Group11

**Group Members:** Phil Tucceri, Maddie Cutajar, Tayla Ewens, Luke Letran, Liam Hildred and Anthony Kamleh. ** Mentor: ** Ms Elmer
 * Reach Out!**

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=Links:= [| http://goo.gl/fy1j0] = = = NEWS PAPER ARTICLE (: = = = = Year 9 Outreach = =**by the ReachOut group**=

====Year 9 outreach has been an opportunity for students of the college to reach out and give something back to the community around us. For the OutReach project our group decided to call ourselves ‘Reach Out’ and help out a non-profit organisation, Lions Club. The Lions Club is an international non-profit organisation located in in over 200 countries. With 1.4 million members, both men and woman from over 40,000 clubs helping those both in the community and out of reach. They are renowned for sight and hearing conservation, their services to the physically and mentally handicapped and the sick and needy. It has been extremely dedicated to helping the environment and there social and recreational activities. Some tasks that they do include repairing parks and contributing to supplying supplies to victims who have been affected by natural disasters.====

====On Tuesday the 15th of November our group went off to a couple of local parks in Caroline Springs and helped restore it to it’s full potential. Our goal was to make the park a better and safer place for children and we believe that we have accomplished that with great pride. This project has helped us all appreciate what we have much more for it opened our eyes to what is done in the community around us.====

**__Lions Club__** Our aim is to provide service and assistance to the less fortunate in our own local community, as well as the wider community, whilst enjoying the fun and fellowship of our own and other club members. The club conducts a number of fundraising activities throughout the year and puts the money raised back into the community. To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world. To Promote the principles of good government and good citizenship. To Fund and otherwise serve the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community. To Assist financially, culturally, socially, and morally the disabled, disadvantaged and infirm of the community both directly and also indirectly. To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding. To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members. To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavours

__**Contact Details:**__
PO Box 502 CAROLINE SPRINGS VIC 3023 1800 655 201

**__Our Goals:__**

 * To help the community in whatever ways we can, so we can bring about a better future.

__Aim and Purpose:__
Luke: Working hard to see the smiles of refugee children Phil: The aim and purpose is to try and make the refugee's feel comfortable in Australia, help them get use to our society, help them with homework, and make sure that they are happy and feel safe here. Tayla: The purpose is to welcome the refugee's into our society and to build positive attitudes towards their opinion on our country and to help them feel safe and comfortable while adapting to their new home, Australia. Maddie: The purpose is to help out the community and make it a better place. Liam: To welcome the Refugee children into our society.

__Desired Outcomes:__
Luke: Refugees living a normal life, able to speak fluent English, go to a normal school, the works Phil: Hoping that they feel safe and secure and they understand how to speak English. Tayla: The outcome I am hoping for is to help families, mainly children, adapt around new experiences and help them to understand ways we live. We are hoping to also make them feel safe and give them a sense of belonging in our multicultural country. Maddie: To allow them to feel like they belong in our country and to keep them happy. Liam: making sure that the Refugee's will more easily merge into our country while still upholding there own values with no pressures on them.

__Questions you need to ask and answer:__
Luke: What week will the out reach program start? Tayla: How many people are at the Lions Club that we can help? Liam: Are we able to make it to the Lions Club ? Maddie: What will be doing at the Lions Club? Phil: What can we bring to the Lions Club? Anthony: What will the day turn out to be like?

__Ways to help Lions Clubs__

 * Help with community
 * Offer our skills and abilities

__Time Line__

 * 20th September **
 * Look at programs available at Oz Child
 * Complete the script for the phone call
 * Know what we exactly want to do by the end of the lesson
 * Complete blog


 * 27th September - 9th October - (Holidays) **
 * Make phone calls to Oz Child
 * Send Chris proposal
 * Check for replies
 * Blog


 * 11th October**
 * Come up with a new proposal
 * Contact the organisation
 * New organisation found
 * new script to make
 * blog


 * 18th October**
 * Speak/email the company to find out details
 * Work out times and how we are able to get there


 * 25th October**
 * Have everything completely organised and ready to go


 * 1st November**
 * Melbourne Cup, No class.


 * 8th November**
 * Finalise everything
 * Make sure we are ready to go next week
 * Start working on their website


 * 15th November**
 * Go to Brookside park and start construction
 * Work on the website


 * 22th November**
 * If we need to return to the Lions Club then we will.

