Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Team Day (Norval)

Monday at Norval, I think that our team worked well together. The only difficulty we had was deciding how we were going to climb up the wall. We had to talk and discus options and ideas. We had to communicate. We had to agree. We had to practice. We had to work together and support each other.

We had to climb a fourteen foot wall. As well, each of us had four ropes attached to our body and we had to swing and grab the four balls lying on the ground. On the fourteen foot wall, I think that our team worked well together. We had to communicate while pushing somebody up the wall. Also, when we were swinging a person to get one of the four balls, one person would yell out, “Black and green pull up, white and other green let out”. This was the best time we communicated all day.

I think that communication is the key to doing anything well in a group. Communication is important when playing sports or just having fun together. If you can communicate as a group well, you can accomplish almost anything. In hockey for example, if you’re taking it around the net and your other defence partner says, “REVERSE,” then you know that you should pass the puck behind the net. Another thing that helps you work well as a team or group is to plan and practice. When you prepare you need to practice communicating as well. For example when we were pushing people up the wall, the first, second and third people were very hard but by the end we were pushing people in record time.

Norval was a good opportunity to learn and exercise my communication skills for school projects. It was especially beneficial because I was learning and practicing these skills with the people that I would use these skills with at school.

In conclusion, I think that the two most important things to working well as a team, on any type of team, you have to communicate well and practice things before you do them.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Small Things of Life

Five years ago, I was out on the internet when a random pop-up (THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BLOCKED) showed a little girl in severe poverty and a World Vision Sign beside her and a saying that said 'For one dollar a day you can give this girl clean water, education and food.' That was the first time that my eyes were opened on the problems in Africa, South America, and South-East Asia. Malnutrition, poverty and the dirtiest water you have every seen. The next year I did a project on Child Labour and found out more and I kept learning more and more.

Do you know why we just leave these children and their families starve or freeze to death. Craig Kielburger started Free the Children when he was 12. It's never to young to start helping other people.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Tell Me Why Quote

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solves most of he world's problems." Mahatma Gandhi

I think that the quote means that if we would do all the good things that we are capable of then we would help to save the world.

This quote makes me think about how since I went to We Day in Toronto Oct. 5th and how Craig and Marc Kielburger talked about how Mahatma Gandhi was so influential toward the people of India and non-violence.

If you had the power to do anything in the world what would you do? Would you be like Mahatma Gandhi or would you be... you decide!

Friday, October 2, 2009

Poverty

One-third of deaths, about 18 million people a year or 50 thousand a day, are due to poverty. One-third of deaths are due to poverty. Out of 3 people one will die from old age, one will die from Cancer or another disease and the last will die from poverty. So why are we not trying to help. Craig Kielburger started Free the Children when he was twelve. I think that since a kid started this we should be doing something too.



I personally have contributed in our community personally by contributing to food drives but I still think that we should be contributing more!!! Kids that are about 10 go to Africa to build wells! People who are 30 could do something since ten year-olds do something. Yes, they have a job and kids but still they can do something.

In conclusion, no matter who you are, if you have kids or a job or both, you can do something in your community, donate money, volunteer at the food bank, you don't have to go to Africa.