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.