Polar Bear Plunge

Last weekend I did the polar bear plunge at west dennis beach. It was really fun! It was very good to do. The point of the polar bear plunge was to raise money for the MSPCA. Sturgis raised over $300 which was very good. This is globally important because there are animals all over the world who are abused, and need love and attention. I wish that the polar plunge got more press so that the message got out to more people. At the beach that day there were a fair amount of people but their could have been more.

Again this is globally important because around the world there are always animals who need love and attention. I know that through my travels I have seen plenty of animals who are stray and could use some love. this was very true in Costa Rica there were so many stray dogs, and cats.

Surf Trip to Costa Rica

The surf trip this year was so much fun! we left friday from school and got home sunday afternoon. It was amazing! I went surfing 3 times a day, before breakfast, before lunch, and before diner. It was so much fun! I really improved as a surfer as well.

This is an image of me surfing, I was disappointed because the photographer missed my best wave that I have ever caught, this is not the image, but I caught a wave that was over 6 ft tall, i rode it down the front unbroken, and then rode it all the way into shore! it was so much fun! It was truly the best wave that I have ever rode. One day, we went to a rodeo, we went to the rodeo last year as well, this year it was scary because during the rodeo two men got hurt, badly hurt. In fact I thought that both men died, but luckily they didn't. One of the other surfers got a video of the attacks and posted on to youtube, here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qA_zyJYFw

This trip had global importance because right now people are not traveling too much because the economy is so bad, and being traveling, and buying things in costa rica was helping the global economy.

Soi

I went to another SOI meeting today, It was interesting. We watched a movie on where food came from. I really want to eat better now.

6. This is of global importance, because eating organic is a global discussion and a global fad right now. Also eating organizing also effects people from around the world because a lot of fair trade food is organic, and it also benefits 3rd world countries.

ALS Walk

On Saturday September 26 I went on a Walk for ALS it was a 3.7 mile walk. It was really fun! it rose awareness for ALS as well as it helped raised money. I was not able to raise any money but i think the most important part was just the group of us walking down the road. It made just the drivers stop and notice the crowd and maybe they'll donate money to cause.

This is an important cause to me because one of my friends fathers died of ALS when my friend was only four years old. So I was really happy to choose.

This activity covers, Engaged in actives of global importance because ALS effects people from all over the world, and this disease is one of the worst in the world, it slowly stops all of your muscles so you end up dieing because you can no longer breathe because you lungs are a muscles as well.

ALS Walk

I have signed up to do an ALS walk this saturday to help raise money for ALS.

This is considering the ethical implications because I hope that with the money that i help raise, it will help find a cure. This is very important to me because one of my friends fathers died at a very young age to ALS when my friend was still very young.

This also is a global importance because when they find a cure it will help people all over the world.

Rosewood

June 26, 2008

This Activity is being chosen because I miss my grandma and Rosewood is where she used to live and I like being around the elderly, they are really nice, fun, and funny. My dud dies at Rosewood will be entertaining the residents and helping Shanon out with the activities. Volunteering at Rosewood will challenged me because it requires a great deal of patience because you are required to answer the same questions over and over again and just be patient with the residents. This activity will personally effect me because it is where my grandma used to live and it will also effect me because I will be connecting with people and they might not remember me week from week but I know that I will remember these people for a long time.

The goals that I have that i hope to acheive are To get to know and build trust with the residents, Learn how to care of the elderly and have greater patience. I know that i will be able to moitor my progress with getting to know and built trust withthe residents because i will know more about every resident and they will know more about me. I will be able to mointor my education about the elderly because i will know more about them and i will be able to monitor my progress with my patience by noticing how long i can take being asked the same questions over and over again. I don't know how i will know when i have reached my goals, my goals are ongoing you can always gain more trust, knowledge, and patience.

This Activity will meet 4 of the learning objectives, I will be facing new chalanges becasue i have never really helped out with elderly people just my grandparents and close family friends, I will have to work collabertly with others becasue i am working with people, it will force me to consider the ethical implications because the people at Rosewood are different places with different beleifes and different backgrounds, and I will develop new skills because I will be doing something new. This activity will benefit others because i am working with older people and you can see the joy when one is around the elderly they respond really well to younger people.

August 23 2008

While Voulenteering for Rosewood I learned a lot and did a lot. Every day I gave Hand Massages which really helped the people there because they needed their individual attention. Another thing that I did a lot was I played Games. There was one lady there who really liked to play Tic-Tac-Toe, but she moved very slowly so it took a lot of patience but it was decently worth it because people their said that she would ask for me to come and play games with her even when I wasn't there so she remembered me. One difficult thing that I had to do was call BINGO I am not very loud so the Residents had a hard time hearing me every time that id did it. On one of the last days when I called BINGO a resident helped me out because she also called it out on the other side of the room.

August 23,2008

While Voulenteering At Rosewood, my main duty was spending time with the residents and giving them attention. Often while I was there I would give Hand Massages, Play Games, Call bingo, or just talk to the residents. It felt really good helping out the residents becasue you get a feeling that you know that you are appericeated being there not only from the Residents I got that but also the other people working there. I really liked this activity and it meant a lot to me going back to where my grandma used to live and seeing everyone that i would see every time that i would go over there. The activity i know benefited others because that was one of the goals to help out the residents in anyway possible and just spend time with them. One problem that I had to overcome was that calling BINGO for me is hard because I am no where near loud enough for the residents that are hard of hearing, but on the last day that I called BINGO another one of the Residents helped me out by calling it again and she was sitting on the other side of the room. The main thing that I learned was patience and that can be applied to everything in life.

Voulenteering at Rosewood Measured up really well with the 8 learning objectives, because I took on new challenges I have never worked with elderly people before besides my grandma. I worked collaboratively with others because I was helping others out so i had to work with them. I considered ethical implication of my actions because something that you do to help out a resident might be taken another way by someone who has different beliefs than you do. And I developed new skills because I have never worked with the elderly before. this also fits in with global importance because around the world the elderly need to be helped