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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 make a reflection 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.====

__What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? __
====One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received is to never take things for granted. This is because we have some things a lot of people in other countries around the world don’t have. For example we have, access to clean water, cleaning facilities, a meal every day, shelter and money. A lot of us don’t realise how lucky we are to have all those things here so they take advantage of that and waste food, water and also pollute. There are people in the world that survive on less than what we have every day, for years and years. This is because they only really use what they need and what they have around them. They wouldn’t need to worry about spending money on the latest clothes or games that come out. They only worry about their home, food and water each day and how they are going to get it and provide for the rest of their family. We are lucky to have things in Australia that people in third world countries don’t have to survive and we shouldn’t take it for granted. This is one of the best pieces of advice I have ever received. (201 words) ====

__What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? __
====If you threw a piece of trash on the ground it would be seen as polluting. If everyone else did this is would just make things worse because then if more and more people do it, everyone will think it is okay to do. Eventually, if rubbish gets thrown on the ground the wind will take it out to the ocean and block water ways. If everyone did it in the world then there would be a huge problem because we would not be able to access clean water and we would be killing life in all the oceans and beaches. We would also be affecting life on land because if we threw a bit of rubbish on the ground and the wind led it to nests and habitats, they would not be familiar with those things and it would affect their life. This is what would happen if I threw a piece of rubbish on the ground and then everyone started doing it. In a way, it is kind of like a chain reaction because if you saw one person doing it, you would think it is okay and then other people would do what you do because they think it is okay to do. (206 words) ====

__What would you do if you saw a friend cheating -report it, confront the friend or nothing -and why? __
====If I saw a friend cheating, I would not say that I would do nothing about it. This is because I would tell them that it is wrong but that is their decision if they want to do it. Even though cheating is not something we want people to do, they still do it whether or not someone gives them advice. Sometimes it makes no difference if you tell them that it is wrong because it depends on how they take what you say. They can either have an interest in what you say or they don’t. Everyone knows that it is definitely wrong to cheat and get away with it though. Not every friend will tell you that it is wrong; most would just leave them to do it. Being a good friend would be telling them what to do but not dobbing them into the teacher. You would tell them that what they have done is wrong and warn them that if they did do it again, then you will go to the teacher about it. This is what I would do if I caught one of my friends cheating because I would want what is best for them and so they learn to get used to doing their own work rather than cheating so it doesn’t make things harder for them in future years. (227 words) ====

__What do you think courage means? __
====I think courage has many different types of meanings. It may have something to do with standing up for what you think is right and not caring about what other people thought. It could also mean risking your life for someone else or what you believe in. To me, these would have to be the two main definitions of what courage means. In my eyes, a person that has courage doesn’t have to be a soldier risking their life for their country. It is someone in everyday life that affects people around them such as firemen, policemen, paramedics, doctors and nurses. I think that these people have courage because in a way, they risk death to help someone else and they face this almost everyday. Courage is something that anyone can see each day in their life because it always around us and it helps us live our lives with less fear. Courage can also be something that you have in your everyday life. This is because it can help you overcome fears that would had before and it can also help you accomplish many different things in life. It can give you different challenges to face and it can make you stronger each day. This is what I think the word courage means. (214 words) ====

__What do you think makes a good friend? __
====What makes a good friend is someone that supports you in what you do and is there for you when you need someone to talk to. It is also someone that wouldn’t force you into doing something that you both know is wrong and doesn’t judge you for anything. They also should make you feel comfortable and you should be able to be yourself around them. You should be able to tell them anything about yourself and you can trust them with what you tell them. It is never really easy to find a good friend, whether it be at work or at school or even a neighbour. It takes a lot of trust and more to make a good friend. Good friends don’t really come along straight away; it takes years and years to work out. They don’t have to be your friend for many years, its all about who became your friend and never really left. This means that they have always been there for you and supported you and helped you when you needed it. Even though you got into fights, you always managed to find a way out of it, forgave each other and became friends again. They would also never try to lose your trust by telling someone a secret you trusted them with. It is easy to find friends but it is hard to find a good one. This is what I think makes a good friend. (243 words) ====

