Kristen's+Reflection+Page

__ Monday, August 1. __ Today was the first day at The Delivered Meals Program; I was really nervous to go in because I was the first one there just not at the right spot, so I was nearly late by the time me and my mum got to the right place. The staff were very welcoming and nice. On my first trip I was with Tammy, she was really nice. Our trip was to Werribee South, some of the old people were scary and weird but most of them were polite and would let me into their homes welcomingly.
 * COMMUNITY LINKS**

__ Thursday, August 4. __ After completing the first week at The Delivered Meals Program I learnt that it is sometimes hard to hear the old people when they speak and that this program isn’t as bad as I thought it would be because most of the old people were really nice. Every Thursday the staff would take the cars for a car wash and to fill up the petrol / gas. Seeing as I hadn’t been in a car wash in ages it was really fun. Tammy and I went back to the office early so we were able to leave early.

__ Friday, August 12. __ Today was the last day at The Delivered Meals Program. I was with Carmel for the day; we received a small amount of meals to deliver so we finished really fast and were able to organise to meet at McDonalds with Kylie and Tammy. While at McDonalds Kylie and I saw other people from our class. It was a really good, fun day and I would love to go back and help at there again because I liked seeing older people in the community that normally wouldn’t have many people visit them during the week.

On the 1st and 2nd of September the year 9’s of St Mary’s Campus went on Melbourne Experience. On the first day my group and I (Chloe, Casey and Janelle) went on the tours ‘A Walk In The Park’ and ‘On The Waterfront’ it was a fun day and the walk in the park was my favourite because it was so green and peaceful there. On the second day we went to The Queen Victoria Market and on the ‘Arcades and Lanes’ tour, the Vic Market was my favourite of the day and experience because I got lots of new bracelets and it was really fun. Melbourne Experience was one of the best days this semester at St Mary’s.
 * MELBOURNE EXPERIENCE **

Each student will build their own page for the puposes of Reflection. This is because when two students are using the same page at the same time the page will not save properly.
 * Reflections**

Each week for 10 weeks you will need to make a relection about your experiences. Each reflection is expected to at least 200 words in length.

The topic or questions you are asked to reflect on at listed below. Copy these questions to your individual reflection page.

Week 1
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? The best piece of advice that I have ever received was from my mum and she started saying this when I was young but I most remembered it when we were in Queensland for a family holidays two years ago when we were going on rides, she said ‘always try everything, because there’s a very good chance that you’ll never get the same opportunities that you have in this moment.’ I find this to be the best piece of advice that I’ve ever received because it told me to try things that I wouldn’t usually try and I know that I won’t be given the same chances that I’m given now. This also relates to school for me as well because of exams, tests and studying if I don’t pass my exams and tests then I won’t be given better opportunities later in life when I really do need them, because my mum might not be around to support me anymore because anything can happen, if I don’t study I won’t be able to pass my tests and exams so it really doesn’t affect me now but it will in ten years when I’m looking for a good paying full time job.

Week 2
What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? If I threw a piece of trash on the ground it would make the area I’m in / visiting look dirty but it would also affect the lives of the animals in the area because they might think that the particular piece of rubbish looks like food they would eat and they might attempt to eat it and get a piece of plastic stuck in their throat causing them not to be able to eat and then eventually dying of starvation. Depending on the area that I was in it could end up in the drains which goes out to the ocean which is very bad for the wildlife. If everyone threw pieces of trash on the ground it would make the world a unclean environment to live in and there would be many animals dying because of the uncleanliness of the way that they are living. There would be lots more diseases because of how everything isn’t being disposed of properly and eventually someone would pick up others mess which would mean that they would be touching the germs being carried through that piece of trash. Whereas if everyone picked up a piece of trash every day the Earth would be much cleaner and a nicer place to live in.

Week 3
What would you do if you saw a friend cheating - report it, confront the friend or nothing - and why? What do you think courage means? What do you think makes a good friend? If I saw my friend cheating, depending on what type of test it was, I wouldn’t report it because they would get into serious trouble, but I would definitely confront them about it because it’s not right to cheat when you can just try your hardest and get your own score, instead of just copying someone else and stealing there marks. If it was a serious test that could determine there future I would have to report it because they would just be getting away with a score that wasn’t actually theirs and benefiting from it in the wrong ways. I think that courage means you’re able to stand up for what you want, and you can face any situation without fear. I think that what makes a good friend is someone that can be there for you all the time and not judge your decisions no matter how wrong they think they are. Being a good friend means you have trust in one another, you don’t have to worry about telling them something and thinking that the rest of your friends / peers will all find out because if they really were a good friend they wouldn’t tell anyone anything that you’ve said.

Week 4
What is your most indispensable possession and why? My most indispensable possession is music, a bit of every style I enjoy listening to but my favourite is hard-core because the lyrics mean a lot more to me, and they have a lot more emotion put into them than a pop song would have. Another reason why music is my most indispensable possession is because I love playing music and I’m currently teaching myself guitar and piano because I don’t like being told how to play something by a teacher and because I like being able to listen to the song and trying to pick it up on my own. Playing music is the only thing that I feel comfortable doing because it’s the only place I feel like I can be myself, locked in my room with my guitar is enough to make me happy for a while, or playing the piano, or even just listening to some new artists can make any bad mood leave me because it is what I’ve been doing for a long time and it’s what relaxes me. When I do my homework I listen to music in the background because it helps me concentrate on the tasks that I have to complete.

