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2009/2010 CCLC Member Jen
| JEN, 13, Ontario Challenge for 2009/10: PAY IT FORWARD Every month Kiana did new Pay It Forward challenges. |
| Meet Jen from Ontario. About me: I have brown hair and eyes. My fave colour is purple and my favourite thing to eat are pickles right now. I also am a real girl in GCDA! I am very chatty and friendly. At school I'm involved with a group called STAR (Students Together Against Racism.) I love to swim, and BE LOUD!!!!! One of my idols is Albert Einstein. Why I love GCDA: I love GCDA because it's an empowerment magazine, it doesnt have on the front "how to lose 10lbs in a week!" or any photoshop on their real girls, they're REAL. Why I wanted to be on the CCLC: I think being on the CCLC will help me in the future and maybe even I can help the future by being a great leader. Fave motto: "Imagination is more important than knowledge"- Albert Einstein |
My challenge is Pay It Forward! SCROLL DOWN TO READ MY MONTHLY RESULTS... FINAL SUMMARY OF MY CHALLENGE! OMSH I can't belive Im done with the CCLC! All of the challenges were an amazing experience. I had soo much fun! I think that it was a great experience. I loved all of the challenges and had fun finding a way of doing them. It was hard to get people to answer to answer my poll questions sometimes but I think I have made a difference in my community and my life. If I had the chance to do the CCLC again I would totally do it! I thought being on the CCLC was so cool and I want to thank Jessica for choosing me and also helping me out throughout the whole time. THANKYOU! RESULTS FOR APRIL 2010: MY CHOICE!... So this month we got to decide what we wanted to do. We could redo one of the last ones or make up our own. So I chose to make up my own challenge. For me I decide to help out with Autism. So I talked to the teacher that runs the autism and asked if I could sell earrings for autism. She thought it would be wonderful. So I made earrings and sold them and we made over $200! I also did a challenge for my class. I told every kid that if they had done something that is kind to another kid then they would get a ballot. The ballot would be put into a container and 5 names would be drawn from it, and they would win a prize. It turned out quite well every student had their name in there 2 or more times. I am so sad that the CCLC is coming to a close. I hope I can do another column for GCDA! RESULTS FOR MARCH 2010: RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS... Do nice things for others, either anonymously or so they know, maybe even to people you wouldn't normally talk to. This month I had to do some random acts of kindness, like be nice to people you usually don't talk to. So this month I helped kids out in my class that people consider the outcasts. I also tried to keep a positive mind for everything. Whenever I was going to say something mean or rude I shut my mouth and complimented that person. Or when people were bullying others I tried to stop them or told a teacher. This month whenever I got a negative thought I replaced it with something positive. The part I found challenging was trying to not think negative. Right now after I have finished my challenge I feel better about myself and happy that I helped people out and made people happy throughout the month! RESULTS FOR JANUARY 2010: PETS AND KIDS This month is dedicated to little kids and pets. Find ways to do random acts of kindness for children and animals, for instance, be a reading buddy, do some volunteer babysitting, take some kids tobogganing or skating, be a tutor, plan a craft day, pop into the kindergarten or lower grade classes to read a story/tell jokes, or spend more time with little brothers or sisters at home. Let them know they are worthy and fabulous. For pets you could do some dog walking, invite another dog to come and play with yours, help out at an animal shelter, offer to do some pet grooming, make and donate some cool cat toys. Be creative and make the effort for kids and pets. This month I had to help/play with children and animals. So what I did was I had an idea of making a girls club at my school. So I asked a couple of my friends if they were interested in leading the club with me. They all said "YES!". So Then we went to our Principal and Vice-Principal and gave them the idea of the club, because we are in Grade 7 they thought it would be a great idea for us to learn leadership and responsibilitiy. So we found a teacher to lead it with us and start the group.The club is built to build girls self esteem and answer their questions. The club Now is nicknamed Girls Can Do Anything. I am so excited to see how far it goes! For animals I played with my to wiener dogs (Dash 5 years old and Charlie 7 1/2 months) And cut