angela+reflection

====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 ====

**Reflections **
====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 ====

**__What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? __**
==== The best piece of advice I have ever received is that it’s always going to be ok no matter how bad the situation is it will always be ok, all you have to do is always look on the positive side and then things will start to change for the better. This piece of advice really helped me when we moved to Australia from New Zealand, I was frustrated and didn’t want to leave all my friends, all I could think about were the negative aspects of moving to a new country, like not being able to find friends like the ones I had back home or not fitting into the right group, but after I started to become more optimistic things started to change for the better. I met some really wonderful friends and found myself with a group of good close friends. This piece of advice can be used in any sort of trouble you find yourself in .We all find our self’s in a bad situation at some point in our life and advise like this can help you see the brighter side of things. ====

**__What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? __**
==== If I threw a piece of rubbish on the ground nothing would happen, it would just be a piece of rubbish floating around, but if everybody threw a piece of rubbish then that would be a big problem. The whole world would soon be covered in rubbish and we would soon be living on our own filth. If we all started throwing rubbish on the ground it would soon have a big impact on our eco-system, animals would start to die of one by one and so would the marine life and that could have a huge impact on the food chain and then the whole order would be disrupted. If one person thinks its ok to litter then just imagine what everyone else would be thinks, just one piece of litter could turn into millions of pieces of rubbish and then it will just be a snowball action, animals will start to die, plant will start to die then eventually the planet will die, but we can stop this chaos just by throwing that one piece of rubbish in the bin. ====

**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 teaching I wouldn’t report it because I do have some kind of loyalty for my friend ,but I would confront her and ask her why she did it and explain to the consequence she could go through if she got caught. I would also tell her that if she cheats she won’t learn anything then and she would just be wasting her time. If she had a reason I would try to help her. To me courage means bravery, standing up for what you believe in and not letting anyone put you down for who you are, but courage doesn’t come easy you need to have a lot of guts to stand up strong. What makes a good friend is loyalty, being able to trust some someone with your deepest secrets and not having to worry about them telling anyone, this one of the best qualities in a friend.====

====My indispensable possession has to be my iPod because when I’m sad I can listen to music. Music always has a way of cheering you up it and brightening up your mood. I also have that one song on my iPod that will brighten my day no matter what happens. It’s that one song I will never get sick of. I can also visit social networks like Facebook these networks help you to keep in contact with friends from around the world. I also can play games to entertain me there are a number of things you can do I one small devise. Without my iPod I would be living a flavourless life. ====

====I don’t understand why people pollute they are irresponsible, we all know about global warming and the effects of it and how it is caused but still people continue pollute and destroy the environment. Its sad that some people don’t even respect the world we live in. They can’t even be bothered to walk a few meters to the rubbish bin, no in stead they would like to pollute the place we call home. Most industrialised companies pollute the environment by polluting the air which we breathe, one of the causes for all this commercialised pollution is to do with greed all the owners care is about sell there products and getting more money. In this modern world you are nothing if you don't have money it is one of the most wanted possession and some people will do anything to get. ====

====When I do something wrong I always feel guilty and always apologise if I can. I can’t help but feel bad when I do something wrong and it shows on my face. If I do something wrong and know that it was not the right decision I feel disappointed in my self that I did do the right thing, I will always regret any thing I do wrong, but when I do the correct thing I always feel proud for myself and persist on doing the right thing. I like to see other people happy around me its just who I am. When I was little and I had bought a present for my parents I would always give it to them a few days earlier because I couldn’t wait to see their faces, I always feel happy when I know that someone is proud of me. ====

====I wish there was a law that said that everyone should be given an equal chance at everything and should not be judged by the thing they do. This law would be a good law because at this time and age people are being judged and not given an equal chance. There are 2 extreme cases in our current world people who are so rich they have money at their disposal and there are people who are dyeing from hunger and survive with one dollar worth of food for one day. These 2 types of people have been both given different chances and the poor person has not been given a fair go and not been treated equally in the world. If we had a law like this maybe we could stop problems like poverty and racism.====

====I don’t know what I look like when I’m angry but I know that I can get pretty loud when I’m angry I chose to bottle things up when I’m angry but after all that bottling there is a point were you will explode and all your anger and will show which is probably not a pretty sight. I am usually a very happy person I like to laugh a lot and crack a lot of jokes, in my group I am known for being random but I just like to have a good time and enjoy my self. Most of the time I am lonely because I’m an only child so it gets pretty boring at home. I felt most lonely when I came to Australia because I didn’t know many people here but that all changed after I started school. I am always proud when I do something right and that usually happens when i get a good grade or do something that makes my parents proud ====

====The quality I dislike in myself is probably childishness because it keeps me back from acting mature. All of my friends know me for being the funny one the one who likes to talk all the time and the one who acts like a child. I act like a child because sometimes I don’t feel like growing up and I just want to be a kid forever I don’t like the responsibility of being a mature person, but I know at some point of my life I’m going to take full responsibility of the decision I make and the one I take. I’m not always childish when i have to I can become really mature and i can understand what other people are going threw. ====

====I have been taught that people that are prejudice are people that are narrow minded and have already made an judgement on something that they do not have full knowledge about. In this modern world we see people that are still are prejudice in racism people judge each other without even know the other person. Its sad how one incident can change everyone’s view on a person or a group of people. We have all been prejudice at one of time in our life. It’s a part o human nature to judge some one, it is a bad habit but we all do it. The only way we can help this is by realising our faults and fixing them by accepting everyone with out judging them. ====