Brian remembers how Mr.Perpich is telling him how to always stay positive and that you’re the best thing you have. What Mr.Perpich means by that is that you’re your own best thing. Positive thinking might help Brian stay confident instead of negative thinking that will stress him and make him loose his motivation. You have value in your brain and body that will help you do something. If you have confidence, you will be able to do things other people without confidence can’t. Brian without motivation could just commit suicide and with confidence he would try to survive as long as possible. So just believe that you can do it, and if you never give up and you just might survive.
Day: 28 October 2015
The plane crashed, Brian was sitting there under a tree alone. He thought the searchers might not find him for four days, he thought of what Perpich had always said “stay on top of things, you are the best thing you have.”
Why are you the best thing you have?
You are the best thing you have because you have your own body, you can walk around and find some plants that you can eat. You can find some tools too, to hunt animals.
You are the best thing you have because you can use your brain to think, you can think of some ideas of what you are going to do. You can think of some things you saw before about plane crashes and what they did. Maybe you really can find some things that are the best for you to do.
You are the best thing you have because you have legs & arms, you can build something that if a plane flies over it, the plane can see it (like: you can use huge rocks to build SOS).
You are the best thing you have no matter where you are and what happened.
The teaching of Perpich
I think when Perpich said “you are the best thing you have” he meant that you don’t have
anything, but yourself. You should do the best thing you can. You should believe in yourself.
You have your own strength and ideas to solve problems. You will do things you want yourself
to do. You can control yourself.
Brian thought that searchers might find him that night, but he changed his mind. ”Maybe in
two days, three or four.” He realized something was wrong, he had flown in the wrong direction
of the flight plan. Maybe he was 300 or more kilometre off course. The searchers would search
along the flight plan’s way first. They wouldn’t be able to find him in a short time.
The pilot’s plane was in the deep of the lake. What if Brian was in the forest and they didn’t
see him and flew away? They would think he was dead. His mom and dad would be frantic.
Brian knew he could still live even for two, three or four days. He had to. Otherwise he would
have to die. Brian was very hungry. He thought of movies, how the main character ate plants
that they know they could eat. But Brian had nothing. No fire, no food, no machetes. He
needed to wait 4 more days. He could not wait by sitting under the tree and staring the lake for
four whole days. He got to do something. He needs food and water. He needs to survive. He
need to listen to Perpich, to stay positive. Or he will lose hope and die.
Oct.22, 2015
By Nina
I think that Perpich is trying to mean that his body is the best thing to help him to survive, which means he will have to use his body to survive in the forest. He has to use his body to make things too, but he can also use his body parts to eat, I mean, if necessary.
One thing that Brian can do is think positive, because if he thinks negative his heart will beat faster and faster, which can give him a heart attack, but if he thinks positive, his heart will beat normally.
He can use the rest of the gas in the airplane to make fire.
He can use his hatchet to kill animals and eat them, or maybe even make clothes with their skin.
He can make a house on a tree to survive among the night.
When Perpich said “ you are your best asset” he meant that the first thing you need to do is keep yourself safe. Think of the consequences and use your brain to control your actions. There are lots of things in Brian’s pocket ,maybe he could use his hatchet.
Brain is his best asset because he can think and he can control himself.
Now Brian has to find water and food until the Canadian Army comes and rescues him, but it might take the searchers a long time to find him because he was going the wrong way for more than three hours. It wasn’t according to the flight plan, but Mr. Perpich always said to be positive.
I was alone home alone my family went to the store I was sleeping so I was happy that my brother in my face so later on it was 2:00 or 3:00 I don’t know but that was gone for so long I don’t have a phone but I have a home phone and it was raging my mom said not to pick up the phone but it kept ringing so I slowly picket it up and I said “hello” I was scared but it was my mom she said she had a flat tier and she will be back in one hour I was relief so I waited and for now on I well go with them for a car ride and never stay at home.
When Perpich is saying ” You are you most valuable asset” And you are all you got I think he was trying to say to Brian to get a move on, not just sit there waiting for something to happen. He is saying get going start surviving . Get motivated and go. Then later in the day he got moving. remembering Perpich. he said to him self a am the only thing I got, I have to do something. Perpich would tell him to stop messing around. Get motivated. Perpich was also telling him to stop messing around. Get motivated. Perpich was also telling him you are the best thing you’ve got right now. Perpich was a motivating guy and that’s what Brian thought when he was out in the woods alone. He thought about his motivation and how it would help him, and it did. he got motivated and got up and did something
Don’t forget we have our family Halloween event Thursday night (Oct 29) in the Maywood gym from 5:30-7:30pm. There will be crafts, games, treats, and a haunted house! Cost is $2/family and proceeds go to Maywood’s breakfast club.
Friday is dress-up day for Maywood, so please come dressed in an appropriate Halloween costume (no weapons, gore, or suggestive clothing).
On another note…
We will be getting a garden tour Friday morning and will be spending some time in the garden harvesting. Please be sure your child has rain gear for the weather.