On October 28, 2009 our class, Gr.12-2, did the fundraising for Philippine because they got typhoon and flood, so they need donation to make their country better. Also we did this because we wanted to make our grade up, so this was our catch up project. It held at RIST break, lunch and after school and we got a lot of food such as cookies, buns, snacks, and cakes. Those are donated by our school’s students and parents. We really appreciate it. From the beginning, many people came and tried to buy the stuff. Especially, Ms. Teresa, the science teacher, brought two things and donated us 1,000 Baht!! We really surprised about it and really wanted to thank her to donate for the Philippines. Most of teachers brought something with no change and also, some RIS and RIST students bought many things so we got about 5,000 bath donations in total. We gave it to school already and everyone was appreciating that.
I believed in that I should do something on the time, if we decided so, but this time, we had October break and our classmates couldn't make any time to buy the cookies and other stuffs. Therefore, we had hard time to prepare everything on the time. Actually, we supposed to put the cookies in different package, but we didn't have enough time, so we just sold the cookies without packing. Even though I challenged with my belief, it was still succeeded, so I think it was okay. From next time, I want to do everything if we have time.
From the ESLR's I learned how to be a team player because if we didn't corporate each other then we couldn't make this community service. This community service was created by us. We divided the teams in some of groups then resolved who do what. Finally, as we can see from the money that many people donated for us, we succeed this self-community service, so I learned about team player.
If we are going to do the same thing again, I want to mention more about this to all students and parents before we do community services and prepare more things, so that we can sell different kinds of thing. Moreover, even though we sold those stuffs we didn’t decide the cost exactly before we sell and I think deciding the cost is the most important thing. Next time, we should guess the price of the merchandises first and sell it. But everyone said that this community service was fun, so I think it is good to do something like this kind of thing more.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Reflection about Culture Sharing Day
On Culture Week which held on October 12 to 15 and we shared our traditional culture and also different countries culture. On October 12th break and lunch time, my friends and I taught small kids (elementary students in RIST) how to play and fun with the Japanese traditional toys such as Origami, Kendama, Daruma Otoshi, and Otedama. We did so because we wanted to share what our culture is like and wanted them to know about Japanese more. This is the purpose of this sharing. Therefore, I did this as a community service. While we were teaching elementary students Origami, those kids really loved it and they finally made the crane and one of the kids asked us, “How do you guys can make a lot of animals and other stuff from this Origami?” and we answered, “We didn't know it when we were baby, but we know now because we played when we were kids like you guys.” The kid understood and went to somewhere else. My friends and I just laughed each other and were happy to response the kid’s question. This is what happened while we were teaching how to do Origami and how to make a thing. When I looked around, I saw one of my friends were doing Kendama which has red ball with string and we have to put red ball on the thing that we hold and many kids were excited of that.
I believed in that I should response perfectly if someone asked me a question, so I confirmed it in this community service. As I told you before, I taught the kids how to make a crane and answered the question that the kid asked, so it was really good me to complete my belief.
From ESLR’s I learned Caring Global Citizen because I learned how to teach and how to response to small kids if they ask me question, so I felt that I should teach them kindly and use easy words to the elementary students so that they can understand. Therefore, I learned that I should choose who am I talking and depends on that I should change the way I talk. I would do the same thing as what we did in the culture sharing because it was really nice to tell people that how to play the different cultural games or toys and also many children came and wanted to learn something from there. However, I expected more middle school students. I think they also don’t know much about Japanese culture or other countries’ culture, therefore it was good event to have it, but we have to mention to everyone before we’ll do that kind of sharing.
I believed in that I should response perfectly if someone asked me a question, so I confirmed it in this community service. As I told you before, I taught the kids how to make a crane and answered the question that the kid asked, so it was really good me to complete my belief.
From ESLR’s I learned Caring Global Citizen because I learned how to teach and how to response to small kids if they ask me question, so I felt that I should teach them kindly and use easy words to the elementary students so that they can understand. Therefore, I learned that I should choose who am I talking and depends on that I should change the way I talk. I would do the same thing as what we did in the culture sharing because it was really nice to tell people that how to play the different cultural games or toys and also many children came and wanted to learn something from there. However, I expected more middle school students. I think they also don’t know much about Japanese culture or other countries’ culture, therefore it was good event to have it, but we have to mention to everyone before we’ll do that kind of sharing.
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