During Humanities class, we were told to type out a blog post about a time we observed or did any bullying. On Monday, we had a bullying workshop. We watched a movie about some Middle Schoolers who were being bullied. We also talked about the different types of bullying. This is my experience on observing or bullying.
     One day while I was still attending my old school I saw a girl which looked about 2 years older than I was. At the time I was 7 years old. The girl that I saw was bullying another girl who looked about my age. Her name was Natalie Gan. It turns out that she was in another class, but she was in the same grade that I was in which was 1st grade. The older girl that I saw was named Jessica, she was in 5th grade. 

Two girls fighting

     When I saw Jessica bullying Natalie I was really shocked. It was in the cafeteria and Jessica was strangling Natalie. Natalie was crying, but there were no teachers around. At first I was thinking of helping Natalie, but when I saw the size of Jessica there was no absolute way I was going to stand up for Natalie. Later on that day, the teachers were asking around the school to see if anybody had witnessed the scene. But only Jessica's friend Natalie was pushing Jessica around so Jessica strangled Natalie. When a teacher asked me I said that I wasn't there when the scene occurred. That day I could not sleep at all. The next morning, I saw that Natalie was not in school. Apparently she couldn't breathe for a while and had been admitted in a hospital. She was in the hospital for 1 week. I was very glad when she came back, I went straight up to her gave her a hug and apologized. I thought that Natalie would be really mad, but apparently she was really cool about it. She told that it didn't matter and that there was nothing I could have done anyway and what's done is done.
     Ever since that day every time I see somebody getting bullied I go over and tell the person that is getting bullied to just walk away. If I could ever change the past and change that scene I would. I would have stood up for Natalie and told Jessica to leave Natalie alone and pick on someone who is her own size because we certainly weren't. 
      The two main goals that I have for the year are to stop the bullying between people at my school and to make a good friend. But when I wanna stop people from bullying others I would say it with respect and politely. And if I see someone being bullied in the future I will take action and tell the bully to stop.

STOP BULLYING

A time when I showed Courage

     A time I showed courage was when I was 8 years old. I was still at my old school. There was a girl named Kate. She was about 7 inches taller than I was. She was 10 years old. She loved to bully kids who were younger than she was. During recess she would go looking for younger kids to bully. I was one of the younger kids that she always liked to bully first. She would do mean things like steal food or money from me. Sometimes she even made you do her homework and if you got it wrong she would give you a punch on the arm. None of the kids dared to complain about her because the first time somebody complained she ended up with a fractured finger.

      One day, Kate started to bully one of my best friends, Chloe. Kate pushed Chloe to the floor because Chloe refused to give her money to Kate. Then Chloe started to cry, so Kate called her a crybaby in front of everybody. She stepped on Chloe's hand. There were no teachers around, so I went over to Kate and Chloe. First, I helped Chloe up and I wanted to take her to the school nurse but Kate started to call us rude names. I tried to ignore her but then she tripped Chloe when she was walking. That was when I got really angry, I helped Chloe up again and told Kate to pick on someone her own size. Then I told her to stop making feel so bad just to make herself feel good. I took Chloe to the school nurse. 

     Some people think courage means facing your fears, but other people think courage is sticking up for yourself or other people. Sometimes courage doesn't always mean facing your fears like heights or lions, sometimes it just means doing something nice and brave. Each person has their own opinion on what courage means. But this is what I think courage is.

What do the artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans?

      The artifact that my group had was an interesting sculpture of two bison. The Sculpture was built in France, inside a deep cave, in a low room. Those sculptures were made from gold colored clay. Some scientists believe that these sculptures of the two bison could have been used from ceremonies that involved children turning into young adults. Certain scientists predict that these sculptures might have been built 10 - 14 thousand years ago. Scientists also believe that these bison sculptures showed that the cave belonged to a certain clan. What me and my group found interesting is that there were small footprints around the two bison sculptures.

     Another reason I think that artifacts tell us about the early humans is because if you look at some of the famous artifacts, they tell you a lot about what mind they where set in and what kind of lifestyles they had in the early humans time. They also tell us what type of tools they used to hunt and murder animals, some other artifacts also show what the women used to cook. I think that artifacts can show a lot of information of the early humans and that is why I like artifacts because you can get so much interesting and cool information out of just one artifact. 

     Sometimes I wonder what the people in the futures reaction will be like when they see the type of thing we are using right now. They will be thinking exactly what we are thinking. They would most probably want to ask a lot of questions like we want to right now. I think that artifacts are a great source to cite the past.

Picture of the Bison Sculpture

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