#24B - Being Yourself

May 22, 2006

Friends Forever the importance of being friends

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING YOURSELF!!!

  • I think that the most important thing when your being with your friends or other people is being yourself!!!

Although being yourself is hard for some people and me sometimes you should still be yourself always even if you want to improve others sometimes acting like someone else would make that person think your weird.

I think that when someone says “be yourself ” it means that just act like what you think you should act like not to improve someone by being someone else, but being yourself!!!

Many people want to “fit in” with a crowd of people that are cool or popular by not being themselves. They pretend that they’re cool and mean to people who actually are being themselves whether or not they’ll “fit in” or not!

  • In my opinion fitting in would be hard because you have to please everyone by being someone your not. You pretend to critisize classmates that were you before you started to “fit in with the crowd”.

In our school there might be some people that are “the crowd” and people that want to be part of “the crowd.” I don’t think that I’m being myself, but then I don’t really realize it so I don’t really know. I think that that happens because the people that aren’t in the crowd wants to be friends with them because they are cool and popular.

For me since I don’t really know for me what being myself is I think that it’s really hard once you try to be in the crowd to be the way you are. It’s hard for others to be themselves when everyone else critisize them that what they want to be is either stupid or a dumb idea.

There’s alot of pressure on you whether to try to fit in or to be yourself and find friends that care about what you want to be. Real friends care about you, not telling you that you look ugly or say that what your wearing is short and they don’t tease you. They say encouraging things about you. There’s a lot of pressure, because your deciding if you want to change or be yourself. That’s really hard.


#23B - Ethical Dilemma

May 19, 2006

Our teacher added another problem and story for us to answer. It’s another dilemma except in this case the kid, Brenden, cheats. And he thinks that the father is wrong but his father thinks that he’s doing the right thing. Brenden feels confused that if the dad is cheating out of money why is it wrong to cheat. He thinks he’s not hurting anyone either.

I think that both the father and Brenden is wrong but first the parent should set a good example. The father shouldn’t cheat out of money either, because Brenden’s older brother should get an adult ticket. That’s hurting the buisness, even though it’s only a couple of dollars differnce. It’s wrong. Brenden will be hurting himself and be guilty. He also denied the first time which is lying. I think that Brenden and his dad should talk over the situations. First Brenden tells his dad his side of the story and they fix it and then the dad’s story.

I did alot of things that are wrong and I feel guilty about it, but everyone lied before. I know that talking doesn’t always work out so if the dad gets mad and says that why is his son minding his own business then Brenden should say that cheating won’t hurt anyone expect the fact that he’ll feel guilty about it. I think that it’s wrong to cheat and lie about things but everyone probably has lied or cheated in his/her life before.

I hope that Brenden and his dad work out the situation and that they understand each other!!!

Thanks for reading my point of view and that you find it resonable!!!(~.~)bye!!!

Cheating


#22B - Own Story

May 19, 2006

There is a girl, Darma and she’s friends with everybody.  One day she goes to school and everything’s normal like usual, but when it was lunch time she heard people talking about a girl that they think is mean.  Darma felt the same about the girl except she remembered her teacher talk about friendship and forgiving each other.  She decided to give the girl a chance.  One of her close friend helped her too.  They talked to the girl and she didn’t even know that everyone was against her.  She wanted to change and make friends.

But instead of her friends helping along, they threatened that they wouldn’t be friends with Darma and her friend.  Darma and her friend Emma were trapped.  They could see an improvement in June, the girl that was mean to everyone, but Darma and Emma’s friends wouldn’t give June another chance.

What should Darma and Emma do?

Should they still help June or listen to their friends because of friendship?

Should they talk to their friends about the change in June’s attitude?

Should they ask an adult for help?

Would June continue changing and not go back to the old self if the rest of the people give her a chance?

Please comment me on this, please give me an answer, because i’m wondering myself.  Thankyou!


