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JM -  James Mizzi   SW -   Shannon Wikiel (left the school)   JV -   Jason Vulama   DT -   Dianna Tovilo   BC -   Brendan Clarke   JD -   Jessica D'Rosario  === === ||  || Some questions we may ask orginisations - What will we be able to do? How old do we have to be to participate? How will we travel to and from the place? How many people will volunteer? How many people will the orginisation take and who will go? How many hours will we have to be there for? How many hours will we have to be there for? How much time is needed to be put into this organisation ||
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as we felt that having him as our mentor gave us a great opportunity to showoff our skills and really excel in what we are good at, and seek advice from Mr. Jilbert.
 * [[image:crccs2012deal/Screen_shot_2012-05-29_at_10.57.59_PM.png width="585" height="829"]] || Mentor  - Our mentor is Mr. Jilbert. Our group chose Mr. Jilbert

Motto  - Give a heart because you have a heart

Strengths  - Our Group is very confident and very friendly which will help when we begin to talk to different organisations as we are very polite as well. We keep each other on task and when someone becomes distracted, someone else will quickly tell them off and they __#|start__ working again.

Challenges  - The main challenge that we will face is that because all of our colours are exact opposites when it comes to working, we may clash sometimes. This will be very challenging as this will distract us because we will not always agree on ideas that people may have.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Our Aim <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> - Our aim is to open up our minds and to discover and learn more about the world and how it works. We also want to figure out how we can help to make it a better place for the future.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Our desired outcome <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> - Help people without expecting anything in return. --- <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Contact information - <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Email us at - givingaheart@hotmail.com <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Google Docs - [|Click here] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Or you can contact us individually -

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">James - miz422@crccs.catholic.edu.au

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Shannon - wik341@crccs.catholic.edu.au

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jason - vul481@crccs.catholic.edu.au

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dianna - tov301@crccs.catholic.edu.au

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Brendan - cla381@crccs.catholic.edu.au

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jessica - d-r401@crccs.catholic.edu.au || = =

We achieve this through our work our work in support, awareness, research and advocacy.

Around 30 years ago, ‘HeartKids’ was born of the passion of a few families who had experienced the kaleidoscope of emotions associated with having a child with congenital heart disease.

As the public face of Childhood Heart Disease (“CHD”) and through our active partnering with the medical community and Government, Australia will adopt best practice in the intervention, treatment and support for all those affected. This will result in a reduction of incidence, decreased mortality, significantly improved quality of life and best outcomes for those affected by CHD.

TEEN PROGRAM: The HeartKids Teen camp brings together teenagers affected by Childhood Heart Disease from around Australia for 3 days of __#|fun__ filled activities. HEART BEADS: The Heart Beads __#|Program__ hopes to enrich the experience of cardiac patients and their families at children’s hospitals throughout Australia. Children are rewarded with distinctive beads specific to each procedure or treatment for their courage and the beads help them tell their story. CUPPA FOR HEART 4 KIDS: Running throughout August and September, Cuppa for HeartKids is a national awareness and fundraising campaign to support HeartKids and its work. = = = = =<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Blogs - = = 15.4.12 = Shannon Wikiel - Today in the first half of DEAL, we received helpful notes and advice from teachers about the outreach program. They gave us tips on how to be organised and also on what to expect from outreach. I learnt that outreach is not only about going out into the community and helping someone. It is also about paperwork and lots of it too. Before our groups are able to go out into the community, we have to go through all these different processes so that we are able to help without getting into any sort of trouble. I learnt that, I am going to have to start being more responsible because we can not muck around anymore. I need to start taking this more seriously so that my group and I can then go out and have fun afterwards. I also learnt that I have to start being more organised. If I am not, then I will not be able to get very far in outreach. I have to be prepared to be rejected many times. If this happens, I have to make sure that, although my group will be disappointed, that we get straight back up again and start looking for different things to do. I then learnt about which temperament I am. I found out that I am both a green and a blue temperament but found that I lean more towards the green. This is because I feel like I have to get work done and that I need to achieve something. I feel the need to be right and even when I am wrong I do not back down in a fight. I am passionate about what I believe in and if I think I am right, I will fight for it wether it is actually right or not. I like it when people are different. I think it helps to have different characteristics in a group so then groups can be creative. I think being a green will help our group as I will push them to do work and I think we can actually get to do something in outreach.

