One of my key interests for the second semester of the year 2020-2021 is nutrition. I will say I have connected with this subject. I am interested in nutrition, and I believe it is vital. At the beginning of this year, I knew a few facts and studied on my own, but the OSLA program helped me learn the depth of nutrition to then be able to inform myself, colleagues, and future members of the OSLA program. I do plan to continue my learning next semester. I want to know what nutrients, minerals, vitamins can do for your body and how your body takes these different types of benefits. I want to connect the body and health, and then see where I go from there.

I unequivocally can state that I have completed the hero's journey. At the beginning of this journey, I learned about the hero's journey how it is a template created by Joseph Campbell in which one goes on an adventure and comes back transformed or changed. At the beginning of my journey, I was a bit frightened but eager to be learning a different method, nonetheless. So I can say it was easy in the beginning. After a while, it can get tiring, but you need to do what you need to do, thankfully I had a helper/mentor, Dr. Preston. I often found myself stuck on what I should write or say, but I had my teacher, Dr. Preston to help me and support me when I felt unmotivated. There were also temptations, such as plagiarizing my masterpiece. When I don't know what to do and feel like giving up, I turn to plagiarize to get things done quicker. I wanted a fresh start. It was the beginning of the year, I was learning differently than what I was used to, and I also wanted to change how I write. As the days go by and the end of this semester is coming to an end, I can see my growth both mentally and in school, and that is what made me a hero.

In your average classroom, it's structured in a way where we have no choice what we want to lean, what we would rather do, we may even feel like we can't raise our hands because then the teacher will yell at us for not understanding what she just said. My colleagues did deserve the choices given to us it and we sure did honor it. When we give choices you show that you trust them. All of my colleagues presented masterpieces by our key interests chosen by ourselves in the beginning of the second semester. I believe OSLA is a lot more successful than a regular classroom. At the end of the day your basic regular classroom has students who feel drained, guilty, terrible about their learning. How do you know this for a fact? I know this for a fact because that was me. I got to see year after year how everyone is not learning anymore but just completing the work needed no matter how they got their answers, trying to pass each class for a piece of paper. OSLA embraces mistakes, and doubts. When we learn it is inevitable that we are going to feel stuck at some point, with OSLA you will never feel if whether you should ask a question because we learn its ok to ask questions, be curious about the world, and learn learn learn!