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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? The best piece of advice that I have recieved is "you can only get out what you put in". This is a quote from one of my sporting coaches and means a lot to me. I have remembered this advice for a few years now and it shall stick in my head for many years to come. It is said that you will only be rewarded in life if you put in the hard yards and I have discovered that over time. The people that expect to be rewarded for doing nothing are absolutely wrong, whether it be in a sporting activity or a school assignment, give it your best shot and it will pay of. This is a very meaningful piece of advice that I have treasured for quite some time and honestly means a lot to me because it is true.

Week 2
What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? If I, right now, threw a piece of trash on the ground, that could well have an impact on the life of a living creature. Technically if I threw a piece on the ground it wouldn't really matter. It would just be another bit of rubbish on the ground. Everybody would think that if one person put some rubbish on the ground it would have no impact on our environment, but nobody realises that it all adds up. If everybody put some trash on the ground it would strongly affect our environment and wildlife. Doing this would make us unable to reuse/recycle this rubbish and would simply change the way that our environmkent looks, (dirty). Not disposing your rubbish in a rubbish bin may not sould like such a big deal, bt it's important that we recycle as much as possible due to the state that our environment is currently in.

Week 3
What would you do if you saw a friend cheating - report it, confront the friend or nothing - and why? If I saw a friend cheating, I would perfer to do nothing. If a friend chooses to cheat, that is their choice and if they get caught, they have only got themselves to blame. Their choices are none of my business and that is why I would perfer to just let it slide rather than reporting it. What do you think courage means? I believe that courage means showing guts in a tough situation. I also think it means facing your fears and accomplishing something difficult. What do you think makes a good friend? I think that trust and respect are the main pointers that make the perfect friend. It is important that if you consider somebody as a friend, they trust you. When your friend shows trust they may rely on you to help them evade tough situations and also support them in they choose to do. They need to trust you before you trust them back. The biggest friend factor of all is respect. A good friend would always respect you for who you are and what you look like. People in the world don't earn everybody's respect but if you are going to earn anybody's respect, its your friend's.

Week 4
What is your most indispensable possession and why? I've never really considered anything to be indispensable, but if I had to choose one it would be my __bowling pin__. I have earnt this pin over the years because of all of the hard yards that i've put into this sport. This bowling pin represents what I have achieved in this brilliant sport and often I sit back and reflect on what I have achieved by staring at this pin.

**Week 5**
What do you think about people polluting the environment? I think that polluting the environment is the main reason as to why our earth is in the shocking state that it is in. With more polluting factories and transport being made by the minute we are polluting the air a lot more quickly. We as humans are the only people that cut pollution rates down and it must be done soon before it is to late. There are ways that pollution can be reduced but it does take some comitment. It is the simple things like using public trasport to your destination and walking to places rather than drive. Doing this is not much, but it can and will make a difference.

Week **6**
How do you feel when you do something wrong? When I do something wrong, I feel as if I wish I could just take it all back. Everybody does make mistakes every now and again but nobody ever wants it to happen, expessially if you have the opportunity to do it correctly. Depending on how big of a mistake I have made I might even feel a bit guilty. It's completely normal for somebody to feel guilty but it is not a feeling that I like at all. There is no way to take it back, it's then all about forgetting what happened and trying to do it right the next time. How do you feel when you do something that is very good? When I do something good, I feel like I have acomplished something that I havn't yet achieved. Doing something very well always gives me a good feeling and I love it when I get regognised for my hard work. Acomplishing something at a high standard can make me a better individual and also a higher level to set for myself in the future. Wheather my achievement is great or very minor I still believe that it's something that I should always be proud of.

**Week 7**
I wish there was a law that said... anybody is welcome to join our way of life in Australia. I do not think it is fair that we Australians get to live a life full of freedom and the resedents of countries that are at war are always in danger. It is not fair to those families living in those countries because there is often nothing that they can do to protect their loved ones. I don't blame them for traveling to Australia in order to live a safe life but they are often once again sent away. I wish there was a law that said they are allowed to stay. This would be a good law because... it allows people from other countries to live a life with similar ammounts of protection and a harm free environment. It's not fair to those that are living in difficult countries and we're not being fair on ourselves, knowing that there are suffering people in our world. This would give those people a brand new start to life and a new opportunity to pick themselves up and live a life filled with freedom and protection.

Week 8
When you are angry, how do you look? When I am angry, I look upset and a little down on myself. I'm not the type of person that shows obvious signs of being upset but most can tell through my speech and body language. I don't physically change looks when I am upset but I often walk with my head down or remain quiet. It is hard to realise that I am upset until you actualy talk with me or study me carefully. When are you happiest? I am most happy when I know that everything is going right or as to plan. When there are no social issues or anything to stress about I stay relaxed and enjoy life. It is difficult to enjoy life when you know you've done something wrong or you are stressing, but it is easy when you know that everything is going according to plan and you can just go with the flow. When have you felt lonely? I felt lonely when I have family arguments and issues. One of the family may do something disrespectful and then and argument will begin. As a result we may not talk or we may show disrespect back to the other just to get even with them. This is when I feel lonely the most because it is not the same when you don't have your family to talk to, and i'm sure everybody else would agree. When do you feel proud? I feel proud when I have done a good deed for somebody or achieved something that i've never done before. These make me feel proud because I am a person that attempts to strive for new things and achievements in life. I can make myself proud by achieving something new or doing something that makes me a better individual.

Week 9
Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? The quality that I dislike the most about myself is my __laziness__. I've always been a very helpful person around my house and helpful to other people but I think that I don't do enough of it. If I changed the way that I think about helping others and become a little more enthusiastic about it then maybe I may enjoy doing ot more than I do. But why help around the house when I can just sit and watch television? That is the sort of laziness that I would like to change about myself. Over my primary school years I have loved playing very physical and hands on type of sports involving lots of running and fitness, but this has changed over the last couple of years. I have given those up for a much less active sport in Tenpin Bowling. Because i'm at a high level in the sport and it's the only one I do it is important that I keep active in my own time. The modern technology is quite adicting and time can fly when they are in use. I'd perfer to be keeping fit instead but it is not as easy as it looks. I would love to become more active and more helpful around the house instead of being the lazy type that I am.

Week 10
Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? There is prejudice in our world because each individual is different and we all can't be the same as each other. Not everybody is going to agree with every statement made in our world and that is why we are all different, because we often have different oppinions. Life isn't about agreeing with everything that other say, it's about announcing your own point of view and that is what makes life so interesting, hearing what other people think.