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=Community Links reflections:=

1. First 3 days - 3/8/11: So far community links has been alright, some of the kids are really bad, but some are really good so it kind of evens out. Andy has been very good as a person to go with, and im happy he came here with me. PE classes are ok and the 1/2 classes are pretty good, but the prep classes are a bit too boring, I was just sitting there and doing nothing today, I was bored out of my mind. Tomorrow I have art with I think will be worse then prep classes, but I will try to get through without complaining because MacKillop Day will be my reward, and then I get another 2 days off. All I hope for next week is not to have as many prep classes as I have had already this week, and the 1/2 class I liked and I would go to one particular class again because I didnt just sit there I did fun stuff unlike the prep class were I was bored out of my mind, and the kids in that class were not bad/naughty. 2. Tuesday Week Two - 9/8/11: Well its the end of the first week and i have changed my mind on at least one thing. I now do not like PE classes. It is exactly like the Prep classes. I have to sit there and do nothing. The kids were doing long jump for the whole hour and i got in trouble for having one jump. I was telling all the kids how to do it/ what they are doing wrong, and I had to rake the pit. After I help that much, my reward is getting yelled at for taking one jump. I do not like my PE teacher anymore. I hope I get more 1/2's then Pe in the next three days, so i actually do something and have a fun experience, not a boring one like I am having at PE classes at the moment. Other then the PE classes, everything is good, or as good as the start of the week. Prep classes have got better, and the art lesson I had wasnt actually as bad as I thought it would be. I would of had it for the whole day on Thursday, but I had a headache so I went home at recess. 3. End of last day - 12/8/11: Ok so now Community links is over, and to be honest I am really glad. The only things I liked in the end would be playing footy at recess and lunch, and one 1/2 class I had in the first week which I did fun things with the kids. Also today was my first and only day having library as a class that i go into, it was actually better then I expected because PE gave me low expectations for everything else, but it wasnt that bad. Also, the preps were alot better this week then last week, because again I didnt sit around and do nothing. Overall my 3 favourite things that have happened these two weeks would be 3. Having Andy come with me so I have a good friend with me, 2. Recess and Lunch playing footy with 1/2's, and 1. Andy getting stalked by 5/6 girls. Number one had to be the best because it was really the only thing that made me laugh and have alot of fun during these two weeks, except for when im playing footy, im always happy when playing footy. So after all this I would rate this a 6/10, only that bad cause of PE, probably would have been a 8-9/10 without having either that teacher or not having PE at all.

Melbourne Experience Reflection: 12/9/11: We went to Melbourne Experience a week and a half ago, for two days, and we took 4 tours in total on those 2 days. I had alot of fun on the tours, and on the train ride with my friends, lunch and well pretty much everything. The walk in the park was our first tour, and it was good, but probably the most boring of all the tours. I liked when we got a cookie, but there wasnt very much things that were that interesting. Our next tour was the Victoria Market, which was pretty fun and exciting. I liked this one because it was good to be able to walk around in our groups of 3 and buy things without teachers walking with us and following us around. Our 3rd tour, which was our first tour of the second day, was the arcades and lanes, which was really good because like the last tour we could buy things and my group went with another group and we had lots of fun. Our fourth and final tour that we went on was the on the waterfront tour, which was one of the best ones, with the arcades and lanes. Again, we were with another group so it was fun to be with them, and we got to have a boost, which is always good, and the tour itself was good. All in all I really liked the Melbourne Experience and I wish we could do it every year. I was excited t be able to go on camp with half of the year 9's. I was nervous about crashing in the bike ride, which I did, and I was excited to be able to go to camp with my friends. ===**3. What do you think St Mary's is trying to achieve by taking you on this experience ?**===
 * 1. How were you feeling prior to this experience ?**
 * 2. What were some of the things you were nervous about ? What were some of the things you were excited about ?\**

I think they were trying to make sure that if we go out into the wild to camp or something we already have experiences of camp.
===**4. Do you think this experience achieved these things ? Why / why not**===

**Probably bike riding because I went head on with a tree and cut my leg.**
===**7. Do you think this experience will help your time at St Mary's ? Why / why not ?**===

**Maybe because I have made more friends and its good because they are at my campus.**
===**8. Discuss one thing you learnt about yourself whilst on this experience.**===

I learnt that I can't ride a bike good.
===**9. Discuss one thing you learnt about someone else whilst on this experience.**===

**I think I behaved well.**
===**11. What do you think could be improved for next years Lady Northcote experience ?**===

**There should be more activities and a third day.**
Reflections: 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.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

