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__ PORTSEA CAMP EXPERIENCE __ This task asks that you reflect on the two day outdoor experience and respond in detail to the following questions. =Camp: = 1. How were you feeling prior to this experience? I was really excited and nerves of what was going to happen and about what we are going to do. I had never been on a big bout before so I was very happy and excited that we were going to go on one. I had my friends in my cabin so that was also a thing to look forward to, even when we couldn’t talk at night. I also was happy because I new the days were going to be nice and sunny, so we could go out in the sun and have fun. I also couldn’t wait for all of the activities because I new they would be lots of fun. I was excited for the high ropes because I’m afraid of heights but I new I could still do it. I love the beach so when they said it was at a beach I was so happy.

2. What were you nervous about? What were you excited about? I was nervous about the high ropes because I am afraid of heights but I new that other people in m class are afraid of heights as wall and I new I could still do it and have a lot of fun at the same time. I was excited about everything because I have never done any of those things before camp and I was ready to try new things. The most things I was excited about was also the high ropes because I am afraid of heights but I new I could face my fairs and go on and do it and have a lot of fun. I new if I didn’t go on the high ropes I would be so angry at myself for not giving it ago and if I did it I new I would be so proud of myself because I new I did what was a big thing for me.

3. What do you think St Mary's is trying to achieve by taking you on this experience? I think they were trying to achieve to see a new side of the students and to see how they cope with different things. I also think that they are trying to get the students to know each other and to make new friends. I think that they are also trying to show the students that they don’t have to be shy and that we are a team and have to work together in things.

4. Do you think these experiences achieved these things? Why/ why not?  Yes I do think these experienced achieved these things because we all act differently when doing different things and that we all did work as a team so that showed the students to not be shy because we are all there for you. Every student had ago at everything and even if we didn’t finish it we still had ago and we clapped each other on so they would try to keep on going. It also brought students together more because we all tried our bests and we all clapped each other on to keep going.

5. What was your favourite activity? Why? I really liked the high ropes because I faced my fears and did it all the way up and down.

6. What was your least favourite? Why? My least favourite thing was initiative activities because some of them were a bit boring but most was fine.

7. Do you think this experience will help your time at St Mary's? Explain. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes because I wont be as shy in front of the people in my class and I know more people in my class as well now.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">8. Discuss something you learnt about yourself while on this experience. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I learnt that I can face my fears if I really want to and try.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">9. Discuss something you learnt about someone else while on this experience. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I learnt that I am not the only one who doesn’t like heights, Conner doesn’t like it ether.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">10. How do you think you contributed to this experience? <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I clapped people on, on the high ropes and giant swing.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">11. What do you think could be improved for next year’s Portsea experience? <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">What could be improved is that there should be more activities but I know we had three days so the activities in the time we had been fine. =**Reflection:**=

**What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The best piece of advice I have ever received is to love yourself for who you are. My mum always tells me this when I am complaining about my looks. Love yourself for whom you are means for you to stop saying bad things about yourself and stop seeing yourself as that you are always ugly because no one is. It also means to live happy because if you are always thinking you are ugly you will never go out and you will end up getting depression but if you know you are beautiful and you love yourself you will get out more and enjoy life more. None should think that they are not good looking because everyone is; everyone is good looking in their own way.

Week 2
If I threw a piece of trash on the ground, the rain would wash it down the drain and it would go out to sea. When it is in the sea fish would mistake it for food and try to or eat it. If the fish eats the rubbish the fish would eventually die because plastic makes the﻿m very sick if they eat it. If everyone started to throw a piece of trash on the ground every day, the rubbish would go into the water and most of the fish would die and that means most of the birds will die without fish to eat. Also the sea would get polluted and that would destroy animal’s habitats. If the animal’s habitats were destroyed they would have no place to live or to eat. The water would be dirty so humans could not go down to the beach and go for a swim. We might also not be able to eat certain types of fish because there species might be threatened. If we just threw trash on the land it would eventually boiled up and rodents would come. They carry diseases and the diseases would make us all sick.
 * What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did?**

**What would you do if you saw a friend cheating - report it, confront the friend or nothing - and why?**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">If I saw a friend cheating I would confront them because it is not right to cheat and the person they cheated off might get in trouble if the answers were exactly the same. It also shows that they think that they are not smart enough when they might be. I think courage is when you do something right and to be brave. It also means standing up for yourself and others and not letting anyone push you or other people around. I think that everyone has courage they just need to realize that they do. I think what makes a good friend is trust, loyalty, honesty, forgiveness and heaps more. Trust because you should always have a friend you can trust and tell your secrets to and know that they won’t tell anyone. Loyalty because everyone needs a friend that will always be by their side to help them when they need it and to never let them make the wrong choices. Honesty because everyone needs a friend who is honest and will always say the truth and not only say the things that you want to hear. Forgiveness because a real friend will forgive you if you have done something wrong because your friendship means a lot to them but if they don’t forgive you then they don’t really care about your friendship.
 * What do you think courage means?**
 * What do you think makes a good friend**

