Fiona



Boori 'Monty' Pryor's visit to our School On Wednesday 29th July, Boori Pryor came to Killester College to share his experience with us. He showed us some books that he wrote and also used his body language to let us have a more clearer understanding of the stories he tells. He told us some events that he experienced during childhood. Apart from that, Boori had also played us his didgeridoo in a different way that I have heard before. During this incursion I felt very happy but at the same time I felt sympathy and pity for the Aboriginines in the past, because they have to experience a lot of discrimination and rascist comments in school and other places. In this incursion I learnt a lot of things, such as... -their cultural -some rules

**My Self Reflection**
This unit has been quite a challenge for me. During this unit I increased my knowledge in the religion from reading books about it, listening to a documentary and also reading what my other teammates wrote about this religion. Although at the start I experienced challenges such as: not knowing what to do, don't communicate much with the team and having difficulties in thinking deeply with the questions. But now I feel more confident with this religion and other teammates.

From this unit, I learnt a lot of histories, rules and ceromonies like marriage and birthdays. I found out that the first Guru who started Sikhism was Shri Guru Navak Dev Ji and he was first belonged to the Hindu. In Sikhism, both male and female are not allow to show their hair, cleanliness are important and they are also very welcoming to people from or not from their religion. Apart from those basic information, I also learnt some words that has it's own meaning in Sikh, for instance: Guru actually means to teach, which indicates that each Guru or leader of Sikhs are all teachers that spread the Sikh's teaching to their student, in other words their follower. I think this is also my achievement.

My achievement for this unit is more than learning what the religion Sikhism is, but also to learn how to work properly as a group, how to dialogue with others, how to be like the religion I studied; welcoming and generous to others, no matter who they are and a lot more things. I first started from not knowing waht Sikhism is still till now understanding the similarities and difference that Sikhism has from their religion. After talking to teammates about what they learnt, I feel that I still have a lot of things to learn.