Helping my cousin

Throughout the weekend, I went out of my way to visit her and help her with her presentation! My cousin liked my cursive handwriting and asked me to help her at first and I insisted and I cleared everything of my schedule to help!

Helping a teacher

It was at break time and my friends and I were sitting at the benches next to the kindergarten playground. And Ms. Kim had a class and were using some equipment and when they finished their lesson Ms.Kim called us over and asked if we could help her and put the mats in the GYM I and my friends took some mats then we took some mats and put them in the GYM.

Taking care of a stray cat :)

Once I was going to my class and I noticed a really skinny cat laying in the middle of our basement. She wouldn't leave our building for days. One day was coming back from my class I noticed the cat and decided to give her a wash, she was covered in mud and a lot of dirt. It was kind of risky giving the cat a bath. The next day I decided to take some cat food and water.

When me and my friend poured some water on her she did not freak out, but instead she was calm. I go to know that she just wanted to live somewhere. A lot animals are abandoned, and thats why I decided to take care of her as living without shelter and food, she would die. Giving a bit of food and shelter can help animals survive. After four months the cat was healthy, before that she never left my building as she knew she would get food.

Me and my friend also decided to make a little house for her from a cardboard box. After the four months a lady wanted to keep her and she mentioned that she would take the cat to the vet. After that, the cat did not come back.

“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” –George Eliot

Helping my sick brother

Over the weekend my little brother got sick. He was really warm, and was coughing a lot, he also was really tired to. I did my best help feel better by telling him to drink lots of water and to lay down and rest. Every few minutes I told him to drink some water so he could stay hydrated he took some medicine and that made him feel a little bit better. He still feels sick, and is at home right now.

Helping the cats around the neighborhood

When we first saw her, we went straight to her to see what was exactly wrong, we agreed that she needed to be fostered befor she was adopted so she could be taken of properly and wouldn't have to struggle througha house that was way too intimidating for her. After we had seen the cat, we went to a super market to pick up all her needs and so later tomorrow we would be able to get her medicine from the vet, we bought, her bed, litter-box, litter rocks, toys, yarn, a pretend toy mouse, the last thing to do was pick her up and hope for the best that her medicine would work.

Her illness was not really a big one, in fact, she had just burnt her paws, not dramatically and extreme just a normal skin scrape, that didn't need any kind of surgery. Turns out that all we needed to give her was a creme that we needed to rub on her little paws, and held her still so that it would have enough time to dry and function properly, so a similar occurrence happened later on in the days nd weeks, and it was not that hard actually, me, my mom, and my sisters took turns for the next few weeks, and before we knew it, she was as good as new!

what I learned from this experience was that even if you are helping an animal that couldn't care less about you, you would still be able to give them a helping hand that could truly change their lives permanently in a positive or negative way. Before I knew it, we had given her back to the vet so that someone could adopt her and properly take care of her so that she could bloom, grow, and nurture properly like a normal little cat or kitten. 

Donating my old clothes

This year I got new clothes because the ones that I have had for 2 years now are getting small. Over the summer, my grandma gets me and my sister Raven clothes because she never sees us for 10 months. So I donated all the clothes that did not fit me. In my compound, they used to have a donation box but it was removed due to people putting garbage and trash inside it. Now, they have a room for clothes and then my compound donates to people in need.

Walking Dogs

Me and my friends will go out and find people in our compound that want us to walk there dogs. This is because we love dogs and want to help other people as it is very hot outside. Although we are doing it for money. The owners of the dogs only have to pay what they can. But me and my friends are donating all the money to paws animal rescue to help animals.

kindness

Me, Aisha, Hessa decided to continue raising money and then we will buy food, toys... and then give it to paws animal shelter.  Me, Aisha and Hessa decided to join Family Fun Day. I baked brownies, Aisha had a guessing game and she also had a table that had different kinds of chocolate and you have to throw a coin and what ever chocolate it lands on you take it, and Hessa had a station that you can make fairy bottles, and another station that you can take a canva any size and then you can paint on it. 

act of kindness pt.3

My fourth act of kindness is when I was in England I saw a homeless person on the street with a dog and I gave some money to him because he was homeless. I put my self in his shoes and said to my self he has no food, no shelter and a dog that does not have any food.  I wanted to help out and make someones day. I gave the man 5 pounds. My fifth act of kindness was when my friend was getting bullied by 8 Th. grades i stud up to him and i started to back him up and i broke the argument up and thats how i helped one of my friends.

Cleaning the swimming pool

I live in a compound with a pool. It is an outdoor swimming pool and next to it there is a café and many tables.

