Being proud of who we are

In class today we had a discussion about what it means to be proud of ourselves.  This is the definition that we came up with:

Pride is being happy about who we are.

In our class we have people who are proud to be Samoan and others who are proud to be Fijian Indian.  We show that we are proud of who we are by sharing ideas from our culture, telling our classmates about our home-country and by using our language. 

We know that being proud of ourselves is a good thing but it turns into a negative thing when we start to show off and think that we are better than others. 

When pride turns negative

it becomes arrogance.

D.O. is proud to be an Arab girl.  Today she bought some traditional food called falafel to school as a present for Miss B.  (Miss B loves falafel!)  D.O. was able to tell us that falafel is made from beans and that it is fried in oil.  We also learnt that falafel can be eaten with rice and also with pita bread.  D.O told us that her family eat falafel every week.  When we smelt it we could see why!