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=PARK WE WENT TO:=


 * __Email from Lions Club:__ **
 * Hello Liam, Tayla, Madeleine, Luke, Phillip & Anthony **
 * Thank you for your email which was forwarded on from Lions Australia. We discussed your offer at a business meeting last night. To help us help you volunteer & do something we see as helpful to our club and/or the greater community directly could you please let us know what sort of interests and skills you may have. From your email we have no idea of abilities so this email is just to try and get some idea of how we can co-ordinate something together. **
 * We have a facebook page and an internet site www.cslions.org.au **
 * Some ideas include: **
 * 1. Boring work at the playgrounds we have erected such as digging over soft fall tanbark and raking it. **
 * 2. Updating our internet site with photos loaded from various events and creating a link to our facebook page. Include reference to community bbq trailer and the 4 playgrounds we have done. **
 * 3. Design a puzzle/colouring pad with a Lions theme for kids. Include cover design with Lions logo and a graphic for Lions Club of Caroline Springs & Districts which could appear within as well. **
 * 4. Tell us what interests you, when you think about helping out our community. **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">5. To help with future directions of groups like ours : Where do you think Community Groups should be directing their energies and resources by 2015? Some ideas and what you would see or desire as an outcome from each idea to make your local community a better place. **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">If you would like to discuss these ideas & any others you have I am happy to make some time available. **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">Kind regards **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">Ross **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">Ross Williamson **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">Secretary **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">Lions Club of Caroline Springs & District **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">0434 995 854 **

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none;">REPLY TO THE LIONS CLUB =

Hello Ross,

We thank you for your reply in the e-mail and the fantastic ideas you have given us.. We intend to help in as many ways as we possibly can and along multiple aspects of the community. We have discussed some options you have given us, Luke has offered to do a colouring in page with the lion club theme, and Anthony is efficient with computers so he can update your website and he will take photographs of the work in progress of the playground to upload the site, Phillip and Liam both would like to help with the playground mulching because they have both done something similar to that and Madeleine and Tayla are thinking of creating a short movie directed at kids and teens about how the can help the community. These are ways we can help you, the Lions Club of Caroline Springs. Hope to see you guys soon. The ReachOut group Liam, Tayla, Madeleine, Luke, Phillip and Anthony


 * Questions and Answers with Mrs Elmer**

raise money for volunteer work! each region has a club and they do things to raise money for their clubs, as well as for some clubs around the world. helps out families with children with disabilities. Pays for children to go to camp. Sausage sizzles (e.g at bunnings).
 * What have past volunteers done to help?**

Yes, there is a group called Leo Lions for people who are aged around 15. Always supporting, helping, keeping it going.
 * Are there any kids who join the lions club?**

Understands that it is entirely volunteer. Some get payed to cover there expenses (only if they have to drive or fly someone)
 * Are there any full time workers or are they all volunteers?**

Yes, they work with anyone who wants to work with them, they will be willing to help other groups unless they have another commitment.
 * Do they collaborate with other charity groups?**

Not too sure, try the international website
 * How long has lion been around?**

You can do it independently and you can donate it, in you your own name to them.
 * How can we help raise money?**

It is raised within the club, and they must stay within the budget of their club. One of the main charity events is a golf tournament they raises a lot of money, and the current president is able to send the money to which group they would like to help.
 * How does the lions club get funding?**

A permit from the company/location they are doing it at. Volunteers. Time. Money. A lot of planning and teamwork. Sometimes the evens do get cancelled because they are not organised. If it is international they plan a long way a head. What do you do at Christmas? They sell fruit cakes during Christmas, orders were put it in a couple of weeks/months before they start selling, so they know how much to make.
 * What do you need for a charity event?**

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This is where you write your weekly or daily achievements and logging of events.

**Maddie** 30/8 MC - Last week in DEAL, we focused on choosing the right company to work with. We chose to work with a company called OZ Child, they help with Children who are in Refugee. We then researched about the company and discovered what the company does to help the refugees. We recorded some of our conversations so we can keep track of all out ideas. Throughout the day we also focused on our listening skills and watched a couple of videos to show us different strategies.