We then went on to watch the movie pay it forward. This was a bout a young boy who came up with the idea that if you do something nice for three people, they will do it to another three people and it will just keep traveling along. What amazed me about this movie, was the fact that out of all the people in the world, a little boy, who had it tough in life, was the one who came up with the idea. This motivates me and shows me that I can really do anything I want too if I believe in myself and I push myself. This movie shows that in the end, the boys work payed off and almost everyone in his state and a few others, were paying it forward. I also watched something on the 7pm project about “one million acts of kindness.” This is about people paying it forward and helping other people and not expecting anything back. This inspires me because it shows me just what people in the world can do if they choose to do it. Paying it forward has made me think more about outreach and has showed me that there are so many people out there that need help and anybody, wether they are big or small, young or old, can help them. We all can if we work together.

Dianna Tovilo - My name is Dianna tovilo and in my group there is Jessica, Shannon, James, Brendan and Jason. Our group is formed up of from the same values, they were families and friends. with these values we looked for groups and organisations that have the same values as us. So we can help an organisation that we feel passionate about. We also watched a movie called Pay it Forward it was about a small boy trying to make a difference to peoples lives. We then discussed about our goals and what we wanted to this term. We all wrote down what we are all good at and what we have trouble with so we can see how we can help each other out to get past this. The teachers gave us tips on how we can be organised and also what to expect on out reach, before anything our have to go through paper work and phone calls to get with the group we wanted. I also found out that i am a blue learner this means that i like to try my best and get out into the world and do things, in my group we are all different colours this can be a good thing cause we can work and what we are good at and help each other.

Jessica D'Rosario - My name is Jessica D’Rosario. My group consists of the amazing Dianna, beautiful Shannon and the three musicians James, Jason and Brendan. We are are group because we had the same values as each other. The main values we shared were family and friends. Prior to this arrangement of groups we were given notes and tips on how to go about this because there is going to be a lot of set backs and we needed to get our minds working on what exactly we were planning to do.we had to come up with many ideas to start off with and then chose our favorites because we couldn’t get our minds set on 1 incase we could not achieve that. The movie that we watched in a deal class was “ Pay it forward.” This was a very emotional and very engaging movie that really told me something. It showed me that no matter how small you can do great things. The main bit that stuck in my head was that even though he did so much he dies in the end trying to help his friend who was being bullied. The little boy gets stabbed by the bully and he dies in the end. This just goes to show how people act and that there isn’t always happy ending in life but we must live life to the fullest. In life we must try to do whatever we can so that we don’t regret anything once we can’t do latter. With this knowledge of our values we started to look at organisations that the same passion as us.

Jason Vulama - We watched a movie and the movie was called “Pay It Forward” and Miss Williams and Miss Elmer gave a lecture on how we should start the blog off. We also did a worksheet where we had to highlight what qualities we have and we had to highlight all the things that we are in different coulombs. The colors were...... Gold, Orange, Green, Blue. I was a blue and some of my other group members were different and some were the same. The thing that we did that lesson was good help to get us get going. They gave us a few tips so that we wouldn’t muck up with anything. My color is blue and i think that i will help the group by being committed to the task and keep up the good work and not get off task. I will strive to be true to myself and the group and i will not let them down. I will work well in the group and i think that after we have finished this assignment we will make the world a better place.

Brendan Clarke - Today Ms Elmer and Ms Williams told us about how to get started on our outreach program, and how to organise our agenda. They told us what sort of outcome we will be expecting and what we will get out of this project. They told us about the challenges we will have to face and the amount of paperwork we will need to go through before we can get our project underway and how much we will need to do after each lesson. This unit is all about giving to the community, and making a significant difference in the area. There is gonna be many challenges along the way but as long as there is a positive outcome at the end, that’s what’s most important.

