JSK #4

LO1-Identify their own strengths and develop areas for growth.

LO6-Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance.

Throughout my time participating in the Jakarta Street Kids GC since Grade 10, I have gained an insightful perspective. We have many conversations in the GC about the real Jakarta Street Kids, brainstorming ideas about how to help them, and overtime this helped to remind me that I am very lucky to live in Singapore and there are a lot of serious and more intense problems going on around the world as compared to mine. The JSK experience has indirectly caused me to realize that actually I take quite a lot of things for granted.  The fact that I was born in such a safe country, and am able to attend such a great school to have opportunities for myself, I am almost obligated to help those around me to the best that I can, just purely for the fact that I am fortunate enough to have time for.

I have also learned more about myself in this GC and my abilities in creative thinking. Being the enterprise officer as well as the director for our film project, I received quite a positive reception from my classmates which have allowed me to identify some of my strengths which would be useful to know in the future. I also have quite a lot of work to be done though, as I learned from being an enterprise officer that it was quite challenging forcing inspiration to come. Because usually when I am not on a deadline, ideas come to me naturally and I am able to implement them in work, however, when it becomes on a schedule, for example with the JSK GC we had to think of product ideas before the fund raiser event at the end of the year, there are some practices that I can work on to be able to consistently think of ideas which may be useful if I get the hang of.