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. 

Me to We Meeting

     We had a Me to We meeting on Friday the 13th. It's almost the end of the school year and we've got a lot to do. 


     We have been successful this year and we raised enough money to build a school in India. A lot of people donated money, so we want to thank them. We couldn't have done it without those who donated money. Our Me to We group will be having a assembly on May 27th. We hope that those who donated money will come and see us present a cheque to Free the Children. The children in India would be delighted to have a new school. 


     Komalpreet, from the Local committee, is ordering Me to We t-shirts for our group. The t-shirts are going to be made out of bamboo. We hope to get the t-shirts before the assembly and wear it in the assembly. 


     The Local committee is also planning to have a movie fundraising night in the gym. It will take place on June 8th. The money raised will go to Covenant House to help the homeless youth. 


     Every year the grade 7s go on to high school. The Me to We club would like more people to join when the grade 7s leave. A group of boys are making a slide show to show other children what we do. We are hoping that everyone will be joining the Me to We club to help others. 


     We would also like to thank the teachers that are involved in the Me to We club. They spend their lunch hours at our meetings and help us organize stuff. Without them the Me to We club wouldn't be possible. 

Me to We Meeting

This week in our Me to We meeting we discussed what to do since the end of the year is quickly approaching. The international group is finishing the school in India. They're also thinking of doing a dance flash mob at Metrotown or Oakridge mall.

       The local committee is planning to have a movie night in June to raise money for the youth at the Covenant House. Me to We voted on and chose the movie "Despicable Me" to play on the movie night. 
        Komalpreet is planning to order the Free the Children t-shirts by Tuesday. We chose electric blue for the colour of the shirts. In addition,  the t-shirts will be made of bamboo. Mr. Lattimmer will be buying it for our whole group. These t-shirts will be used as a group uniform that we will wear when we go volunteering and do group projects outside of school.

          Since it's near the end of the year, we have now formed new groups. Each group is assigned a job. The local committee is going to stay the same because they already have their own stuff to do. There are four groups, not including the local committee, which includes the May Celebration group, the Flash mob group, the invitations group and the presentation group. The May Celebration group needs to organize an assembly celebrating the school in India. People who donated money will be attending the assembly and the communications group will be contacting them so they can come. The Flash Mob group is in charge of making up new dance moves to add to the We Day dance. Every year there is a presentation to get new students to join the Me to We club. A group of boys and girls in grades 6 and 7 will be making this presentation.

          Thank you to everyone who donated money, we couldn't have built the school in India if you guys didn't help out. This has been a successful year for the Me to We club and we hope everyone will continue to show their support and make a positive difference after we show you our presentation. 

Brick by Brick

   On Friday, March 18th , We had a special visitor, Mr. Bakshi .come to our meeting. No one knew who he was at first, but soon we were very glad that he came. Mr. Bakshi read the article about our club and project and  he was so impressed that he wanted to donate the rest of the money,that we needed to build the school in India.   He presented us with a check of $1369.15 on behalf of the the Janta Sewak Society. One of the society members also came with him to give this check to us. The money that Mr. Bakshi donated was the final touch to our goal of $8500.00  

 Our Me to We group started this project in April  last year and we finally completed our goal! Mr. Bakshi says that we should be grateful we have school to go to and he also said that we should take care of the community because it will be better for further generations. We are very happy that our hard work finally paid off.   We  hope to help supply the school after we build it. 

Thank you to everyone who donated money! Below we have some pictures of when Mr. Bakshi came.

     

Me to We 

Me to We

Group that went to the rotary( Izaac, Alisha,Sadie and Pritha)

with Mr. Bakshi and Society member

Group that went to the radio station (Harmen, Ravneet,

Monica, and Simarn) with Mr, Bakshi and Society Member

In picture: Mrs. Wong, Sucha Claire, Mr. Bakshi,

Mr. Lattimer and Society Member

 

In Picture: Ms. King, Ms. Diesvelt, Mrs. Wong,

Mr. Bakshi, Mr. Lattimer, Society Member and

Sucha Claire

Me to We group

   Our volunteer committee organized  us to volunteer to play with the preschool at Sunset Community Center. On Saturday March 19th it will be  our last day of volunteering. This is our second volunteering project after the soup kitchen at the church.  Thank you committe members!  We enjoyed ourselves and gave back to the community.

     The local committee is planning to do another project for Covenant House. We already did two projects for Covenant House. The first project we did was to collect toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and conditioner for the youth. For our second project which was about a month ago, we collected toques and gloves because it was very cold and we thought that the youth at Covenant House would need more warm clothes. This time the local committee is planning to have a movie night to raise money for Covenant House. We will let you know when the movie night will take place after spring break.

Komalpreet will be ordering bamboo t-shirts for our group. These t-shirts will be electric blue with the slogan "Be the Change" written on them.  Please email Komalpreet if you want your own t-shirt. 

Me to We meeting

     On Sunday, March 6th, Jerrica from the volunteer committee went to a Me to We youth summit in downtown Vancouver. She met a lot of children her age that wanted to change the world. Jerrica was the only one from our district that went to the Summit. She said that some people from Victoria took the ferry just to come to this Summit.  While Jerrica was there she learned a lot about helping the world. For example, she learned about water conservation and how much water we all use every day. Jerrica had a great time and she got to meet a lot of wonderful people that had the same goals as she does. She hopes to go to a one week Summit at UBC in the summer.

     Simran and Sadie decided that the Me to We Club should do some individual fundraising over spring break. We only need $1300 more to reach our goal of building a school in India. Each of us needs to raise at least $40 and then we will have completed our goal. Once we finish building the school, we will supply it with books, computers, pencils, paper and other school supplies they might need.

Radio Station

    On Friday, February, 25th, 2011, Simran Gillar, Ravneet Dulai, Harmen Parmar and Monica Kumar from the Me to We club went to Red FM 93.1 Studio in Surrey. Harjinder Thind interviewed us on the radio about our big international project for building a school in the Udaipur District, Rajasthan Region, India. While we were on the radio we were very nervous, but very excited as well. We also got a chance to talk in Punjabi. Right after we finished talking we got a phone call at the school for a donation of $100. We are now waiting  to see if we get anymore donations. If you would like to donate to our project please bring your cheques to the office of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. We only need $1500 more to reach our goal!

Written by-Ravneet Dulai