Wednesday 22 May 2013
Thursday 18 April 2013
Empathy project
The person that I interviewed with Moses was a gardener called
David. I choose him because I felt like I would understand his story better.
And I also recorded sound with Moses, so there are few questions asked by him
and few questions asked by me. Although that day was my first day of doing
gardening I felt like I would understand David better than I could understand a
kid. (And I know that you said that the relationship needs to be built over
long period of time, but then gardening wasn't available, and I'm not
going to use that as an excuse, I admit that i didn't build up the
relationship for longer period of time, and now I'm sorry that I
didn't.) And one another reason why I chose David as the person that I
will interview is because I like gardening and I also wrote that in one another
post. I feel relaxed when I do gardening, and I feel like David likes gardening
as much as I do.
Here's the voice record of us doing the interview.
Mr.Sheblak I didn't know how else to
attach this audio file, so i added it to google drive from where you can download
it. If you know any other way to upload audio file just tell me tomorrow and I
will upload it like that.
The story from 1st person perspective:
My name is David and I came to Diepsloot
from North-West. I work here in Afrika Tikkun as a gardener. I started working
here in Afrika Tikkun in 2007. I wake half past five and I come to Afrika
Tikkun at seven o'clock. I start working at half past 7. I only do gardening,
because I like doing gardening, I do gardening because I like to plant crops.
When I pick them up they are fresh and they can be eaten fresh or they can be
put into food(fresh food is better than market food). And because I do
gardening people here at Afrika Tikkun rarely have to go and buy vegetables.
Almost all the time I work alone, but sometimes I get volunteers to help me,
and that's when you come to part. I like to work here because people don't have
to go buy the vegetables that can be really expensive, they can get the
vegetables here for free. I don't take any vegetables back home they only stay
here. And also I'm running short of the plants, and I would be really grateful
if you could bring some plants. And also people from community come and eat
here, and I am really happy that I can help so many people just by doing
gardening. I'm here almost every day; I don't come here on Saturday or Sunday
because I go to church.
Tasks to complete
Task
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Completed
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Your Personal Inventory
|
Done |
Pay it Forward – how you will pay it
forward in your project…
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Done |
5 Stages of Service Learning as
applied to your project
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Done |
Reflections (5-8 posts) on your site
visits
|
Done |
What is Empathy?
|
Done |
Overview of your Empathy project
(what will your story look at and why?)
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Done |
My personal inventory:
Strengths:
- Playing sports
- Doing gardening
Weaknesses:
- Speaking(sometimes i'm too scared that I will mispronounce something)
- Sympathizing or empathizing with people.
Talents:
- I can make good HTML websites.
- Sometimes I make video games (but usually I make games only when I have to, because I have to learn much more about making game).
Skills:
- Playing tennis, volleyball, and basketball.
- Doing websites.
How will I pay it forward in my project?
I'm doing sports in Afrika Tikkun. We are playing all sorts of sports with kids. Each time when we come back we try to teach kids to play sports, and each time I think that they enjoy playing sports more and more. The way that we pay it forward is that we teach the to love sports and then they will most likely share that love for sports with other kids that don't go to Afrika Tikkun.
5 Stages:
Investigation:
Firstly I need to find out what is Afrika Tikkun about. I will go to their website and I will find out what I can do. After that I will choose the things that I think I could do well and i will do them. The things that I like to do are sports, but when we don't bring stuff for playing sports I will be doing gardening. I like gardening because when I go back to Serbia, I always help my mom and dad with gardening. And I like doing that too, it makes me relaxed. I choose Afrika Tikkun because they have the things that I like to do, and I can help them by doing this.
Planning/Preparation:
Playing sports doesn't really need much planning, you just go and play,but if you want to teach them to play better you would need to think little bit more. If we were to teach them, they might get bored, because some of the exercises in sports are just boring, I know that because I play sports a lot. So that's why we won't teach them t play sports, we will just play sports. While gardening I will help kids in Afrika Tikkun to get fresh vegetables, and I will help them to plant seeds and do everything around them that i need to do.
Action:
I go to Afrika Tikkun every tuesday, and I play sports almost everyday, and I can see that kids are enjoy playing sports. I also enjoy playing sports, playing sports makes my day perfect, when I play sports I block out everything that happened and I only play, and I also believe that kids also block out everything bad that happened to them that day. I do gardening when we don't have sports equipment. Yesterday I did gardening because we didn't have equipment. We were cleaning up the garden so it can be planted again. And I will do that until the garden is ready to be planted with seeds.
What's empathy:
Researched definition for empathy:
It's the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Sunday 24 February 2013
Social justice you tube videos
In 60's and 70's.