__What is your most indispensable possession and why? __
====A lot of people would probably say that their most indispensable possession would be a material thing, such as a phone or an object that is very special to them. To me, my most indispensable possession would have to be my faith. This is because I have been taught about it since I was younger and have gone to church once every week for as long as I remember. My faith gets me through the day because it makes me believe that there is someone or something there to help me through hard times. I always know that there’s someone there with me throughout the day, for example, my sister. My sister died around 7 years ago and since then my faith has become stronger because I have been able to pray to her if I needed help with something or if someone else needed help. I would even do this everyday, just to keep me happy and know that she is still around even though I feel like I am talking to myself. (174 words) ====

__What do you think about people polluting the environment? __
====I think that not all the population on earth are polluting out environment. I think that there are types of people that pollute our environment. The first types of people that pollute the environment are people that are too lazy to find a bin and just throw their rubbish on the floor. The second types of people are the people that pollute our air with carbon. I don’t think that there is a person on earth that can say that they have never polluted because everyone does it. Cars pollute the earth because they also emit carbon. For those that don’t have cars, or use cars, at some time in their life they would have thrown a paper or a piece of rubbish on the floor that they would have thought wouldn’t mean anything to our environment. What people don’t know is that every bit of pollution affects our environment no matter what the size is or how much you think it will affect it. So no matter how you pollute our environment, you still pollute it and people shouldn’t be judged on that because everyone in the world does it. This is what I think about people that pollute our environment. (202 words) ====

__How do you feel when you do something wrong? __
====When ever I do something wrong I always feel two things. I either feel guilty or worried. It depends on what I have done wrong. If I did something wrong to affect another person but they would never find out that I did it, then I would always feel guilty. The reason why I would feel guilty is because it was my fault that it affected the person and it was never their fault and then they would never know that it was me that did the wrong thing. If I did something wrong to affect another person and they found out, or I was told not to do something and I did it, then I would feel worried. This is because I knew I wasn’t supposed to do it in the first place and that it would get me into a lot of trouble. No matter how I feel when I do something wrong, I would always end up taking responsibility for the fact that I had done something wrong. This is so that I don’t get into as much trouble for it and I wont feel guilty or worried anymore. This is how I feel when I do something wrong. (202 words) ====

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How do you feel when you do something that is very good? __
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When ever I do something good, I always feel either proud of myself or happy that I did it. This usually depends on what I have done something good for. For example, if I did something good for myself then I would feel more proud of myself. If I did something good for someone else then I would feel happier about it. I would feel both of these emotions no matter what I did something good for, only I will feel one emotion more than the other depending on. Whenever you do something really good, you would always feel some sort of happy emotion because it makes you feel better about yourself. No matter what you have done, whether it is for yourself or for someone else. It is a good thing to feel happy or proud of yourself, and you these feelings should always encourage you to do good things everyday. This should also encourage you to do less things that you would know are definitely wrong and will make you feel guilty or worried after. These are the emotions that I would usually feel whenever I do something good for someone or for myself. (196 words) ====

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... __
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I wish there was a law that said ‘no person is racist to another person or race’. This would be a good law. I think this would be a good law because a lot of people have died because of racism, such as the holocaust. People have been affected by it in some way, for example, The Stolen Generation. A lot of people take racism offensively and some just ignore it. Either way, it is still wrong. Many people don’t believe that racism is good because there actually isn’t any race that is higher than any other. We should all be treated equally and shouldn’t be treated or judged because of where we are from or where our parents were from. Also, it really isn’t our fault that we are from where we are from and our parents are from where they are from. We don’t get to choose the country where we want to be from or what we want to be our cultural background. Racism always leads to a type of conflict between two races or more around the world and it should be stopped or generations will grow hating each other because of the past, and what we have done to cause it. (206 words) ====

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">__When you are angry, how do you look?__
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When I am angry I look how most people would look when they are angry. The look I have when I am angry would be the same as the look I have when I am thinking. For example, I would always have my arms crossed and I would bite my bottom lip. The only difference for when I am angry is I would have my eyebrows a certain way and I usually don’t look at someone when I speak to them. I would also sound a bit different to when I usually talk to my friends. I don’t like how I look when I am angry but its just a habit I have for when I do get angry. I don’t treat people any different when I get angry because my friends do that to me and I know how much we all hate it when she does get angry. It gets really annoying so that is why I don’t treat people any different to how I would every other day. Unless it was the person that made me angry, because then I would want them to know that I am angry at them. That is just how I look and how I act when I get angry. (208 words) ====

