Weekly Reflection: Week 4

Another week gone by, only around 5 more to go! Justice Week for me was awesome!!!

TRAILS

Wednesday: AYCC (Australian Youth Climate Coalition) and School

After the teachers came back form their half-day strike, it was off to the AYCC. It was a hot day so by the time we got there, everyone had become zombies. Despite being surround by the undead, our speakers carried on and gave out wonderful ideas to prevent further climate change (like movie night and fashion show) and also opinions on our focus question :). After that I decided to join (online) the AYCC.

Friday: Magistrates' Court

Being lucky enough to be randomly picked to go to the Magistrates' Court, I found that my view of justice and the law did change I didn't realise that the magistrate (judge) could lessen or harshen the sentence because of things such as family matters. As mentioned my essay, a man's punishment was lessened because he had all 6 of his children depending on his income, which required his driver license. The trip ended with a DELICIOUS MACAROON!!!

After returning back to school, we had a discussion on human rights and then I took the  Uni High's Human Rights temperature test and found that Uni High scored 83/100. The score was pretty good, considering there was a 68 somewhere. I actually don't remember the questions that well, but I think it was pretty accurate. The school allows people to give their own opinion and have equal opportunities. However, some people may have suffered from voicing their oponions, the reason why Uni High got marked down.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

When Chris made a surprise appearance at the room where I was working, I immediately asked him if we were leaving. His response was a no, so I continued to carry on with my work. (To me) He looked a bit distracted (and annoyed?). He then went to ask Annie something, sound vaguely like a I heard you wanted to speak, is there something wrong (I think). Then Annie said something along the lines of: NO!!! I wanted you to come here to tell you how wonderful these girls have been... I immediately relaxed and began helping the kids again :) i really think my patience has been improving. Sometimes you just have to repeat something 10 times and they still won't get it, so I found myself not even getting a little bit agitated when this happened :)

OTHER CLASSES:

Shapes Game: With a mixture of poverty, sexual assault (we can all guess who THAT was) and robbery, the shapes game was extremely fun. After starting off with the least amount of objects (and no paper), our group was the most disadvantaged. However, we started getting more organised (something I have also improved on) with one person measuring, one cutting, one selling and one with a personal business, which didn't go all too well (however, in the culprit's defense, the victim moved closer to him :P). I learnt that not everyone starts off with the same amount of resources. But, with hard work and determination, we can still make it (to third, that is).

NAIL BITING SUMMARY

Another week by and NO NAIL BITING :) YAYAYAY!!! But they're getting quite long and it's hard to play the piano... I'll have to cut them soon. 

Thao-My