Teacher's way of helping Students understand Bullying

Ran into this post on facebook and have yet to find whom created it but I had to share it! If we could make bullying just disapper forever that would be pretty good. But I don't think it will ever be 100% gone but it needs to be cut down. There is WAY to much bullying!

Hobbies: Everybody is good at something!

I never expected this commercial that I used to see at least once a day as a child to stick with me as much as it did I actually used to think it was annoying ( from seeing it so often I assume).Some how this really got to me and I'm sure that's what they had hoped for. As I was growing up and I was faced with trying something new or feeling very shy this would play in my mind and sometimes was enough to get me to do new things. I was always very shy and hated doing anything that made me the center of attention. Everything from Oral presentations at school, talking about things I liked, joining groups and clubs, even opening presents on my birthday!

When It was back to school time almost every school year began with filling out a sheet or telling the class about yourself. The normal stuff like your name, but also what you liked to do. Half the time I didn't know what to put or say. I was afraid that whatever I liked to do was going to be stupid to the other kids. I would try and impress my teacher by writing something I thought was really cool. I eventually got it through my head to just pick something I liked and say it.

It took me until the sixth grade to start joining things and be proud of what I do! I did girl guides for a bit until I moved and dropped it. I loved that girl guides was out of school and none of my friends from school were in it so no one would know. But like the video says "everybody is good at something" so why should I be hiding my hobbies that I enjoyed? I decided to just jump in when I started a new school for grade 6 since I was only going to be at that school for a year i figured if something goes wrong i probably won't see these people again. I joined recycling team, capture the flag team, and helped with little tasks around the school. The worst that happened that whole year, was the warm weather came and the recycling team members decided to quiet so they could go outside leaving me and a friend alone in the group.

So grades seven and eight at the new school I was looking for clubs to join the first week! I continued on with recycling since I had fun doing it at the old school. Then decided to also join peer mediators ( helping younger kids solve problems at recess), Office Helpers ( answering phones during lunch), Gardening, Book Buddies, Recess Helper ( helped grade 1 and 2's get ready for outside), and a few other little projects. I never expected joining clubs would make me WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL! and boost my self confidence like it did.

Now your probably wondering if I joined clubs once I started high school.... Might as well continue this story instead of leaving you hanging. The answer it YES! I did continue to participate in clubs in High School as well.

Grade 9: Being the first year in high school I played it low key and only joined 1 club my grade 9 year, which was a group me and 5 other friends made about how smoking is bad ( not smokers are bad but the industry itself) and convinced a teacher to be in charge of it and make it happen.

Grade 10: I continued with the group from grade 9 and I branched out some more and joined Sound & Light ( we were in charge of microphones, speakers, lights and a whole bunch of stuff for school events), Environmental club, yearbook ( was actually a class not a club but I spent a lot of spare time on it), and spent some time on student council.

Grade 11: Stayed the same as grade 10 for awhile then I joined Health Action team ( basically about the health and well being of the students,and staff), Cool to care ( fun day with lots of activities), and breakfast club ( put together food that was available free to students at break).

Grade 12: I was told I should take it easy my grade 12 year, I didn't listen but I'm glad I didn't. I did everything I did in the past years and participated in the talent show with some friends and practised everyday after school for 2 months, joined an outside school group that ties into the anti-smoking  and health groups. and went away for 5 days with them on a leadership camp. and of course graduated that year.

I actually enjoyed high school so much I went back for an extra semester ( okay truth is I had no idea what I wanted to be yet and didn't want to waste money on university or college for something I wasn't going to do). In my extra semester I backed away from a lot of the groups but still remained a part of them and helped get new students involved.


I'm going to shut up now... this blog is longer then I thought.... Just remember "Everybody Is good at something!" Don't be afraid to try new things, and stand up for what YOU believe in.

Let the Stress BEGIN!

Everyone around me is always talking about how stressful college is and being in a icky mood because of it. Ialways said Pft Whatever! I'm not going to be like that and let something like college stress me out.... Well my fee statment for college came and the stress is already starting to come. School doesnt even start until September and I'm panicing already! Sure Money doesn't buy happiness but holy smokes does money cause tons of stress in a lot of people.

Insane Pony ride @ the Fair

This is one super random post and is basically a flash back to an event that happened when I was younger.

My parents decided to take me to the fair and I decided I wanted to ride the ponies. You know the ones hooked up to the carousel type and have to go in circles. So my mom and dad agreed to let me go on it, nothing could happen simply walking in a circle right? Weekly they were wrong, for whatever reason something spooked the pony I was riding and decided to have a freak out with me riding it. While the other trainers were keeping the other ponies calm mine was trying to calm my pony down and get me off unharmed. Meanwhile my parents as well as others standing around we're panicking that I was going to be thrown off and terrified of horses for life. Well as my mom always tells the story, " My little girl wasn't even the slightest bit scared and just enjoyed the surprise during the ride." I honestly don't remember ever being scared of ponies or horses after this event and even went to riding lessons with my cousin for awhile. I think my mom was way more scared, definitely wasn't ready to let me go on again ;).

My FIRST attempt at a Wordless Wednesday

Since this is my first ATTEMPT at a Wordless Wednesday I'm going to "cheat" by saying a few words.... Okay here goes, I have no idea how to do this but I am going to try.. work with me :P

"What do YOU want to be when you grow up?"

One thing we seem to hear over and over again as we are growing up is "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and "You have a future ahead of you". Sure it's a fun activity to do in JK and i'm sure teachers get a few laughs out of some of the drawings done by a bunch of little kids, but it's not easy to just decide as a child what your going to be, who your going to marry, what your kids or your house will be like. Maybe in a perfect real life fairytale this could happen, but not for me thats for sure!
 Looking back at old assignments from school it looks like over the years I changed my mind  A LOT! Princess, Ballerina, Mommy, Police WOMAN, Firefighter, Vet, Nurse, Ultrasound Technition, Nurse again, Early Childhood Educator. Sure being a princess is still very appealing but chances are slim to none on that one, and I definitly still want to be a mommy in my future. Other than that I have changed my mind a lot since elementary school.

   Throughout high school many of my friends were planning the floor plans to their future dream homes, and what they wanted their family to be like. I was worried that I didnt feel "into"doing that sort of thing, but I eventually did feel like doing that sort of thing. So many plans and a future to build!

   So welcome to my new blog..... Hope you enjoy reading some of the entries every once in awhile.