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When are you happiest? __
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I am always happy whenever I do something that I love doing, but I am never happy to the fullest extent. I am always happy whenever I am playing the piano or listening to music. This is because it calms me down and I only focus on the piano or the sound. However, it does not make me happy when I am trying to learn a new song and I can’t get it right and it makes me frustrated. I enjoy going to watch soccer games. This is because some games, my brother and I sit in the terraces and we chant and cheer for our team. The only time I ever get frustrated when I watch a game is when the referee starts making ridiculous calls that give the other team chances to score and win the game, or when a player does something that they shouldn’t have to help the other team score against us. However, now that I think about it, I am always happy whenever I am around family. This is because no matter what they do wrong, they are still my family and they always find a way to cheer me up again. ====

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When have you felt lonely? __
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I can’t really think of a moment when I have ever felt lonely but I have got one that’s close to it. I felt lonely around the start of the year when I was having troubles and it was during the holidays. It was late at night and something happened. I didn’t know who to talk to about it because I didn’t feel comfortable telling mum, dad or any of my brothers. The only other family member I could have talked to was my younger sister and I doubt she would have known anything about it because she’s only 10 years old. I wished that my older sister was still here because I knew she was the only one I could talk to. I tried talking to my friends about it but it wasn’t the same because it was over Facebook chat and I couldn’t call anyone because it was late at night and I didn’t really want to wake anyone at home. I waited a while and figured out that I could still talk to my older sister I just wouldn’t really get a response straight away, or any response. So I started talking to her and it felt kind of weird because I didn’t know if she was there listening to me and I felt like I was talking to myself. Somehow I knew she was listening and I stopped and fell asleep. That’s probably as close to feeling lonely as I remember. (245 words) ====

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When do you feel proud? __
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I feel proud whenever I have done something to make me feel proud, or when someone else has done something and I feel proud of them. For example, if I make someone happy and cheer them up, that always makes me feel happy and definitely proud. I always feel proud of someone when they have achieved something that they couldn’t before. When they face challenges, it makes me proud because it shows how much we can do if we just do it and not letting fear or other emotions tell us what to do. People deserve to be proud of themselves and of others when they accomplish even simple things. This is so that we are encouraged to do it more often and eventually it helps us accomplish much harder challenges. It also helps us overcome fears that we would have had before and it makes us stronger in many ways. (151 words) ====

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? __
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The qualities I dislike about myself are laziness, selfishness and anger. I am lazy when it comes to little things such as getting out of my room or even feeding my puppy. Most of the time I would fall asleep on the couch instead of getting up, walking 5 steps to my room and onto my bed. I am selfish when it comes to things such as food and money. I am not that selfish because I still give away clothes that I don’t wear anymore to some of my less fortunate cousins in the Philippines. The quality I dislike most about myself is anger. This is because I usually don’t find a way to get calm until the next day, depending on whom and what made me angry. A lot of people don’t know me, but I guess I can say that I can be a very angry person. I dislike this quality the most about myself also because it isn’t very fun to be around. I know that I don’t like being around people that are very angry because it gets annoying. I always try to keep myself calm but as I said before, a lot of the time I don’t find a way to get calm again after a while. This is the quality I dislike the most about myself. (223 words) ====

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? __
====<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prejudice is not only black against white but more than that. It involves the whole world. It involves race and religion. Our world definitely isn’t perfect because a lot of things are unjust and unfair today. Our society today is what is unjust and unfair and because we are surrounded by that, many cannot be bothered to go against it and say or do something about it. Instead we go along with it, or we say that it is wrong but no one ever does anything about it. a lot of us are judged because of our race or religion and it is because there are stereotypes of everything, every race and religion. We are told to believe things and make generalisations about people. We were born to judge other people because it is just nature; it is nature to believe that we are right when what we say are just opinions, not facts. It is nature to manipulate many facts to make ourselves feel correct even though we were wrong. This is why I believe prejudice exists in our world today. (182 words) ====