Midterm Blog Post

         Community Leadership is a great class for anybody that enjoys to lend a a hand in our community. So far I really enjoy this class because it has taught me many new things and about many new oppurtunities and ways to get involved in our community. I think I am doing fairly well in this class because I always get involved in all the activites and try to stay engaged in everying going on in the class well I know I have my chatting moments because when your around your friends you have the urge to talk to them but it's true I chat at times but I also stay engaged in every activity and have gone to all the field trips and now I am trying to browse at ways I can be engaged in the community outside of the class because the presenter that came from the food bank it really pushed me when we did the money acitivity and I visually presented on how money can get wasted on so many needs that the essential needs to humans like food is hard to afford and that's why I want to become a volunteer at the food bank because it's a great way to be enagaged in the community and learn new things and to give back to our own community of people is even better. When it comes to the values of our classroom I believe and think that I am doing a great job of applying them in the classroom and keeping them in my mind so I can use them when needed. 
Positive Attitudes   - Creativity                                           - 
-Selflessness

- Equality   - Respect   - Teamwork

- Everyone’s Voice      - Commitment   - Honesty

- Personal & Social Responsibility    These are our class values. 

I am enjoying a lot in the course such as the god's little acre farm field trip, grade 8 retreat, meeting new people, know about the different oppurtinties ways to get invovled in the community. I enjoy all these things in community leadership because it has taught how hard people work to earn food and essential human needs and it has also taught me how to be a learner and how to become a leader. I wouldn't say to change anything in the course because I think everything is set and balanced so every student can figure out there personal qualities and different ways to serve the public good and then feel great about it after. I think I derserve a 87% because I might chat but I always participate in all the acitivities and I try to stay engaged in the class the best I can and I think I desreve a G in work habits because I stay invovled in every acitvity our class does. 

Tree Planting

         Tree planting was really difficult espically because we had to dig in mud in the cold wet rain and top of that I wasn't really prepared but luckily I had a change of clothes for after. Well for the actually planting there was a lot of plants that the city office had provided us with and we all had to plant 3 plants each. Most of us really didn't know the process of the tree planting so a women from the city office a gave our class a demo. The procedure is you dig a deep hole but that that deep just enough that you can fit the whole plant, then you take off the stem stuff from the dirt part of the plant, then you place the plant in the hole and cover the dirt on the bottom and top of the plant and then your done. One benefit I got out of this tree planting experience is that now I know how the procedure if my family or anybody else I know dosen't know the full procedure I can show it and explain it too them. This was a great experience because getting my hands dirty and feeling the soil of our city feels awesome and knowing that I helped our city in some way also feels great. Next time to improve I can bring a raincoat and gun boots and avoid getting the muddiest in the class. I would say this was a bittersweet time.