The Last Lecture

This speech is amazing and was very uplifting and inspiring to me. I cant believe his emotional well being knowing he only has a few months to live he is so inspiring seeing how happy he and what he is doing under his circumstances. His speech of life is amazing and all his points are very good and truly are a way to live by. It is amazing that he did not just pack up and wait for the day and be all depressed he went out and did an amazing thing with his last lecture and inspired so many people. Instead of just being down on himself he went out and inspired others and he probably didn't even know it. It was also very uplifting when he said he did this for his three children who will see it when they are older.. it was almost like his good bye to them and how he would want them to live their life to make him proud. I will make sure i watch the longer version of his last lecture. Very sad to see someone like this pass on.. he left a great message that has inspired many people on how to live their life. Follow your dreams anything is possible.

Mid Term

I feel i should get an 87 on midterm. I have done many leadership things so far. I have got involved with Me to We and mc'd the first ever IDCI Me to We assembly. I also did the Vow of Silence, and stayed silent for 24 whole hours...yes i did it! I have also signed up to start to tutor kids at our school. I have been involved in Me to We and Athletic council. I have gone through the process of choosing a HOBY leader and now am picking the CLeW people. I have also done the homework and blogs and other handout sheets

Mentor

One person who i think has really influenced me and my character development is my Uncle. He is an amazing guy and i love talking to him because he has so much advice and opinions and its great to hear him speak. He has always been there for me and i turn to him with some of my problems and he just has this way of making you feel better and helping you out of the problem. He's a miracle man. This has really influenced me and i want to be like him when i'm older and so tthat i can help out others and people can not be afraid to come to me and i can help them out. He has given advice and i listen to his advice and so because of that i feel he has helped my character and help get me to where i am now. He's a great guy.

Mingas

Mingas are like huge community gatherings where all members of the community get together to help out someone do something. These are where people put down everything for themselves and work together for the benefit of the community rather than tthemselves. I think these are great and it keeps a tight knit community where they do great things together. I think mingas are great and we as a small community i think it could be possible. I think many people would be very glad to help out in their community. Mingas would be a great idea for our small community and could really benefit our community and the people in it. It is possible to be done and would be great to see. One problem would be finding stuff for them to do. I think in a way we do have Mingas here in our town. When their is the garbage clean up day many people from our community come and pick up garbage along the Thames which is like a minga where people are helping out their community. So in a way we do have mingas but more is always better for our community.

Community Adventure

I felt that the community adventure I went on went very well. Many of the businesses seemed interested in the concept and wanted to help out. We didn't have many stores who didn't seem interested at all and i was glad because then their was no awkward silences. I felt it helped to get the word out in our community about what were doing and see if they can help us in any way to raise the remaining amount of money. I recieved money right up front from one of the businesses downtown which was suprising. I also have been informed another one of our businesses donated a large amount of money. I think this shows that the community is happy to help us out on our school project. I also hope some businesses will donate raffle prizes to help out at our overnight saving us some costs. I think this is great we are going outside our school to ask for help in any way. Its good relations with our school and our businesses. I think it went well and am sure to business will gladly open up and help out.

Me 2 We assembly

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G that's what i have to say about the Me to We assembly. I could go on for a very long time about the assembly and how well it went and how much it touched me and how it made me feel but i won't. I talked about it in the classroom and so i will just say a few things here. I think the speakers were amazing and made the assembly. They were not corny speakers they had a message and a point that they got across and i think it affected a lot of people because the gym was absolutely silent. They were awesome speakers and showed that we CAN make a difference and CAN help out these people. I was very touched by both the speakers and really wished they could have talked forever and not given them a time limit, because everyone was so interested and touched by there speech so why stop them. It was a very well done first Me to We assembly and i think our school is now up for the challenge of $10,000 after the speakers have talked. i think this assembly affected many people.

Suicide Awareness Play

The suicide awareness play was very well done. It was not a corny play i think they made it as real as they could as to real life. This helped the audience in seeing the signs of suicide and seeing what they may do differently if they saw a peer showing the signs. I liked the forum theatre play because it got you thinking what u may do differently than the way they treated Tristan in the first run through. It got me thinking and sometimes the signs are so sudle and well i really had troubles of what i may do differently its hard when the signs are so sudle. Its hard to see some of the signs, because unlike the audience we cannot see everything and all their relationships, which makes it hard to see that someone is suicidal, you only see yours and their relationship. This was a very well done, real life play that helped me see some of the signs if someone you know may be suicidal and some things that you can do to help. It also changed the stereotypes that some people have of suicidal people which helped show that anyone can be suicidal even if they have everything going for them, you have to be able to detect the signs.