I didn't know what to expect when i first came into the chapel and i saw the first picture on the projector. I was talking to Kate we were both trying to figure out what the speech was about. Then when she started talking, i knew it would be a moving speech, and i was interested to learn more about the Holocaust,a from a lady, that actually experienced it.
Eva Olsson was born and grew up in Hungry until she was 19. They were all ready living in the ghetto, with her entire family. Then the Nazi soldiers came in and told her family that they were being moved to a different country to work in a brick factory. So they got moved and that's when Eva Olsson's horrible experience began.
When Eva started to talk about the word hate, and how that word started the Holocaust, i suddenly felt bad that i had used that word so much in my life, and then i realized why when i was young, my mom had always tried to get me not to say the word hate, and now i know why. I understood what she was saying, and how that did start the Holocaust. Eva Olsson was saying that because of hate she had her whole family taken away from her.
When Eva stopped talking about her experiences, she would give us tips on how to behave and how to treat someone. Some of them were to not be any kind of a bystander, because you are just as guilty as the bully, to always once and a while tell your family members that you love them, and don't drink and drive.
Eva Olsson had her entire family killed, but she still found a husband when the war was over, She had kids, and was starting a new life, but suddenly, she lost her husband, to a drinking driver. She was used to this, but not with someone she loved so much, and not by this accident.
Eva taught us all that we have to be brave to survive, and we have to have pain in your memories, to be alive.

what i thought about the day at norval!

At first i thought that it would be kind of boring, and i thought i wouldn't like it all. But once we got to our first activity, and we started it, it actually was fun. We had to lay logs into little grooves in the next tree stump for us to be able to cross over. In the end we had to be all the way across at the other side.To get there you weren't aloud to touch the ground. In this activity me and Hayley had to cling on to each other to stand on a little tree stump together, we both got across, and were the first ones to get there. There was a rope on the side you were on when you had finished, and you could use that rope for whatever you wanted. I thought of an idea to use the rope like a hand rail, it worked very well, until it touched the ground three times. I learned that even when your done and have succeeded you can still help out from the other side, and it helps the whole team.
Our second activity was called "the kings finger,"when we got to the activity spot, it looked simple,you had to get the tire (that was at the bottom of a large pole) off of the pole, but the pole was tall! So first we got someone up, with people holding his feet, but it didn't work because, the people holding his feet started falling backwards. So we tried again, With Thomas on the pole some people holding him up. After a little while, he finally got high enough and pushed the tire off the top of the pole.
But because we did it so quick, our group leader told us to find a way to put the tire back on the pole. Now we had to choose a person to put it back on, it was between Jamie, and me. We picked Jamie, because she was taller. We did that very quick again! That was a tough activity, we all had a role, and we were all involved. I think our group needed everyone that was there, and it was cool to see how everyone found a position and role, without even saying a word to each other. Then, when we were all in our spots, we started to get Jamie up, and get the tire back on the pole. Once we got it on, we couldn't just let go, Jamie had to hold the tire up, so it didn't fall on anyone, and the supporting people had to lower her down slowly.
Our Group finished activity 2 so fast, we played another game, i can't remember what it was called, but we had to get a ball passed from each of our hands, to another persons, in the shortest amount of time that we possibly get. First we started to throw the ball to each other from a circle, and it took more than 30 seconds. After that, ideas were being noticed, and we started to move closer. We still had a slow time. Our group was talking about our ideas, then someone came up with the idea of standing in a straight line, and passing the ball to each other. We thought that was pretty quick, because we had got a time of 4.5 seconds. Then we decided to put our hands together in a ramp so the ball could roll down faster than actually passing it to each other. After many attempts, we finally got it to work, and got a time of 1.Something, we were very happy. Until Eric came up with the idea of just one of our fingers in a ramp, rather than our hands. That gave us a time of 0.36 seconds (i think)! That was a great time, and also made me feel happy that we could all organize it and do it very well, and not with any debates or arguments.

In conclusion, this day did help and show me how well we can work together, and I never would of thought that our group could do the activities so well, and work together so well.

I do and dont think that clothes shape the man!

I do and don't think that clothes shape a person!
Some people dress in a style they love,for example, somebody might wear a shirt that says,"i love dogs", and in person, they might actually love dogs.they might dress in all designer clothes, because they love designer clothes!
But i don't think clothes shape a person because someone might be so nice, but you don't know it because they wear black leather or scary shoes! People could have a giant difference between how they dress, from the way they act and their personality.
The reasons i thinks this way because of the phrase"people aren't always what they this is the seem",but i also think, sometimes they are exactly what they seem! I don't think you should judge a person on what they wear until you get to know them, but if your sitting on a bench in a city, and happen to see a funny dressed person, and don't go up to that random person to have a friendly chat with them, you may think that they are weird, and maybe a bit blind when it comes to picking out what to wear! But keep in mind that ,that one person may be really nice, or really mean, or a trouble maker,and a million other personalities, or maybe their exactly what you guessed them to be!
This is why i think the clothes do and don't shape the man!