Thanks for visiting again!!
I have a video here again because I think I can give a better picture verbally than through writings..Enjoy hearing about my experience.
CLICK HERE FOR THE REFLECTION VIDEO
Below are some photos that mean a lot to me.
Thanks for visiting again!!
I have a video here again because I think I can give a better picture verbally than through writings..Enjoy hearing about my experience.
CLICK HERE FOR THE REFLECTION VIDEO
Below are some photos that mean a lot to me.
Welcome again !!
This is what we save!!
Hello Again,
Thanks for visiting my blog again. This is just a short wrap up of how my Culturama experience ended and what I got out of it.
Link to the reflection video is HERE
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Welcome to my pre-post about project week, there is a lot to share…I am sorry that there will be a lot of writings here please bare with me. Starting with our planning as I said in the previous video it wasn’t that easy but cooperation and collaboration was a great strategy for reaching the success and memories that I will be reflecting in this post First of all perseverance was one of the strategies /characteristics that made us as a group successful. To mention a few; the second day of our hiking was a really difficult day as it was raining and going down the steep hill wasn’t that easy. But by encouraging each other and activating we did it at last and we were proud of choosing to step out of our comfort zone and actually facing the different challenges. In addition to that, I also feel that the collaboration skills that we had made a huge difference in every single activity that we did. There were different changes that we had to make during the week, which would really be crucial and might have gone wrong if we weren’t cooperative enough in reaching the proper decision. There were also other emergencies that happened; like I got an allergic reaction all over sudden that I had never really experienced before, which was quite shocking but through the assistance of other members of our group in communicating with ISOS I could make it through. There were also differences in cultures between members of our group but we tried to work well in understanding each other and coping up with everything. Above all Project, Week has been an amazing experience where we got the chance to go and explore the world and immerse ourselves in different new cultures which have made me feel more matured and I have opened my eyes and mind more and more.
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short video of the most challenging part to me!
Thanks again for being around to see a short description of how my learning carries on.This may not be necessarily reflecting on a specific time here at school but it’s an achievement that has come through proper planning and engagement throughout all energy I have been giving while having a dancing session with the disabled members of the local community from Tampines Minds.
This happened during the previous weekend when I was walking around Tampines Mall with one of my friends and we happened to sit down in one restaurant to eat.While we were waiting for our food I saw one of the clients sitting with his relative or guardian if I am not mistaken.And in my mind, I thought there was no need of going by to say hello thinking that he might not be able to remember who I am.Surprisingly, after they finished eating before leaving he came by to the table that my friend and I were seating and he said Hello to me and also he tried to give signs to the guardian that we normally dance with them at our school.
What made me find a deep meaning in this is that I realized finally we just don’t give them only one-time happiness through dancing with them for 30-40 min but it carries on as they share with anybody around them in specific ways. This has been a great motivation to me especially at the times that I doubted whether what we are giving them is helpful or not and this was a result of perseverance and trying my best to find the meaning in it instead of giving up.Moreover, this gave a big picture how I can get involved in a local community anywhere around the world without necessarily being near my home place or in my country.
I have also attached some photos that we happened to have during dancing sessions.
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Being a student at any school is possible especially when one’s parents or guardians are capable of providing this.
One thing that attracted me to start the complicated and overwhelming process of finding a chance to be one of these amazing UWC communities that I had heard about it from my cousin sister together with her friends.There had also been several complaints on discrimination issues in various schools outside Africa towards African kids.This was also among the major concerns that my parents had when I was making the decision of leaving my country to come and study outside of Africa.I assured my parents that I believe I am never going to be under such overwhelming cases/issues as I was told by my cousin sister and from other UWC Alumni that I ever met through my cousin sister.Before I came here I also had a lot of doubts about how UWC schools manage to have this good reputation of a non-discriminative society.
Coming to a realization after being around UWCSEA, I then realized that having different Focus Groups such as Focus Africa and different equality groups play a major role in achieving this unique characteristic besides the strict rules that are to be abided by every member of the society.
With this, I have been able to freely participate in different activities with the equal chance to all other students in the school.Besides the fact that it was difficult to get along with a new community at the beginning but these different activities such as sports, services and family events have been a great experience that has assisted in making my social life happier.
I have also attached a link below to my blog post that shows my learning process at UWCSEA together with all activities that have been participating in including Focus Africa.
When and How do we find complete meaning and importance in skills that we have?
In response to this question that I have been asking myself for a long time, IFP Cambodia has turned out to be one of the most direct activities that have helped me a lot in finding the answer to this.
Shortly IFP-Cambodia is a student lead activity that was started by one student who graduated from UWCSEA-East in the year 2017.As inspired by the activities we run in school every Tuesday training to become Peace builders through bringing youths from different places to discuss issues of their own interests.This year we had a huge assistance from Grade 12 students together with many other people who reached out to help from Financial to material help which made this conference successful in its own way.We had different roles assigned and I assisted a lot with conference planning, choosing what topics we are going to discuss and what activities we are going to run.Through this, I learned how to initiate and plan different activities that can be presented in front of a large group of people with meaning.
Moreover, I wouldn’t have done this all alone a great motivation and assistance that we had as members of the group made the conference to become a successful one as the Delegates gave us the response on the connections they could make with other people from other countries and skills that they achieved from this conference.We also did service through visiting some of the schools in Cambodia for a day, besides the fact that I wasn’t satisfied by the fact that we gave the children instant happiness and we never showed up again.It was the most memorable experience to me on how they received us and little things that we taught and left them with.
We had a planner with a different range of activities and different photos taken during the events I have also attached them here.
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