Qualities of Good Men

MY REFLECTION
The Extended stay program started on Monday the 26th of April and went to Thursday the 20th of May. This program is a 4 week program filled with exciting events and days. Overall the camp for me was really good and worth the money it took to get me there. My personal highs were finishing the long 11km in a very solid time at 1:09:45, which was under my goal time of 1:10:00. This run was really good as I ran with Todd the whole way and he kept encouraging me and I think I kept encouraging him. In the final stretch I had the helpful encouragement of those who had finished, which was really helpful. Another personal high was surfing and catching some great waves, which was really good as I got some great compliments from the instructors and other people. It was also really good as surfing with your mates is really, really good fun and when people were falling off it was so funny. The last personal achievement of which this was really good and I am very proud of is living with some friends that I am not necessarily the best friends with and surviving the whole camp and having enough to eat. The most valuable lesson I have learnt is really understanding the amount of work that my parents do for me and the amount of work that is required into running a house. There are some many things that they do for us from running us to footy and cricket practices, having more people over to cook for and the extra stress of having to work and still find time for themselves. Some of the challenging lows that I have seen and passed were, dealing with two days of home sickness, these soon pasted as the excitement of the camp and not having enough time to dwell on the thoughts. After those to days I really, really enjoyed the camp. This was caused by the multiple fun things to do from, surfing, history tourers and movies. Another low was not having any news or TV for the four weeks. I like the news because as Leon will tell you I like to know what is going on. This camp as changed me a lot, from me growing and I think possibly losing weight. This camp as basically forced me to change or just get bogged down and caught behind. As I had already I have changed personally because I now understand how much work my parents do for me and how much I don’t do for them. Now that I know this I will try and do more work for them around the house. The things they do for me include always cleaning my cloths, cooking dinner and organising me to get places, all of this I have now done and I will be able to put more time in and make my mum and dad life much easier. The experience was good and I enjoyed it.

Affirmations
Really funny, good cook and a great mate/surfer

Never gets angry/you can't get angry at him

Hilarious, good bloke, really good company

Always makes me laugh

Great for a joke at the perfect moment

Mr Perfection! Always the one to lead, always up beat

Great job Sambo on controlling your Wardli

Great leadership mate

Really funny at times and a good bloke

Looking forward to eating the chocolate- great effort always determined to do well

Favourite mum of the house

Funny and good cleaner

Always willing to help, very funny and also a good surfer

Great to be around very funny

Very good cleaner, love you mum

Good bloke, great when you were a leader

Great guy, good to talk to and is a good leader

Very determined to be clean and is a great mum. Good surfer

Top bloke, funny

A really nice guy

Top bloke, funny guy

Good leader, very funny

Great effort in all areas, loved the surfing. Good things come in small packages

Well done Sammy, like a lil piece of dynamite in everything you attack!

Sammy, you legend mate nice work with the running, but you still haven't won yet

Sambo bloody good mate love your size(haha) Good surfer