Class 12's Awareness Campaign

The Story of Global Awareness at GLPS!

Mr. Morgan's Class: Free Hugs from Class 10

Free Hugs (Free Hug Campaign) are on the street, themselves, they're holding a sign "Free Hug" holding it up and waiting to hug someone.  This is just to support, to help, it's so simple!   These students who act out "Free Hugging" have joined this campaign activity to help others feel better. Some people joke about what it means and the practice, but the original meaning is to embrace spiritual healing and peace with our family and society, just to strive to do better.  The original “free hug” was founded by Jason Hunter, but there is some information that Juan Mann was first.  Anyway, Jason got the idea while at his mom's funeral.  He remembered how is mom hugged everyone and tried to give them hope.  His mom died in 2001, and at her funeral he made a simple sign and offered people who came to the event a hug.  That was the first time it was done with a sign.  Of course, we've been getting and giving hugs for many years.

In the Republic of Korea, there was a famous "Juan only" Internet video made by Australians known to be spread in earnest. In 2004, a video about hugs made it famous and popular in S. Korea.   The Free Hugs movement ~free hugs~ 'FREE HUGS'~ was written and done without pay, holding a picket sign, hugging strangers and passersby without wanting money, ' Cost -free hug ' is what that means.  In Korea, ' free hug ' or ' free hugs cycle ', as it's called, came from Sydney Australia, Juan Street and became popular as many Koreans watched a YouTube video.

OUR FREE HUG campaign at GLPS camp! We do free hugs in cafeteria or classrooms! it's a new challenge,we feel warm! how about you?  Sometimes we will feel sad or anxiety. on the first-attempt,we feel shy,but teacher and friend hug each other. we get their signature,and we can build up our courage it's not easy,but it isn't hard too! We believe that free hugs help to heal the mind! We courageously tried to share free hugs. We had to sign our names as a sign of victory. We want to become in the future for many people in South Korea...these people are the pre-Huggers.  Give it a try...just try...  Fighting fighting! Thanks for reading ^^

Here's an interesting example:
Free Hugs in Sondrio, Italy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN8CKwdosjE&feature=player_detailpage

Mr. Frost's Class 4. Methods to reduce STRESS!

Class 4 Stress Reduction Techniques

Don't miss our 4 mini films this Thursday!

 

Film 1: Meditation

Too much stress! How can I deal with it? There's a solution! How about trying meditation? Meditation is the act of remaining in a silent and calm state for a period of time. It is a beneficial way to reduce our stress! Does it looks difficult? Absolutely not! It's very simple! Just sit or lie down on the floor somewhere quiet and clear you mind by looking at one thing or clearing your thoughts. Then, just maintain this posture for a while. Soon you will feel your stress slip away. Also you will lose all your messy thoughts. If you are suffering from stress, try to do meditation and live a better life!  -Written by team 1, class 4

Watch our feature film this Thursday!

 

Film 2: Smile & Laughter

Our group thinks we should smile and laugh more to reduce stress.
There are 5 tips or ways to smile and laugh:
First, tickle your friends! We'll show you how in our movie! :)
If you tickle someone else, the person you tickle will laugh, and you will smile.
Second, tell a funny joke. If you tell funny joke your friends will laugh, you will feel so happy that you made someone laugh, and you will smile too.
Third, praise yourself and your friends. If you praise yourself, you can get self-confidence.
Fourth, play with your friends. This is an excellent way to relax and help others relax too.
By talking with friends you will know a good solution since your friends are a similar age with you. You can get rid of stress by talking to your friends. Lastly, talk with your family. If you talk with our family, you can get rid of stress by controlling your schedule and feelings.

Film 3: Time Management

 

These days, there are many people who feel too much stress. For example, educational stress physical stress, and mental stress can be some of the causes. You don't need to worry, we will tell you how to reduce stress.
The best method is TIME MANAGEMENT!
 It means that we must study hard and then play when we want. Make a schedule, set a specific time to study and strictly follow that schedule every day. Save time slots to do things you like. If you follow this method you will be happy.
To conclude, We think time management is great way to relieve stress. Also, we can do something we want when manage our time well.
-Written by team 3, class 4

Watch our feature film this Thursday!