Sometimes some people have a party next to the pool. Some people have pizza, others bring plastic cups and drink juice. Sometimes even someone has a birthday so parents buy balloons so that children can play. When all the parties are over, not everyone cleans up after themselves and when the wind blows, all the cups and balloons fall into the water. Then I and many others who swim at weekends can't swim because the water is dirty. Sometimes the water is also dirty because someone decided to dive for a plastic cup and then they won't clean it. Sometimes you can find fruit cores in the pool. Of course, the pool is cleaned by cleaners but only on some days, not every day. That's why I decided to help and dived underwater to find and throw away rubbish.

In the pool I found balloons and many other things that I threw away. I think it was friendly and kind of me, because when more people see that I have cleaned up the rubbish from the pool, they will also want to help.

Reading a good book of mine to my younger brothers!

I love reading books to other people, judging the fact i've been doing it for... Quite a lot! I have always had a love for books, and when I first read Harry potter, the book filled me up with some kind of exciting feeling that I can't explain, but i'll try my best to! When i'm reading harry potter it feels like i'm actually there. Yes, It's something everyone else says but it's true. The book makes you feel connected to the protagonist and it makes you feel immersed and that is one reason I read the book to my brothers. They are loving it so far!

Donating money to my favorite charity

Throughout this week, I have been working on selling bookmarks to later on donate money to my favorite charity. It's been a very fun journey, doing things I love and enjoy for good!

Bookmarks!

I started giving out bookmarks that I designed and colored and gave all of my friends. Everyone really appreciated the bookmarks since most of my friends are bookworms! I know I can bury my nose in a book and bookmarks can really help with knowing what page I am in:) I will proceed to make bookmarks to everyone who wants bookmarks and more of my friends while appreciating their bookmarks!

Left a kind letters in some books!

I have books at home that I would honestly love the whole world to read. Unfortunately, not everyone has the same taste in books and might not own it. I went on the school's library website, I checked a few of my favorite books that were available in the school's library. Furthermore, the other day I visited the library, with a few of my empowering notes and my poems (anonymously). I definitely asked the librarian if I could leave kind letters in books. And she agreed! I found my books in the different isles and I hope to put a smile on someone's face!

Chair

I was at the mall with my mom and she went shopping so I told her that I will sit in a place so that when she wanted me or something she will know where I am then there was this old lady walking around with a stick and I think she was looking for somewhere to sit and rest so I stood and let her sit instead of me. 

Help

My act of kindness is that my sister had a spelling test the next day and she forgot about so she wanted someone to help her and since my parents weren't home I went to her room and helped her learn them.

The War Has Begun!

Recently, a friend of mine broke her laptop and is having to borrow from the library while it gets repaired. She takes the bus so they arrive around 7:15 and by then all the laptops are taken already. I told her that since I get to school early, I'd start getting a laptop for her.
Sunday was the first day I got one for her and I haven't been to the library in the morning for a while because around November I got my own laptop and no longer had to go there. I stood there for about five minutes along with ten others and waited for the librarian. When she arrived, everyone crowded around the cart and as she put in the code, she barely had enough room to breath. The second the lock was off, everyone attacked the cart and forgot about the librarian, who grabbed my arm in an attempt to get out. There was pushing, shoving and some shouting. Within 30 seconds, all the laptops were gone.

I think that I displayed kindness by offering to get a laptop for my friend every morning.
Though this experience has also given me a new appreciation for the librarian, who has to escape that war zone every single morning.

act of kindness pt.2

My third act of kindness took place in P.E. or recess when we played football. Khadir was on my team he is one of my best friends and he is not really good at football. So when we play anytime he gets an opportunity to score we all jump over him and celebrate. Anytime I have the ball and when he is on my team I will always give him the ball when its close to score in the goal and when he does he is very happy and I feel happy as well. My fourth act of kindness is when I was in England I saw a homeless person on the street with a dog and i gave some money him because i felt to give out and make someones day. My fifth act of kindness was when my friend was getting bullied by 8 Th. grades i stud up to him and i started to back him up and i broke the argument up and thats how i helped one of my friends.

Helping My sister

My mom had to go for an appointment and my sister needed help with her maths because she's going to have a test the next day, my mom said she couldn't help and asked my brother and him said he was busy, I came up to my mom and said I can help my sister learn her maths for her math test. My mom thanked me a lot because she had to go for a doctors appointment.

Donating to the poor

I visited India during the long weekend, about two weeks ago. Whenever I go to India, I make sure I take a lot of stuff to donate like clothes and toys. In India there a lot of people who don't have shelter and food. This mostly happens because of the population and natural disasters of India. Also the poor don't get jobs and if they do, their salary is very low, where you can hardly afford not more than two meals.

