Aiden's+Reflection+page

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.

Week 1
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? The best piece of advice i have ever received would have to be 'do to others as you expect done to you. This is the best piece of advice i have received because i think that it is a perfectly reasonable way to think and i believe that everyone should incorporate this into their lives. Example of this being used would be when you ask to borrow someone’s pencil, only ask to borrow a pencil if you are willing to lend out a piece of your stationary. I have used this advice in my life on many occasions, for instance, if i am going to say something mean to someone or about someone, i think of how they might react to it and weather i would like the same thing to be said to me. It is my belief that everyone can think this way if they tried, and everybody should try because it is a good way to think.

**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 mean that the environment is not being taken care of by me, and someone would have to undo what I did and what Everone else is doing to try to make the environment clean again. If everyone threw rubbish on the ground, it would be very hard for the people who clean the environment to make it clean again, there is a lot more people throwing trash on the ground, then their is cleaning the environment. People will be throwing trash on the floor not even realising the damage that they are causing on the environment, and some other people just simply don't care. If I threw trash on the ground and everyone else was, even through it might not be that much individually, all together it will be a lot of rubbish. It is probably a good idea to not drop rubbish.

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 a friend cheating, I believe that I would not do anything; if I spoke up to them and told them not to cheat they would think I am crazy and something terribly wrong has happened to me. Cheating might not be a good thing to do, and should be addressed, but if it is only a one off thing, and they don't do it on a daily basis, I don't think it matters that much. Courage is like a lion, a brave figure that able to take on anything, even other lions. Courage can be used in our everyday lives when there is a situation where you might have to speak up for something or fro yourself or even another person. A good friend is someone who sticks up for you and would back you up in any situation and is honest to you. A good friend would offer the support to you whenever you need it.

Week 4
What is your most indispensable possession and why? My most indispensable possession would most certainly have to be my IPod Touch 32GB. This is my most indispensable possession because I cannot live a day without it since the day I got it, every day when I wake up in the morning, in check my IPod, every night before i go to sleep, I check my IPod, randomly throughout the day, i will check my IPod and I will always have my IPod on me at all times. My IPod is such a great device because I can do many things such as play music, play games, and browse on the internet to do things such as Facebook. With this endless list of things to do on my IPod, it easily becomes my most indispensable possession. Some other things might come close, such as my PlayStation, or my phone which i will be receiving in the future, but i haven’t got this phone yet so it can’t be my possession, but at the moment my IPod is my most indispensable possession.

**Week 5**
What do you think about people polluting the environment?

When people pollute the environment, it is not only unfair for the people around them at the moment, but it is unfair for the future generations who will have to use this land as we have done. The combination of people polluting the environment with fumes, plastic and such, is much greater than the group of people who are doing their best to clean up the environment so unless something changes, the earth is going to become a very messy place! I think that people should think before they act, think about the people who will have to clean up their mess, or how long it will take for it to decompose with mother nature. I think people who litter are committing a crime and should definatly go to their local church and confess thier sins, and not only that, they should also go out of their way to make sure the mess gets cleaned up.

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, the severity of my wrongness depends on how I feel. For example, if I was talking to someone, then maybe accidently move onto a topic that the other person might have been a sensitive topic, this makes me feel really bad and once I done this and actually started to feel physically sick because I was so guilty. But there are other things that I might do that may not have been entirely right but I don’t mind so much. For instance, in class if the teacher was an annoying teacher or really mean, I might try to give them a hard time, things like this I don’t particularly mind doing because I feel like they are asking for it. When I do something really good, I feel strong and especially when I get recognised for doing something good, I feel really great. When I can, I try to do good things for people even if I have just met them, so then I come across as a nice person. Something that is good to me is something that you take initiative to do for someone that will help them in some way shape or form.

Week 7
I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because...

If there was a law that I could create, I would make that law that, after you earn a certain amount of income, say 300k a year, 0.5% of your income would be donated to a charity of your choice and there is no option, you must do this. I think this is a good law because if you earn more than 300k a year then you are doing fairly well so if 0.5% of your income was going to help an organisation in need, that should be thought of as a good thing. And if you decide to rebel against these rules then you will be charged 50k extra every single day you decide not you pay. This is good because it gives people a reason to just accept the 0.5% to avoid the 50k payment they will receive if they chose not to pay. So with all these reasons, I believe that this will be a very good law.

