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UNDERTAKING CHALLENGES FOR NEW SKILLS

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The main objective as I undertook this challenge was first being able to express my feelings through one of the music instruments since I found it to be interesting and working effectively.Moreover through this I hope to participate in many more activities even back in my country as I can implement the ideas on musics to the people around me(Specifically in my home church as they have been facing a great challenge with this kind of musical instrument).

It wasn’t really easy to start up this activity as with guitar I have started learning different codes and trying to get better sounds each and everyday.I also had to plan a timetable on when to practice this beside so many other activities and subjects which I am taking.Beside this getting to know how I can arrange and move around my fingers all over was a great challenge and I am trying my best to go through it and learn more and more (below this is a picture of mine as I was practising).And I trust at the end of this I will gain something which is very effective and can not be taken out of me if I keep doing it often.

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HOW TO STAND FOR OTHERS EFFECTIVELY FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT

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Hello’

I would like to speak a bit on the fruitful chance  and a nice opportunity which I will never forget –

Standing in Student voice on my behalf of my Mentor Class discussing  with others over issues which can make us be responsible students and fruitful youths of the society as whole.And how it has shaped my awareness of My talent as a leader.Also assisted a lot in its improvement and creating new valuable skills.

“A LEADER IS  THERE TO SERVE RATHER THAN TO BE SERVED”

Thank you.

 

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Tampines minds-Global Point of view

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Well I was so surprised by the care and concern on the disabled people  for the first time .I really find it very helpful and assisting  to my side as to this point I recognise the importance of taking care and giving training to this kind of people .

 

I became very aware of this after visiting the two groups of clients .The first one was the first year class and the second one were the ones who have been  in the center for two to three years.I could make a huge difference on how active they are and the difference in their communicating skills.So this issue is so significant because it helps mostly this disabled people to be able to express their talents and feelings.And moreover experience the things happening in the world and not sitting only on their own throughout the day.    . I also feel my readiness  to  to join up this service has helped a lot .Since in this service I feel that it is easier to work with the clients as a group and not as a person a alone.So I feel my presence in this service make the people with disabilities feel loved and cared also.I really feel if this people are trained and cared for they can come out with outstanding life like this(on the image below )at some point in their lives.

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IFP- Communication Skills talent and development

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Sometimes treasuring your present moments can give you happiness rather than waiting for the moment to become a history and then treasure from then only.

I adored most of the activities which we performed in the session this week as one of it was:Trying to convey a message without talking  only by statues.I learnt how this can be effective in some cases and where other arts like Poems or songs or dramas can act effectively.And from this I got a wide range of view on what I should consider as a peace builder or a facilitator of anything around my society and see what people like and respect.

Moreover most effective I just realised that I have  good communication skills through this activity which we did. A box talk to my fellows during this week’s session on …what I am passionate about .(I have attached a photo of this: how I felt sitting infront of my fellows)   which I can improve it more more by having popular conversations with my peers.And this can help me in conducting different meetings which can enable others understand what is meant to be delivered at the time. 

 

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CULTURAMA

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How beautiful is it to adore my culture,

I was first very excited when I heard of this activity which promotes different cultures but more specifically one of my own African cultures.I did several rehearsals for different cultural dances and I  really didn’t expect to be accepted in any of them since I had never done any activity which was involving dancing only, so I found this to be a great challenge that I needed to overcome and get through it by working hard to achieve the main goal, which is, standing up  in front of the multitude and showing up all the skills I have developed by  participating in this activity . Most of all I planned to give full commitment to this activity and share all my ideas on what knew about all traditional dances, that  I ever looked at in different events in my home country.Afterwards, I trust that this will be such a great memorial act that will also be a proper way of celebrating and passing different values of different cultures and traditions to the society around.

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THANKS

 

 

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NETBALL SPORTS (how to see the value of sports)

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Welcome to this interesting experience of trying out super organized sports…which I have never experienced in my life.

Well, just a short how I got into this was just through having a conversation with my house parents concerning which sport I am interested with.I never knew if they do value this much as I got the opportunity of attending both training and matches.I think this is going to help me develop a lot in all sports activities and figure out how to gain from any sport I am involved with.

