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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.

Week 1
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? Over my lifetime, living with someone who always has a joke up their sleeve, you will get a lot of stupid advice like 'Don't eat the yellow snow' or 'You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.' but in the end the have given me the best advice I have ever received which is 'Good manners cost you nothing, bad manners cost you everything. This is true because it means all it takes is to do one thing wrong and your whole reputation could be wrecked. This shows that you should always be using your manners no matter where you are at any time. you are always watched by people and they see everything you do and you are judged upon that itself. This is what creates an image for yourself and it can either be very good, or very bad, depending on the choices you make. You also use it everywhere, when out in school uniform, on Melbourne experience, even on the bus. But as I said before, 'good manners cost you nothing, bad manners cost you everything'. This is what I believe is the best piece of advice I have ever received in my whole lifetime (that i remember)

Week 2
What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? Well, there would be one more piece of rubbish to pick up, and that's what no one understands these days, if one person does it, that means that there are also other people doing it. If you go in with the mindset 'Why bother walking twenty paces to a rubbish bin when I can just drop it here on the nice clean ground. It doesn't matter anyway, someone else will pick it up.' WRONG! Yes, it will be picked up, AROUND A FISHES NECK, SUFFOCATING IT!!! If everyone thought like that, we would be overtaken by our own landfill. And why make others pay for your dirty deeds, it's just wasting more and more of their time. the best way to think of it is as if it was your house. I mean, would you walk into your front room and drop a half eaten sandwich on the floor? i know i wouldn't. And if anyone says they do, well they'll be in trouble when there is mold growing in their lungs. It takes a strong person to stand up against people and make sure that people pick up their rubbish and chuck it in the bin. i know that no matter what, people will still do it, but it would be a great help to the environment.

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 saw a friend cheating, I would normally confront the friend and ask them to stop. If they kept continuing though, I would more than likely report it. I would only do this because I believe everyone is entitled to one chance, and after confronting it, they should listen to reason. If they kept continuing, I would only report it because in the real world, if you copy it is called plagiarism and you could be sent to jail because of it. I would only do something like that to protect the friend, not treat them terribly. I also believe courage is when someone does something no matter what, even if it is against the odds and you could lose something. I believe a courageous person would be no matter the con's and pro's, they would go for it anyway if it was the right thing to do. I believe that the thing that makes a good friend, a good friend is that they will stick by your side no matter what happens and will always be there for you if you need a helping hand. In my case, my best friend would be Josh Pigdon because no matter what he has tried to always be there for me and he shows the qualities of a good friend.

Week 4
What is your most indispensable possession and why? My most indispensable possession would be my Grandfather's quilt. When I was much younger my Grandad crocheted it for me and I absolutely loved it with my heart, and it was one of my grandfather's favorite things to do like gardening or reading lateral thinking books. It makes me really sad but my Grandfather passed away in November 2009 and it was really sad because he was one of my idols. Ever since he died, I have had that blanket in my room and I haven't messed around with it at all because it is one of my memories of him and it saddens me to think that I will never see him sitting in his chair, knitting a pillowcase or poncho again.This is why I really cherish my blanket a lot and will never let go of it or lose it in my whole life. That is my most indispensable possession I have ever had

**Week 5**
What do you think about people polluting the environment? What I think about people who pollute the planet are just irresponsible and lazy. They have no regard for us fellow human beings, animals, our environment and our planet. If these people can not give a damn about this then they are also morally irresponsible. It makes me sick, the way that they can just leave rubbish around, making someone else clean up their mess, it's just simply atrocious they way they are. They believe it should be left up to everyone else except themselves, they are not only ruining it for us, but also for our children and their own. I believe they should be given a large fine to stop them from ruining our ecosystems This is what I think of the polluters who are ruining our world.

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 quite upset and disappointed with myself for making that mistake. I feel like I should know better and that I will make sure I won't do it again. It makes me feel like I am sometimes an idiot for making the mistake and that I am useless. I feel sad and depressed sometimes, depending on how bad the thing was. On the other hand though, I feel absolutely great when I do something right, I feel like I'm on top of the world. I become happy with myself and try to stay in the spotlight, I don't know why but I just seem to like attention. Overall I feel like I could just take off and fly around the world. This is how I feel when I do something good, or something bad.

