LO6 – Global Issue

In the first session of Jakart Street Kids Global Concern group, I learned more about the issue of street kids and recycling at a higher level of analysis. I learn the significance of this issue but also realized that because of so much work the issue of street kids in Jakarta has gotten so much better in the last few years. This may be a significant issue because there are several kids living in the streets with no income and food. This does not meet the SDG (sustainable development goals) and needs to be fixed. Furthrmore, my actions in this group both have a positive and negative impact. My positive impacts may be that I helped out and did fundraisers in order to promote recyclable products and money to help the kids out in Jakarta. However, me not recycling waste materials can also have a negative impact as they could have been used as an opportunity with JSK. My eyes have been opened with this experience. I think that I should take on a role in the future to be more helpful internally within the service. I think that if I was a logistics officer, I could assist run the team more effectively.

LO3 – Initiative

I was planning to go with a 6 man group to the Himalayas of South Asia. We were planning to go to Rishikesh, India. It is well known for being near the source of the Ganges River and we are planning to go rafting. We were planning for rafting but our plans were progressively changing which I didn’t think would happen. We eventually had a plan to camp, hike, raft, and see the local culture. We faced some difficulties in trying to arrange what was going to happen with the providers and trying to get a solid plan. We eventually overcame this when we had made sure to be effective communicators and emailed them on a daily basis. Lastly, because of the unfortunate COVID-19 virus, we are not able to go on this trip but instead, have a week to write our EE. This was heavily unexpected and had to change our response to our plans. I plan on using this week effectively to knock out 4000 words for my EE.

Online learning is a very new different setting for many people and I believe that it will take some time to adapt. I also believe that this is a good time to learn new things and try to utilize this setting that we are living in. I believe this setting allows some students to be freer and have the ability to learn better. I also feel as if this is a productive way to learn as we cannot waste time and must all be engaged. However, there may be challenges such as sitting down in one place for a long period (the whole day) of time especially in front of the computer with no change of scenery it can be difficult to concentrate for a long period of time. This, especially for a couple of months, can be challenging but I believe I will eventually adapt to it. Furthermore, other challenges are technical issues whether that be if the student has a bad online connection or the teacher has an online connection, this can be quite disrupting in a classroom environment. Lastly, for especially somebody like me I have my own problems at home which do not help to contribute a learning environment (construction site) outside of my house. Also it can be hard to ask teachers for feedback on online class.