meaghans+reflection

// ﻿ //**Week 1 ** What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

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//The best piece of advice I ever received was, "If an opportunity comes your way and youre not sure if you should take it, consider that it may be the only opportunity like this that you get for the rest of your life." It all goes in saying with try new things because you may not get to do it again. My grandma always tells me this advice and I think it's true. I have tried so many new things that I probably wont get the chance to do again. If you follow this advice it also gives you the satisfaction afterwards knowing that you tried it. Also, if you've never done something before and you are hesitant to try it because you think you wont like it, try it. You wont know what its like until youve done it. I think that its important to take up all the chances you get and live life to the fullest. There are so many regrets in life, but we make them for ourselves and it doesnt always have to be this way.// =====

What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did?
 * Week 2 **

// If I threw a piece of rubbish on the ground, it would still be bad for the environment even if no one else did it. If I threw a piece of rubbish on the ground, it might get eaten by an animal and harm its stomach, it could go into the ocean and choke a fish, hurt an animal and definitely pollute the environment. If everyone threw a piece of rubbish on the ground then it would definitely have the same impact but much worse. Rubbish destroys the environment, whether it is the making of rubbish or the use of it. Rubbish isn't always rubbish, it is rubbish when its not needed anymore. It starts out ad minerals in the ground. These minerals have to be mined, therefore ripping up the ground and destroying the environment. Then the minerals are heated, melted and infused, producing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Then it is made into a package to contain something inside, like food. If we dropped rubbish on the ground, as an end result it is just travelling around destroying the environment even more. Even though the making of 'rubbish' is harmful to the environment, we are making it worse by not disposing it and giving it the chance to degrade or be recycled. // // ﻿ // 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? // ﻿ // //To be honest, if I saw a friend cheating, I'd do nothing. I wouldn't report it, because that isn't nice to my friend especially if I ask them, and it can be stopped without them getting in trouble and me becoming the bad person. I would like to be able to say I'd confront them, but in saying that it would be a lie. I see people cheat everyday, friends and people that arent my friends. For some reason I chose not to do anything about it. In my opinion cheating is wrong, but if they want to do it, that's their own problem. If one of my friends or someone else was cheating off me then I would definitely confront them. After all it is my hard work that went into the work, so who are they to come and take it. I see a lot of people let others cheat off them too, of course they can get in trouble, and I think they also know that; if that's their choice who am I to tell them to stop? Whenever I see someone cheating, I think of my grandmas voice in my head, telling me that if I cheat// I'm //only doing myself no good, what happens when I have to apply that knowledge in another situation? Cheating doesn't benefit anybody, and I don't cheat because I will feel guilty. Maybe its the fact that I don't want to tell my friends what to do or let them make their own decisions, I just think cheating is a personal choice that no one can make you do.//
 * Week 3 **

//Mark Twain once said "////It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." I agree with this. We often see courage as an act of bravery, a physical fight or battle. Courage is not always this. I see courage as a personal matter, for example if you were getting bullied and hated life, I think it would take a lot of courage to go to school everyday. Courage is what it takes to fight a life threatening disease, courage is what it takes to stand up for what you believe in. Courage is displayed in many different ways depending on the type of person. If I had to define courage I think I would say it is a persons own battle, to stand up for what they believe in.//

//To put it simply I think a good friend is being able to be your true self around them. Not being embarrassed or worried about what they might think and being able to trust them with anything. I also think friends shouldn't lie. If they were your true friend then, one you wouldn't lie to them in the first place, two you should have no problem in telling them the truth and three you would realize lies only ever make things worse.// // ﻿ // What is your most indispensable possession and why?
 * Week 4 **

//﻿It is not easy for me to define my most indispensable possession. There are many things that I can live without, I just would prefer not too, there are things in my life that I could live without but, are irreplaceable. My most indispensable possession is, my bed. I love my bed. Even though it can be replaced, it wont be the same bed I had before, it will in some way be different. My bed is always comfortable, to lie in or sit on. I spend a lot of time on my bed, whether its to sleep, read, talk on the phone or use my laptop, my bed is the perfect place.It feels like my bed has been on my life journey with me, no matter where I go I know that I can always come home to my bed. I've cried on my bed, I've sat with my friends on my bed and I've had some fun times just chilling on my bed. When I was little I used to hate going to bed, but even then my bed was still good for jumping on. There is not one thing bad about my bed, except that I have to wake up and leave it everyday. Sleep is really important to me and my bed is where I get the best nights sleep. There are things that I would rather not live without like my phone, iPod or laptop but, all these things are just possessions that one day I wont need. Whereas with my bed, I will always need a bed. I appreciate my bed very much as there are people that don't have a bed, let alone a blanket.//

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

// ﻿People polluting... To be honest I think it will always happen. We can do things to to limit pollution and make it less harmful to the environment, but we will never be able to stop pollution. I don't like pollution, its dirty and harms the environment but, I don't think people do it on purpose. We need to make pollution to live. People have to use electricity and fuel to do their jobs to keep a sustainable economy. We do a lot of work at St. Marys on pollution, one thing I don't understand is, we have to answer all these questions and complete all these tasks, but as soon as they are given to us we are told to type them up on a computer. Surely a class of 25 students each one using a computer, is going to make a carbon footprint? We have to go on excursions for PE, to do that we have to go in a bus, which has fuel creating carbon emissions. People can try to be sustainable, but it won't always be possible. Some people probably don't even realize what they are doing to the environment during their everyday routines. I don't think the government is providing enough knowledge to the public about pollution or helping them do anything to minimize it. People don't know enough about pollution to really say they are saving the environment or destroying it. //

How do you feel when you do something wrong? How do you feel when you do something that is very good?
 * Week 6 **

Define wrong? Is a fight wrong? What if its standing up for something I believe in? There are many examples of wrong, one example I chose to focus on is lying. I can't stand liars, or lying, I absolutely hate it so much. Lies are bad there is no such thing as a good lie. Lies always turn out bad in the end, people always get hurt and it all turns back on you. When I lie, as soon as I've said it I feel extremely guilty. I usually end up telling the truth not long after. I hate it when people lie to someone for a very long time, making it almost seem like it is okay. That is wrong, someone will get hurt. I do admit I am a very good liar, I just don't like to lie because I think its wrong, it has so many consequences, I feel guilty and lies always hurt. When I do something that is very good I feel happy, and proud. I like helping people and making them laugh, its what makes me happy. When other people are happy I am happy. One of my goals in life is to just make people smile.

