Check out this AMAZING video created by the St. Leonard Harmony DLCP students! Sometimes we all feel like other people tell us who we should be, instead of accepting us for who we are. This video is about that very question: Who am I?
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Check out this PSA (Public Service Announcement) created by Sivani, Nikki, Grant and Darshie at William Lyon Mackenzie CI!
Mackenzie students’ PSA Assignment
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Ever wanted to write your own poetry, but then thought ‘no way, I can’t do that! It’s so…personal!” As part of their Harmony training, students at St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School in Durham got a chance to let all of their fears go, and write some thoughts about who they are – and aren’t – as individuals and as youth in society. Here are a few examples:
I am not the salt of the earth, or the light of the world.
I am an organized collection of life given the privilege to walk.
I am shy – and I am brave.
I can walk on my own without the help of others,
Yet I can’t live without them.
I never run, in fear of tripping,
And I always second guess what I’m doing.
In the midst of uncertainty I breathe,
But in the end everything is just fine.
– J.M.
I am brown, no I don’t smell like curry.
Yes, I pronounce my v’s as w’s.
Just because I speak 5 other languages,
Doesn’t mean I can’t speak English.
No, I don’t speak Indian, because there’s no such thing.
I want to be a doctor but no, I don’t HAVE to be one.
I watch as many Bollywood movies as I do Hollywood.
I am from India, I am a girl, I am 16, I am a sister and a daughter,
I am loved and hated but in the end,
REMEMBER that I am human.
– A.R.
I am sensitive, but not weak.
I am a thinker, I over analyze things,
But I’m never right.
I’m a clown, but I am serious at times.
I am strongly opinionated, but I’m not rude.
I’m independent, but I still like to be wanted.
I am not who you say I am
But who I choose to be.
I am not perfect, nor do I want to be.
I’ll probably change in the next 5 or 10 years,
So all of these aspects are just the makings of me.
-D.S.
I am Trinacian – Trinidadian and Jamaican.
I am independent. I am beautiful.
I like to dance, read, and sing.
I like school but that doesn’t make me a nerd.
I am smart.
I am not shy, but I am soft spoken.
I don’t care what you say about me because God made me
Well….Me.
-T.S.
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Poems from Sir John A. MacDonald Elementary School:
I am intelligent, I am exactly who I want to be.
I am my own person who deserves respect.
I am confident, I am unique.
I am not stupid, I am not a fake face.
I am not white trash, I am not a people pleaser.
I am not a facade of unoriginality.
-N.P.
Hey, look at me…if you think I’m Mexican, ugh! You’re so wrong.
I’m Peruvian and Chilean.
Sometimes I tend to be impulsive, but I’m not stupid.
Maybe I act out of the ordinary, but if you actually took the time to get to know me,
I’m extraordinary. So people do me a favour and make your community more happy,
Quit judging each other.
-A.N.
