I Reflect Proposal: Sia Caldwell (15892323)

 

WEBSITE TITLE:

Rewind ~ A Journey to Acceptance.

 

Goal 

My goal is to make a blog that exposes my past and helps me face the troubles that I encountered. I hope by doing this I am able to confront my past and live a life that doesn’t hold me back from the present. I hope that viewers will be inspired by the confrontation that I do and give others hope to move past the troubles they also faced and continue to face. This blog will be very deep and will touch on the aspects of my life that I still find hard to acknowledge and accept. I believe that through this blog I will be able to reflect on myself, the person I was and also the person I am becoming. Through this blog I want to make it known that in everyone there is the past that people try to hide, there is the past that people try not to accept and there is the past that people are not aware of. Every person is faced with their own difficulties and they put up a front that presents them as someone who is happy and someone without problems so because of this I hope that through this blog (that will be open to many people to see) will give others the motivation to move forward and reflect on themselves as well.

 

 

I will be using the following:

 

visual design (Wix)

I decided to choose wix because it is a convenient website that helps people create their own blogs and it is accessible to many people to view.

 

Social Media (Facebook)

Facebook will be part of my IREFLECT because Facebook is the key to people becoming aware of what is created. I will post my website on Facebook so people will be able to follow my posts on a weekly basis.

 

What topic do you want to work on?

I believe that a reflection of the person I am is very important to be able to live life happily and with positivity. Over the past few weeks, I have had trouble with many things from the past and I think that this is because I haven’t spoken about it and wouldn’t accept what has happened. I think every person has a time in their life where they feel as if they are stuck and is unsure of what is happening to them. I think that by choosing this topic other people will begin to realize that life and your past isn't something to be ashamed of. It’s something that should be embraced and spoken about, however, it’s taken me until now to realize this myself.

 

What skills or understanding will I be learning/improving?

Hopefully, by doing this blog it will give me an understanding of who I am and help me learn to accept myself for the way I am. Acceptance is never easy however I hope that I will be able to come to an understanding of what happened and why those things occurred. I tended to forget my childhood, I held a block over all the bad memories and I've realized that by doing this it has only made it so much more difficult to live a normal daily life. I want to have a happy mind, I want to think clearly and I want to be happy in general but I feel that this is incapable of happening unless I accept my past.

 

 

Method:

How will my progress be documented and demonstrated? 

I plan to write a post every week, this post will be similar to a Diary book style of writing. I will change the names from within the story so I don’t expose my families names however many people will know who I am talking about. I have spoken to my family and they have agreed with my idea. There will be a written style, however, these will be called chapters, not blogs. I will also link a song to each post that helps portray my story for each post. The songs I will choose will be songs that I interpret to relate to my chapter each week.

 

What tasks will I undertake in order to accomplish this? 

In all honesty, I think the only way to really accomplish this is, to be honest in all my posts and to post everything that I hold locked in the back of mind. I think that as I get into some topics it will be difficult to write, to think about and to post but if I really want to be truly happy, I think that I need to put 100% into each post.

 

 

What will I actually post on the portfolio page each week?                                                                                   

Each post will involve a topic of my life that has impacted me negatively and positively.

These posts (chapters) will form a short story that will be reflected on.

 

 

BLOG POSTS: (EVERY 5 DAYS)

 

(20.08) CHAPTER 1 - Cancer Mum.

When my mum was diagnosed with Breast cancer.

 

(25.08) CHAPTER 2 - Hidden Violence.

The Domestic Violence that was hidden within our house.

 

(30.08) CHAPTER 3 – The Final Goodbye.

The last time I said Goodbye to my father.

 

(04.09) CHAPTER 4 - The Truth comes out.

Parents divorce and the truth is found.

 

(09.09) CHAPTER 5 - Adopting Dads.

Asking my mum’s cousin, for him and his partner to become My dads.

 

 

REFLECTION

 

(15.09) CHAPTER 6 – Bullies.

The beginning of getting bullied and how things escalated.

 

(20.09) CHAPTER 7 – Things Get Worse.

The trauma of Highschool and the effect it has on me even now.

 

(25.09) CHAPTER 8 – a NEW path.

Meeting Koreans, learning the language and moving to Auckland.

 

 

 

REFLECTION

 

 

(14.09) (REFLECTION POST)

Reflection of my young self and childhood. Comparing a young scared child to who I am today and speaking about the seriousness of violence. Reflect on chapter 1 to 5 and speak about how I was able to get through what I did at that age.

 

 

(29.10) (REFLECTION POST)

Reflection of my high school self and who I am today. How the problems became opportunities. Giving advice to other victims of bullying. Talking about chapter 6 to 8 and reflecting on what has happened and how to move forward today.

 

 

Reflections:

For my reflections, I want to focus on every aspect of what happened and how it affected me. I hope that these reflections will also help me accept what has happened so I can move forward with life. I also hope these reflections will help give others the opportunity to reflect on themselves.

 

 

Theoretical references

Statistics of bullying, domestic violence, and other research will be included within my reflections.