DAY 5: Cut the two wooden small sticks and the two long wooden sticks, exactly following the outline on the plywood board 

Today was a productive lesson/ACSU time because I did substantial and satisfying amount of work. Today I also got an opportunity to help other people and display my leadership skills. I got an opportunity to display my leadership skills by helping and teaching some tricks and techniques of using various equipment in the DT lab! This was a completely different experience for me because since create stage has began, I have only been taught by someone else but never have taught anyone. I felt proud in doing so because I was assisting someone who was younger than me. In such situations, i had two options- either to get angry at the younger students because they were acting very languid or be kind and nice to them by helping them so that even they progress faster and even I will be able to get the equipment quickly. Today, unfortunately there were long queues for almost all the the equipment needed. There was a long queue especially for the jig saw which I needed the most. But instead of using the jig saw, I used the scroll saw whose results were obviously not as good as if I had used the jig saw! But since I needed to finish my work quickly and move on to the next task, I needed to work with what I could find quickly and conveniently! The first thing I did was to cut the two handles properly. I had cut then last lesson too, but then they were cut in a very crooked way and I wanted to improve on this. So I used the scroll saw and removed very tiny slices of wood and made the handles as equal and uniform as possible! Then I also cut the triangular pad  which was outlined on a different wood plank. Fortunately, this wood plank was small compared to the other plywood planks. Thus it was easy to carry around until break time. At break time, I kept the wood plank in Mr. Wafula's office.  After properly cutting the handles, I moved on to cutting the triangular pad! I did this using the scroll saw too!Fortunately, I was able to follow the outline more accurately compared o last time. However, I am quite sure that I could have done a better job using the jig saw. I also learnt the trick of using the scroll saw which was to move quickly. If I moved quickly, then there would be less chance of me making a mistake and more likely for me to move in a straight line. I liked the look of the triangular pad after cutting it because it looked the way I wanted it to and reached my expectation. Then I sanded all of the wood pieces, including the two handle pieces, the triangular pad and the surfboard. I needed to make the handles very smooth and wanted the corners to be rounded and blunt. This is because, when one is using the surfboard, h/she will be tightly holding on to the handle which needs to be smooth in order for it to not injure the surfer. I made the two handles extremely smooth and fine, however the shape was still quite curvy and not straight! I also properly sanded the triangular pad which gave it an extremely smooth and a uniform look! Additionally, i also sanded the surfboard because I realized that I had not done it properly, the last time i did it. Therefore I improved on it and made the perfect! I also made the surfboard uniform and same in dimensions because it was looking irregular and rather not accurate. Therefore I drew another outline where I needed to make it accurate and cut it using the jig saw. By this time the jig saw was free because many people had left. But today I am proud of my progress even though I am not exactly following the plan! Here are some pictures of the outcome of today's hard work: