Community Service: Father Ray's Day Care

The day starts with the whole 8th grade getting ready to head to the Montri Buses. As we got on and ready to depart I forgot to bring stuff to do since its a 2 hour ride. So I tried sleeping which didn't work since everyone was so hyped up. The whole point of the trip was community service, I got that so I ended up looking out the window the whole time. Then later I fell asleep due to hunger. When we got to our destination, we had to be in groups. Apparently, the girls overcame us since they were so little of us and so much of them. We were expected to act like caring people and don't leave anyone out. After we came to our zone for 40 minutes, there were 5 boys and I think 7 girls? I had to volunteer to go with 3 girls because this happened last year so I don't really mind. We played with the kids and such which I think was fun but when the REAL community service came, my muscles ached for the weekends. We had to go to the storage and reorganize the shelves of food to their rightful place. I even got on the forklift but still we had to put some boxes up there. But the thing that matters the most is that you know that by doing a little thing, you already helped the kids. Then we went to eat at the restaurant, the food was ok. Then back to school with the 2 hour ride. It was fun helping and playing with the kids and I enjoyed it.

Napoléon le parc à thème (Napoleon Theme Park)

         France has decided to build a theme park based on the well-known french leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. You can read the article here: Napoleon.... the theme park  But the thing is that will this and how would this help people learn and appreciate history? Well for starters, people don't like to listen in a classroom and hear the professor or the educator lecture them. They want other type of teaching devices, for example, videos. I watch the history channel during my free-time. But I'm mostly interested in World Wars but that's not the topic here. Also in the blueprints of the theme park, there was battle re-enactment. I think that is very very helpful to people trying to enjoy the park or just came to learn the basic background knowledge.

        When people actually go and enjoy something, they learn something from it. Like if you play video games and you enjoy it, you learn how to...... . If you enjoy hacking and computing (like me), you learn something because you want to expand what you just experienced. So for instance, a random french dude goes to the park. He then heads to the Bastille zone, and did a little sight-seeing around it. Then he learns that there are battle re-enactment and enjoyed seeing it the battle. He might want to learn what happens after that battle and expands what he just learned.

        So, I would like to go to the theme park anyway. Just to have fun.

     

       
     

Courage; From ember to blazing flames

Courage starts out something small like a ember. Then in life as you stand up for someone or something, that ember grows and grows. Yes, courage can develop in life but only by your actions. You cannot except courage to be develop if you aren't doing anything. There are many times of courage, for example, social courage, mental courage, physical courage, intellectual courage, moral courage, and emotional courage. Courage can be developed by showing action in each category. An ember starts small like one single act of courage, shy and scared. If you show courage once and doesn't show it again, its like dousing the ember. But if you keep showing more and more courage, its like give that small ember, wood. You want it to develop into something else. With more and more acts of courage, that small ember will soon be developed into blazing flames shining in the night. Yet, you cannot just leave it alone. You might have a blazing fire inside but every fire will be doused without any attention. Its like a forest fire, forest fire doesn't last throughout the ages. They die slowly. I recently saw on the news a really old man who had polio. He was on Channel 3 Thai News yesterday. When he was a child, he didn't have polio but when his parent found out that he did, his parent threw him away. He has shown great acts of physical courage and social courage. He needs a stick to walk and he couldn't talk for polio paralyzed him. So he has a translator. But still he tried to speak and he doesn't care what others thought of him. That shows great act of physical courage (needing a stick to walk) and social courage (trying to speak even though he can't). Yet, in his paralyzed state, he has donated 1 million baht to a temple. He asks for money when he can and others feel sad for him. I think this man should deserve some respect. So at the end, courage is everywhere, but you don't really notice it. Others do.

American Revolution: Patriots or Terrorist??

          In the american revolution many acts, or laws, were passed to benefit the mother country or England herself. The colonist had no voice in the parliament at all because they had no representative to represent them but still England didn't allow the colonist to join in due to them in favor of VIRTUAL representation.

          So what did the colonist do? They started a group called the sons of liberty to fight against the British and its acts. They would boycott British customs and beat-up taxation officers. They were still loyal but this was just unreasonable.

           An example of something like this would be the current violence in Damascus, Syria. A group of rebels (Arab League) are rioting due to their current leader, President Bashar al-Assad. The people their wants their president to stop violence against civilians, free political detainees, remove tanks and weapons from cities, and allow outsiders, including the international news media, to travel freely in Syria. [For more information; http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/28/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=wo_c1] Even though some people call these terrorist, basically those people are Loyalists, people also call them heros (*cough* *cough* patriots *cough*).
        
            So, would they be classified as patriots or terrorists? From my perspective they would be classified as PATRIOTS. They fought for their rights and their demand for equality. If they were terrorist, they would have one leader in charge of everything. But the sons of liberty didn't. They came together and discuss plans even without talking together they still know what to do. They were brave and stand up toward an opposition with weapons and highly-trained soldiers while they had nothing yet they made due to their supplies. If you think they would be terrorist then I think you would be on the British perspective.

Studying for the Math test.....or really?

