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IALT: Reflect about TAI CHI!

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So today, I will be reflecting about our Tai Chi lesson that we had with Mr Gordon. So as soon as the year 7 & 8 girls finish doing the roll in the morning, we head to the hall down stairs to start off our Tai Chi lesson with Mr Gordon .. As we get there, we greet each other by doing these Tai Chi moves which are unexplainable then we do these other moves such as Crain Form, Tiger and more!

As we finished that, we got our chairs and created a circle (well, it mostly looked like an oval but oh well). We then talked about our Positive Effect, Negative Effect & R.A.K (Random Act of Kindness) - Here is my one:

Positive Effect - It's my father's 4th anniversary meaning he died 4 years ago.

Negative Effect - My hands were hurting yesterday from TOO much stapling!
Random Act Of Kindness - I washed AND folded the laundry.

After ALL of us had a turn of telling our Positive Effect, Negative Effect & R.A.K - we got straight in to action which was talking about the word of the day which is COURAGE. Courage is when you are WILLING to do something or take risks so Mr Gordon told us a little story about him showing Courage!

One day, Mr Gordon's school will ALWAYS go steal fruit such as apples from a house next door and who lived in that house was an old lady named Estelle. Everyone thought that Estelle was scary since she will always chase kids off her property since they will ALWAYS come steal fruit, so Mr Gordon's friend who was very big asked Mr Gordon to jump over the fence and get him a apple .. Mr Gordon told him No, he's not going to steal a apple for him so go and ask - but Mr Gordon's friend didn't want to ask so Mr Gordon was going to go ask Estelle himself for a apple - As they walked to the front door, Mr Gordon was VERY nervous but he still had the courage to knock. As soon as he knocked on the door, she answered it quickly - she then said "What do you want?!", Mr Gordon was just about to run but then he replied "I just came to ask for a apple" - Estelle had a HUGE grin on her face and told Mr Gordon AND his friend to come along inside so she could give a bag of apples to them, the reason why was that Mr Gordon was the FIRST ever kid to ask so ever since that day, Estelle had been giving Mr Gordon different kinds of fruit each day until she died when he was 17, so when Mr Gordon was 7, that's when he asked - so he had known her for a decade!

That was a example given by Mr Gordon of him showing COURAGE!

What I enjoyed about this lesson was getting to share my idea of what 'COURAGE' means to me, and also getting to listen to Mr Gordon's story about it which was fantastic, Estelle was a out-standing lady that I know Mr Gordon will NEVER forget about because throughout those years, Estelle has been giving Mr Gordon and his family HEAPS of fruit that could a lot of money buying it in those years growing up, so he was very happy then upset when she had died.

What I didn't enjoy about this lesson was getting to play games because usually in the end of talking about our Positive Effects, Negative Effects, and Random Acts of Kindness, we would talk about our word of the day and some stories then get straight in to some games but that didn't end up happening today but oh well!

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed this blog post!

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Once again, MALO!