Film 4: Share your feelings

We don't have to be stressed if we share our feelings. If we share our feelings, happy feelings will increase and sad feelings will decrease. So, if we share our angry feelings then our stress will decrease. We can also know other's feelings from sharing our own feelings. We can know that there are other people who stand up for us when we share our feelings. We can know other people well  and help  them too. Sharing feelings can do many things. Lets help our friends and classmates!
 "If you make someone happy, you will be happy too!"  -Jimmy Durante

-Written by team 4, class 4

Watch our feature film this Thursday!

Mr Reardon's Class 12: Burn calories, not electricity. Just walk!

Important Issues with Elevators

Today, we use elevators often when we go upstairs or downstairs.  But There are some problems when we use elevators. For example, if we use elevators often, people who disabled can't use it. Instead of elevators, we can use stairs. So, we made project, and our project's slogan is 'Burn calories, not electricity, just walk'. Our project was created to protect people's health. There are many people who use elevators often. But, using elevators cause reduction in daily physical activity. So, it cause many risk diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular. There are many benefits when we use stairs. First, we can lose weight while we use stairs. There is an analysis of calories when we use stairs. That analysis said that when we use stairs, we can burn between 7 to 10 calories in a minute. Second, we can maximizes our cardio effects. When we use stairs, we can avoid some diseases caused by using elevators. Third, it can increase core muscles and strength because it gives pressure to our knees, so we can strengthen muscles. Finally, it helps us to tone our muscles. So, using stairs is an important issue.

Elevators at GLPS

There are 4 elevators in dormitory of KMLA , 2 of them are new and the other elevators are a little old. Too many people want to go upstairs using elevator, even students who want to go to the second floor, so the elevators in the middle are stopped every other floor, the elevators on the edge are stopped more often than the middle elevator. They are stopped every floor.

Sometimes, there is shorter time to go with stairs, It is no space in elevator to do. There are too many people in elevator, so we are sometimes inserted in and we can't do anything. Then, there are no personal place in the elevator.

Class 12's Goal

There is a fat woman whose name is Alice. One day, she plans for a diet to make her body slim. She goes jogging every morning and the amount she eats reduced a lot. However, it's not easy! What's the matter? The problem is that she doesn't exercise in daily life. She always takes the elevator although her house is on the 3rd floor. One day, she saw a magazine that said taking stairs for 3minutes burns 29 calories. She put that in to action immediately and finally she could become slim.
 What we want to show you from the story is  that taking stairs is much more beneficial to you. Like the story, taking stairs can burn calories. It also has good effects on the environment. When we take elevators, lots of electricity is needed. Therefore, if we take stairs instead of elevator, it will burn calories and also reduce electricity consumption.

 Burn calories, not electricity. Just walk!

PLASTIC BAGS ARE NOT FANTASTIC!!

CLASS 11 thinks we should not use plastic bags!

Each year, approximately 500 billion to one trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That’s over one million bags per minute. Over 100,000 marine animals, including highly intelligent, adorable sea turtles, whales and dolphins, and at least 2 million birds die every year because of plastic bags. They choke or get tangled in plastic or they eat plastic, leading to internal infections, starvation, and death.

Plastic bags are extremely durable. In case you are thinking of this as an advantage, just bring to mind an image of the huge landfill that you may have seen on the city outskirts. Probably, the majority of the rubbish present there will comprise of plastic bags only. Plastic bags have led to a great increase in the pollution levels.

Plastic bags have been known to cause a lot of environmental damage. A single plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to decay completely. This makes the bags stay in the environment longer, in turn, leading to a great build-up on the natural landscape. The more plastic bags you use, the greater the chances of environmental damage.

A way to avoid or reduce water and air pollution is to avoid throwing away plastic bags. You can just reuse or donate them to recycling centers. It is also a good approach to throw them into the right garbage can, which must be the non-biodegradable can.

As plastic bags won’t be easy to stop causing threats to humans and polluting the environment, doing your own way to help prevent it from getting worse is not difficult either. Just do the things that you think can contribute to the reduction of air, water and soil pollution caused by plastic bags.

Remember that changes in the environment have to start within and from you.

 

Plastic bags look like jellyfish, so turtles try to eat them.