I always donate the things I don't need. I think its a kind act to do as you don't use it anymore.Instead of keeping the things you don't need, donate or give something you might not need but someone else might find it very useful.

By donating you can help people who don't have clothes, shelter, food etc. One little act has a big affect on the person you are giving to! Some little acts can help them for their entire life.

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”  - Charles Dickens

Playing with a kid in my compound.

There is a boy in my compound, ( let's call him Jack). So me and my sister Raven were playing baseball. She was throwing and I was catching, as she isn't very good at catching. Jack was near us playing with a blue ball the size of my fist. He was lonely and I felt bad. He kept giving us the ball when we couldn't catch it so we asked if he could play with us. He said yes and he took turns throwing with Raven. He is very nice whenever we see him in the compound.

assisting your elders

So during the break, I went to the US. When me and my family went to the mall my mom decided she'll go with my grandma and that me and my dad would stay together. After a while me and my dad sat down on a chair to wait for my mom (She takes forever when she goes to the mall). Both of us were getting really tired of waiting for my mom, when I said to my dad "we have to stand up because there is an elderly man coming and he looks tired. We should give him the seat." My dad agreed, so we stood up and told the man to sit down and me and my dad just stood waiting for my mom to finish shopping.

I think this makes me a kind person because the man looked very tired and if we just stayed there the man would have to stand.

Performing to Pre k

So in drama class we were put into groups of 3-4. We have to perform a little play to the little kids. Me and my group are acting out a book called Winnie goes to Space. It's about a good witch that goes to space with her cat to have a picnic, but when they arrive there are attacked by a rabbit that id eating their spaceship. We have to practice a lot to make it good for the little kids to understand. This will entertain the little kids a lot.

This makes me brave because I am usually very shy to act in front of people and also it was a kind act because we were making the little kids happy.

Now I know how it is to be a teacher...

One day we got a task during which we had to make presentations for students in the fifth grade. The task was to make a presentation about one of the math topics in the sixth grade. I think it was friendly because we were able to show the fifth grade what their sixth grade classes would look like.

Together with Kriss, Arturo and Hashim we had to prepare presentations. The presentation had to be easy and clear not only for us but also for the fifth grade. During preparation to the presentation we faced many difficulties such as unclear vocabulary or not working Quiz.

Then it was time for part two, during which we had to present our presentation in class five. During this part of the session we also faced difficulties, such as children not listening or a not working Quiz.

After completing the whole task, I think we helped the fifth grade.

All photos in this post were taken by Ms. Cathy, our math teacher.

The Gum Incident

On Tuesday, my friend and I were sitting on the benches outside during recess to eat. As we got up, she noticed that she had sat on gum and it was now stuck to the back of her jeans. She and I went upstairs to ask the people at the kanteen if they had any dishwashing soup, they didn't have any though they advised us to ice it. We were going to ask one of the teachers and on the way saw a science teacher and decided to ask them. She said that we'd need to apply heat to it. My friend said that she didn't have a laptop since she would have that teacher after recess, the teacher told her she needed one so we had to go to the library. In the library, the librarian told her that she should apply heat, as the science teacher said so. Once we got her laptop, she played volleyball while I attempted to scrape it off. At the time I didn't think of it as that gross, but thinking back, it had been in someone's mouth. By the end of recess I had make surprising progress and there was much less. But she and I had to go to our separate lessons. After school, I saw her at her locker and she told me she went to the nurse to get ice and once she iced it, it came off.

I think I displayed friendship by helping her get the gum off in the time I had with her.

I helped my family unpack the whole house because we moved to the Pearl and because we had a lot to unpack. I did most of the work and my sister put the boxes in one pile.

I helped my sister with her shoe laces because she has not learn yet.

Helping my mom around the house

      About a week ago our friends were coming to our house, it was after school time. My mom was in the kitchen cooking food and I was in my room watching YouTube. I watched for a while and then I sanded up to help my mom. In the first place, of course, I cleaned my room and vacuumed all the other rooms. ( I hate vacuuming, I just did it because I wanted to help my mom.) Then I went to the kitchen and took some utensils to organize the dining table. After that was done I went to the kitchen I washed some fruits and vegetables for my mom. Soon afterward our friends were here and we had a lot of fun. 
       This makes me a better person because I made my moms day much easier. Helping people can sometimes be hard but after that, you will feel really good and relaxed.

Making a different bed

Over the break my nanny was making the bed in our guest room. We were getting ready to go to the barber shop. I went downstairs and asked her if she could iron my clothes. She said yes, and while she went upstairs I saw how the bed was undone. I ended up making the bed for her and she thanked me for what I did for her.

can you help people?