          Tomorrow was the big day. Chapter 5 math test, 6 sections and it’s about slope and perpendicular lines. I was on my ends with this test. If I failed, I’ve probably failed math. If I succeed, I would be playing Battlefield 3 all afternoon. Normal people would be studying their butts off. But instead I was playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare the whole afternoon plus the evening. Not a real helpful way to prepare for a test, isn’t it? I thought I would relax some stress off if I just relax for a while. So I did. Then I thought about what would happen if I failed this test. So I started opening my book and start cracking on some questions. But if those who thought I would actually start studying……well I did……while playing Call of Duty. Later, I decided that I should ACTUALLY start studying. That was later delayed because my friend invited me to play Starcraft. So I joined him, but the game was sooooooo long. By the time we were done, I had dinner then that’s when I started studying for a few minutes. My friend came in again to ask me to play Minecraft, but I shooed him away and went back to studying. A 1 hour or so passed away. To me it felt like it was a million years. At last I did it. That leaves 1 hour left. I was about to finish up when my friend came it and screamed, “CCCCCCOOOOOUUUUNNNNNNTTTTTEEEERERRR-SSSSSTTTTTRRRRRRIIIIIIIKKKKKKEEEEEEE!!!!!” (Counter-Strike). I was freaked out that I suddenly dropped the book right on to the floor. And it was my Algebra book, big and heavy. I was puzzled at first and then later he wanted me to play CS with him since he had nothing to do. I told him to go read his online manga (Japanese comics) and leave me it peace. Well he did……but every 10 minutes, he would come into my room and bother me. So I just ignored him and play halo instead. But of course he joined the room I was in (I was trying to get used to every single map in multiplayer). He kept shooting me which was somewhat annoying so I left and went back to studying. Then went night-time came, he was watching some random series. So I just went to sleep. (If you’re wondering why I see my friend at night too, my house is flooded and his house is also flooded so he living in his dad’s office which was my dad’s office too and I’m living there too) Before dawn broke, I woke up since my dad’s office is somewhat far away from the school. All I ate was a bowl of cold milk and cereal. I got on the van and it drove off to school. The van trip was kinda smooth. Once I arrived at school, I studied and taught some people before the test. I was so sure about the test but when the test came….. geez….. I think I got a B- on it.

Thailand's biggest flood: New ideas of past-time

    As we all know, this has been one of the worst flood on the past 50 years. No other flood can compare to this. Even I, the author of this current blog post is affected by the flood. I had to stay in my dad's office typing up this blog after finding out that I had to do this. So I was supposed to talk about new ideas to invent for fun or needed during this current crisis. Well one there is no electricity. Why? Because they had to shut it down in order to prevent injures with electro-shocks. But one idea for past time would be take any floating bottles from the flood (first you have to clean it if you have running water) then try to make a small boat out of it and put it in the flood with your friend's boat, too. You can also use those bottle boats to see who will be the last one to sink. One thing that you should never do in this type of flood is play in the water or GO into the water. Trash may be floating under the flood like sharp glass shards from beer bottles. Those can inflict with a wound then plus the unsanitary water infecting the wound. So also wear your shoes when walking in the flood if you have too. Look into the water too and look out for glass shards. But back to the main topic, you can also try with some people make a bridge with some unused supply like wood and some water tanks. I seen some really neat one plank wooden bridge supported by some water tanks. Now onto the needed for the flood. Before you ever leave your house to go to a evacution camp or anything you might need these following items. Believe me, you will need them:

-2-3 water bottles
-Your phone + your phone charger (you may want to tell your relatives or friend about your current status
-Any kind protective bag to put your phone inside
-Any kind of portable game system (has to be small like a psp) in case you have nothing to do
-4-5 days worth of clothing
-1-2 books
-Atleast some rations
-Money
and....
-whatever that is extremely valuable to you; leavin at your flooded home may let it vurnable to theft.
   Never bring more than 3 bags with you. This will cause an overload and your more likely to fall right into the flood because of the weight. Don't think that your strong and think you can carry than much because the flood also slows down your movement. Bring what is only required. Not your prized knick-knack collection. That is useless for your survival

If you have any suggestion or comment, please feel free to leave it below. Thank you for your time.

Somewhat Flood Related Topic

        Day 10 of my life living in the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (my dad's office on the 4th floor). 2 weeks ago, I was living in my house in Pathum Thani. People were making sand-bags to prevent the imminent flood but little did they realized that all they hard work will go to waste. My mom stayed up all night looking outside and she said that the water came up from the ground. I woke up, well actually my mom woke me up, to evacuate. We have supplies and water to last for some time but we left due to when the flood gets too high and the neighborhood cuts the electricity. Many people had a swell October break. My October break was spent trying to get away from the flood. Breaks were meant for relaxation. I had NO relaxation in that week AT ALL! When the school closed for another week (to Oct 31) I thought I could get some relaxation. But instead NO I had homework here as a close friend. The I got buried under MORE homework. Saturday and Sunday were no good. My mom was making me study. Then today I checked Moodle, Edline, and Ms. Torie Website and there it is. A towering monument of homework. I tried looking up to find the top which I completely can't see. There should be an award for the teacher that gives out the most homework. That award will probably go to my Japanese teacher, Megumi Sensei. 2 days, Eiffel tower size homework. This probably had nothing to do with the flood but just some ranting, heck its related to me and how the flood affect my life, right? So back to talking about the flood. My dad apparently went to the Philippines and wasn't here when the flood strike my house which was a lighten burden since then we have only 3 people. Well not exactly. There was an extra 3 people. They were my mom's friend's family. My back was bloody (British slang) hurting when we finally got out and away from the flood. I stayed at my grandma's house in Din Daeng which was said to be one of the safest place since it was high. I been to my grandma's house before but never stayed for long. She lives in an old apartment which had some other old people living there too. The old people was always somewhat creepy to me since you need to repeat more than twice and louder every single time 'cause they couldn't hear you. But I think they were just joking around because when they play bingo (I went to watch since I had nothing to do) they can hear perfectly every single number. I think this is good enough since I got other work to do but if I have time I post another one about the impending flood.