Thursday, September 9, 2021

Josh and Ruth

 Today Grey High School was lucky enough to have to amazing speakers come to our school and talk about their life's and about the challenges they went through!!The first speaker we had was Josh he talked about how he got cancer twice and other illnesses, he talked about going around the world and seeing people who had nothing and I think that, that really got to some of us like he talks about how he wanted to just die and how unlucky he felt but then going around the world seeing these little kids with nothing no shoes, no toys, no food and water and yet they were still happy, they had huge smiles on their faces and for him and us to just stop and think about everything we have and how we just take it all for granted!Our second speaker was Ruth croft she's a famous track runner who never thought her life would end up the way it did, she talked about how nothing comes easy for anyone, she talked about how her life had gone from wanting to run and then hating running and then moving and then travelling and then running and yes there was a lot of running stories!She talked about her success and her failures and I found it ver