6/9 MC - In DEAL we had a guest speaker from Western Bulldogs Football Club, come into our school and discuss about his job with us. He told our group that Hawthorn Football Club is involved with the organisation that we are dealing with, so we decided that we are going to try and contact them so they could maybe come out a see the refugees with us. We are currently getting the phone numbers and email addresses of the company so that we are able to get in contact with them. Today we also worked with the teachers to learn different skills for dealing with other people. Ms Elmer, Ms Jussup and Ms Pham taught us how to respectfully speak on the phone to people and also how to present ourselves for a meeting. Ms Saunders taught us teamwork, we did an activity with our group and also discovered what type of group member we are. Mr Jilbert taught us ways to speak to children that can't speak english like us. I found all these activities really helpful.

13/9 MC - In DEAL we started off the day by working on our outreach program, we then watched a few youtube videos about people from all over the world to sing songs. Then we began watching a movie called Pay It Forward. This movie was about a young boy he received a project in social studies to make a difference in this world, the young boy wanted to pay it forward, so it started by helping an homeless man and it then caused a ripple effect. I found this movie really inspiring and I now think that if an 12 year old boy could do it then I am sure that I can do it as well. We finished off the day by listening to many different songs that are about the world and helping out the world.

20/9 MC - In DEAL our day was dedicated to completing out outreach program. We had a group meeting and Ms Elmer informed us that out group isn't working that well together. So after this meeting we sat together and decided ways to all work together. So afterwards Tayla and I completed a timeline (placed below) and then the rest of the group worked together to write down a dialogue for a phone call to the company. Towards the end of the day, we called OZ Child and they told us that we are located too far away from them so we are unable to work together with them. Next week we will have to find a new company to work with. We have already started looking at one called New Hope.

11/10 MC - In DEAL today we worked as a group to find a new company to work with, as OZ Child had rejected us. We found a local group called Lions Club who help out around the community. We gathered the contact details of the company and are now currently waiting for a response. If all goes well, we will continue from there and find out what we can do to help.

18/10 MC - Luckily we received a reply back from the company saying that they are willing to have us work with them. The email (placed above) states that they would like to know in which ways they need our help. So curresxzxzntly we are working as a group together to find out in what ways we are able to offer our help to them.

25/ 10 MC - Today in DEAL we sent off an email to Ross (From the Lions Club) Just answering the questions he has for us. We are planning to go on 8th of November. We are just finalising some information before you go, we need to fill out a couple of forms for permissions. We are egar for this plan to go forward, and we hope everything happens according to plan.

8/11 MC - Today we were unable to go start work at the Lions Club because we didn't fill out our permission forms. We made sure that we have everything prepared so we can go next week. Also, our group has gotten bigger as another group has joined us because they didn't have anything to do. Since our group now has 12 members, we are only allowed to take 6 people, so we are going to take 6 people next week, and the other 6 the week after.

15/11 MC - Today after months of planning we were finally able to go help out the Lions Club. We met up with Ross at Hepburn Park and helped with turning over the mulch, so that it is safer for the children to play. We finished in about an hour, so we then offered to help out with another park in Cobblestone. Ross was very helpful and he guided us through the work. He provided us with tools, gloves and also a refreshing drink. The day turned out to be a great success and after we had finished I felt happy to have helped out the community. When we arrived back at school, we completed a reflection about the day. Overall it was a great experience.

**Tayla** 30/8 TE - In DEAL last week my group decided what organisation we wanted to reach out to. We decided to work with Oz Child because we really want to focus on helping the children who don't have it as easy as we do because they moved as refugee's into a new country they aren't used to.

6/9 TE - Chris from the Western Bulldogs community came to speak to the year 9's about how the Western Bulldogs sponsors and helps refugee's around Melbourne. I told him what we have decided to do, and he told us that Hawthorn Football Club sponsors Oz Child. This is great because he is giving us details to get in contact with them. Today we also completed 4 rotations that each taught us different skills which we may need throughout our journey. By completing these activities my group noticed that we need to work on working together as a team better. We are closer to certain people so worked with them most of the time because we know how they work and are use to working with them. I also learnt what to do if i get into a situation at the refugee centre where the people i am relating to don't speak english as fluently as i do or at all. We also learnt ways to work around things like these as well as proposal techniques.

