My Thoughts on We Day

      Today, I am here to tell you about how much fun we had at We Day this year on October 13^th . For those who don't know what We Day is , We Day is a fun event that celebrates all the work that the Me to We members did in the past year helping Free the Children fund raise for helping poor children around the world .

     There were lots of people there attending We Day that were from all over BC . Worldwide , the Me to We members helped fund raise for all kinds of people and that helped out a lot . Free the Children gave education to people that don't have any learning experience because they have to work to support their families . In BC, only 60% of Aboriginal students are graduating from high school . They built wells in villages for the children didn't have to walk so far and miss school . Also, the group brought medical care to the people who needed it . We learned about many things Free the Children did for struggling people .

     Also , there were great speakers and performers . Like Mikhail Gorbachev , Liz Murray , Shawn Desman , Down with Webster , Hedley , and a many more . It was great because it really warmed my heart about what they said about what they did to help out the needy kids and how they congratulated us for the time we gave into volunteering for our community . They were all fantastic .

    If you want to see what happened on that day , you can watch it on October 30^th on Much Music and CTV . I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you get to watch it on tv . Thank you !

                                                        By : Chancey

We Day!

We day was a awesome experience for al the people that went and I was lucky people that got to go to be there to. We were also lucky to meet Mrs.Wong there. All the great people and the speakers there like Mikhail Gorbachev, Mia Farrow, Spencer West, Marc and Crieg Keilberger, and all the others. We day was a GREAT EXPERIENCE. I loved it at We day and so did everyone else. I loved We Day because it help me understand about how the people that sit on the streets don't have much and it inspires me to help all the people who have less than me. I would like to thank the teachers that took us (Ms. King. Mrs. Jeram, Ms. Heinrichs, Mrs. Forsyth, Mr. Lattimer, and Mrs. Wong for getting us the tickets )

 

By: Michaela.S.

 

These  Paragraphs were writing by: Gurpreet.G., Chancey.V., Manisha.M., and Michaela.S.

We Day

We Day

On October 13, Our school's Me To We group went to, "We Day". It was an inspiring event that featured celebrities and motivational speakers like Shawn Desman, "SHAQ" (Shaquille O'Neal), Hedley, Down With Webster, Freshh, Craig and Mark Kielburger, Mikhail Gorbachev, Spencer West, Mia Farrow, Liz Murray, Jesse Cruickshank, Michel Chikwanine, Waneek Horn-Miller, Jesse Giddings, Robin Wiszowaty and Noah Kaplin, not to mention 18,000 Me To We members!

We Day was made to inspire and celebrate the youth movement for global change. Trudeau has helped make one of these changes because we built a school in India!

If you would like to help, you can check out the official website, www.weday.com to donate money, or if you have Facebook, you can like the We Day page, and just by doing that, you'll be donating a dollar towards the group. (We already have 741,381 likes!)

Quotes from We Day

October 13,2011                                                          

These are some of the many quotes that spoke me:

   “It doesn’t matter what age you are too make a difference in the world.” ~Mia Farrow

 "The change starts within each one of us and ends only when all children are free to be children.”  ~Craig Kielburger                                                                                                                                                                                                    “You probably think it is too far to even make a change. Well, think of where you live, what if it happened there?”~Spencer West

      “We aren’t aware of how we’re changing the world. We just make a small change and it affects the movement. The movement that is We.”~Marc Kielburger

“If not me, who? And if not now, when?”~Mikhail Gorbachev

“If there is anything I believe in it’s that this generation of kids can change the world.”~Craig Kielburger   

By: Manisha.M.
      

We Day 2011

We Day was a awesome experience for all the people that went and I was one of the lucky people that got to be there. We were also lucky to meet Mrs.Wong there. All the great people and the speakers were there like Mikhail Gorbachev, Mia Farrow, Spencer West, Marc and Crieg Keilberger, and all the others. We Day was a GREAT EXPERIENCE. I loved it and so did everyone else.

By:  Michaela.S.

These  paragraphs were written by: Gurpreet.G., Chancey.V., Manisha.M., and Michaela.S.

Me to We Flash Mob

     On Tuesday, June 21st, we had a flash mob at Metrotown to celebrate our amazing year. We were on the bottom floor, in between T&T supermarket and Toys R Us. Sadie and Jerrica started off, and everyone else joined in after. We danced to "Club Can't Handle Me" by Flo Rida. The dance committee also added the We Day dance to our dance. In the end, everyone shouted "Me to We". A lot of people were watching from above.
     After the dance, as we were leaving a security guard did come to talk to us, but we didn't get in trouble. He was a former student of Ms. Kezar and he said that  if we ever wanted to do it again, just tell them and they'll get everything ready. Everything was fine and everyone had a lot of fun! Here is the video for our Flash Mob.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he0a3I-dRFg

Thank you to Kevin for helping with the music and to Mr. Lattimer, Ms Diesvelt, Mrs. Wong, Ms Mack and Ms King.  We've learned so much in this club and also had so much fun! Check out the slide show made by Kam!

Me to We Assembly

     On Friday, May 27th. we had a Me to We assembly. We invited Mr. Bakshi and Mr. Claire to come to the assembly because they donated and supported us and we wanted to honor them. Alicia Doo from the Free the Children organization was also at the assembly.


     Sadie, Simran, Anjana, Laura, and Meili ran the whole assembly. Sadie made a Prezi to go along with what they were talking about. They talked about our guests donating money and about how we reached our goal. Then Alicia Doo talked about how Free the Children started. She told everyone about countries in poverty and how Craig Keilburger and 12 other kids started to help. Now a lot of kids are a part of Free the Children to help other countries in poverty. Then we gave the cheque to Alicia Doo and took some pictures. Mr. Lattimer summarized what Me to We did in the past two years and we ended the assembly with Hearts Around the World. 


     After the assembly, we had a lunch  in the library. All our members brought food to share.  Our guests joined us and we had a big celebration. The Me to We club got a chance to talk to the guests and we also had fun. Mr. Bakshi and Mr. Claire gave a speech about what they thought of us helping other countries. Then Mr. Lattimer brought out an ice-cream cake to celebrate what we have done. It was a big day for the Me to We club and we hope to see pictures of the school next year. 


     Our Me to We group also received the Big Dreamers Award from Free the Children. We will get an extra $5000 for the community our school is being built in India. We have raised $13,500 in the past two years.