Toni & Jannah!

Hello there reader, yesterday we had an unexpected guest show up to Team 5. Do you remember my blog post about all of the Attitude talks that we had, Well, Toni and Jannah had come to our school to talk about Friendship Factors. I know I've already talked about Friendship Factors before but this time they had something new up their sleeves. On each factor, they would give us an activity to do. In the next paragraphs, I will be explaining my two favourite Friendship Factors.

Be Positive. If you've already met me, you would know that I am a very positive and happy person. Being positive can not only help you make new friends but it can also make other people around you to feel more welcome and comfortable. Negativity is bad for a lot of people especially people who take it to the next level, positivity is more powerful than what you think it is. The activity that we did for this phrase was complementing one another and saying nice and wonderful things about them.

Be Yourself. No one's perfect, everyone is different in their own unique way. Many people have tried to change themselves just to fit in with some of the popular kids or smart kids but being yourself, you can make lots of friends no matter who you are. You should be proud of who you are, you shouldn't be ashamed of how you look or what other people think of you because being yourself is the greatest gift, it's the greatest goal to achieve so never doubt yourself.

Friendship Factors - Attitude Talks!

Today a girl named Jannah (Gracious Gift) came and talked to us about girl friendships, guy friendships and even guy-girl friendships. The name Jannah means 'Gracious Gift' so if you forget her actually name just say Gracious Gift.

One of the things she told us was 'How Not To Make Friends!'. Ways on getting your friends to dislike you - Backstabbing, Smothering, Showing off etc. When she told us about this it made me think a lot on how to tell if my friends really care about me or not, but of course, my friends are the best so they would never hate me (well at least I think).

'How To Make Friends?'. One I kinda related to was 'No one else feels shy'. It sounds a bit mean but the meaning of it is to never feel shy, you might be the shyest person ever but I know that you still have a confidence person waiting to come out of that shell.  When I was younger I was so afraid of everyone because I didn't talk as much, now that I have grown up I'm more confident around friends, family and strangers (STRANGER DANGER!).

I think my favourite saying out of the whole Attitude Talks was - Be Yourself! Ever since I was little I've always tried to impress people by trying to act tough or trying to show off and sometimes I would think I was cool. I'm 12 now and I've learnt to never judge yourself the wrong way and always think positive of yourself. Never take the negative from people but make that negative and turn it into a positive.