Mainly in planning how to achieve the best of this opportunity   of participating in this sport,  I kept little self-associated rules for  my own like: must attend all sessions and miss only when necessary, try hard to follow up with the rules and try every single activity which is brought up, moreover persevering a lot especially never giving up in things like loosing in a match.So after the first few weeks, I really found it a challenge attending the training every Friday and a Match every Monday.But since I found this activity so interesting and really gives me a chance to do different exercises that hugely contribute to my own health.Then I decided to give time for it and pay attention to whatever we are instructed to do and participate in every single exercise by being there on time.With this I find myself doing the activity with optimistic because I really feel the impact which I can get from it and different skills that I can develop

Also at the end I aim at being able of socialising with everyone beside the differences.Which has been among the great challenges I face since the friends I go with for training are from one country and they could always prefer to speak on their own language this means most of the times I was less involved in their conversations.But I trust reminding them time after time and just speaking of the UWC values can help and change the situation as time goes.So instead of just keeping quiet I speak up and tell them so that they can be aware of what they are doing.

The attached image was for the first training trying to smile after being so exhausted,(showing perseverance no matter how hard it’s going to be.)

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IFP -How to be a peacebuilder

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Today I have an amazing experience to share with you, try to take your time picking any you  good point from it

Well, today we performed several activities in during the IFP session, but I will just tell one of it which happened as follows.We had to watch a movie which was about 8minutes long approximately.I really found it very tough to understand all the things at the beginning but what helped was the act of doing it as a team which was suggested by the teachers who were guiding us through.And finally came up with all the ideas on what A PEACE BUILDER should analyze before trying to make peace in any society.(You can view some of this from the attached picture))

Moreover, I have really learned a lot from IFP on how to focus on global issues and try to focus on the things going on the world too, which had never been my inbuilt habit but rather occasionally only after a special event or only after getting to hear things happening in a certain place that could have effect on me..But because of participating in this service several days I found myself trying to visit news sites like BBC News at least once a week and through this, I could be part of it by thinking of various potential issues going on in various places in the world example currently I just heard of  countries like Myanmar and Syria because of their religious and leadership issues,This made me value the fact  that I am at a place which is full of peace and I  trust   it can also be through raising awareness and different donations which could help these people  go through this  hard situations .And I appreciate that through IFP we get to raise this awareness to most of the people.

THANKS .

ALWAYS TRY TO HAVE POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS EVERYTHING YOU FACE.

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Tampines Minds

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Welcome to the Tampines Minds Activity

Well this community mainly deals with supporting the disabled people including children, adults and elders so as to value their presence in the society.

This support is very important in our society since it helps promoting the abilities  which are present or within the physical and mentally disabled people.

They also help the people with intellectual disabilities participate in  social development in different range of activities.This partners mostly provide this help through educating and  supporting this people financially .

I am really proud to be part of this community as I trust that it will help me out how to live with different people, with different abilities and disabilities also.While helping them feel like everybody else in the society.You can check this link also for the idea of how they run the activity through dancing and other activities.Through this I realised how much the disabled can be valued .And I got a strong feeling of raising awareness back in my home country from the skills which I hope to get from this.Through working with other people who are willing to raise this awareness.

 

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Initiative For Peace-Reflections

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Welcome to this exciting experience of mine from the IFP  conference I was involved in.

Mainly it is my first here don’t mind please if things are a bit not organized.Well we had an IFP conference in Dover Campus at the end of previous week .And I experienced something which helped me recognise the ethics and consequences which we are to face while participating some of the activities in CAS.

We had several talks on Discrimination,Identity,Media and Violence.I will talk more about the Discrimination session which we had a task to demonstrate how discrimination happens in our society and one of my group had to show how racial discrimination occurs in our society.I was of course the only of a different race from the others so I had to stand for  the part where I had to be discriminated for the mission to be accomplished.From this I learn that there are people who are really facing lots of problems and such discriminative actions but no one is there to help them raise their voices .But I  trust as a group of youths doing such a program then we can be the one helping such kind of people through what they are facing.Also I realized that we have to face some challenges in accomplishing the activities which are going to help me grow in different areas.

I pleasure such moments when I get new experiences in my life.

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