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Sep

My Journey is Like A Growing Tree Print E-mail

Tanisha

Hey there so I was student leader yesterday and wow I have to admit it was a roller-coaster of a day. I started off with the leadership conference thingo when we talked to the other student leaders from the two other campuses (it was pretty cool seeing my face on T.V) I had first aid scenarios to start of the day it was the funniest hands on way to learn about first aid and what to do when your under pressure and even tho I knew it wasn’t real. Ohhh I actually got nervous which gave me a real sense of what it would actually be like if I came across a situation like that. After lunch we had P.O.L and I wrote a metaphor about my journey hear at SRC.

My SRC journey is like a growing tree, it goes though rough and thin. You start out as a little seed in soil, a community of ingredients that help you grow, it’s all around you but it just takes time for the seed to open up and let it all in. But as it opens slowly and lets all the ingredients of friendship, love, respect, control, management, confidence, beliefs and all different ingredients in, it grows faster and faster. As it gets bigger the little seed becomes more aware and tough. My journey here at the SRC is this tree, the tree gets hit down many times and knocked around and scared, but it never stops growing because gets just as much sun light and happiness. As the tree gets more experienced it gets ready to teach others about all it knows and how it works with the community. Some trees don’t get such an easy start at life, so it’s up to us trees to help share what we know, we must help nurture them as our teachers here at SRC did for us because it shows and I can feel what a stronger wiser smarter and all round better tree I am now.

This pretty much sums up my love for being here it is the greatest thing I have done in my life so far and I am so glad I took this crazy step of braveness to step out of my comfort zone and come here because it has changed everything about me for the better. I believe in myself I love my self for who I am, I accept people for who they are. I have been challenged with many things physically and mentally, and become such a better leader. All I can say is this journey I am on is one that I will hold in my heart for the rest of my life because I love the person I am turning into and I can’t thank the people here at SRC enough for helping me through this transformation.

Xxx THANKS FOR READING

Tanisha, Mt Eliza

 

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School for Student Leadership is a Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET) initiative offering a unique residential education experience for year nine students. The curriculum focuses on personal development and team learning projects sourced from students' home regions. There are four campuses in iconic locations across Victoria. The Alpine School Campus is located at Dinner Plain in the Victorian Alps. Snowy River Campus is near the mouth of the Snowy River at Marlo in east Gippsland. The third site is adjacent to Mount Noorat near Camperdown in Victoria’s Western District, and is called Gnurad-Gundidj. After consultation with the local aboriginal community, this name represents both the indigenous name of the local area and an interpretation of the statement "belonging to this place". Our fourth and newest campus, currently known as the Don Valley Campus is located at Don Valley, Yarra Ranges.
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