On a Saturday my cousin and I went to Bounce together and we found a kid that did not know how to do a back flip. He is only jumping up and down so my cousin and I said lets help this kid to learn more, we became friends his name was Ali.  (He did not let me use his real name this a fake name). We helped him and then we started playing together and we were happy and Ali learned knew stunts.

helping a kid

today in the school i helped a kid that had to much bags (not allowed to put his name) his fake name is ali. he had a lot of bags so i helped him get up the stairs and at the end he was happy and he went to his class.

i love being kind

Hello, my name is cameron and I am going to talk about all the acts of kindness that I will be doing throughout this blog. My first act of kindness is when I go to the lunch room at 10:30.  I always give my chocolate croissant to one of my friends called kriss because he always gets healthy food and he hates the type of food his parents give him and he always loves the type of food my parents give me.  When I go to the lunch room we always sit next to each other and I share my food with him and it puts a smile on both of our faces.

The second act of kindness is when I was really sick my sister was so bored and I played with her for a little while and she was happy and when she was happy I felt happy as well because I made my little sister happy.

Jude| Helping My Mom Cook Lunch| April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019,

On April 5, 2019, I helped my mom cook lunch for our family. On that day my mom was cooking Mansaf which is a cultural food in Palestine. so I helped my mom with making the rice and she made the meat and the soup. I also helped her set up the table. we had some guests coming over for lunch like my cousins and some family friends. 
I think this is an act of kindness because I was helping my mom with making the food not only for my self but also my family member and family friends, and I was being kind to others. I think it was an act of sympathy because I felt how my mom felt, how she got tired and the time it took her to make the BEST food for us. 

Find Yourself with the Map of the Soul

BTS is having a comeback (new album) on April 12 called 'Map of the Soul: Persona'.
For those who don't know, BTS just finished their 'Love Yourself' album trilogy that consists of 'Love Yourself: Her', "Love Yourself: Tear' and 'Love Yourself: Answer'. The 'Love Yourself' series helped lots of people emotionally with its inspiring lyrics and empowering message so I wanted to celebrate the end of the 'Love Yourself' era and the new one.
BTS are kind of continuing their concept though. Now after 3 albums, ARMYs (their fans) love themselves, they need to find who they truly are using the map of the soul.

For two of my ARMY (ARMYs are BTS fans) friends, I made what I call a 'Love Yourself Box'. It is a box covered in the 'Love Yourself' concept pictures and the albums covers too. Inside, I wrote down and folded up some BTS lyrics such as...

• "90% of your worries are an imaginary swamp that you created. So instead of worrying, don't get scared, cheer up." - Suga, 'So What'
• "It's just that loving myself doesn't require anyone else's permission." - RM, 'Answer: Love Myself'
• "I may be a little blunt, I may lack somethings. I may not have that glow around me, but this is me. My arms, my legs, my heart, my soul." - Jin, 'Epiphany'
• "Me, who used to be sad. Me, who used to be hurt. It'll make me more beautiful." - Jungkook, 'Answer: Love Myself'
• "The me of yesterday, the me of today, the me of tomorrow. With no exceptions, it's all me." from 'Answer: Love Myself'
• "I'm the one I should love in this world. Shining me, precious soul of mine. I finally realized, so I love me. Not so perfect, but beautiful. I'm the one I should love." from 'Epiphany'

I want the box to remind them to love themselves because that is important.
Personally, I think I displayed friendship because I have made them gifts to celebrate what we love (BTS) and to share a special message.
I can't wait for April 12th!

Hi! Welcome! Im Maria

I have been challenged to be kind, courageous, & be a friend

My family has always been kind & caring, we always want to help those in need.
Every month what my family & I do is.....

We gather up all our old clothes, clothes that don't fit, or clothes that we don't want or need anymore, we stuff all the clothes inside a bag, so right now there is war in Sudan 🇸🇩 (That's where I come from) and it's pretty tough it has happened for the past three days!

So what we did was all the kids that were in need, we gave them to my aunty (She lives in Qatar and was traveling to Sudan) so she could give it to all those poor kids in the hospital.

In this activity, I think my family & I showed kindness because we helped those who were in need.

Giving Celine's Mom Treats

This morning, I decided to bring Celine's mom some yummy treats. I got her a box of these little Arabic cake treats. They have powdered sugar, and the powdered sugar is on the muffin part, and strawberry jam inside. It is very delicious. Celine's mom appreciated the gesture.

Welcoming my friend Aisha Taprell to her new school.