I'm sorry but I can't get 200 words each for these, its just too hard. **Week 1** What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? The best piece of advice I have ever received would be to not let other people make you do what you have to do, and choose your own way of life, and if people are making fun of you, just ignore them. I was told these pieces of advice by my nan when I younger. The first one would have been last year when my step dad was forcing me to do lots of stupid things that mum would never make me do, and nan told me to just ignore him and not let him to tell me what to do, because he isnt my family. The second piece of advice I received was sometime in primary school, I think it was year 3, when I always got picked on and I didnt really have much friends, I usually kind of bit back and they seemed to enjoy it, but when I just ignored them it helped heaps and most of them stopped it. **‍****‍****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 or rubbish on the ground it would follow the wind and probably end up in the ocean in Werribee South. If this happens and everyone keeps doing it the ocean would end up being full of trash and it would kill all the water based animals and we would have no water left to play in, and we could have a drought if this happens because summer is coming up.The pollution would destroy the ozone layer which would let the sun in and and melt antartica so we would have a massive flood and human and animal life would be wiped out. **‍****‍****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? I would probably tell my friend off, but let him do it that time but not anymore times. The first time would be like a warning and then after that I wouldnt let them do it anymore. I think courage means to stand up for what you believe in, or your self when no one else does, or that you can go in to battle or fight someone thats twice or three times your size for something you believe in or if your friends are in trouble. **‍****‍****Week 4** What is your most indispensable possession and why? Probably my iPhone because I can do almost every thing on it, Facebook, games, music, being able to call people, and having messaging. It is probably the thing I use the most in my life, it is really good to be able to chat with my friends all the time, also being able to do things such as write my homework down in the notes app and also to be able to look up things on the internet if I'm not sure what they are, when I dont have my laptop. I prefer my phone over such things as my laptop and my tv because i always can have my phone with me, unlike my TV because I can't take it with me to a friends house or something, the laptop I can take to places but it costs a fair bit so i don't want to get it stolen. **‍****‍****‍****Week 5** What do you think about people polluting the environment? I think that it is very bad for people to be doing this and people that are polluting the environment should be fined money for doing this to our world. I think there must be something wrong with them if they do that because if everyone ends up doing these things then we would no longer exist because if we pollute too much then the ozone layer will break fully and the ice in the south would melt causing a mega flood. **‍****‍****Week 6** How do you feel when you do something wrong?How do you feel when you do something that is very good? I feel ashamed of myself when I do something wrong or something that hurts my friends, and I try to fix the thing that I caused. But some things I do that are bad have to be done, for good in the end, but if I did it while trying to be mean or hurtful, or if I did something wrong then I would try to fix it or not do it in the first place. When I do something helpful or kind I feel happy to be able to help people, and happy to be able to make them happy. **‍****‍****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 no one could litter and everyone had to help to stop all the poverty that is all around. This would be a good law because then if no one litters the world would be a much better for the next generations after we are gone. To stop all the poverty would be a very hard thing to do but it would be awesome if everyone contributed (just like with sustainability) so that in Africa and in all the other third world countries could have food and water so they could not die and have a good life. **‍****‍****Week 8** When you are angry, how do you look? When are you happiest? When have you felt lonely? When do you feel proud? I only think a couple of people have seen me when I am very angry, because I try to contain my anger, I have no idea what I look like when I am angry because I have only been angry and shown it once or twice. When I am happiest I suppose would be when I am with my friends, like at recess and lunch or on the bus ride to St. Mary's, or when we get together out of school. I feel proud when I am playing footy and I take a good mark or kick a good goal from somewhere not much people can from. I also feel proud of myself when I failed a math test, then I said I would make up for it in the math exam, which I did, I got 98% on it and the 2 questions I got wrong were not ones about the test I failed, so if I retook the test I probably get a high mark now because I know how to do it. **‍****‍****Week 9** Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? I dislike my laziness and my childishness equally bad. I'm too lazy for my own good and I barely ever go for a run or anything, while i'm always childish all of the time, i'm trying to be less childish but most of the time I can't control myself. I used to play football until year 7 when I stopped playing because I was too lazy. I started playing again in year 8 but quit again this year because I was too lazy again. I'm going to play footy again next year to get a bit more fit, and that will also make me less lazy. I try to control myself in my childishness but sometimes I just can't, i'm trying my best to do it but it is very hard to stop something after it has become a reflex. **‍****‍****Week 10** Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? I think it exists because everyone just looks at a person that looks funny or is not a white person, they would laugh or judge the person in a bad way, not even giving them a chance show you actually what they are like, and how they act, you can't see how a person is and what they are like after 1 glance at them. If people could stop doing this it would be alot better for everyone in the world and would make the lives of the people you are doing that to alot easier. There could be a law about this (like in question 7) because it would be good if you get fined or something, not that bad of a repercussion, but something that will make u not want to do it again.