Ned's Kindness Adventure!

This morning we had special visitors that came to our school, to talk to the whole school about something special.  Can you guess who it is? if you guessed ned your right. Ned also came with a friend called Cosmo, they’ve only been in New Zealand once, and visiting for a week. They are here to talk to us about how there adventure was in Kenya.

There first topic they talked about was about our superhero powers, which is our smiles.  He had heaps of reasons why our smile can change the world, for an example smile doesn’t just make people happy.  but it also brings everyone together. One of his quotes that stood out to me the most was that “Smiles break down walls”.  The reason to it is because it can bring people a happier life.

Then he started talking about the matters of other people, and what it means to care for others. He listed five things they weren’t just normal quotes, but they were important quotes for us kids to remember.  just by saying one little thing it can cheer someone up. The five things he listed down were, Different can be good, Include others, caring is cool and also each person matters a lot. Out of those five quotes only one of them stood out to me the most.  That quote was the last one which was, each person matters, because I feel like everyone should treat them as how you would want to be treated.

In every country we all know that there's languages that they speak.  In Kenya they have their own way of speaking their languages, where here in New Zealand we also speak different languages.  But most of us prefer to speak English because we are able to understand it. Whatever culture you are or whatever language you speak at home, feel free to express it around the world.  It’s a way to communicate to people that understand what your saying. I like to try new things, and I am willing to learn how to speak more than two languages. One of the languages I would like to learn is actually Filipino, I enjoy watching a lot of Filipino movies in my spare time.  I’ve never been to the Philippines but maybe in the future I could explore the Philippines, one day!

He then talks about the education, and compares the time we wake up and the time the students in Kenya wakes up.  Here in New Zealand we usually wake up at 7:00 or 7:30, but in Kenya its a lot different. Because students in Kenya wake up at 5:00am, every single day just for school.  My question is, Why is it that they wake up so early then we do? Is it because they live so far from where school is? As you all may know I attend Pt England School, and I only live a few blocks away from where school is.  But it’s a bit different for us seniors, we start a bit earlier than the younger students do. That because we need to prepare for the day.

It was a really good experience to know the difference, between the students here New Zealand and the students in Kenya.  It was also really good to know the five importance, of how to be kind to other people. How smiles can change the world. You can speak whatever language you would like to speak.  And the differences between the kids in Kenya wake up, and when the kids in Aotearoa wake up. I hope some of these things can help you, to be kind to others.