What i learnt today with Mr. Jilbert: We need to SMILE, speak slowly and fluently, and be open to all situations when we enter the refugee centre. (:

13/9 TE - Today I didn't have DEAL because I went to Reflection Day program.

20/9 TE - Todays DEAL class consisted of simply continuing our outreach program. Maddie and I completed the time line which we put below so we can keep on track. I also wrote out the proposal to Chris which Ms Elmer read. Her thoughts were that we should have maybe contacted Oz Child before we send anything to any football club and maybe research who Oz Child relates to in that industry. She also suggested that out group may not be working co-operatively, and discussed with us ways we can improve our group skills and ways we can work together more effectively. We had a team discussion and began working on delegated tasks as small groups of two. The Acting Justly Group from CRC Sydenham came to our school today to talk about how volunteer work is an option in year 12 at Sydenham and why they do it. Basically the girls got the satisfaction of feeling good about themselves knowing that they have helped the community and less fortunate around them. This is something i would love to do in year 12 because i believe it is very important to take advantage of the skills and privileges we have, and use them to help others that actually need it.

25/9 TE - I decided to check the website today to see if anyone posted any new things online. Nothing came up, but i decided to decorate our page to make it look a bit more appealing!

11/10 TE - I wasn't in DEAL today because I had a music excursion in the city at Sound House. I read the posts people wrote to keep myself updated.

18/10 TE - In todays DEAL class i was told that my group is now going to help the Lions Club community. My group sent an email and we have thankfully gotten a reply saying that they would love for us to help out. We aren't really sure what we want to do yet, but we do know that this club allows us to choose out of a wide variety of options. Lion Club helps with many problems around the community from things like improving buildings for those who need it or can't afford it, help in hospitals and in places like senior centres. In the email Lions Club replied with they gave us a few great ideas on how we can contribute to helping out. My group just now needs to figure out how exactly we want to help out and do it!!

25/10 TE - DEAL today gave my group the chance to discuss what we will be doing when we go to The Lions Club. We have been told that we are able to come and help out from next week so are beginning to plan how we will get there and who will be doing what. My group was told that we will be helping fix the playground by putting down bark and doing other activities such as this. Madeline and i are going to make a video while we are there to show how we are helping the community whilst participate in them too. All we need to do now is fill out the form with them to guarantee when we will be going to contribute.

1/11 TE - Melbourne Cup, wasn't at school.

8/11 TE - In todays class my group has decided to fill out the forms that allow us to actually leave the school to contribute in helping the Lions Club. We were planning to go this week however our group wasn't organised enough so decided to extend it by a week. Ms Elmer has asked her dad to come and speak to us about what the organisation does to help the community for he is a part of one. This will help us understand what we need to do a bit better because we're not really 100% sure about what they exactly do. Next week hopefully 6 of us can go over and help out, and the next week the other 5 can go.

15/11 - Today my group went to Hepburn Park and Cobblestone in Caroline Springs to improve the surface of the park to ensure it remains a safe environment for children. We arrived at Hepburn Park at 10am and found Ross waiting for us with the equipment we needed. He supplied us with water to stay hydrated and once we were all set up we began. We completed the first park in about an hour, leaving us still with three hours. Ross was really impressed with our effort so told us to go to Cobblestone and re-bark the park there too. After completing that we said bye to Ross and started walking back to school. When we arrived back we completed reflection questions and school was finished.

**Liam** 30/8 LH - In DEAL the Year level really focused on understanding the steps that were given to us. After watching a video, now we are still focusing on the listening aspect of life.

6/9 LH - We found out that the Hawthorn Football Club is associated with Oz Child. This is very good and we can now move on to planning our program. We had a guest speaker from Western Bulldogs footy club who helped us a lot and gave us very valuable feedback. We are now able to gather all our information and details to send towards the Guest speaker Chris that came in.

<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">11/10 LH - We got rejected by OzChild because we were to far away to be able to do anything for them. Today we found another non-profit organisation called Lions Club, this organisation helps the community as much as possible. We called them today and were told to send an e-mail to the Lions Club HQ. <span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">18/10 LH - Today we received our answer for the e-mail saying how we can help the community, Luke will be making a puzzle with a Lions Theme, Tayla and Maddie will make a short film about assisting the community. Phil and I will be mulching the playground/s that the Lions Club have made. Anthony is going to make update the website of the Lions Club. <span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">25/10 LH - Today our group was working hard to get everything under control because we had another group join ours and our project just got a whole lot harder to control. We managed to work out what we are doing and now we must sort out who is going to help at the playground, especially since its getting difficult to contact the person we need to contact.