James Mizzi - Absent -

=22.4.12=

Shannon Wikiel - In Deal today, we began to discuss idea’s and organisations that we wanted to help. We decided on three main pathways that we wanted to focus on. This helped us because it gave us more of an idea of what we wanted to do. Limiting our pathways to only three main ones has helped us to see what we sort of want to do. Other then this, we organised a meeting in which helped us to figure out what we had to do and to get us on our way. In this meeting we discussed our goals and what we wanted to achieve out of outreach this term. Before hand, we picked a chair person and a minutes person which was James and I. This helped us become more organised as the meeting went more faster and people began to get involved more once we started discussing all the different topics on the agenda. We spoke about our temperaments. We found out who was what colour and we figured out how we were going to work together in order to not clash with each other and in order to get along. We also revisited our values which bought us closer together as a team because we realised that no matter what happens, we all have the same values, therefore we all want the same result at the end of outreach which is to help someone without getting anything in return. We discussed the direction that we wanted to go in and decided that we wanted to work with either animals, kids or the environment. We wanted to go in this direction as we thought that we could relate to kids more then adults, whereas, the environment, we found that we wanted to open our eyes up and learn more about the world and the way it works. We then figured out what we wanted to do next lesson. After this, we organised what we wanted to say in order to get our mentor. We discussed our main values and which paths we wanted to go on. We then went on to organising our speeches and what we would say. When we went up to the teachers we spoke and in the end found that we had won over Ms Costantino, Mrs Saunders, Mr Jilbert, Ms Williams and Ms Commadeur. In the end, we went into a little group and decided who we wanted to go with. We Decided that we wanted our mentor to be Mr Jilbert as we thought that we could relate to him and we found that he was the same colour as some of us which will make it easier to work with him. He also has the same spirit as us which is what we need to encourage us and steer us in the right direction.

Dianna Tovilo -

Today in deal we organised our table and what our agendas are for each lesson. We also learnt what a chair person does and a minutes person and we organized who will be doing what parts. We the discussed who and what we were going to do for out reach and what we wanted to achieve for the term. We then had to chose our mentors, we presents in front of all the teachers and luckily almost every one of them wanted to work with our group. Mr Jilbert became our mentor we chose him because we could relate to him and he encourages us to do our best.Our mentor then helped us look at our opportunities of what we could reach out to and gave us some ideas of what we might like to do. He is guiding us to the right direction and i think we will progress far if we keep to our goals. My group have lead towards the idea of nature or children we want to do something for the communities by doing something important

Jessica D'Rosario -

Today my group had to work on our agenda and what we what to achieve as a group. We wanted to to work with children because we find that we get along well with them and they will benefit better from us. Today was a big part of outreach because we had our first meeting and we have the chance to choose our mentor. We had to have a meeting about what we wanting to achieve and get done in our groups. Once we finished our meetings we had the chance to chose who we wanted as our mentors and we had to make cue cards and discuss as a group which teacher we wanted. Once w finished we presented to all the teachers and they all turned around except Ms Elmer. We were very happy that most of them wanted to mentor us but we chose Mr. Jilbert. We chose Mr Jilbert because we find that we relate and work well together knowing that he is the same temperament as us and also because of his warm and bubbly spirit that we like about him. We are very grateful to have Mr Jilbert because he has helped us a lot so far and he has the right ideas to make our group go all the way.

Jason Vulama -

The thing that we did today we got our mentors and we talked about what we were going to do and we were thinking of working with kids in schools and all that stuff. Mr Jilbert told us to choose something else because to many people were doing the same thing so instead we decided to go with environment. We also talked about what roles we were going to take on. Our group is called “Giving A Heart” and the members in the group are Shannon, James, Jess, Diana, Brendan and me. I think that i will work well in the group and i will work very hard to help our group and be a success with this assignment. We chose environment because we want to make a world a better place for people to live in. The things that we had to talk about is what can bring to the table and what we can achieve. Also with telling the teachers what we need to do with the group is that we will work hard with the group and not go off task.

