my second family :)

Stocks

So, today when I looked at my stocks I am in the minus. When yesterday I was in the plus. So needless to say today in the stocks is sucking.

Journal Reflection.

How does the article contribute to your understanding of leadership?
This article has helped my understanding of leadership because it tells me that you have to be kind to one another like your all one big happy family. The syilx had a very organized life, each member had a responsibility and a part in the way the whole nation lived in health.

How will you apply learning to your own leadership practice?
The article taught me that leadership isn't easy. You have to be willing to help others, and being true to yourself and to others, and respect others and yourself as well. This article has defitnely changed my thoughts of leadership in many ways. I hope to be a leader myself one day. I want to be able to teach younger people to be a leader, and to be respectful of others.

My story.

I think leadership is someone being true to themselves and not trying to change for anybody else. I also think leadership is having a good attitude, trust worthy, honest, respectful, loyal, able to learn from mistakes and move on from them, responsible, and can learn from others.  Leadership is important because when your older your still going to be looking at other people as leaders but, what you might not know is there is someone who is looking up to you as a leader. It could be more than one person, I like knowing what a leader is now because when I'm older I never know when somebody could be looking up to me for advice or anything else.

I was born in Kamloops, BC. My mom is Noreen London; she’s a really good mom because
even though she’s a single parent she made my life a good one. She has four jobs in Chilliwack. I think she’s a leader because she’s a very strong, independent woman being on her own and having to pay for all her bills, her rent and my rent, and extra money for clothes or whatever I need.  Our relationship hasn’t been good since 2009. The summer wasn’t the best my grandpa passed away in May 2009, from bowel and liver cancer. Then, my nanny passed away on August 4^th, 2009 from lung cancer. My mom hasn’t been able to grieve yet, so she took out all her stress and sadness out on me. It didn’t really help that I was just starting high school in Chilliwack, and I had a phone bill come in that was over a thousand dollars and there were other fights. She gave me a choice, its either I go to foster care in Chilliwack or I go and live with my auntie in Westbank. I obviously chose my auntie, because I could live with my cousins and watch them grow up.  To this day, my mom and I don’t have the best relationship.  We both have anger issues and we both know what will piss each other off but, no matter how many fights we have she is still my mom, and I will always love her no matter how much she makes me mad. You only get one mother in your life. I will always look up to her as a leader.

My dad is Leslie Wuttunee; there’s not much to talk about my dad because I honestly don’t know him that much. He left my mom and I when I was almost 2, and he’s a liar to me. He use to always call me, and say, “I’ll come see you tomorrow, I’m driving a blue truck.” So, when I was little I was so excited to see my dad, but he would never show up. I use to always sit on the couch, and look out the window all day and wait for him and he would never show. He doesn’t call me on my birthdays or Christmases, he just never calls me. Now, that I’m older I can now tell him exactly how I feel about him. Last year, I saw him for the first time in almost 5 years, and I wrote him a letter for him to read after I left. I told him in that letter that he needs to make an attempt to our relationship; I wanted a call every 2 weeks, and on important days. I told him if it doesn’t happen and if he changes his number so I can’t reach him, than that was it I can’t always be the one who makes the attempts. I pretty much told him, that if he couldn’t do that than I’m done trying and I have no dad. Because basically I’ve never had a father figure in my life and I’ve been doing fine.  My mom use to tell me, that he wasn’t a very good dad but, I never believed her. Now, that I’m older I can see that she’s right and that he doesn’t care, just about himself.  I never thought of my dad as a leader because he isn’t honest, he’s not trust worthy, loyal, or able to learn from his mistakes. 

I used to have a lot of friends in Chilliwack, but since I moved out here my friends from Chilliwack have stopped talking to each other. I only talk to some of them but, that’s when it's a birthday or we're just bored. Since, I moved out here I have made some friends. I only have some really close friends since moving here, Taylor Jackson, Scott Miller, Tyler Goulet, and Desire Lane. I met Taylor the first day I moved here, in Briker's essentials math class. I look up to her as a leader because she's a good person and she's very kind to anyone she won't single you out; all in all she's a good friend. Scott is my boyfriend.  I look up to him because he's strong, nice guy, he's a shy guy but, once you talk to him you can tell he's a nice guy, he cares about people even if he's not friends with him. I look up to Tyler as a big brother, he helps me when I need help, or if I'm having a bad day he knows how to cheer me up. Tyler is a good leader because he cares about the people around him. Desire is a good leader because she can always make you laugh no matter what, if you're having a bad day when you're around Desire, you have no choice but laugh. She learns from her mistakes and moves on from them. 

I used to think leadership was only about being kind to one another. Now, being in leadership it tells me that it’s more to just being kind to one another, it’s about being respectful, and being true to yourself. I think being true to yourself is really big for being a leader because you have to be yourself and not change for anybody. Being in leadership it tells me there’s a lot more to being a leader, being able to make a mistake and learn from it is a good quality being a leader. Because you never know when someone is looking up to you.