<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">1/11 LH - Melbourne Cup wasn’t at school.

<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">8/11 LH - Today my Outreach group started filling out the forms necessary to go to the park next week, because we couldn’t go today, only because of our disorganisation. Miss Elmer tried to get her Mr Elmer to come in, but he was away doing man business. So Miss Elmer managed to get her mum, Mrs Elmer to come in and speak with us about the Lions Club. She gave us a huge insight into what they really do for the community and how big the organisation really is.

<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">15/11 LH - Today with Miss Williams we went to our designated park to meet up with Ross and start working. With excellent timing we managed to get to the park at the same time that he arrived. We got through and mulched the first playground in about an hour. With plenty of time to spare we decided to mulch another park and we did in just over an hour. Because of this we exceeded our own expectation of only doing one.

**Phil** 6/9 - Today we had a guest speaker from the Bulldogs Football Club come to our school to speak to the Year 9's on how we can help, what his role is and what types of people need help the most. It was very informative and he gave me a bulldogs scarf for being a good student throughout his speech. We then split up into groups and throughout the classes there were activities/speeches each group were to sit through.

13/9 - I was absent this day.

20/9 - I was also away on this day

19/10 - So this is my first DEAL day in a couple of weeks, i think i have missed out on 2 or 3 lessons. In that time my group has been rejected by a few places but then they came lucky with the Lions Club, which is a charity that helps the community. We are currently deciding on what we are going to do with them, we have been calling and emailing them to see what we can do. We are pretty well organised, so we just need to wait and see what they reply back.

25/10 - As we were communicating with the Lions Club, Miss Elmer was having a bit of issues with another group, so she asked them to join up with us. We were fine with this but we had to make sure that the Lions Club were. So we sent them an email telling them what had happened, they said it was fine but only 4-6 people can go to the park at one time, so we decided on who would go the first week and who would go the second week (if we don’t finish the first time)

1/11 - Today was Melbourne Cup Day so we were not at school.

8/11 - Today our group asked a couple of questions to Ross, a member of the Lions Club, so that we can actually go out and help the community at the parks. We got told off a bit because of the lack of communication between the organisation but we shortly fixed that :)

15/11 - We finally left our school to go meet up with Ross and help with the parks. It was a quick walk but it was hot. It only took us about an hour to do the first park, which he said that he was impressed with how quick we worked. He expected us to work on that 1 park for 4 hours. So we started walking to another park, we walked to the park...except it was the wrong one, so we called up Ross and got directions to it. We worked on that for about an hour and a bit. He was impressed yet again. As we finished, a young lady and her mother came to the park and wanted to use the playground. We all sat down and drank water and soft drink as we watched our happy customers play on there new park!

**Anthony** 20/9 AK- I haven't been for DEAL for 2 weeks now so I was a bit behind so that was a struggle, after i caught up we had a minor team problem, we weren't working together good, so we picked up our game and started working good. We called Oz Child but the rejected us because it's too far a way so now we have to think on plan b

11/10 Ak- We still had one more hope the refugee centre, once we contacted them we also got denied, that day their wasn't a lot of people with us, there was only me, luke, liam and Maddi, so we didn't exactly know what to do and we didn't want to make an exactly, most of our group is away so we were wary about making a decision about who we want to work with, we decided that the best decision we can make is to help the lions club people, the lions club is a group of people who help the community for the best, we sent an e-mail and now we have to wait and see if they accept

18/10 Ak- We finally we have our full group here but Tayla had to do something for camp so she wasn't there, we received an e-mail from a lions club member called Ross, he gave us options to help them out, either to mulch a playground, make a movie of helping the community and edit the website and create a colouring pad. Phil and Liam are going to mulch the playground, Tayla and Maddie are going to make a movie, I am going to edit the web will Luke is going to make a colouring pad. All this happened in the first two periods of the day and then we had to prepare for camp.