Brendan Clarke - Today we selected our mentors for our group which is called ‘Giving A Heart’. Our group’s members include James, Jason, Jessica, Shannon,We had to inform the teachers of what we will be participating in and what we will be working on. We selected Mr Jilbert as our mentor as we know that he is a vast knowledge of this area and he is a funny guy. Every teacher allowed us to choose them but we chose Mr Jilbert. We also had our group meeting where we talked about our directions and what effect we wanted to make on these people. We talked about the changes we wanted to make and how we were going to do it. We began discussing some things that we could do. A lot of the things we came up with were too common with the other groups and some of them were too much hassle. So we ended up deciding on something unique. Working with and helping people with problems with their hearts.

James Mizzi - Today in DEAL each group got to choose a mentor, the mento was the teacher who would be there for the students all throughout the year in helping them achieve the best in what they decided to do. We all had to write a speech, trying to sell ourselves to them and we as a group had to choose one of them to be our mentor. Our group decided to choose Mr. Jilbert as we felt that he would be a great addition to our group and that he is very easy to understand, and is also very open to new ideas and also there to have fun. Our group wanted to go in the direction of kids although Mr. Jilbert has said that many of the other groups have chosen the path of helping children and that many of the organisations out their have probably been thought of by the other groups, so maybe go in a different direction. That was quite dissapointing because I really wanted to work with kids although, we still could come up with an idea to do with kids, I was just a bit let down but I am still open for new ideas and hopefully we as a group can work something out. Then later on that day we worked on our agenda it was confusing at first most things are. I was chair person and shannon was minutes it was good to know what the other people in my group wanted to try and get out of this program. We realized that somethings we would like to do, are actually quite hard to do, or they have already been taken by some other group. But still we can't get let down by this, so we kept looking and I feel we can still do something down the path of helping out kids and seeing what its like from a parents point of view. We were hoping to get with the kids and have some fun with them as we found an open day and noticed it was open for volunteers, so we have kept that idea in mind, And we hope many good things come out of todays class and that we can keep up the hard work and achieve something which the community deserves.

=29.5.12= Shannon Wikiel -

Today in Deal, My group and I had started to put together our wiki spaces page. At the beginning we really had no clue what was suppose to be on these pages but then we looked at many different examples and took notes and put it all together. We discussed our aim and spoke about the usual temperament and value things that we have spoken about numerous times before. In this class we also finally came up with our motto. We decided on Give a heart, Because you have a heart. This suits our group well because we focus on helping people in the community without expecting anything in return. This motto basically say that we want to help anybody who is in need of it but in a more loving way. Today we also met up with Mr Jilbert and discussed what our group was up to so far and what steps we were going to take to achieve our goal for this term. The thing we still have to do is come up with different mini goals for this term. By doing this, it will motivate us and will push us to the best of our abilities. Today I also got a taste of working with my team properly. I have discovered that I am uncomfortable working with people as I prefer to do things by myself. It made me realise that I am still not good with working with other people. This will change over the course of the term as I will learn to work with my group and work with their ideas. It was good to work with them because it made me realise that working in a group is a challenge of mine and it is something that needs to be changed. Deal will help me overcome this which will be good for everybody. Lastly in Deal, we made a poster that we plan on sticking up in our year 9 area. This poster basically had our values and our motto on there. We decided to put those things up because we feel that is what was most important to us and that is what will make us stand out from everybody else.

