After the Vow of Silence

This is a response Rajveer in Div. 2 wrote after participating and after watching this video

"No talking!!!!This video show kids that what happens around the world when kids can't stand up and have to be forced to do something. I was very excited to take the vow of silence.While it was happening I was so tempted to talk.I think other people felt that way too.I also thought how did Balkaran not talk.I think it was very challenging for both of us.It was sooo hard to listen to Ms.Forsyth while we were in gym.  The vow of silence reminded my of a book I read called Speechless because the kid in that book also took a vow of silence.  I think the vow of silence was special because lots of people joined it and we stood up to help the kids that are not allowed to talk."

Poems written during The Vow of Silence...

Silent
No talking
No saying
Forced
Unable
Shushed
No hope
Taken
Happy
Unhappy
Left out
Beaten
Tortured

We can make a difference
Speak up!
End the silence in the world!

by Balkaran

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Silence fills the air
Masks conceal our words
From escaping
The ones who are silent
Don't get freedom
We are silent
That's another world

by Arshpreet

Vow of Silence

We had a very successful Vow of Silence afternoon with over 100 students and teachers participating.  Selling the Vow for Silence masks made a profit of $165 to be used for our Adopt A Village project. Here are a few pictures from the afternoon.

Here is what Gursharan wrote before we did the vow of silence this year.
"This year will actually be my first year in participating in the "Vow of Silence". This has started to become an annual thing. We started this last year, I believe. My friends were participating in this last year. When I was about to buy one, they ran out of masks. I was too late. But judging by my friends and their comments of how hard it was, I had then known how hard it was for those kids  for whom we were staying silent.
 






So, this year, on the first day, I bought a mask. On the first day, forty masks were sold! This year, I am really excited for it because, I want to try my best to keep this Vow of Silence, for those kids who have to be silent, and have no choice. Anyone who buys a mask, is supporting the cause, and is trying to give a voice to those kids who don't have a voice! I hope we have enough masks for our entire school because, because, a lot and I mean a lot of kids want to buy this!! "

This is a comment from Balkaran after completing the Vow of Silence afternoon. 
"Today was the Vow of Silence. I loved seeing people who are talkative, not talking for a change.  I personally think I’m quite talkative so that was pretty hard for me to hush up. I think that the people in the world who have no say are afraid but I am not, and I want to stand up and to end world hunger…The Vow of Silence rocks. I am definitely going to participate next year. The Vow of Silence is so fun and for the people who never participated I hope you will participate next year."

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.