Gumboot Friday!

Gumboot Friday

Hey there bloggers!

In case you don’t know what Gumboot Friday is I will explain.

Gumboot Friday is a day where everyone is encouraged to wear gumboots in support of mental health.
Mental health is is about how
you feel about yourself, if you feel like you can’t get through another day and don’t think
you are good at anything that means your mental health is suffering.

But if you think that you are good at stuff and you are happy that means you have good mental health.
We wear gumboots because if your mental health is
suffering it’s like your brain is trying to walk through mud.

On Gumboot Friday we filled in a Healthy Puketapapa student questionnaire that asked us
what we could do to
make our community better and a senior named Neeve wrote that we could write positive
things on cards and put them in random letter boxes (Check out her blog here!).

So we did! On Gumboot Friday (The 5th of April) we made cards that said
random positive things or quotes.

My cards quoted Dr Seuss  and then finished with saying: Hope you have a….
Wonderful, awesome, amazing, epic, marvellous day!

After we made about 1 hundred cards on Tuesday the 9th of April, we went walking around the
neighbourhood putting the cards in random people's letter boxes!

This year our main Inquiry topic was on Hauora - Well being. Well being is your condition
and whether you are happy and healthy or if your sad and depressed.
We have already had someone respond saying thank you.
Please help out people with mental health issues and donate some money here:
https://www.iamhope.org.nz/donate.

Lots of awesome people have donated and just over 1 million dollars has
been raised for people with mental health issues.

This year the chairperson for Gumboot Friday is Mike King.
He was also voted the New Zealander of the year in 2018.

I think that we this was a awesome thing to do for us and our community.
We should keep doing things like this and hopefully other people will too!
These are the kinds of things that bring communities together and it’s
awesome that we can be part of that.

Blog ya later!