Dianna Tovilo -

In todays lesson we finished writing our blogs on our wiki spaces page. We changed our blog and added a logo with our team name on it, a motto, everyones name and role in the team and our blog entries.We have made up our own motto which is “give a heart because you have a heart” we liked this motto because it represents our group and our values. We also made to a poster with our team name, motto and our group members written on it. Our poster looked really good we had lots of pictures and colour with very informative writing. That is about all we did in this lesson, we decided for homework we would all research an organisation so we have some options for next week. With our wiki spaces being formed we have started to make a big process we are much more organised and we know what we are doing. One person from every group also had to go in a master class with Mr Jilbert. I was chosen from my group to go to this class, In this class Mr Jilbert taught us how to make and use google docs he went through every step for how to complete and organise a meeting. I learnt how to set up all of this and i added my group members into this wiki spaces when we were finished so they got the same idea of what had to be done.

James Mizzi -

Today in DEAL our group worked very productively we started off by working on our wikispaces, and the others started writing their blogs and sending them over to me when they finished I added them to the wiki. Wiki spaces is an excellent place to do work like this as you can get the whole group involved at once without people over crowding one computer. Also this is a great tool so people cannot miss out on work which was completed during the class if absent. I wrote all my blogs so I was up to date, and everyone in my group did the same. Throughout the day we worked on the Wiki space and making a poster which is shown higher up in the wiki and also displayed around the school. In the poster we all worked together and came to an agreement on the colour scheme. We also learnt a really useful tool to use during class to help us communicate with teachers is Skype. Skype is a great tool to communicate with teachers without physically walking over to them as they may be busy, not in the building or even at home. Receiving help is also a very useful tool so it can lead us iin the right direction. These are just a few of the things I learnt in this class and I hope my group keeps up the solid work and we achieve a goal!

Brendan Clarke -

Jason Vulama -

Today we constructed a poster on our macs about what our group is about and what motto we came up with. At the start of the day in periods 1,2,3,4 and 5 we were working on our blogs and period 6 we did the posters and with the our wikispaces page we styled it up and we put our group members and our Group name and our colors up on there and we put a few pictures and we styled it up really nice. Mr Jilbert talked to us about using Skype to talk to him at school so if we have any questions and we cant find him in the room we can send him a message. I think that my team will work really good together and i think that we will make a change in the world when we do this assignment. We will have our good times and bad times but we will always resolve it and we will get the work done and get it done well. My team will have a good relation ship with each other and we will work together and share each others ideas.

Jessica D'Rosario -

Today was an amazing opportunity to showcase our groups potential and which way we what to go with this. My group worked so well together today and we got a lot of work done. Today what we mainly had to complete and get up to date with was our blogs and the poster that we were given today. I found it really useful doing our blogs together because we could explain and relate what we were writing. James did a really great job at fixing and making our blog look neat and really nice. Once we had finished our blogs as a group we went to looking at pictures and mottos that represent our group and the values we share. Mr Jilbert was very helpful with our motto which turned out to be “ Give a Heart... because you have a heart.” This literally sums up what our group and what we want to do. Then when we had to complete the poster task Mr.Jilbert was very useful in helping us with colours and images. So having Mr.Jilbert as our as our mentor was a really good choice that we made as a group. We all had different tasks to work on so that no one would double up and it really did work well. One thing that i found about our group is that we really care and we are all so flexible with each other which is a great factor to the success of our group.

= 5.6.12 = Jessica D'Rosario-

Today in Deal was a really good day because we got a lot done. Our group are on the right track because we sent out an email to two company “Heart 4 kids” and “Meals for wheels. “ Mr. Jilbert was with us when we asked him if we should just do one of the foundations but he taught that our groups is capable of doing both. I agree with this because our group is very smart and we know what we wanna do! Now what the hard bit is waiting fro them to reply. Hopefully we get a response soon and we can get started soon. The only obstacle is that if we don’t get a response from the foundations that would just mean that we need to start over and think of different ideas to help others with.

