samantha's+Reflection+Page

//Week 1//
//What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?// //- The best advice I have received is to never retaliate like if someone is picking on you and stuff to never fight back or do anything that could get you in trouble. I've been playing basketball for about 10 years both locally and representaly for both Werribee and Altona and in my family i am alot like my dad and my dad never settled without having the last laugh. On the basketball court expecially when we were getting to the older ages it would get more physical and more people would just be there to knock ur head off and before every game dad would often tell me this even tho sometimes in the game he said sam get her back for that. It also contributes to my social life i basically live a typical drama filled teenage life and ill often come home to mum and dad who I'm very open to and say this person said this and i really just wanna hurt them as much as they have hurt me but straight away they would tell me not to retaliate. That saying has always been in my head whenever ive felt like retaliating but i would just think that my parents would be mad at me if i do and i most of the time dont do it unless im really really angrey.//

//**Week 2**// //What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did?// //-It would make the ground look really dirty and im that sorta person who is lazy and will often throw one peice on the floor or by accident i would get up and forget that i have left my rubbish under my leg and i would walk off. For things like schools and parks it makes it look really dirty and unviromental. If everyone did it we wouldnt be able to even see the ground all we would see is rubbish and it would us be walking on rubbish and it would effect our wildlife because things like lizards could think that it is like a rubbish and get caught up in the plastic and die and it would ruin our eco system and green house gas.All together if we keep throwing rubbish on the ground we will ruin the eco system and ruin our enviroment and it is really up to us on what happens to the world we make the choices which could determine if we want a clean world or a world which is full of rubbish. Only you can determine how you want the world to be ' the world is in our hands'.//

//**Week 3**// //What would you do if you saw a friend cheating - report it, confront the friend or nothing - and why?// //- i'd proberbly confront them more than telling or dopping on them. Basically it depends on how bad they cheated on something but if it was bad i have done this in the past that i have known something and i have approached the teacher later that day or something like that. In my friendship group we can get mad at eachother for some of the littlest things and in our group two people fighting can make everything change, some peoples attitude change, some people decide they dont wanna hang with us anymore and stuff like that. Ive had atleast my fair share of my friends getting made at me for little things and to me dopping on your friend is no way to loose a friend because most of the time they do find out it was you and even for the littlest thing by telling the teacher the truth can ruin a friendship in 1 second and that would be something that i wouldnt want to do. Sure i understand they shouldnt be cheating and it wont make them learn anything but thats there fault because once you get to college you cant cheat so thats there mistake its not worth loosing a friend over.//

//What do you think courage means?// //- Courage, it can mean alot of things one is the courage to do something that ordinary people couldnt do, to do the impossible, the unthinkable. Things like sky diving, bungy jumping, climbing mountains are things that normall people would not do, there is propbelby more exicitng, more courages things than i mentioned but i wouldnt have a clue about any of those people i am one of those people who you call 'chicken' and wouldnt do any of that stuff ( i am not courages enough to watch supernatural, yes see chicken). Another way of courage is sticking up to people wheather they be your best friend to your boyfriend been able to not let people change you and you not being scared to speak your mind even if that means they get mad at you for it. Courage is also been in life or death situations or dangerous situations and in AFL putting ur body on the line and not caring if you get knocked out to people standing there with guns pointing at your head and the person saying either i take you or him and you say take me. Either people have alot of courage or a bit of courage everyone has a bit insdie them.//

//What do you think makes a good friend?// //This for me is a question which really makes me think because in my friendship group we are always fighting and stuff like that and ive been with this group for 2 years now and im still trying to find out who are true and good friends to me. I always think i have a good friend but then they just do something to turn that around and epecially considering ive been through alot of the drama and the back stabbing for me a good friend needs to be nice, trueful, caring, honest and all round good person. The biggest two for me would have to be trueful and honest. Many times in my group say i was going out with this guy in our group and my best friend goes behind my back and hooks up with him that has happened in the past and for me thats a big thing and being able to trust them and them not even do that stuff. Honesty is a big one because if they do do something behind ur back they should atleast tell you for me its easier to forgive them when i hear it from them not from everyone else and not denying things. Friends are really hard with me i never really open up to them all no matter how close i think they are to me because of the past ive always been scared. There are only two girls Kate Freeman and Shelby Rae who i am truly honest with and truley myself with because ive knwon the for 10 years and they have never done anything to hurt me. I love those girls <3//