Week 7
I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... Honestly, I really wish there was a law against bullying. It affects so many people around the world, not just in schools but in workplaces, sporting clubs and even over the internet. This would be a good law because it would stop people from harming others both physically and mentally. the thing is, many people around the world are being mocked for only one crime, being different. It may be brought on for multiple reasons such as they might have different interests, hobbies or it could be because they are uncomfortable with themselves and you are better than them in some way. Trust me, I know first hand. I have been called multiple names that I shall not repeat because they are bad, one of the main reasons is that I do dancing, singing and musicals. It may hurt at first but just don't let them get to you is what I have to say. I don't let it interfere with my life. just live the way that you do and don't let any bully think that they can hurt you because you are strong. It is also said that it causes most child suicides more than anything else in the world. this is what is so dangerous about it. This is why I believe there should be a law against it.

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 at an angry stage, I tend to go to my room or an empty place and scream into my pillow to get it out or yell at the ocean. It tends to make me feel calmer and less aggravated than what I was originally. It tends to be I get upset first, then get angry. I tear up and clench my fists, sometimes until they start to go numb. I bite my lip and flare up my nostrils a little bit. There are probably only a couple of places that I feel most happy because I try to be happy where ever I can. These top places are at my dance school, my singing lessons, at my footy match, on stage, at my friends places and in the comfort of my own family and home. It has recently that I have been super happy around everywhere, and this is really good for me. The time I probably felt loneliest was when my girlfriend and I split up last year. I had made the mistakes of letting my closest friends go to be with her and her friends. When we broke up I had no friends to help carry the load, and it was like this for a very long time. It wasn't until this year when I said I was number twelve with the worksheet and I felt lonely that I decided that I needed to fix my old friendships. And the good thing is, I have made even more now than what I had originally like Jesse, Michael and heaps of other friends. This is one of the times I have also felt so proud. I also felt proud when I had received school vice captain for my primary school and everyone I loved was there at the church. These are just a couple of examples of how I am.

Week 9
Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? I have quite a few aspects of myself than I don't particularly like, but the worst is that I always have to put that pressure and expectation on myself. All my life I have been putting this unneeded stress on myself, and it is annoying. It's always has to play in and when I don't achieve what I want to achieve, I feel like I have just let everything about me down and it's hard. I don't know where I get it from but it really annoys me. I can remember in year 3 we used to have a maths competition, and I would win quite a lot, so I got used to putting pressure on me. Then one day, my friend Jonathon won and when I sat down with my friends, a good friend of mine said something to me which made me ball my eyes out (nothing against my friend, just the way I was back then) and honestly, I was a sook. But I am not as bad as I was back then now, I have now learned to cope with it and it feels much better than it did back then.

Week 10
Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? Of course there is prejudice in the world, and the hard honest truth is that prejudice will always be around. i believe it exists around the world because other cultures or religions think they're way better than any other type. For example, it took hundreds of years for the Aboriginals and Caucasians to come together and be treated as equals. It was because when the Europeans got here, they believed they were in charge and they had more rights than the Aborigines. This is a sad but true factor and it affects the whole world. After all, that is how most wars started was by beliefs. It sad but I believe every single person is at least a tiny bit prejudice. This is why I believe that prejudice still exists all around the world and the horrible but true factor about everyone, but it's not our fault. It was the way our ancestors were taught and we have had that pass through every generation before us. This is what I believe with the question of why do I think prejudice exists in our world today.

//**__MELBOURNE EXPERIENCE__**// //On Melbourne Experience, I was extremly excited, we had been given the freedom to do what we wanted by the school. I was put in a group of four with Jordan, Jayden and Sean and I have to say, it was the best group I have ever been in! It was always a joke with these guys, and that is what made it so good and fun. On the first day we went to the Walk in the Park tour, and the Queen Victoria Market tour. I believe that the Queen Victoria Market was the best, we we able to buy whatever we wanted. Sean got a Trivium T-shirt and Disturbed poster, Jayden got a COD:Black Ops poster and a 300 poster, Jordan got a couple of Metallica posters and I bought a couple of Metallica posters and a Led Zepplin. Another good thing about us is that we all have similar tastes in music, we all like the rock, metal and heavy metal genres. We also loved the churos we got with the coupon. The next day we went to the Arcades and Lanes tour and the On the Waterfront tour. The were both fun and we we window shopping at the food shops, they looked and smelled fantasitic, to bad we were in a rush. We also went into a shop which was supposedly scary according to Maddison, Bianca and Trent, so we decided to take a look. Feeling the mood, Jordan put on some music that made it seem like a horror scene, and it was, when I saw the crazy guy staring at me in the mirror. But obviously the other group didn't like it, with them all having a go at Jordan. When we got up I scared Maddison, but we didn't get what was so scary about it. So we went back. All in all, it was a great two days but I wish it had of lasted a bit longer because we had so much fun. It is something MacKillop should do for a very long time, it was that good.//