Reflections on Robbie from World Visions visit

From Robbie perspective, I thought that it was good that he explained how Victor lived his life in South Sudan. Robbie talked about how the lives of the children in South Sudan was like. He talked about that if they didn’t have a soccer ball and it popped they will just laugh together and show joy when a ball pops. They will always be creative and make a ball out of black tape. Children in South Sudan always finds a way to make them enjoy their life. Victor talked about that he’s was only young when he left his family. He came back to South Sudan and found out that his family were still alive but didn’t know that his sister was gone. Having world vision for South Sudan helps them know that there is always more people to help, like different companies. My thought on doing the 40hr famine for South Sudan is a good idea because others will know why there is a reason for doing it. Another thing is that it would be a good experience to do something that you haven’t done or make it challenging for yourself. Doing the 40hr Famine will be interesting in ways to show how it will feel in your perspective.

Reflection on Mr Gatluak Chuol’s speech

My why is for those who have suffered so much in Uganda and for the past years. The reason why I am doing the 40hr famine is that those in other countries don’t have much food and no roof to be under. My whole why is that what made those people who went to war kill those who stayed in South Sudan.

The thoughts hearing about South Sudan was something that I didn’t know about for example the enemies will chase you and shoot you even if you were young. The only way that you could get away was to just keep running and never turn back or go back. In South Sudan, you had no choice but to suffer the consequence because you had no way out. Hearing Chuol’s talk about his life being in South Sudan was kind of sad experience, but in a way, it was a good experience for him telling us about his time in South Sudan. What I liked about him sharing his thoughts was the part where he said that he had left his family for 10 years but heard that they were shot by those enemies who were going to war.

Chuol’s had shared a lot of things that happened in South Sudan and what his life was like. He talked about how they had to swim across to get where they wanted to. Even though that there were crocodiles were around you still had to swim because you were in their territory.

Task One: The reason why I am doing the 40 Hour Famine

Today together as a group we have contributed to the plan of what we are going to do for the fundraising. Also, the group talked about what we’re all going to bring on the day so that we all don’t be left behind on what we actually need. In the group, we also contributed to what we need to do to make that work so we don’t have to struggle with getting the things. I made sure that everyone had a chance to have their own expectations as we all agreed as one to do something that we all like to do and what others like to eat. Another thing that as a group we had done was give jobs for those to take responsibility for and have the right to bring something to be part of the group.

-Making sure that everyone was agreeing on what was wanted and also from their point of view of what was to be expected from each other. Also supported each other expertise.

-As a group, I contributed to the things the group agreed on. The group has agreed to bring stuff and be responsible for what they can’t bring. For example, if a member couldn’t bring anything there's a way to let us know.

-Phoenix has created a group chat on hangout so that we could communicate with each other on what we both suggest if nothing works out.

-In the group, I am providing cups, ice-cream scoop and also bringing chocolate syrup.

-The others have contributed to us to bring something as well so that we know how much of what we need approximately

-We all have planned to have it Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday as people may have course during the days we have it. So we all have agreed to have it in those days and we also planned to have 2 weeks to get the things we need.