During the Digital Perspective class recently, we started a project to design a book, the book can be either written by myself or using an existing book. The piece I chose is written by a famous Chinese writer called Wangzengqi, who is famous by writing short stories and proses.

Hua(Flowers), just as the name tells, Wang have telling his own stories with 4 different species of flowers- Lotus flower, Forger- me- not, French hydrangea and bank’s rose. This piece excerpted from his famous prose collection called Renjianyouzhiwei, which indicates “the most flavor in the world”.

This books have includes the prose masterpieces of Wang Zengqi’s appreciation of plants, food and insects, and nostalgia for relatives and friends in his hometown. Flower is recorded in it by this concept.

This is the link to my book

Enjoy!

Nov 15th 2019 Goal setting for Humanity

During the humanity classes, we have done three tasks and assessment so far which is a group presentation, a personal presentation and an essay during ours development unit.

In the form below, I am going to set up goals for each criteria in ATL based on my behaviours in these three assessments in order to improve for next time.

I have chosen the goals for each criterion referenced to the feedback by the teacher and my personal understandings of performance. 

The SDG presentation task is a assigned work in our humanity class, Mr.Hannah have assigned each of us with one sustainable sustainable goal which was created by the UN in 2015, aim to reach these goals to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all By the year 2030.

In the class, I have assigned Goal 8–Decent work and and economic growth. We are going to do a 2 minutes presentation in the following class to convince other people ours goal deserves the most fonds by the govern. I prepared it at home, first trying to find the logic and arrange the structures of the essay. I decided to write the body paragraph in two sections- importance and the reason for govern to invest most. I researched the meaning of some terms in order to find a easier explanation at first. After that, I researched why is my goal important based on some statistics and evidences. At last, for the second paragraph and the conclusion, I mentioned that without my goal, other goals are not able to be achieved as well.

I think I have succeeded that I was less nerves than last group presentation which shows that I have overcome my fears in some extent. My voice was not as shaked as last time and I found out that I started to adapt speaking on stage slowly. I also mentioned the interrelations with two factors and the relationships between my goals and all other global goals as well.

For the things to improve, I found out that my presentation doesn’t show enough suitable evidences in the right place to support my statement hence sometimes my ideas sounds too weak that it became untrusted for other people. When there are no reliable sources and no reference, it is hard to say if statements are made up by myself or not for audiences. I also lacked some eye contacts with audiences since I was not confident to speak in my own words but has to rely on my notes. I need to practice and rehearsed more for next time since sometimes my pronunciation doesn’t sound clear and accurate when I am nervous. I would like to see myself memorize the main ideas of the script and would be able to talk based on my understandings toward the theme of the presentation, gain more confidence, pronounce words clearer and more accurate and act more positive when I speak so I don’t sound like a monotone that made audiences feeling bored.

Hello, my name is Selina. This is my first post of  learning journey which I decided to introduce myself. I am 15 and I am a fib student in present. It is my first year in UWCSEA east but third year in Singapore. I studied in Stamford American for the past two years. I am coming from China and I always went back to China during the break. Even though I am very familiar with the life in Singapore, it is still new and a little bit tough for me to adapt in a new environment since I have a very introverted personality. However, there are two thing that I am really satisfied with UWC. One is the canteen because I had being expected it for a very long time and it didn’t let me down at all. The second is the people here, no matter teachers or students or staffs. Everyone are so easy going that made me feel like becoming a member in this place is something easy to achieve. I already signed up for some activities and services, I hope I can make some new friends from different cultures and be involved into UWC community sooner.