When I originally started working on my weather project, I didn’t want my topic to be on tornadoes. Like everyone else in my class, I wanted to research tsunamis. But eventually I decided that it didn’t really matter about what group I got. I had to rock-paper-scissors someone for my subtopic, which was prevention and safety. But I was nervous as I didn’t have a lot of information on it.
Researching was way more challenging than I had expected. I only found one website that mentioned safety about tornadoes. I used only one book and one website, but both of them had a lot of information to share. It was fun to research for information, but also very challenging. I found more information on the website than the book. However, they both provided a lot, so I had to be very particular with what I chose to keep. But that wasn’t a struggle for me. All I had to do was just look at my notes and then type it down. Sure, it took a long time, and it was harder than it seemed to find pictures that supported my work, but it still was still easy.
I did however, struggle with memorizing all of the information I found, as well as finding the information on my subtopic. Tornadoes are well-known natural disasters, so you might think it was easy to find information, but since my subtopic is prevention and safety, it was super hard to do that.
Memorizing was definitely my biggest struggle! I could never seem to get it right and I thought that I would never fully memorize my slides. I felt sad because the people in my group had three and four slides, meanwhile I struggled with only having two slides. I didn’t speak loud enough when I first rehearsed in front of my class, but it was easily fixed! Rehearsing at home was a lot easier because it was way quieter there. But in the end, I persevered and did a great job!
I chose to study Burundi because it’s a poor country with not a lot of resources. Burundi had a lot of information I could use. It may have been a random choice, but I wanted to do something that no one else would even think of doing because I wanted my infographic to be extraordinary. Burundi is way more poor than you might think. I know I don’t have exactly a good reason why I chose Burundi for this, but it still was really fun. It may look like it was really easy to make this, but it was way harder than you think! I started this off with a bunch of words, but then I realized an infographic is where you have to explain about your country in mostly words! When I realized that, doing this seemed a lot easier. I had to do a lot of research to do this project even though it may not seem like that. I had to delete most of the words from my infographic because it has to, of course, be made up of mostly words. Doing this was challenging, but I soon got the hang of it. I had to work on this project for a really long time but it was totally worth it! What I liked about doing this was that it was fun, but still challenging. Doing this was an amazing experience and I put my heart into making this!