In the video in saw how people were happy, white and black people were happy, they played with their families and every was happy. In these years white people didn't think that black people aren't good, and white people didn't discriminate against them.
In 80's.
Everything the overall mood changed drastically. It changed from peaceful and happy mood to violent and unhappy mood. White people controlled the streets, if somebody came out they would shoot him. Many street boycott's occurred, stones and bullets were flying around the streets. Streets were abandoned and the vegetation died out, because of the constant attacks, and because of the tear bombs that were fired, at people.
The differences:
In 60's and 70's both races came along really good. In the same period of time everyone was happy. But after 70's everything started to heat up. White people started to discriminate against black people, streets became abandoned because of the constant boycott's. The boycott's often resulted someone dying at both sides. The atmosphere in 60's and 70's was really peaceful, but that atmosphere changed after 70's.
How did people manage to live in two different worlds.
In 60's and 70's people could live in two different worlds's because nobody got into a way of the happiness that both races had in this time. But as soon as white people tried to control black people those two worlds started to collide with each other, resulting boycott's and demonstrations. And those two worlds were colliding together until both sides agreed on something, and after that agreement the two worlds separated and became two different worlds again. But the collision still happens, because some people can't forget what happened to them.
My definition for social justice:
Social justice is a concept, of people being equal in their society.
In the video in saw how people were happy, white and black people were happy, they played with their families and every was happy. In these years white people didn't think that black people aren't good, and white people didn't discriminate against them.
In 80's.
Everything the overall mood changed drastically. It changed from peaceful and happy mood to violent and unhappy mood. White people controlled the streets, if somebody came out they would shoot him. Many street boycott's occurred, stones and bullets were flying around the streets. Streets were abandoned and the vegetation died out, because of the constant attacks, and because of the tear bombs that were fired, at people.
The differences:
In 60's and 70's both races came along really good. In the same period of time everyone was happy. But after 70's everything started to heat up. White people started to discriminate against black people, streets became abandoned because of the constant boycott's. The boycott's often resulted someone dying at both sides. The atmosphere in 60's and 70's was really peaceful, but that atmosphere changed after 70's.
How did people manage to live in two different worlds.
In 60's and 70's people could live in two different worlds's because nobody got into a way of the happiness that both races had in this time. But as soon as white people tried to control black people those two worlds started to collide with each other, resulting boycott's and demonstrations. And those two worlds were colliding together until both sides agreed on something, and after that agreement the two worlds separated and became two different worlds again. But the collision still happens, because some people can't forget what happened to them.
My definition for social justice:
Social justice is a concept, of people being equal in their society.
Social justice and global issues
Investigation:
What is social injustice?
Social injustice is a concept relating to the claimed unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens and other incidental inequalities.
Planning:
I go to afrika tikkun every Tuesday. There we play sports with kids that are there. We play basketball and sometimes we pass soccer ball around. And we will continue to do this until we finish this school year. The plan is to play as much sports with them as possible so they could enjoy themselves, and if we do that every Tuesday they will get better at it. When they get better they could try to get a scholarship in a college just by playing one sport really good.
Action:
As I said in the previous stage, we will try to help them to understand sports better, so they could start playing the sport that they like. We do this every Tuesday, and every other Tuesday there are many more kids joining us to play sports with us because they see that other kids get stronger by playing sports and that they enjoy themselves. Every Tuesday we try explain to them some new concepts about sports, and we show them some tactics and strategies so they could play more confidently.
Reflection:
I think that our idea is working and kids are starting to come and play sports with us. Scholarship is one possibility to a person if he's good at sports. But sports could result in something else too, it can help kids to become stronger physically. And getting stronger physically can lead to less unfairness in society, because people would look at the person that is fit with more respect, and when that happens injustice in the society would decrease.
P.S: This what I wrote here doesn't make much sense. But that is what some of us do there.
What is social injustice?
Social injustice is a concept relating to the claimed unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens and other incidental inequalities.
Planning:
I go to afrika tikkun every Tuesday. There we play sports with kids that are there. We play basketball and sometimes we pass soccer ball around. And we will continue to do this until we finish this school year. The plan is to play as much sports with them as possible so they could enjoy themselves, and if we do that every Tuesday they will get better at it. When they get better they could try to get a scholarship in a college just by playing one sport really good.
Action:
As I said in the previous stage, we will try to help them to understand sports better, so they could start playing the sport that they like. We do this every Tuesday, and every other Tuesday there are many more kids joining us to play sports with us because they see that other kids get stronger by playing sports and that they enjoy themselves. Every Tuesday we try explain to them some new concepts about sports, and we show them some tactics and strategies so they could play more confidently.
