stressed me out. Sometimes so much I worked until very late. The other bad side of this project is that technology sometimes fails us. Many times we tried to save the video on a CD and on a US drive, but it didn't! So much that we almost got a bad grade on the report cards. However, the good side is that we finally learned how to safe the information correctly.

In conclusion, TLP was a great experience. I know many people must have said the most important thing of all is they learned a lot. But honestly, is true! One of the days of the project I was watching the news with my parents and there was a report about something that had to do with pollution in Asia. They were going to ask and expert about the problem, and before he had answered, I already knew the answers! That day I felt kind of proud of myself. Then I understood all those weeks were useful. Imagine how much I dedicated to this!