James Mizzi

Today was a very productive day. We created the emails which we were going to sed out to the organizations. But before we sent them we went through them with mr Jilbert and he told us what to keep and what not to keep. But by the end of that the emails were sent successfully. Now we pretty much have to wait for them to reply and we will work from what they tell us in the next email. We pretty much have to think of ideas in which we could contribute to helping them so we could then show them that we are interested in their orgainization and are willing to do what ever we can to help them. Just some basic volunteering will be awesome! Overall a quite productive day and I hope that we have many days like this in the future. Jason Vulama - Absent

**12.6.12**
Today in Deal it was just with people who have Mr. Jilbert as their mentor because the year 10’s were in our area because of exams. We have been really good as a group lately because we have been working well as a team and getting our ideas all sorted. Today we had the choice of ringing the companies and asking them if they need help and if we can assist them in any way possible. Brendan and James went to ring Heart 4 kids first and Meals on wheels. When they rang Meals for wheels they said that they didn’t need any work or help, so we were a bit disappointed but we were ok because we have Heart 4 kids as our main priority!

**21.6.12**
Today in deal it was a very peaceful and but productive day. We as a team have emailed Heart 4 kids and they have responded. We have replied to that email and they have not. Today what we basically just did was discuss whenever not we should re- email or call them back because the more that we put ourselves out there the more the will thing that we are interested. So we came to the conclusion that we will meet them in the holidays so that it will be harder for them to say no. Mr. Jilbert told us that it would be a good idea to see them because they will have to give us something to do if we went all the way there to ask them. In the later part of the day i did the proposal of our group and Dianna helped me with that. I thought that overall we did well and we are very excited to help out with anything possible.

**26.6.12**
Deal today was very fun but at the same time a good way to get to know the people n your group. Dianna and shannon were away today so i was with the boys and we had to make video on what are group is doing and what we are called. We eventually finished our video and it turned out good. This is the last deal and outreach day for this term 2 so we needed to have a clear idea of where and what we want to do. We ended up getting a email from CEO of heart 4 kids and he answered the questions we needed but we are a bit unsure if we are able to go still.

31.7.12
Today we had deal after a long time and it was a sort of weird feeling. Today Ms Commadeur told us as a year nine team that we can no longer ‘go out ‘ for outreach.The reason being this is our safety and because the new law it that wherever we needed to go the teachers have to have all this paperwork signed and all this stuff. So what we had to do was discuss in our group how this is effecting us and what we can do to fix it. When they told us this news it was sad because my group would have loved to goi and see the amazing, strong minded kids that are in the hospital and to give them a smile on their face but things happen for a reason so i guess having a festival at school we are going to have to have a big idea to make some impact on others.

Sadly Shannon has moved schools and she has left our group which is very sad and we miss her very much. What news also that the teachers gave us was that we are having a festivals with all stalls around the school promoting and showing awareness to our college. In this we needed to pick a spot that we wanted to set up our stall and what we are going to promote. Our group is giving a heart which means that we will have red and i think a lot of red in our stall because the heart is red colour. I hope as a group well will still be an amazing group that will bring heaps of awareness to this great charity ! When they told us this news it was sad because my group would have loved to goi and see the amazing, strong minded kids that are in the hospital and to give them a smile on their face but things happen for a reason so i guess having a festival at school we are going to have to have a big idea to make some impact on others.

7.8.12- DIANNA’S B’DAY :)
Today was Dianna birthday and we had outreach. The catch was that the boys were at the production rehearsals so it was just Dianna and I. i feel that we did a really good job in spite the boys not being here. i had done the agenda for today and we needed to call “heart 4 kids “ to let them know what happening and i was responsible for ringing them because Brendan rang them last time. so i wrote up what i was planning to say to them and i rang them. I thought i did an amazing job at ringing them and i was so surprised about how controlled i was i felt like i was a secretary. First i spoke to the manager who was really nice and then he out me on to another lady who was very interested in what we were doing and she said she would send some brochures and things over for us to promote the foundation. After i had spoken to the lady she told me to fill in a fundraising document and then send it to them. By this time it was lunch time and we went to lunch. After lunch as i was filling this out Mr. Jilbert came and we were talking and we realised that we aren’t actually fundraising but more promoting and advertising. SO i stopped that and moved onto the location of where we are going to have our stall. Dianna and I decided outside the Year area but we thought we would finalise when the boys get back.

