Samantha's+Reflections

Reflections Each student will build their own page for the puposes 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 relection 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.

Week 1
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? Through my years, I have been given many different sorts of advice, but the best advice that has ever been given to me is to //“treat others the way you want to be treated”.// This advice really says it all in one sentence. I think people should treat others the way that they want others to treat them, this way it’s a fair go all around. The way a certain person acts reflects back to others the way that they want to be treated. If someone was rude or mean to someone, then this indicates that the person who was being rude to the other, should not be treated with any respect because they didn't show any to the other person. People deserve to be treated right; everyone deserves to be treated with respect. But the only way to get that is if you show respect to others. If you don’t treat others in a nice manner, then you surely shouldn’t expect that they will be treating you in a nice way. If I respected someone and gave them the respect that they deserved, I would hope that they would also treat me with the same kind of respect. No one deserves to be treated wrong; it will only happen if you go off treating others in a rude way.

Week 2
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 and so did everyone else in the world, it would cause our earth to be filled with rubbish laying everywhere on the ground. When people throw a piece of rubbish on the ground they think that it will just get picked up by someone else. But it doesn’t just happen like that, when you litter you are causing more than just one problem. When you throw a piece of rubbish on the ground it could get blown away by the wind or get washed into drains and rivers to a different spot where animals may think that it is food. When this happens, animals eat the rubbish. This is a terrible thing because the animal could choke or it could just die later on. Another thing that would happen if everyone in the world threw their rubbish on the ground would be that the areas we live in would become dirty and there would be a lot of germs living everywhere. This could cause people to become sick or catch all sorts of different diseases. It would make local area’s seem disgusting and not a very nice place for people to live in.

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 ever caught my friend cheating, I would confront them. I would go up to them in person and tell them that copying isn’t going to get you far in life. If you rely on other people to do the work for you, you’re not going to learn anything, like you won’t learn from your mistakes. By telling them that this is the wrong thing to do, I would hopefully think that they would think twice before copying someone else again. I think courage means someone who has enough power in themselves to take a risk. For example a person who does something dangerous without showing a lot of fear, is showing that they have the quality of courageousness. Even though they are doing something that may be out of their comfort zone, they will still always have that little bit of a feeling of fear. The thing that I think makes a good friend is being able to trust the person. Trust is a very big deal, if you’re going to be good friends with someone you need to know that you are able to tell them things that they won’t afterwards go off and tell everyone. Another thing is honesty, I think being honest with someone and showing your true self towards them, can make a friendship work out so well.

Week 4
What is your most indispensable possession and why? I actually don’t really have a most indispensable possession. Right now if I had to pick one thing though, it would be my mobile phone. I bring my phone with me everywhere I go, no matter what. Without my phone I just feel so lost, I know it may seem a bit silly, but I actually do. When I have my phone with me things are just that 10% better because I know that I’m able to contact whoever if I have my phone with me. If I lost my phone I wouldn’t be very happy. My phone is basically part of my life, it makes me feel connected. It’s also good because if anything bad happens, like incase of an emergency, I know that I will have my phone on me to contact someone. When I don’t have my phone with me, I feel like I can’t call anyone if I need something and if I go out I actually have no way of getting in touch with people like my parents or a friend or someone else.

**Week 5**
What do you think about people polluting the environment? I think pollution is very bad. I think people polluting the environment are also very bad. People don’t realize that every day we pollute our environment. Our environment is one of the most precious things we have on earth; it plays a big role in the way we live. Tree’s give us oxygen to live. We need clean air to breathe in, but with so many gases being released out into the open air, it’s causing bad air to be spread around which we breathe in, and as we know, it is not at all good for us in any way. We could stop pollution if we use public transport, by using public transport we are minimizing the use of cars. Cars let out gases into the air, adding to pollution. If more people started using trains and buses we are reducing the amount of gases being released. Even if places you are going to are within walking distance, take the time to walk there. Not only are you helping reduce pollution, but you are also giving yourself some exercise. Green house gases also play a big role in pollution. At home we are so lucky to be provided with electricity, but we take that for advantage. To stop green house gases we need to turn off all our appliances at the plug when we are not using them. This completely turns that whole electricity part off. This is just one small thing we can do to help, it’s a small step, but it’s a start.

