Kiwi Can Reflection

Today was our first session of Kiwi Can. To start of Kiwi Can we talked about what fairness and fair play. We then got on with our energiser, the energiser was called change places.
This is how to play it:
Every gets in a circle, then there is one person that says something like "Who likes Ice Cream" then whoever likes ice cream would change places with someone else in the circle. Then continue until there is a winner. After we played the energiser we talked about Empathy. We talked more about what it means, how you can have empathy for someone and what situations you would be in to show empathy. After talking about Empathy we did our activity, our activity was a roleplay of Negative and Positive. My group was roleplaying negative, In my group was Victoria, Lily, Liletina, Diana and Afatia. Our role play was about all of us playing tag and then someone falls over, The rest of the group would laugh and not care. Kiwi Can was great today and I enjoyed.

Explanation | Respect, Empathy, Tolerance

Asthma

How would you feel if you had an asthma attack and your friends just started laughing? Some people take asthma as a joke or they mock you and start laughing at you. If someone can’t run as fast as you can, don’t judge them, because you don't know what they have experienced. Don't go to them saying that you don't like something about them, just keep it to yourself.

Asthma is a serious condition and isn’t expected to be taken as a joke. Your actions can hurt someone on the inside but maybe not the outside. Show empathy and understand the fact that they cannot control their breathing. If you see an asthmatic using their inhaler don’t give them the evils and start laugh. How would you like it if you fall down and scrape your knee? And everyone just started laughing at you? You wouldn’t feel so happy would you.

Treat someone the same way you want to be treated back. If someone is having an asthma attack don't just stand their laughing take them to the nearest sick bay or somewhere where someone could help them. If you go over an asthmatics house and you don’t like that there are inhalers everywhere don’t tell them that you don’t like it, just keep it to yourself and put up with it.

If you don’t like what someone does, don’t judge them for it. You wouldn’t like it if you were mocked by them. Put up with it because no one asked to hear what you think. Understand what they have been through and how their life style works. Tolerate what they do and respect them. You aren’t their guardians so therefore you don’t need to complain about something that doesn’t involve you. Don’t Judge a book by its cover.