School.

The school I go to now is Qatar Academy. I am in the eighth grade going onto ninth.

This year is my last year here in Qatar Academy and in Qatar. I will soon be going to [|Mowbray College] in Melbourne. I can honestly say that I will definitely remember all of the memories I have made in the 5 years that I have been a student in Qatar Academy.

At school, the curriculum of MYP offers us a lot of subjects. Those subjects are: I take 10 out of those 15 subjects.
 * Math
 * Art
 * Music
 * Design Technology
 * Information Technology
 * Humanities
 * Science
 * English
 * Physical Education
 * French
 * Arabic
 * Culture Studies
 * Drama
 * Spanish
 * Islamic Studies

__**English:**__ Here is a piece of a work that I was assigned to do early this school year in November: - It is a **"Travel Tourist Portfolio"** on Melbourne, Australia.

__Reflection:__ The first artifact that I chose to put on my wiki is my Travel Tourist Portfolio that I worked on early this school year in English class. The assignment was to pick a place that we've been to and really liked, and make a little tourist guide for the place. The location I chose was Melbourne, Australia. I preferred this place than any other place in the world for two reasons. One, I recently visited Melbourne that summer so I had a lot of pictures. Secondly, Melbourne is the place where I will be moving to at the end of school. The expectations for this work was that we have 3 pieces of writing. The first is the informative writing where we were to choose 5 things about our chosen place and describe the area along with some visual help. Probably 3 of the 5 things that I chose were places that I have been to that summer, and the other 2 are places that I have just heard from my cousins since they've been there. The second type of writing that we had to compose was persuasive writing. I chose to make the persuasive writing part about the suburbs in Melbourne. I chose that because maybe if I told the reader how amazing it is to live in the suburbs in Melbourne, that would persuasive them to maybe see if they want to live there. The third and last piece of writing is the descriptive writing. I decided to describe what the city in Melbourne was like when the moon began to rise and dark began to fall. This project was an individual one and were given about 2-3 weeks to finish. This piece of work is very significant to me because it is one of the best assignments that I have worked on this year. I got a 10, 10, 10 for this project (all out of 10). I am very proud of this artifact. I am very proud because this artifact because this is the highest grade I have ever gotten in English and this is the project that bumped my term grade from a 6 to a 7. Thanks to this piece of work, I now know how to write a travel guide for a place. I know how to persuade someone to visit a place and describe it so well that the reader might just get the next flight to that destination. I now know that I am capable of writing pieces of work like this. I am now more confident than before when writing descriptive, informative and persuasive writing.

Another one of my assignments in school was to prepare a presentation about Qatar in recent years for my Culture Studies class. - __Reflection:__
 * __Culture Studies:__**
 * This piece if work is a presentation that I had to present for Culture Studies. The requirement for this project was to have a presentation of any form (I chose to make a powerpoint presentation) about the State of Qatar. The project was given to us about three weeks ago and we were to present this week. We were required to include all major information about the country we were in. This project was an individual project. We will be graded on two things. Oral presentation and presentation content. It took me about two weeks for me to complete this project because I also had other different projects to work on for other classes. **
 * This piece of work is significant to me because I find it weird that in a month I will be leaving Qatar forever and before I leave I will have to learn nearly every aspect of the country and have a presentation on it. I am not so proud of this project because I really think that I could’ve done better. I think that because maybe if I didn’t have any other projects or work to concentrate on I would’ve made this presentation better and I would’ve probably finished in a shorter period of time. I got a pretty good grade for this project. The teacher hasn’t really given us our grades yet, but he told me that I did really well. That is why I chose this artifact. **
 * This project has helped me learn more and more about the country that I have been calling a home for the past 8 years. My time management for this may have been improved but as mentioned prior to this I have other assignments to work with. I now know that when working with big projects I should separate an equal amount of time for every project. This hasn’t really enhanced my skills because I used the same skills I had before to create a powerpoint presentation and since I was using Microsoft Office I didn’t really have any trouble at all. In the future, especially after I move I will try my best to remember everything I can about Qatar. **

__**French:**__ My third artifact is a presentation that I did, for French class, which was a brochure or information booklet for a monument in France. The monument I chose was the **Notre Dame de Paris**. - [|Notre Dame.pub]

__Reflection:__
 * This assignment is a brochure/information booklet about a monument in France. I knew that in the end nearly everyone in my French class would’ve picked The Tour Eiffel, so I chose the Notre Dame de Paris. The assignment was to research information about a monument in France and write about it in your own words. Then your words will then have to be put on an information booklet. This again was an individual project. **
 * This piece of work is significant because I got full marks for this project, one of the only ones in class. I am proud of this assignment because this is the first assignment where I had to work on a monument anywhere in the world. That’s the reason why I chose this artifact for my wikispace. **
 * This project has helped improve my knowledge about a monument in France called the Notre Dame de Paris. Yes, my time for this project was used more effectively and efficiently because we had a whole week of classes to work on it so I didn’t have to rush or anything when it came to working and researching. This project is good for me because perhaps in the future if I visit France I will be knowledgeable about the Notre Dame de Paris if I visit it. **

My fourth piece of work is my award certificate for participating in 2 sports and representing the school in those two sports.
 * __P.E./Sports:__**

__Reflection:__
 * This actually isn’t a piece of work but rather a certificate of work. The work in this case is participating in the U14 Football team and the U14 Track & Field. I represented the school along with other athletes for both those categories. There were two tournaments where we had to go. The U14 Football tournament happened in the Doha Rugby Club. We came home undefeated. The U14 Track & Field tournament happened all the way in Al Khor where we didn’t come home undefeated. Both times we had the most team spirit out of all the schools there and we were so pumped up we went absolutely crazy. **
 * This work is significant to me because this is the first time where I have been recognized for being an athlete and participating in sport tournaments. This now encourages me to continue participating in many more sports in the coming future. That is the reason why I chose this artifact. **
 * This artifact has made me feel so proud of myself. Through this artifact I will never forget about the tournaments that I went to. All those fun times were so worth leaving school for and those are memories to stay in my mind forever. In the near future when I take part in more sports I will always look back to this certificate and it will bring back all of the many memoirs I had as an athlete in QA. I am now more confident sportswise and that makes me very proud. **