**14.8.12- Youth Summit**
I have never been to a youth summit before and wow they are very informative. This summit was about the youth in the western suburbs and how we all can make a difference. Les Twentyman and the 20th man fund came to our school to talk about all the things they do to help our community. There was a lot a guest speakers such as Heath Scotland from the carlton football club, western bulldogs ex-player talking about there company ‘FRESH.’ There was also other speakers such as a ex police man and a lady from Melbourne storm. The stories that they told us about were really strong meaningful stories that i think i will remember for a long time. My favourite story was the starfish one. This story was about how this man was throwing starfishes back into the ocean and another went up to him and said what are you doing ? The starfish man was like “im throwing them back into the ocean “ the other man said why because there were thousand and thousands on the beach. The starfish man replied with “

** 28.8.12 **
Todays outreach group we did a lot of progress because Dianna and i did the agenda on google docs while the boys design what our stall will look like. In the agenda we wrote i wrote down everything that we were doing and what we will plan to do in the future. The stall isn’t to far away so the more we get done now the less we have later., Once we finished that we moved onto the actual game that we are doing which is where we have a football and everyone lines up so that they can hand-pass it into the heart shaped area. If they get it in there they get a Freddo frog chocolate and they write their emails on one of our laptops so that they can be updated on what happening with the organisations. Heart 4 kids day which is a heart disease day is on the 14 February (which is ideal and im pretty sure meant to be because its valentines day ) so they can have an idea of whats happening and how they can help. So today after we did the work part we put together the cardboard that our game is going to be and we sketched the heart and cut it out. Now that this is done we can paint it and make it look nice and eye-catching!

Jason Vulama-

Today at the start of the lesson we had a meeting and we decided to split up into smaller groups and each group had a job to do. Diana and jess did the documentation and the publicity. James, Brendan and i worked on what the store would look like and we have started making the actual AFL handball game and the middle of the board and the event is going to be fantastic because usually people love football and i reckon that lots of people are going to want to attend our event. We also did our blogs and we think that the event will be really perfect and i think that the day that we have will be the best outreach day. On the day a lot of people think will like our activity and will like to do it again and also the thing is that it is free but you can only have three goes but it will turn out really good and we will get lots of emails. That is what we did today.

** 4.9.12 **
You know when you have those days where you do work that needed to be done and you feel happy that you have progressed and thrilled to be at the point where you need to be. This wasn’t today ! I love my group and we were on track and today what we wanted to do was complete the poster/board with the heart and guess what?!?! We were outside and as we were trying to fix it and it ripped and flew away. IT TORE IN HALF AND RIPPED ! I WAS SO UPSET THAT I TRIED TO FIX BUT LUCK DIDN’T GO MY WAY AND PAINT GOT ON IT ! So we chucked it in the dump and were really upset. We told our mentor Mr. Jilbert and he told us that to get the makes we need to come up with a solution. We came up with ideas such as Darts - when u throw at balloons to score a freddo. But this was to dangerous Then we came up with “guess the lollies in the lolly jar” which apparently is already taken. so we are literally done. I have thought about ideas all night and its really hard to just think of something quickly. Then as i was talking to Alisha she said that her dad could give as a thin wood that we can cut the heart out with. Thats when we saw a little light ! i was so relieved and we starting to regain some hope.

When your idea goes down the drain and you see all this amazing posters and ideas its hard to regain hope and persist but i sure we can. Jason will be doing a PMI chart to show some evidence - talking about evidence we are really behind in it and im scared that we wont get to finish it in time and all these things are what im stressed about!

I feel that when we are on a role my group does really well but when we get distracted and un focused we don’t do as much work and we waste time. To fix this i feel that everyone needs to have a job at all times and we need to make sure that we record what we are writing and discussing to prove to our mentor that we are doing a good job!!!!