On the first day of school, I showed courage. I saw a shy girl standing in the crowd, and immediately it reminds me of myself in third grade, the first time I came to ACS Doha I was an absolute nervous wreck, but my anxiety improved, anyway, I went and showed courage by being Aisha's best buddy, she was an extreme help for me to practice my social and confidence skills in real life situations, so not only did I help her but I also improved my skills of branching out of my comfort zone in school.

Aisha told me all about her past school and lifestyle, she told me she is Australian and lived in Australia for basically her whole life, it was nice to know someone that I have never ever met before yet we have a lot of similarities; we both have two older sisters, we lived our whole life in our homeland before we came to Qatar, we are both now going to the same school, and we both show courage, friendship, and kindness to each other and the others, and I know for a fact that if someone in the future comes to Aisha's class, she will branch out like I did and welcome them with the warmest heart in the world.

This taught me that helping others will also help you in some kind of shape or way, because kindness is contagious to everyone in the whole wide world, and you will probably feel good about yourself if you. show good behavior whether you volunteered to help a community or a new friend in school. This also taught me that helping a friend will make them really happy when they are in need as well as they will help you like you helped them when they are in need of a shoulder to cry on or a simple smile that will make them full of joy and happiness and they will spread it around their friends and family and also almost everyone they meet.

As for now, I and Aisha are great fun friends that enjoy our time when we are together.

 

Empowering notes!

One morning I woke up cheerful ready to show some courage in this world! I went to the art shop and gathered my sources to make baskets and over the years I wrote some empowering notes... I decided to put my notes on paper, in my basket and out to hand out to my family. I had the courage to show my personal notes that people might relate to. I might not have the courage to show it to the whole school but maybe by next week, I will step up... Until next time

Doggy Daycare

This Friday my friend Ruby and I decided that we wanted to go and help out and walk dogs at 2nd chance rescue. We walked and helped many dogs. We also played with the puppy's and kept the big dogs entertained. The woman that was working there was very sweet and kind. She helped us with anything we needed, she also got us out the dogs we were going to walk. Ruby and I are hoping to go back this weekend coming because we love helping the dogs. While walking the dogs we showed the attribute kindness and courage. We showed kindness because we took time out of our day to help out with walking the dogs. We showed courage because we tried something different, and some of the dogs were difficult to walk with.

helping my friends for football part 2

I started helping my friends play football now they went to Al Gharafa football team and they were happy and then at the end I they started teaching me knew moves and then i suggested that all of us help other people.

Helping People

I went to the mall and I helped people out by help them carry bags, help them with systems I even asked a manager of Virtuo City if I can work there for a project he gave me this trainee jacket so I helped people out when they had a problem with the system.

Meeting a New Friend...

I was in 6th grade and a new girl showed up at ACS. At first, I didn't even know her name. It was the first class and I don't remember the teacher.

There was this girl though, she is kinda tall, kinda smiley face. She looked pretty nice and kind, so I went ahead and asked her: what is your name? When is your birthday? Where were you before you came to ACS and I thought that was pretty good because we went ahead and found out about each other (and by the way I introduced myself to her at the beginning before I asked her these questions).

Since that day we became friends and we always walked together in recess and we sat down beside each other most of the times (if we didn't have assigned seats), and we will hang out with each other almost every time we saw each other.

This girl was really understanding because when I was feeling sad, I went to her and I told her that so she put herself in my shoes, and she helped me calm down. I can really trust my new friend because I told her so many secrets that she never told anybody about them.

This is my story about when I first met my FRIEND!

Kindness can Make your Day Full of Brightness!!!

Today, I and my sister went to play outside in the garden, We wanted to play and have fun together,  so we went outside and we got our balls and started playing. After playing for several minutes,  we hear something meowing, so I stopped playing with the ball and tried to find the cat.  I kept on trying to find the cat but I couldn't find it. I came inside the house and poured some milk to the cat's plate that I bought a few weeks ago. I then went outside again and put the milk on the floor.

Later on the day, I went outside and tried to find the plate of milk but it was not there neither the milk or the plate. I went around the garden but I couldn't find the cat and I couldn't find the plate. I was in shock because how would the cat hold a glass plate and take or hold it around and leave.

Finally, I found the cat and the plate of milk and the plate was empty and the cat was sleeping and everything was fine.

kindness

At the beginning of the school year me, Aisha and Hessa decided to raise money and then buy food, beds for animals, toys... for the animal shelter PAWS. The first thing we did was a bake sale and Neil and Chloe decided to join and do the bake sale with us. The total of the bake sale was 800 rials.That is one of the kind things I did during this school year.

I gave some money to one of my class mates because he was hungry and wanted to get a slushy and nachos.