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

// ﻿I wish there was a law that said, if you commit the crime, why not have the crime comitted on you? For example, someone rapes somebody, someone should rape them. I know it sounds really disgusting and bizarre but, if that person committed that crime against someone else, who's to say they shouldn't feel what its like. If someone bashes a dog, someone should bash that person. I do realize that jail is a serious consequence, but in todays world, you murder somebody you get maybe 6 years, and maybe 3 years later after serving just half the sentance they get out on parole. How is this a punishment? How is this serving justice to the victims family? So for a criminal, they should experience the pain and fear they cause. I do believe that if you take someone's life, why should you be able to live your own? However I do not think killing people or harming them would be a human solution to this, I think a jail sentence for life is appropriate. Even if there is not enough room in the jails, build more and make room because something has to be done about this legal system. //// The legal system has many things that we can't do, like drinking and driving, breaking and entering and murder. Sure these things should be illegal, but the punishments for it, to put it blunty are stupid. In saying this I do realize there is a high chance that I sound like I've experienced the court of law. I just imagine what it would be like, to be say, a 6 year old child and getting abused by their parents. It is brutal, so perhaps it would be time for the criminal to experience the crime. Its like school, but in a less serious case, for example, if I stole someone's scissors, that is not okay, I wouldn't like it if someone stole my scissors. The law is in place to bring justice and keep peace in society, but what is this really the case? //

// ﻿ // When you are angry, how do you look? When are you happiest? When have you felt lonely? When do you feel proud?
 * Week 8 **

// To be honest, when I'm angry I look like everything around me should die. When I am angry, everyone and everything makes me yell. Even if it is someone asking me if I want lunch, I will crack it and explode. When I was little I used to have a really short temper, people used to call me crazy. I am very happy that I am not like that anymore.I never get angry at my friends, the people I get angry at the most tend to be adults, usually when I don't get my own way. I am the happiest, when I am with someone that makes me happy. I am also happiest when I am at my grandma's, my grandma is like my best friend, she lives on a farm. I grew up being taught how to shoot, fish, surf, muster cattle, shear sheep and look after a farm. Those moments and memories are the happiest times I've ever had in my life. //

// This year honestly has been the worst year of my life, I would explain, but everyone else in my class can see this.This year I learnt what it truly feels like to be alone, even though I had people supporting me, no one knew what it was like for me, no one knew the pain that I was going through, emotionally and physically. It really made me feel like no one cared, no one could make me feel better because nobody knew what it was like. I really can't stand it when people are stressed and have got homework and say I hate my life. NO you do not hate your life, you have a life, you have health, you have food, friends and a home to go to. I'm not saying that I don't but it really annoys me because I know what it's like to be told I might die. Homework, is nothing compared to the reality of death. In saying this, my best friend has helped me so much, without him I wouldn't have gotten through it and been able to move on, he came into my life at time when I needed him the most, I honestly couldn't live without him.He's almost like a miracle. // // I feel the most proud when I achieve a personal goal. I really don't like 'overly' proud people, I am more modest. When I am proud I will seize the moment, and smile for a very long time. //

<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: 18px;">Week 9 **

//﻿I strongly dislike my laziness. It annoys me so much, I procrastinate all the time and the thing is, I am too lazy to stop doing it. Laziness annoys me in every way, and it always seems to be there. When I wake up in the morning there is that constant battle for me to get out of bed, when I get to school there is that constant battle for me to do my work and then I get home and fight against laziness, to do my homework. Even right now I wont lie, I'm completing this homework the day before even though I've had almost ten weeks to do it. Laziness, I hate it so much, I wish I wasn't lazy. I know I can probably change my lazines, but as usual I can't be bothered. I often wonder what life would be like if I wasn't lazy, if I'd be doing more things and putting more effort into the things I already do. Now that I am concluding this paragraph I realize that it is short, after everything I've just mentioned I look very lazy. This time its more of I've said what I had to say than laziness.// // ﻿ // <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Why do you think prejudice exists in the world?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Week 10 **

//I think prejudice exists in this world partly because of peer pressure, as for the other part all I can say is, there will always be people, and with people comes judgement. Everybody judges someone else in a prejudice way. Although this is true, peer pressure plays a part as well. Peer pressure and generalisation often sets the standard for prejudice. If anyone is acting different they are automatically judged. I don't like prejudice, it proves that not enough people give others a chance. It also proves that even though we live in a 'free' country, are we really free? Or are we striving to impress somebody else? I do admit that at times I can be prejudice, other times I actually take into account that people are people and we are all different. In saying that, we are all different, but all the same in the way that we are different. People are people,everyone looks different, but that's nobodies fault. Even if we wanted to cancel out prejudice, no one can stop it even if they stay silent, its just an instant reaction. It's almost sad, but no matter how hard people say it can be helped, it can't. Judgement is within all of us.//