**Week 5**
What do you think about people polluting the environment? I think that people are polluting the environment because they don’t actually realise the damage that they are causing to the Earth, I don’t think that people will stop polluting until they are taken to a place to view all the damage that they are creating and all the animals that are getting sick and dying because they think a piece of trash is actually a piece of food. People pollute the environment because it’s easier to just throw a piece of paper or trash onto the ground rather than to get up and walk a few steps to a waste bin or recycling bin, doing this only kills the earth a bit more each and every time. If everyone didn’t pollute, or helped clean up other people’s mess the world would look much nicer and there would be no innocent animal lives being taken. People pollute the environment because they can’t see the effects right before their eyes, whereas in 20 to 30 maybe even in 40 years some already endangered animals will become extinct and some animals that we see every day might be on the verge of going extinct.

Week **6**
How do you feel when you do something wrong? How do you feel when you do something that is very good? When I do something wrong I feel really really bad about myself and have to own up to what I’ve done because if I didn’t the situation would only get worse when the person found out what I had done. If I didn’t own up and the person found out it was me that had done the bad thing it could ruin our friendship or make it never to be the same. Guilt eats me alive when I’ve done something wrong and I know that I obviously shouldn’t have done it in the first place but I probably wasn’t thinking right at the time or thought it was a good idea then. When I do something that is very good I feel great about myself and brag about it to my mum or my sister because I like letting them know when I’m doing something good because it’s not very often that I do something really good. When I do something very good I can sometimes feel bad about it because it could be taking away another person’s happiness because they didn’t do that particular thing that I had done, or because they just wouldn’t be happy that I did something good.

Week 7
I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... I wish there was a law that said gay marriage was legal in all states and countries around the world, because love is love and it doesn’t matter what gender you are if you love someone you should be able to marry them. I don’t see a problem with gay marriage because we were all created a certain way and we are still loved by God even if we have feelings for a person of the same gender as us. This would be a good law because I believe that gay people would be more respected and treated more equal than they are now. Marriage rates have dropped over the years and if gay’s are able to be married the numbers will go back up again, because the people that really want to get married are un able to in most towns, cities and towns. People shouldn’t have to travel to certain places to get married because their loved ones wouldn’t be able to pack up and go away to see the marriage. This is why I wish there was a law that made gay marriage in all states around the country.

Week 8
When you are angry, how do you look? When are you happiest? When have you felt lonely? When do you feel proud? When I am angry I look mad, because I obviously am mad and I don’t want to be talked to when I’m mad because I offend people more when I am mad. When I am happiest I am in my room playing guitar or piano, or listening to some of my favourite bands by myself with the door closed so that I can relax and have some alone time. I’m also happy when I hang out with my friends and especially with the ones that I don’t get to see every day because I don’t get a lot of time to be with them during the week, I’m also happy when I hang out with my family because they can be fun. I have felt lonely when my father and mother got a divorce because there was a lot of fighting going on before this had happened. I feel proud when I get an award or get praised for doing something good, or even when someone in my family is getting praised for the good that they have done. I am even proud when one of my friends is being appreciated by the school or by their parents in front of me.

Week 9
Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? The quality that I most dislike about myself is my personality, because I don’t get along with new people and I don’t like talking to people that I usually wouldn’t talk to because I could say something I didn’t think was mean and they would, because I’m not friends with them and they don’t know what me and my friends usually find funny. I don’t like my personality because I can be really mean without even realising what I’m saying and it can hurt a lot of people. Another quality that I dislike about myself is my childishness because I don’t take much seriously and act like a five year old most of the time at home and around my friends, which annoys me sometimes but I can’t stop it because it’s the way that I am and I wouldn’t want to change anyway. Another quality I dislike about myself is how I can’t talk to new people, I get really shy around new people and I really do dislike this about myself, I’d much rather like to be able to talk to everyone wether I’ve known them my whole life, just a couple days, or even just met them.

Week 10
Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? I think prejudice exists in the world because people only want to protect themselves from finding out the real truth so they just assume things about other people. Without having prior knowledge or viewing of facts is being prejudice. I think that this is wrong because people obviously don’t like being judged without a reason but it always happens in the world, like when a person is walking down the streets of a city they are being judged for the way they look, there hair colour, whether or not they have piercings or tattoos, they are being judged for that five seconds of personality that they receive from the other person. Another reason why prejudice exists in the world is because people are too lazy to just talk to people about what they’ve heard or seen, but instead they just go and judge them without an actual reason. This I don’t think will ever be changed or ended because the world is just a judging place and that’s why people hide away in their rooms, because they can’t be judged if no one’s around and there by themselves. People are even judged by their families for the way they look and I think this is the worst of them all because your family’s suppost to love you no matter how you look.