#21B - Friends Forever

May 18, 2006

Friends ForeverA picture of friends

Our teacher gave us some questions and a story for us to read and answer. It’s about a girl and one of her best friend turned against her. First I would think about why she did this to me and then wonder why would she do this against me. Since she is in a situation where should she tell the teacher what’s going on or not. I think that since no one would like her if she tells the teacher out loud so maybe she could go up to the teacher and quietly tell her what’s going on and not to do anything first because it’s her friend so she should talk to her friend and then if it doesn’t work she should go to the teachers for advice.

I think that since she has two best friends, Wendy and Erin who turned against her, Wendy the other friend should help Julia out even though Erin threatened Wendy. Friends help each other. If this happened to someone I know, I might help her I don’t know because everyone likes to follow the popular person but I know that I should help that person because that’s what’s right for me to do, if it actually happened I don’t really know for sure. Maybe people like picking on others because maybe they don’t like that person or they think that person is really mean and hurt one of her friend’s feelings. People join in because if they help the picked on person then the bully will pick on the one who’s helping. If the bully is popular that’s also why because everyone would like to be friends with the popular person and that’s normal but still you should help the person that’s getting bullied on.

Alot of people say nothing when someone like their friend is getting bullied on. I’m sure that a really good friend will defend their friend even if they will also get bullied on. I’m really good at that, I’m not really good at that I’m sorry but I would like to try. I guess we should help those who get bullied on even if we will get involved in it. I’m just glad that I have really good friends that helped me before. Thankyou. Sorry if I teased you on somethings before. I think everyone will feel like their friends sometimes tease them and help others tease them. At that time they feel like their friends just betrayed them and will feel really bad, but the next day sometimes it’ll be all better. I hope Erin will understand that friendship is very valuable. Sometimes one someone and that person’s friend promise to each other that the friends forever, when they grow up they might slowly drift apart. Julia might be experimenting the same thing. I don’t know, but I hope for the best for her!!! HOPE EVERYTHING TURNS OUT OK!!!


#16B - Respect for Cultural Differences

May 8, 2006

First, it’s really harsh to say that to someone who’s culture is different. It doesn’t matter what you eat with, it’s not right for a teacher to say that even though they’re the teacher. Besides it’s bad influence to other kids and they will start teasing or bullying. And the principle, she/he should correct the teacher and not help her/him! If I was the kid, I would feel bad about myself, first is because he probably ate with spoon and fork all his life and then suddenly someone says that he shouldn’t be a pig and eat with what he wants to eat with. If you eat with a spoon and fork, it’s not a sin and you’re not being a pig! Why would you be a pig if you eat with what he ate with. Even I eat with spoon and fork. I don’t really use a knife. Just because you’re in a different country doesn’t mean you have to eat with what they use to eat. That doesn’t matter, you should be able to eat with what you want to. That’s just being a bully! I don’t get why the teacher and princible acted that way. I don’t think that Canadians eat only with a fork and knife. I wouldn’t want to go to that school, because they’re just mean. There are alot of different people with different habbits, because of where they’re from and it’s also good to learn about the different habbits and it’s not wrong to eat differently than other people as long as you think it’s right or wrong.


#13B - Bullying

April 28, 2006

BullyingBullying is when someone that picks on people usually smaller than them. They think that they can boss little kids and show them who’s the best. It’s sad that the little kids have to get scared, but then sometimes people help that bully scare other people. They usually want the kids’ money, snack, or they make fun of how they talk. It’s really mean, even though sometimes you say it’s mean but then in the end you want to prove to your friends something and you tease and bully the smaller kids and show off to your friends.If our friends get bullied, you should tell the bully to lay off and stop bothering your friend, because well it’s annoying and mean. You know you don’t want to bullied when you defend your friend, because usually the bully will bully you after you help your friend he or she will bully you instead of your friend. Even though I’m saying this after some time I might bully others and forget what I’m saying right now. I don’t want to bully others but sometimes people just do either for the fun of it or for another reason. I wouldn’t like it if someone bullies me and I’m sure that others wouldn’t like to be bullied too!