their nails. Can't wait for Feburary !!!!! RESULTS FOR DECEMBER 2009: HOLIDAY HELP... December is a big holiday month for most people. The goal this month is to find a way to help out over the holidays. Maybe some people just want to be moral support and spread good thoughts and wishes to all. Maybe some of you want to get together for a larger goal such as collecting food and winter clothing for a family in need, or collecting blankets for the homeless, or delivering crafts to the elderly, or helping your parents with holiday preparations, and so on. This month I had to find a way to help out over the holidays. So I thought up doing a fundraiser for my school to but a cow or just help the kids in need around the world for example the kids in Africa or other countries. So I told my principle about my idea and he said that it would be a great idea. So I started brainstorming about how I was going to advertise it to the students in my school. THEN IT HAPPENED! A couple days after I gave my idea to my Principal the student committee came into my class and told the whole class about their idea of fundraising money to buy a not a cow but a goat for the kids in need around the world. I was pretty mad. So I talked to my principal and he didn't realize I wasn't on the committee. So now I had to think of something else. So I thought I could run the food drive this year at my school. So I asked my principal if I could run the food drive and He said “Sure. Why not" So for the whole month of December I was on the announcements telling everyone to bring in food for the food drive, and also I had a committee to help make posters and say stuff on the announcements. On the announcements the group and I just said reminders like "Don't Forget to bring in food food food for the school's food drive" and stuff like that. So, all went well. On the last day of school before the holidays the local food bank came to our school to pick up the food. It was CRAZY! The truck they brought to pick it all up was filled and they had to come back to get a couple more things. I was so happy that I could help lots of people in need. This food drive was easy to conduct with the help of the committee and my Vice-Principal. I learned that if my school of 350 kids could raise that much food then many other schools can too. So that’s my Holiday Help for the month Of December. RESULTS FOR NOVEMBER 2009: KINDNESS CARDS This month my challenge was to create Random Acts of Kindness Cards to pass on to others so they could also pass them on by doing what it said on the card. First, I went to my Vice Principal at school to tell him that I'm on the CCLC and that I would really like it if the school would be involved with my challenges. He thought it was amazing that I'm on the CCLC and we gave him a copy of the sheets with all the information that I need to do over the next couple months. That night there was a staff meeting and he used the sheets as examples for our charatcer counts assemblies we do in our school and he also used the ideas on the sheets throughout the schools classrooms. It was so encouraging that the teachers were using the challenges for our character counts stuff with their students. So with the kindness cards I wrote on the front 'BE REAL BE YOU pay it foward challenge' then the challenge they had to do. The first week was 'Help someone out in class'.For example: picking up their pencil, helping them with questions, etc. It was a HIT. The first day. Then I tried to put it back out there and no one wanted to go along with it and the plan crashed. Then the 2nd week the callenge was 'Give someone a heartfelt compliment' this time I handed out four. It was a bigger hit! It went around the classroom so much I still don't have them back. The 3rd week's challenge was 'helping out the school' and it just crashed again and nothing happend BUT I saw the 2nd week cards still going around!! It was wierd. 4th week was 'include people in your game(s)' It was working and everyone had fun. The cards were very fun and cool to see if they would work. I am so excited to do my next challenge! |
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Im the real girl this year next month ill be on the cover and thanks Sarah
Hey Jen its Sarah, from girl guides last year! You are amazing, I can't believe that your a published writer now! Keep up the good work, love you!
BTW: What year were you a "real girl" for GCDA? I wanted to see you on the cover!
Hey thank you everyone!
Great Job Jen! You even went to your vice-principal, which is awsome! Keep up the great work!
Great job on your challange.
Happy Holidays. <3
nice job with your challenge! cant wait to read more next month :)
Thank you Dina!!!
I love your motto too. Also I saw you in some of the articles!! Good luck with your challenge <3