//Week 4//
//What is your most indispensable (not live without) possession and why?// //i know the right answer would be money,water and clothing but for me because i go through so much drama in my life i would often go home and be upset and having an older sis and younger sis dosnt help anything so for me something i couldnt live without is my WWE stuff. Watching ti accually helps me relax and calm down like the other day i got in a massive fight with someone and i was deeply upset about it so i went into my theatre room and put on a WWE dvd and by the end of it i was more relaxed and calmed down. I often suffer from some stuff so even tho i know WWE is weird and people say its fake for me it is really entertaining and for some strange reason helps me let my anger out. I seriesly couldnt throw any of my stuff away because i seresly dont know what i would do without it i feel really weird writting this but this reflections are ment to be about the truth so yeh people often pick on me about it but i try not to listen to them because its my choice and so what if watching something that normall people dont like helps me calm down and relax after having a bad day.//

//**Week 5**//
//What do you think about people polluting the environment?// //To be honest its not something that i all that much care about or like listening to but i think we are just causing damage and its our responsibility. I will admit i have thrown stuff on the ground. i think its a cause of laziness or like me leaving it under your leg and saying i will put it in the bin when i get up but i always walk off and forget about it. I think if we over pollute we could cause real damage to our environment and to our wildlife. For me I'm more into saving the wildlife, like birds reptiles and even sea animals. Its not a really big thing for me i mean i will do my best to not leave my rubbish on the ground and try help the environment but that's as far as i will go. I rarely listen in class or in conversations when people talk about pollution or the environment so i don't have much to say about it.//

//Week **6**//
//How do you feel when you do something wrong?// //When i have done something wrong like at work i feel really bad, if I'm getting yelled at by a teacher i get really embarrassed and just try hid me face. When i do something bad that i know has effected people i feel really bad i tend to go home and just watch wrestling and just say how stupid i am. Either when i do something wrong or something bad happens i tend to go in my gym at home and use the punching bag.// //How do you feel when you do something that is very good?// //When i do something good i feel really confident in myself and i tend to get cocky and up myself. I tend to act differently when i have done something good and tend to kinda brag about it and go on and on about it and my friends sorta hate me for it but they know that's just me and they deal with it.//

//Week 7//
//I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because...// //I know this is sorta weird but i just spend the weekend in Sydney and i was there when the gays were protesting about gay marriage. It was the funniest thing but i reckon they have a point and i spoke to my dad about this but i think they should allow gay marriage i don't see what the big deal is so much if some guys like other guys and girls like other girls its there life we shouldn't stop people from living there lives. In Sydney the other group was saying that god wouldn't support gay marriage but what i also said to my dad was doesn't god say love one another as i have loved you and treat others the way you want to be treated. I just think everyone should be treated equally and if they want to get married so what it doesn't effect anyone else's lives. People should sometimes leave there opinions to them self. I know i hate it when people are involved in my love life.//

//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, you can tell i am angry. You can tell from my face and they way i look at you and they way i am around you makes it pretty easy to tell that i am really angry at them and i tend to cross my arms. When i am the happiest is normally when i am with my family, with my baby cousins but most of all when i am on the basketball court with the girls i have been playing with for 10 years. Those girls are the best they help me with all my problems and can easily cheer me up and being on the court with them i forget about all my crap and its easy to have fun. When i feel lonely is when my friends ditch me for one of my enemy's i feel so bad and like no one likes me. When i feel most proud is with my under 8's basketball team when they win and i see the smiles on there faces and then giving me hugs just makes me so proud.//

//Week 9//
//Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why?// //The quality i really dislike about myself is i am bossy. i always have to be in charge and to be i know what right for everyone and the best situations but at times i don't but i will never ever admit it. At times it makes my friends hate me for like when i had someone who is friends with someone in our group and i tell them that they are a bad person and if they don't i tend to full on crack the shits at them and get really bossy with everyone else. Its with me everyday this is something that i can't get out of me no matter how hard i have tried//

//Week 10//
//Why do you think prejudice exists in the world?// //Because people think that they know everything and about anyone and just make assumptions before knowing the facts about it. People who do this mostly just want attention and just want to cause drama and wants everything to be about them. Its like the saying goes don't judge a book by its cover. That's basically saying that don't rule the book out before you know what your going to read about. I try to get the facts right before i talk to people about stuff or tell someone off for something. Many people are like this in our world especially for teenagers they just assume there right about everything and everyone like thats guys a bad guy but sure he may be around other people but what if he is with one person is he still the same guy you will never know until you have seen it so you have no right to judge. People just wants to be the main attention of everything.//