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, my eyebrows move down, and my mouth opens, baring my vicious teeth. Beside all these things, smoke comes out of my ears and nostrils, well; at least it feels like it does, I can’t really see them though. When I am happy my smile moves up my cheeks and almost touches my eyes, also I will start to laugh uncontrollably, depending on how happy I am, will depend on how much I laugh. Sometimes I feel lonely when I need someone to talk to and I don’t feel like there is anyone I can trust at that time, but this doesn’t usually happen for very long because then I go in search for new friends if my old ones were total twats. I feel proud when I do something that maybe beforehand I thought would be impossible for me to do or maybe I thought it would take me longer than it did.

Week 9
Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? The quality i most dislike about myself childishness, I chose this because, there are times where you need to place the child in you to the side and you have to approach an issue with maturity, sometimes I find it difficult to do this especially if I am around with my friends. I feel although i know that I need to shut up and act mature, I can’t stop it doesn’t matter how much I try. Being childish at the wrong place at the wrong time can make you look very immature, and that is not good. An example of my acting childish is in class one time when me and my friend were laughing at each other for literally no reason, the time came when the teacher was just way to jealous of our laughter and told us to stop, we tried our best, but sometimes you best is just not enough.

Week 10
Why do you think prejudice exists in the world?

COMMUNITY LINKS ENTRIES.

Community Links entry one: 10/8/2011

Today the handyman at Whyndam Lodge got us to do a lot of work out the back; carl and I were assigned to stack up bricks that had been stacked messily out the back, while Alex and Stefan were bringing things that were no longer being used from inside out into the crate for storage. so far i think community links has been fun, but as the days go by i realise that the time left here is shrinking, when i leave, it will be a sad time because i have had lots of fun helping out the old people with things that they can no longer do themselves. There is nothing not to enjoy about this place, it is fun place to be, the people are all very appreciative and nice, and the staff are very understanding. Whyndam Lodge has defiantly been a very good experience for me and I’m sure for my friends, so far.

Community links entry 2: Whyndam Lodge 12/8/2011

Today we were told by the handy man to help with the garden, Alex and i worked very hard on this for the whole day while Carl and Stefan done nothing. The handy man assigned us to do some work for Thursday because he wasn’t going to be there, and we shook on a deal that if we did it, he would buy us lunch on Friday, we done the job very well and the handy man gave us $50 to spend on our lunches for all of us, we were all very grateful for this, except Alex, he hated the handy man for giving him so much work and wasn’t appreciative because he had made a deal with us and owed us lunch. Today was the last day of community links at Whyndam lodge, overall, the experience has been very exciting and productive, we have done many things such as take the elderly for walks, and furiously shredding trees with a hacksaw. Today was also the day when we found out how we performed over the 2 week course by the evaluation that was filled out by management, we all scored perfect marks, i am very grateful for getting these marks. We will all miss everyone there emensly.

Community links -- 1st of August

Today is the firt day of community links placememnt, i am at Whydam lodge with Carl, Stefan and Alex Schuback, our first impressions are that it is going to be a good two weeks, as we are not having to do work all the time at school. We are all looking faward to the experience that we have opportunity to enjoy and are prepared to put in all our effort to help out the people at whyndam lodge. Our prediction is that we will be welcomed here at Whyndam lodge and our help will be appreciated. The day was fun, as expected and we are very optimistic about the two weeks infront of us.

MELBOURNE EXPERIENCE:

On the first day of Melbourne experience, my groups first tour was the Victorian market, i liked this tour because we got to learn about the market and how things worked differently than we are used to. During each tour, we had tokens which we could use to gain prizes from each tour, the prize from the Vic market was the Churos, this was my first time having churos and now that i have tasted them i feel like i have been missing out on a lot. The Vic market had to be one of my favourite tours, because there was a lot to see there and was not boring. On the second day of Melbourne experience, one of the tours we did was the walk in the park, on this tour, we got lost a little bit and none of my group found this tour fascinating really. The walk in the park was just a bit too long a walk, all my group members agree with this as well. The prize for this tour was a cookie, out of all the prizes, i think this was my least favourite, but it was not that bad. Overall i had lots of fun over these two days and i think we should do something like that again as a class or as campus.