Peace Lunch

“Peace is its own reward.”(Mahatma Gandhi)

Today at lunch, we promoted peace during lunch by selling cookies, face paintings, telling people to see the peace videos, art galleries, and making peace commitments.

The atmosphere was very awesome with many people talking like crazy with many people also eager to participate in the peace activities, and people buzzing with excitement.

After the peace lunch ended we raised RM611 or $185 in just 40 minutes according to the teacher which is magnificent, and we also managed to sell116 out of 150 cookies which is excellent which was said from the teacher. Although we did quite well some problems I had was that peace videos are quite boring for many people as many people wouldn't watch them even if I asked them. The skills I learned after doing the action project was how to run an action project, and how to multitask easily. Lastly I learned after making commitments is that making commitments is very easy.

As you can see I feel that we did well on our peace lunch action project as we raised a lot of money, everyone said that our action project was very good, and we sold 116 out of 150 cookies. Also I think that everyone enjoyed our action project. I also think our action project had raised the awareness of peace.

Photo from www.centralohiansforpeace.org.

Response to Peace Assembly

In the assembly we did peace, and it was quite successful with one mistake. After the assembly finished I felt that the message of peace was very successful. It was successful because most people watched the video as during the assembly I heard people saying what the message said. It was also successful because most of the audience followed us when we did the mob dance as when I stood up I saw people doing the actions. This is what we did well in the assembly.

Although the assembly was quite awesome, and successful, I think there was one area which we could have improved on. I think we should have been told to memorize the the mob dance moves a week before as even though Ms. Palko was there doing the dance moves, we still make a couple of mistakes which we wouldn't have if we were told to memorize them the day before. Evidence is I saw some people sometimes use the wrong hand to do the dance moves. This is what we could have improved on.

After you have seen my blog post, I think that we did quite well in the assembly as the message of peace was told to everyone in middle school. Also most people I asked said that they learned a lot about peace so our mission to teach people about peace was successful. My job for planning the action project is to post videos for homegroup on my film at lunch on tuesday.

Reaction to Peace Day Film

"Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace ."(Francesco Petrarch) After seeing the peace film I agree with the Peace One Day founder Jeremy Gilley that we should have a day of ceasefire which is currently September 21 every year. I am also glad that peace day is also adopted by the United Nations(UN). Peace One Day logo from http://www.ecorrazi.com/.

The big ideas I saw after seeing the peace day film is that if there was one day of ceasefire, soldiers could realize what they are doing to their country, and the environment, and that the war they participated in was a waste of time, and they could realize people suffer during war. In addition I realized that in the film one of the big ideas is to get everybody in the whole world to be involved on peace day by doing peace day events worldwide, and to let everyone get along with each other so one day we can really have peace for 365 days. These are the big ideas of the film.

War is also pointless because people die, and the cost of war is huge according to the film. In my opinion, unless you actually gain any territory, and lose very little resources, war will be useless as you gain nothing.

Peace is important because if it happened, regions where supplies are hard to reach can be more reachable, and everyone in war countries could have immunizations according to the peace day film. Secondly there would also be access to freedom movements, and information according to the film. Thirdly in the film it said that with peace many of the world's problems could be solved such as finding homes for homeless people affected by wars. Fourthly in the film, it said if there was peace it would be a relief for us to know that there will be no more violence.

Furthermore as mentioned in newspapers, it said wars cause people to be homeless. In addition if there was peace, the whole world could be united according to the UN. Lastly in a book it mentioned that if there was peace there would be way less people suffering, and more people happier. This is why peace is important.

Peace links to development because according to http://www.globalsecurity.org/, countries that are at war are mainly the lesser economically developed countries(LEDC). Only America, Spain, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, and Mexico that are not LEDC's participate in wars. Although these countries that are not LEDC's are also having wars, their wars are not as important, and have fewer deaths. Only one country that is not an LEDC which is America participate in bigger wars. This is how peace links to development.