Reflection:
I think that our idea is working and kids are starting to come and play sports with us. Scholarship is one possibility to a person if he's good at sports. But sports could result in something else too, it can help kids to become stronger physically. And getting stronger physically can lead to less unfairness in society, because people would look at the person that is fit with more respect, and when that happens injustice in the society would decrease.
P.S: This what I wrote here doesn't make much sense. But that is what some of us do there.
Thursday 21 February 2013
Script
Yushi: James
Benda: Dillon
Rey: josh
Olivia: coach
Eva: matt
Jan: tom
The American football team is practicing…
Coach: “Hey!!! Run faster, faster!!! You
idiots!!!
Rey
throws a ball to yushi, and catches it, made touched -down
Yushi
is depressed.
Eva: hey, what’s wrong? That was amazing
touch down!
Yushi: I…… don’t know. Maybe I’m just tired…
Eva: no, you are not just tired… just tell
me something… it will make you feel better?
Yushi: ummmmmmm, I have secret that I’ve
been keeping from you guys….
Eva: Ok, what is it?
Yushi: ………….this is hard, but…. thing is, I’m
gay…
Eva: well…. That’s not bad, you shouldn’t
be nervous about it….
Maybe
you should tell all of team mates too.
Yushi: you sure?
Eva: yeah!! I guess so
Yushi: ok, I will, maybe
After practice
Meeting group huddle
Coach: today’s practice was horrible! You
guys are so slow!!! You guys sucks!!!
Rey: sorry coach
Benda: but we will play better tomorrow’s
match…
Jan: yeah, we can win tomorrow’s match!!!
Eva: we can do this!!!
Coach: ok, now I’m gonna tell you guys the
plan for tomorrow’s match…
Yushi: wait! I have to tell you guys
something……
Coach: shut up!
Yushi: NO! I have to tell you guys
something, it’s really important!!
Jan: ok……. Go ahead
Yushi: thing is... I’m gay………..
Everyone: hahaha, that’s freaking funny
Daniel:………………………Wait WHAT!!!?????
Daniel: did you just say you were Gay?!
Yushi: ( uncertain) yes
Jan: and you only thought of mentioning
that.
Daniel: disgusting I’m not playing next to
any faggot however good he might be!
Jan: Me neither
Coach: I wouldn’t either
Rey :( uncertain) yeah I guess so
Coach: get out of here before I kick you
out. Don’t let me see you anywhere near this building again or else you will
cures the day of your birth
Eva: common guys it’s not that bad. He is
still is our best player and we have a game tomorrow
Coach: just don’t tell me that you are gay
as well because then I will really flip out.
Eva: no no. it’s just that he is still a
person and we should not discriminate him for that.
Everyone ignore her
Coach: well gay lover if that is what you
think you can go follow him! I had enough of gays for a lifetime.
Next day game a mess. Rey tries to pass to
Daniel but he falls over Jan, coach shouting and cursing at teem
After game
Everyone sad
Coach still swearing and insulting team for
their failure as they go towards the changing rooms and Rey slips away
unnoticed.
Eva:
don’t blame us but blame yourself. You sent away our best player.
Coach: it’s not my fault that he is a gay idiot!
Daniel: yeah! And it is not my fault either
that Josh throws so badly.
Jan Speaking of Josh where in the world is
he?
Daniel: How should I know. He was here two
minutes ago.
Team quickly walks toward changing rooms
but stop at the doors because they hear Yushi and Rey talking
Rey: I am sorry for what happened
yesterday. The team is a mess now without you.
Yushi: it is not your fault dear. Don’t
worry yourself.
Rey: I know but I don’t think that this
date is working out. The others might get suspicious of us especially now that you’re
off the team.
Yushi: You sure? We could meet outside of
practice.
Rey: we could but…
Coach: Oh great. Now we have two gay guys
on this team. So lovebirds anyone want to explain?
Yushi: oh… well…
Coach: Don’ even bother, I quit before
someone else on this team tells me that the two are gay. This team is no more.
Saturday 12 January 2013
Answering questions
What's interest?
Interest is a thing that a person does for fun.
What's talent?
Talent is a natural skill that person uses professionally.
What's skill?
Skill is an ability that we use in everyday life.
3 Signs of a good listener.
- A good listener can't get distracted easily by what’s happening in the surroundings, however strange it may be.
- A good listener has to keep good eye contact with a person that is speaking.
- A good listener can't bring his stories in the conversation, or a good listener can't change the topic while the conversation is on the way.
3 Signs of a bad listener
- A bad listener doesn't keep good eye contact.
- A bad listener get's distracted easily by what' s happening in his surroundings.
- A bad listener changes the topic of the conversation by his needs.
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