Bec's+reflections.

nm Welcome to St Mary's Campus, Semester 2 2011.During your time @ St Mary's you will have a range of tasks to complete as part of the Wikispaces assessment task.In order to make things happen!! I ask that each individual 9 BROWN class member create their own page in the 'SMC Reflections page' and put your name to it.When you have created this page can you please copy and paste the following questions on to your page.We will discuss this further in terms of expectations etc during class. I will also issue you a Wiki rubric that will further outline the expectations. Please note the following Reflections and Discussion Posts need to be completed by FRIDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER. We will continue to use the Wiki beyond this date as a communication tool.Regards Ms Kays Each student will build their own page for the purposes 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 write a reflection about your experiences and opinions about the topic. Each reflection is expected to at least 200 words in length.The topic or questions you are asked to reflect on are listed below. Copy these questions to your individual reflection page. Thank you
 * Reflections **

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? I have received many different types of advice from people in the last 14 years. I would have to say the best piece of advise I have ever received was when I was about when I was in grade six so I would of been about 12 years old. School wasn't my favourite thing do attend back then and I never wanted to really go, I would always beg my mum to let my stay home and stuff like that. I was like this because at the time I had lost a family member really close to me so I wasn't in the mood for anything but school was the biggest thing I didn't want to go to. Because I was so upset about what had happened everything I was doing felt wrong and I felt like I wasn't good enough and smart enough and i never wanted to go to school, my mum knew I wasn't my self so she helped me through it ever step of the way. She said to me " Don't ever think you are not good enough, everyone is different and unique in their own way." By her saying that just made me cheer up and think to myself she was right everyone is unique in their own way and when you think about it, if everyone in the world was the same it would be a pretty boring place wouldn't it right. I think that was the best advice I have ever received.
 * Week 1 **

What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? If I were to throw a piece of rubbish on the group it wouldn't do much harm to the world but if I started to do it day by day it would cause a great number of problems to our beautiful earth its self. If everybody started to throw their rubbish on the ground it would seriously do alot of damage to mother natural and it could also affect the wide life and even our lovely beaches and streets and really anywhere to be honest. Throwing rubbish on the ground and not in the bin can shorten the life of our earth by a numerous amount of years. If everyone started to put their waste in the bin we would live in a happy and clean environment and not have to worry about animals dying and stuff like that.
 * Week 2 **

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? It depends on what the situation is for me to report my friend to be honest. If it was like a math or english test I would first confront my friend saying something like " Why did you cheat on the test, it would really get you anywhere and did you think you had the need to cheat on it?" I think that if you cheat on the math test it really wont get you anywhere and what if one say the teacher caught you cheating on it or one of your friends reported you, that wouldn't be a very good thing to have on your report for school would it now... I believe that courage means sticking up for something you believe in and also doing what you think is right for you and people around you. For example going back to the cheating on a math test, if you saw your friend cheating you would want to get to the bottom of it wouldn't you so you would have courage to stick up for what you think is like right telling the teacher or something and knowing that your friend will be a little angry at you at the time if they were a true friend they would forgive you and actually know that you were doing it for their best and helping them out by doing what you had to do. A good friend is somebody who will always be there for their friend's no matter what the situation is, someone who is always willing to help one in need and a real true friend is someone who will never take their time to talk bad about one of their friends behind their own backs. I believe that's what a true friend is.
 * Week 3 **

What is your most indispensable possession and why? I have a lot of possessions that I love that I wouldn't want to live without but the most indispensable possession would have to be my friends. This is because I love them with all of my heart no matter what were to happen. My family is what gets me through life when I'm having my ups and downs. Family are the people you can trust, you can tell them anything that is bothering you and you know that they won't tell anyone what you told them. My family like to bond together like go out for dinner, parties, to other families houses and stuff like that, when I think about it if I didn't have my family around I wouldn't be who I am today, my parents give me a lovely loving home to live in, they pay from my phone bill, for me to go shopping and chill with friends and they just do the simplest things that support me. Ever since I was born I knew that my family would mean the most to me I love them so much no matter what happens if we have a small fight I know we will always stay a happy family together.
 * Week 4 **

