When I was in year 7 (about 9 years ago) I decided to put myself up for nomination to our schools Student Council. I got elected, and started to go along to all of the meetings. After about a term, the Council had decided that it was time to nominate a charity or community group to raise funds for. The traditional ideas went around, Good Friday Appeal, CFA, Life Savers…. there were a few local groups too I hadn’t heard of, and also some church based groups (I went to a Christian school). I thought that a group I had been involved in, a scout group, could use some money. After all, the scout group had few resources, dwindling membership and a dilapidated hall.
Despite all of this, there was still a need for us in the community. Whenever we did anything community based, we always got a lot of support, however we were not able to do as much as we had once done, because of a lack of funds (which was a result of less people). So at the Council meeting, I put my hand up to suggest my scout group. A few other hands were up, and their ideas taken, however when I was te second to last hand still in the air I decided very quickly to put it down.
A boy in year 8, who later became one of my good friends in high school, turned around and drew attention to the fact I had put my hand up to say something, then quickly drew it back down. He said to me, quietly, ‘I know you’ve got something to say’. He then drew the entire group of students in the room into it, and I just baked down, shy little me, and claimed I had forgotten.
This catchphrase caught on however, and was often how this year 8 boy (let’s call him Garreth) would greet me. Truth is, I never ever revealed to him (or anyone at the school, for that matter) what I had originally intended. I still don’t know why I decided to not put my idea forward, it’s never something I gave a lot of thought to. And for some reason, I was thinking about that meeting today.
The other thing that got me thinking today was what my Year 9’s were doing. They were using a program called Audacity. It is a free program which allows uses to record, manipulate and save audio files. The class were creating their own radio shows today, importing songs and recording interviews. I haven’t had much experience with Audacity but I am about to go and download it now. It serves as a potentially useful tool for creating podcasts, as you can save into mp3 format for easy upload to a website.
I don’t know how these two topics are linked, but I’m sure they are somehow.
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