25/10 Ak-We spent the whole day getting ready to help them out we spent the whole day making final preparations, then Ms Elmer told us that another group called JHT would join us since they were in a similar position to us last week, we told them what we were doing and they decided to help us. We miss out on next tuesday so it will be hard to keep in touch. And we were planning to go on the 8th of the next month.

8/11 Ak- Today our group got told off a lot for our communication skills with the lions club and our group we didn't have enough info to come to Hepburn park today, also we got told that the Lions Club called the school and commented on how frustrating we can be a some time, we reliesed our errors and we talked about how we could improved and we came up with a consensus to always check e-mails and start using the phone. We called Ross and we confirmed everything and we were heading off next week. We needed a teacher as well we asked Ms Williams and she agreed so we were all set. Ms Elmer said that she will bring her father over to talk about the Lions Club, her father couldn't come she Ms Elmer mum talked to us instead.

15/11 AK- Today was the day we were going to do our outreach! The day started off good after yesterdays form mishap with our group, luckily everyone brought their form in that day so we were all able to go. After homeroom we left with Ms Williams to Hepburn park we walked there and it was a good 20-30 minute walk, I was the only one who knew were to go so I lead the pack. When we reached the park we arrived at the exact time Ross came, we got to meet Ross for the first time, my expectation was that the first meeting would be a bit awkward but it ran really well. He told us some information we need to now about the park. We got straight to work and with only a few breaks we managed to get the park done in 1 hour, Ross told us we can do a park at Cobblestone, I again lead the way, there was one problem, I was told about the wrong park so I lead the to the park at Cobblestone green not at O'donnell drive, we didn't know that mistake and Ross wasn't there and it still never slipped past our mind that we were at the wrong park, so like anyone in a park we played for a while, later we got worried why Ross was not with us so we called him to find out we were at the wrong park. We went to the other park and did the same job and we finished again in around an hour. At that park we got to see what we have done when a little kid came up and thanked us for what we did as she played on the park, it gave us all a sense of pride of what we have done. After saying our good byes with Ross we walked to Maccas to have lunch and talk about our day then we went back to school.

**Luke** 6/9 - We learnt four things today: teamwork, tips on certain communities, writing e-mails to employers and how to talk to employers. We were pretty bad at teamwork, even though I could only top off cards. I learnt that I couldn’t talk real fast in a refugee center. I had to make my e-mails to employers kind, and compliment them, but not like, ‘You’re hot. Can I get a raise?’ and finally, I had to stop saying the word 'like' in the middle of a conversation.

20/9 - While Phil and Liam were away, we actually realized that we were dead to each other without them both. There was no communication between the four of us today, which actually got Ms. Elmer worried. She found out what we were doing: Maddie was in charge of research and so was Tayla, Anthony was busy writing the script to speak out to the employer while I was still writing my story. Ms. Elmer gave us a little insight to our teamwork mistakes: it was okay we were working on our own, but there was absolutely no communication between us, we were focused on our own plans that we didn’t plan accurately together.

The problem with my story was that it was too lengthy and complicated for any refugee to understand, even though I told Anthony over and over again that I would make a short story on each single chapter and simplify it a little bit. The plot is OK though, and next term, we’ll wait for what Phil and Liam have in store for the refugees.

11/10 We definitely hit a roadblock. The refugee center denied us. But as they say, when 1 door closes another one opens. We decided to go volunteer at the Lions Club. I know what you're thinking, my initial reaction was volunteer work in a nightclub. But, no. It's actually one of those private clubs that volunteer in charity functions. If there are kids there, I'm telling the story I wrote. If its just adults, I'll serve them drinks like Cuba Libres, Grasshoppers and Cosmopolitans. Yeah, I'm into fancy cocktails.

We made the calls to the Lions Club and we told them that we'd volunteer at the Lions Club in Caroline Springs. The request has been sent and its pending.

25/10 Request is still pending... Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock...

15/11 We finally completed our Outreach Program. We learnt a lot today and we greatly impacted the look of the park by making it much safer in case some random kid fell over and had a 'nasty little accident'. I completed my checklist without even having knowledge of its existence, because the last few weeks were busy and its existence was meaningless when it came to other important schoolwork.

22/11 Everythings finished. This term has been a good one, despite how much I wanted to work in a hospital, but still, I day its good.

EVIDENCE OF TALKING TO EACH OTHER OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL:

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