What do you think about people polluting the environment? I think that people polluting the environment is a really terrible thing that is happening in our beautiful world, and everyday it is getting worse and worse. Everyday we pollute so much that it is really harming our wildlife and even our selves and I can't forget mother nature its self. Pollution effects our wild life in so many different ways, it is a terrible thing to do because its like hurting animals. another thing that is polluting our environment is by public transport. i believe that we should start cutting down on our public transport use and start to be more friendly to our beautiful world by working to places or riding a bike or something like that, i understand that some people need to use cars for long travels but maybe we could walk to the shops because it wouldnt be that far and we also get a work out will we do it. wdaye are wrecking our environment more and more each day, we need to cut it down a fair bit if we want to live on this life for longer.
 * Week 5 **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">How do you feel when you do something wrong?How do you feel when you do something that is very good? <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When I do something wrong I feel so guileful and I always worry its a horrible feeling to be honest. I hate knowing that I have done something wrong and I always hate to admit it too. But when you know you have done something wrong you know you have to tell someone and get advise and just to get it off your shoulders. Everyone makes mistakes and does the wrong things, no body is perfect at the end of the day aye. When I do something extremely good I feel like very happy and cheerful at the time, when you do do something really good you just want to tell everyone about what you just achieved its like you feel on top of the world sometimes depending on what you have done that was extremely good. At the end of the day everyone does something wrong in their lives and they also do very good things in their lies too, its what makes us human and when you think about it if we didn't make mistakes in life we would of never really learnt lesions from our doing wrongs in the past and stuff like that.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... i wish there was a law made that we only get homework once a week or twice a week. i think that we get enough work to do at school that it is just stupid to give us homework to put more stress on us young teenagers, and dont forget these are our years were we are stressed the most apart from adult hood. we attend school 7 days a week for 6 - 7 hours and when you add that up its 35 hours a week that we spending our time at school. I understand that they give us homework to prepare us for the work force up i seriously think its too much for kids our age to do all that work in one week! i just believe that the right thing to do is not give us homework because it is really stressful for kids our age. it is said we need 8 hours of sleep every night but we have that much because of the homework we get and also because we do have social lives out side of school too.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When you are angry, how do you look? When are you happiest? When have you felt lonely? When do you feel proud? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">When I'm angry I look like I want to hit someone or hurt them and I usually yell so loud at them too, and I know that looks really bad. I feel the happiest is when I'm chillin' with my pals out side of school or even in school or recess or lunch time. I love to make jokes with them, talk we just act our selves with each other which is a good thing to do. I have felt lonely a few times in my life, the time i feel the most loneliest is when I have no one to talk to about my problems thats the time when I'm at my loneliness and also I sometimes feel lonely when I get really really bored at home or somewhere without my friends. I hate not having something to do and hate being bored its so boring, hahaha. I feel proud of myself when I get something right or when I have done the right thing for example; I'm really bad at math as most people know and I thought I wouldn't past math at all this year but when my report card got home it said that I have pasted math for the year so far so i felt really proud of myself and I felt really happy and it made my family and friends really happy and proud for me which of course makes me feel even more proud of myself.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the thing i dislike about myself the most would have to be that i can be lazy at times. I can be lazy at times and that makes me feel a little bad about myself because i regret putting things off and stuff like that. I hate days when i cant be bothered doing anything at all so like i will stay at home and be a lazy head, hahaha. and when i have lazy days i always seem to be in a bad moon most of the times, well thats what my mum has told me... lazy days actually annothey me so much, i just dont like the fact of staying at home for the whole day while i could be doing other things like going out with friends or family or just having a way better time than being at home. i tend not to have a lot of lazy days as i dont like them that much and because i love to go out and stuff.
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Week 10 **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Why do you think prejudice exists in the world?