Week 4
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">My most indispensable possession is my mum’s weeding ring that my dad gave to my mum. My mum gave it to me after she and my dad separated. It is a very beautiful ring and carved in to it is a rose stem and for the rose buds are some diamonds. When I look at it, it reminds me of my dad and how things were when I was younger. It is also nice to know that my mum thought that I might want this, instead of throwing it away or giving it back to my dad. When I get older and have kids I want to pass it down to them and tell them to pass it down to their kids, so it goes down in to the family.
 * What is your most indispensable possession and why?**

**Week 5**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think the people who are polluting the environment are selfish because they are polluting the world for there own benefit such as using cars so they can get around faster and heaters to keep them warm instead of using a jumper or blankets, when people in different countries don’t have those things or even clean water to drink because of the people who are polluting that water by using cars and heaters. If we all could just cut down on using electricity or start picking rubbish up were we see it the world would start being a better place to live and people would start getting healthier by eating good food or even getting fitter. I think if everyone stoped polluting the world, wars would stop because there wouldn’t be a lot of people in poverty and there would be no theory of the world coming to the end by polluting the planet because there would be no pollution to pollute the planet with. It would be lovely to see a world with no war or pollution but to see that everyone has to work together and not everyone would work together because everyone has a different opinion on how to live there life and there future.
 * What do you think about people polluting the environment?**

Week **6**
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">When I do something wrong I feel angry at myself for doing that wrong thing and I also feel sad for the person I did something wrong to. At the end of doing something wrong I would feel very regretful and also embarrassed because then I know I would have to say sorry because I chose to do something stupid. When I do something wrong I do feel **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">disappointed ** in me for doing the thing I did wrong because I know it would have been a stupid thing to have done or said. When I have done something that is very good I feel very proud of myself and happy that I chose the best thing to do and not have made the wrong decision.
 * How do you feel when you do something wrong?**
 * When i do something wrong I feel dissapointed**
 * How do you feel when you do something that is very good?**

**I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because...**
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I wish there was a law that said no smoking if you have children or children around you. I think this would be a good law because children would not be influenced by seeing grown up smoke and they won’t think it is cool as much, so they won’t start to smoke at a very young age. It would also stop a lot of adult’s from smoking because they might have kids or they can’t smoke where they work because there might be young people working there as well. There would also be less people on the street smoking so when you go for a walk you won’t get smoked blown in your face. It would also stop a lot of sicknesses and deaths to people of all ages and also animals such as fish will stop dying because when they eat your buds that cause them to die.

**When you are angry, how do you look? When are you happiest? When have you felt lonely? When do you feel proud?**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I am angry I would think that I look angry. When I am happiest I am ether drawing or painting because it clears my mind. The one time I remember feeling lonely the most was when my parents separated because my dad didn’t say good bye and that hurt me the most. It was also hard to see my parents fight and to see my dad leave without saying goodbye. I feel proud when I have done something right or if I have done a good thing because I know I did my best and that my best was enough.

Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why?
The quality I dislike about me the most is that I tend to talk over people even when I don’t mean to and I don’t know that I’m doing it. I really hate it when my friends say stop you’re talking over me because I feel really bad and I always think to myself I am going to stop this but I never do. I also hate it because I always have to say sorry every time after I have spoken over someone. Sometimes when I speak over someone and they tell me to stop I forget what I was going to say so I sit there think about what I was going to say and it kills me not knowing, but eventually I remember it or I just start talking about hole different thing. Week 10

**Why do you think prejudice exists in the world?**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was nerves to go to the Salvation Army at first because I thought what if I did anything wrong that they would give me low mark, but all the worrying was for nothing. For community links I did the Salvation Army and it was a lot of fun. It was a good place to go to because it made me more confidence when talking to people. On the first day I got to meet a few of the staff’s people, they were all very kind. The first thing I did was to put the bags on the shelf neatly. As the days went we learnt more and more things like how to use the tag gun and the cash register. The tag gun was fun at first but after a while it kind of got boring tagging the clothes and toys and the cash register was a lot of fun and easy to use. We got to go out for lunch or stay their but most of the times we went out. They had a lot of nice jewellery there so I bought two rings. On the last day I said bye to everyone and asked Sue for my marks, she gave the sheet to me and all the worrying was for nothing because I got all good marks.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I think prejudice exists in the world because we all have our own opions and we all think differently. So when someone says what they think, other people might not like it because it’s not what they want or think. Prejudice is all over the world for religions, friendships and for a lot more. But we have to get used to it, people might not like you and it’s not your fault or the other persons. People just have a different way of seeing life and that’s fine it’s just when wars happen because of it and that’s when prejudice becomes a bad thing. The wars a mostly become because of religion and we can’t stop people believing in what they believe in.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Community Links: **

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Melbourne Experience: ** = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Melbourne Experience was a lot of fun because I’ve never been to the places we went to, such as arcades and lanes. Arcades and lanes was my favourite place that we got to go to because we got to have a bit of a break and go shopping for a while, the shops there were nice and they had a lot of good things you could buy in them. The place I disliked the most was the walk in the park because it felt very rushed and it also felt like it went for a long time. I think we had a good team because we all waited for each other when we went to buy something and we all did things together. Over all I had a very good time and enjoyed it a lot.