Today is our Signature and Emma Artist Day at Emma, and I just finished my presentation this morning! The presentation went pretty well; I was a little nervous at the start, but my audiences were very engage and nice, so I felt more comfortable standing in front of them. I added more informations to the slides that what I planned to do. At the end of my presentation, a student' parent came up and talked to me about the topic and he also complimented on my presentation skills, which made my days. After my presentation, I felt really proud of myself and this project. I learnt that what I am doing is very worthwide for everyone.
Thank you, Prim
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Since our signature project is at the end of this month, my goal for May is to prepare for the presentation. I started with writing my script and creating my slides. I had two mock presentations with Mr. Calos, and my first mock went by pretty rough because I wasn't sure about how much information I should put into the slides. I ended with only a three minutes long presentation, which got both me and Mr. Calos a little worried about my presentation. For my second mock, I had a little bit more slides, and I talked a little slower, but I still ended up with only six minutes. After the presentation, I was forced to work really hard to talk slower than what I was used to. I practiced presenting with my friends every night, so I can be more comfortable with my speech.
My goal this month is to practice my presentation skill with my friends because Signature is approaching really fast. I also planned to finished my first draft for the slides show this weekend, so I can have more time to edit it. Another task that I hope I could accomplish is to read at least one more book that is related to the topic of refugee and displaced people. I'm think about the book called A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming because I want to learn more about Syrian Refugee and Syria Civil War.
This month is the last full month for my signature project, so my main goal is to finish my educational blog that would help educate everyone about the Myanmar refugee and the refugee around the world. Another goal for this month is to create and finish my Signature slide show that I will be using for my presentation during Grandparents day at Emma next month. I would love to put as much informations about the refugee crisis and my experiences with the Signature programs. I want people who come to watch my presentation to be able to connect with my ideas and understand the real issues behind the refugee crisis. Right now, I'm also planning to put a video of me talking through my powerpoint about refugee crisis on to my blog, so students in Thailand can have an easier access toward the lesson.
This is a photo I took at Tumhin Displaced People Camp. Last Sunday, I had a chance to visit a Monk School in Chacherngsaw, which is a province in Thailand. I held 2 sections of my presentation about refugee, each class is full of 25 monk students from the age of 8-17. My presentation is about 20 minutes long with a fifteen minutes Q&A session and games. My presentation is in both English and Thai because I wanted to teach the monks different terms that are related to the topic. Most of the monks were engaged during the Q&A, which I explained to them about my Signature projects. The most challenging part of this presentation is the Thai Vocabulary that I need to use with the monk because in our country there are specific words and gesture that we are allow to use with monks. As I mentioned in the last post, this month my main focus is going to be preparing for presentation that I would be doing during spring break. I planned to include some more activities, so the listeners will be more engage in my presentation. Also, I just recieved a book called The Refugees from my friends, and the book was written by Viet Thanh Nguyen who is a Vietnamese refugee in America. Even though, the book is not about the Myanmar refugee, but I think it would be interesting for me to learn about another country situations and issues and how the citizens of the country dealt with the government/military force. Currently, I'm trying to contact more schools in Thailand to see if it's possible for me to do the presentation for them because I think the lesson would be worthwhile for kids of all ages.
This month, my goal is to send a video of me explaining a presentation about Rohingya refugees to two schools as a trail. I had sent my video and powerpoint to two primary school last two weeks, and I had received many valuable feedbacks from the schools. My plan for next month is to improve my powerpoint and presentation skill because I am going to go to a monk school in Bangkok to present my idea during spring break, and this would be my first chance to be able to spread the knowledge to Thai people directly, not only through a virtual video. I chose to go to a Buddhist monk school because I think that it is important to create a correct understanding on the subject for the monks. The young Buddhist monk is the next generation that would need to deal with this problem, and I strongly believe that they can create a good relationship and understanding between Buddhist and Muslim.
This month, my focus is to finish at least half of my signature project, and my main goal is to do the presentations to Thai students. After talking to the schools in the school, I decided to create a video of me explaining the refugee crisis in general and the Myanmar displaced people in Thailand. I just finished the presentation last week, and my plan is to send the video to the schools and ask them for some feedbacks from the students. i'm also working on a powerpoint that would explain refugee crisis, but it would be in Thai because one of the school requested the presentation in Thai. I'm also planning to write another blog post about my trip to Myanmar last winter break.
Last December, I had a chance to visit Myanmar for the first time in my life, and it was an unforgettable experience. I planned to stayed in Myanmar for five days, and I visited four cities: Mandalay, Bagan, Inle, and Yangon.
When I arrived at Mandalay International Airport, I was greeted with a Myanmar tour guide; he was wearing a traditional longyi like everyone in the airport. Throughout the first three days, I visited multiple temples and national parks. I did not get a chance to really see the local life in the country. On my third day, our group traveled from Mandalay to Bagan, and I got a chance to see the local villages for the first time. While we were driving through the rocky highway, our tour guide stopped the van and bring two women on to the van. He told us that they are school teachers and that their school are around one hour away from their houses. Normally, these school teachers would need to walk to their school, but on a fortunate day some drivers would pick them up. After hearing the story, I offered the seat next to me to the school teacher, the I saw the flipflop she was wearing. It's an old flip flop, which was covered with dust and sand. I realized that what I saw during our first three days was just the appearance that the government wants tourists to see, but these school teachers are the reality. After sending the teachers off at their school, we continued on our journey to Bagan. When we got closer to the city, there is a group of people standing in front of the street, and they are holding the red flag, then our tour guide stop the engine and paid some red bills to the local people. At first I didn't know what was going on, so I asked my tour guide. He told he that in Myanmar you need to pay money to pass a local road. he also said that if we don't pay, then there would be a fight. At Bagan, there are many local checkpoints that we need to pay money to go through; our tour guide said that even the Myanmar people need to pay to get into some temples. On the next day, I traveled to Inle by the country local airline called Air KBZ, which has the same owner with one of Myanmar biggest bank. When I arrived at Inle, I met with my dad colleague from college. He worked as an accountant for one of the muslim tribe that lived there. He took us to the mountain where he lived. The village is very peaceful and beautiful. I asked him if there had been conflict going on or not, and he told me that "normally there's not a lot of conflict, and people just live their normal life if the government doesn't send people here." On my last day, I flew into Yangon, which used to be Myanmar capital city. I was greeted with a totally different custom and dynamics. The city is full of vibrant light and skyscraper. Even though there are many tall buildings, but if you look closer you can see that the buildings are really old. The buildings had not be renovated, and this might be bacause the city is not the capital anymore. (the government and military only stay in the capital) My goal this month is to write an articles on my journal about the nutrition and hygienic in the Displaced Persons Camp I visited. I also did some research on the topics by talking to my mentor when I visited Thailand during my winter break. I learned that most of the houses at Tum Hin Camp have access to clean water, but sometime they need to depend on rain water if it is during drought season. Moreover, the displaced people also have access to the local hospital in the area. Most of the time, the government would bring in doctors from the capitals. When I visited the camp, I went to their grocery store, which is run by the people in the camp. The grocery store has all kind of food and snacks for them to chooses from. My mentor said that normally the government tries to limit the amount of Thai snacks that they can buy and sell in the camp because the government believes that snacks are unnecessary and not good for the people's health.
I also emailed and visited three potential schools that I will be visiting to give my presentations about my projects. |
AuthorI AM PRIM AND I AM CURRENTLY A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL WHO'S INTERESTED IN HUMANITARIAN ISSUE Archives
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