Week **6**
How do you feel when you do something wrong? How do you feel when you do something that is very good? When i do something wrong i feel bad. I feel a bit dissapointed in myself for making a wrong action. In life there's always gonna be multiple times when you are going to make wrong decisions, but when we make a mistake we learn from it. No one is perfect, and everyone ﻿ is going to do things that afterwards they will learn not to do again. We learn from our wrongs. When i do something that is very good, i feel happy on the inside. It really shows when im happy, because i always smile. When i'm happy, i feel good about myself. Other times when i feel good about myself is when i help out other people, or hear nice, kind things from others. Doing something that is very good, makes me feel happy. I think that i am a good person and i quite often make good decisions.

**﻿Week 7** I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... I wish there was a law that said no smoking in public places. I hate smoking; I think it’s really bad. If people are going to chose to smoke, I think that there should be certain areas that aren’t so close to the public where they are allowed to smoke as much as they want too. Smoking is so bad for you, yet I don’t understand why people continue to do it even though they know the effects of it. Whatever reason they chose to smoke, is their own personal business. When people smoke in public I hate it. I hate walking past and just smelling it. I think the smell is disgusting. Also sometimes when you’re out with your family walking around, for example a place like the city, people are smoking nearby in public places. When they smoke in public places, the smoke is around for people to sniff in. I just hate it, a lot. This law would be good because, smokers can still have a place to have a smoke, but the smell and smoke that comes out isn’t there floating around public places where everyone is.

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, I look a bit grumpy. I’m the type of person that isn’t very good at showing that I’m not angry when I am. Well actually sometimes I’m pretty good at hiding it. Even though there are times when I get angry, I’m the type of person who hates fights. I absolutely hate them. I try to distance myself from drama. I feel my happiest when I’m with my friends. I like being around friends, just chilling or going out. Shopping also makes me happy. Something that makes me happy is that feeling when you have just purchased a new clothing/shoe item, oh the joy. I feel lonely when I’m at home. Because my sister moved out and my dad is always working, it’s only me and my mum at home. I get pretty lonely just sitting there on my own watching TV or doing other things. I feel proud when I accomplish something. When I finish something, or achieve something that I don’t usually do, I feel so happy and excited and just so proud of myself. It’s like getting 90% or higher on a test or when you finish something that you have been working so hard on. They’re the type of moments when I feel proud of myself.

Week 9
Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? The quality that I dislike the most about myself would have to be laziness. I think sometimes I can be a really lazy person and I just can’t help it. Sometimes I just get those days where I can’t be bothered doing anything. When I say that I’m lazy I don’t mean it as in full on, like I still do stuff, it’s just that I get that “I can’t be bothered” feeling. It’s like with my school work sometimes, with all honesty, there have been time when I just say “no I can’t be bothered studying” or stuff like that, but I know I have to. So if I don’t do things right away, it gets built and I things get piled up on top of each other and last minute, I’m super busy trying to finish things that I couldn’t be bothered doing when I should have been. I really want to get out of the habit of being so lazy, I know I will. If I get enough motivation to do things and get things done quicker, I will soon realize that hey this is better than having to do heaps of things at the last minute. I am already starting to finish things quicker, I think.

Week 10
Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? I think that prejudice exists in the world because people always judge others based on what they have heard about them, before they even get to know them. This is like hearing something bad about another person or race/culture and then giving them that label based on one thing that one bad thing they have heard. A lot of this happens with racism. People hear that a few or so people from a country have been doing bad things and are involved in those sort of bad situations, so people just assume that everyone else from the country is bad as well.