Norval/Team Building Day!

Norval was once again a great expirence, except that this time was much bettter. One we did some crazy activities that made me have more trust in my peers. These activities also made certain people show great leadership skills and also as a group we were able to make great plan, ideas and goals. Also what an adreanaline rush climbing that wall was amazing how a group of 13 year olds were able to climb a 14" wall with nothing but 16 kids and a flat wall. I aslo enjoyed the drum circle very much it was so interesting to hear many different intruments playing at the same time.

Let me explain to you what Norval is. Norval is a place owned by UCC and it is used to ecourage young people to work together and learn new leadership skills. Norval has many high rope courses to help students have trusts in their peers. It also hase some low rope courses to trust and respect your peers ideas and to have everyone make group dicisions.

We also had the privlige of expirencing a drum circle that was lead by the Drum Cafe. I learned that many of my peers had great ideas and that as a group we could work great together to get the goal accomplished. Many of the people that are usually shy contributed in great amounts and it was really cool to see everyone expressing their opinions through their own drum also different people were given other instruments and when evryine played them at once and stoped and started all at the sane time was really amazing to see. Overall I personally had a great time at Norval and learned alot I think this is a great team building day and it was also alot of fun!

There are many things that are great in life, many of these things are items that people consider to be big, but there are also things that are amazing that are small unusual compared to everyday objects. For intanse im going to talk to you about something that I find absoulutly, unbelievably amazing, this item is a pen. Just think for a second how many special or important documents would not have been made or signed without a pen.

Also a pen can write down work, feelings, documents, history, and many other things. How many other items can do that? Now many people take a pen for granted but just think how your life would without one and how important it is. The other speacial thing im going to talk about is a shoe.

Now you may be asking well why a shoe, well there are many reasons why i think a shoe is so speacial. One, a shoe can tell u evrything about a person. Where they've been, What style they are. Where there from. What they did. A shoe can tell you lot's of things that I bet you never thought they could. Also a shoe can do many things like take you places and most importantly provide comfort for your foot at the most desprite of times.

These are just two of the things you should learn to appritiate everyday. Hopefully i've insired you to take the time and think about your own little thing that is small and unreconized and think of how important it is to you.

We Day!!

We Day was awsome! First, there was many famous people there to give speeches and inspire youth to go from me to we. Some of these people include Mike "pinball" clemens and craig and mark keilburger. Second, there was entertainment, preformers include Justin Bieber, Jonas Brothers and Hedley. Last, I learned about an issue that is a massive problem and needs to be fixed and that there is a no better solution then to teach and inspire youth to change the world.

Personally as a audiance member i felt that all of the speeches were very well written and spoken. These speeches were written to inspire youth to change the world and they did a great job hearing the crowd cheer and scream about changing the world and seeing all the passion made me fell inspired to do something. My favorite speech was Mike Clemens him talking was so insipreing and he was so passionate about his speech and what he was talking about.

I had many great memories that will stay with me forever and also many great thoughts and speeches that will remind me to do something good for the rest of my life. After We Day I felt inspired and I still feel that way and I hope that I will be able to make a great deal of change in someone or something's world for the better.

Poverty

I feel that poverty is a serious and a growing issue. Many people belive that poverty is only an issue in 3rd world countries but 1 in 6 children are living in poverty. Of course I belive that we should help other countries but i also feel that there should be more to be done in our own communities. Many people already are involved in helping our community and other countries but there is still a need for more!

Now there is about 600 billion dollars invested at Wall Street every year. Yet to feed every person in poverty in the world for a year is 3 billion dollars. This fact stunnded me that people are worrying so much about thereself and that if everyone in the world gave 50 cents then that would equal 3 billion dollars, enough to feed the whole poverty population.

To conclude i feel that there is good things being done and we're well on are way to helping poverty but let's keep going and fix this problem.