After my first year at Respect4us, I definitely enjoyed the few first months, got involved in a few activities, and was a great experience, some of the activities I didn’t enjoy, but I still had a good try at it. If I knew that I disliked an activity I would tell Tobi that I disliked that activity, and I would sit aside of the activity and watch the others do it.

One of the only problems I had on my first year was that I am not the greatest with heights and lifting myself of the ground level, and then we started to do rock climbing, and I didn’t do the first lesson, but the next time that we went there I tried it, I got a little bit up the wall, and as the weeks progressed I got even higher up the wall. Eventually at the last lesson I got at least ¾ up the wall, and I was quite proud of myself, as well as Tobi being proud of me too, as well as some of the students.

But coming back to Respect4us as a year 11 now, there wasn’t many people that were at the Swaffham side of us, but the good thing was is that I got along with everyone at the Swaffham side, so there would be a lot more communication between me and the others. And as the weeks progressed more people are starting to join us and I am meeting a lot more people, making a few more friends and having a good chat and laugh with our group. It will be a lot more fun when we get more people with us, as we can participate in more activities that require a few amount of people.

But one thing that I have focused on this term/year is my cooking/catering skills, as it is something that I now enjoy to do myself, as well with others. I only started properly cooking this year by myself mainly, but I have had a few people help me with some other bits, which is also fun. One day we made a steak pie together and it was great, and I remembered how to make it, and the day I went home I insisted that I made one at home, so after I got all the ingredients to do so, I made a steak pie with my family. Now knowing that I can remember a recipe to something, I thought it would be a good idea to learn more recipes to things, as well as creating my own in the future.

But since then I have made a few more things that I originally intended to do, and now I really enjoy cooking, especially. I decided to do catering at college when I leave Respect4us, I originally intended to do Graphic Animation, but I had to change my mind, as I thoroughly enjoy cooking a bit more than I usually did. Which on my half, is a great thing to be able to say, and do.

But going back to other activities, most of the activities that we do I enjoy, but the ones that I don’t, I won’t force myself to do them, but the ones that I enjoy I will definitely take part in them. Especially such things as Football (Not A full match), Pool/Snooker, Crafting/Building small objects, drawing, I enjoy a lot more but I can’t list every one of them here.