Caritas

Greetins everyone,
Today I will be talking about our Caritas challenge.
One thing we have been learning about is caritas it is a company where it helps people in Timor-Leste in so many ways.
One thing they do is they teach woman how to run buisness so then can make money and feed for there family. They also do a thing called The Caritas Challenge.

How this works is that school take part in this challenge by fundrasing money  then doing 1-3 of the challenges. Which are Move it Challene which is where you do sport for 24 hours, theres then the sweat it market where you make stuff that you can sell for 24 hours or my favourite one the live it challenge where you sleep in a carboard box overnight for 24 hours. This was the challenge our school did but through out the day we still did some of the move it challenge as well as the sweat it challenge.

It was very enjoyable because for the live it challenge we did it in groups of 2-5 and my group bonded really well to make a very comforable carboard house. Also it was very amazing to see how we all came together and put aside everyday comfort like TV, bed, food and so many more things to show our support to caritas aswell as Timor-Leste.

Reflection
1.Describe your Experience of Caritas so far?
So far it has been really fun and I also have learnt a lot about what its like in Timor-Leste. For Example, I have noticed actaully how much we take food for granted because like they eat Rice in the Morning, Middle of the day and for dinner.

2.What has been a challenge for you so far during the day and/or what might be a challenge for you during the night? How did you or will you overcome this?
Probaly eating because since we have been doing so much sport my stomach has got very hungry!
I will overcome by thinking that if Timor-Leste people can do this there whole life I can do it for 24 hours.

3. What Connections can you make with people of Timor-Leste/ those living in poverty from your experience in our Caritas Challenge so far?
That is hard to live like this but as long as you have someone by your side it makes it a lot easier however some people don't even have that which I understand can be very difficult

4. What could you do to help those living in poverty in our local community? (Think to our City Missioner visit this morning).
Do Fund Raisers or help by not giving money to the poor and actually just give money to the City Misson so then they can use it wisely.

5.What have you learned about Socail Justice and Empathy while paricipating in our Kaupeka Caritas Challenge?
That you really need to make sure you don't take granted how lucky we actaully are.



I hope everyone enjoyed reading my blog today.
What challenge would you take part in? (Move it, Sweat it or Live it)

Thursday Sport

Greetings everyone,
Today my blog will be about Thursday Sport.
Since it is a new term Thursday Sport has started which is where some schools enter teams into a sport compititon that is carryed out every thursday. The Sports are Football, Ruby, Netball and Hockey.
I play for the Football A team which means every thursday we go on a bus down to hagley to play a school.

I personally really enjoy thursday sport because you make so many new friends on and off the pitch.
My team lost our first game to a very good side we will try and win next week and now we also now where everyone likes to play.

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you have a nice day.
Also what sport would you pick to play?

My Goals For PALS

Greetings everyone,
Today I will be talking my goals for PALS (my leadership group).
If you are unsure on whats PALS is let me explain.
PALS is a leadership group that runs sport at our school. There are also other leadership groups like enviroment team and media team just to name a few. Only year 8 can be in these groups for it teaches us about how to interact with people younger then us and it helps develop us into the leaders we are today.

Our Goals for pals is to run games each day and also make sure we get everyone to join in for all we wont to do is to make sport enjoyable for everyone. I love PALS because Naz, Jonte and I run Football every friday to show our comitment for our leadership group and we also get cool badges that say PALS on them.

I hope everyone enjoyed my blog today and what kind of leadership team would you be in?