Fun Quote: "If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write (Martin Luther)"
This year has been a very busy year! I'm not in the Good Shepherd's Committee but I did two articles on them this past semester and it was a lot of fun! Mostly I don't get to do extracurricular work due to my already heavy schedule and my inability to really meet and speak with students. However this time, I was able to find out the details of the trips and the activities and the fundraising with the help of Nacha, Bouquet, Wow-Wow, and Ms Nicole. While English is my area of talent, I'm not used to writing actual articles. I'm used to writing long structured essays as opposed to these shorter more free-form articles. As a non-member of the committee, I did not experience many of the activities that they did so I was unable to quite fully understand their words, ideas, and goals. I could understand the whys, the hows, and the whats but I wasn't quite able to feel what they did. Thus this article was a challenge in my capability. It was a challenge to my focus in school. Moreover, it was fun! It was fun trying to figure out the ins and outs with the structure and arrange my mindset to be more free (as opposed to the order that is more common) like the activity itself. The first was an article on what the Good Shepherd Committee was and what they did and what they had planned. The second was a summary of their year.
Ms Nicole: thank you for encouraging me in this. I really enjoyed it and it was a good learning experience for me. I found out I was strong in English but that I need to be more free form in most of life - to be more spontaneous - instead of the order and structure that I always seek. Bouquet, Nacha, Wow-Wow: thank you for collaborating with me this semester. I know it must have been hard since I couldn't meet you and these things are hard to describe in person. Now I can understand how to help these orphan children. After all when you think of orphanages, you think of donating objects or food or money but you never think of enabling them in education and social interaction. The GS committee actions really opened my eyes to helping these children. I, as an RIS Student, value my education and my luxuries very much. I cannot even think of being denied an education. I cannot think of people denied knowledge that will make their future. Part of the reason I wanted to write the second article was because I wanted to show the rest of my fellow students that this is important. We can't just brush this off because there are thousands of such children in the world. We should help the few we can because they can and will change the world themselves. We should help and they will help and this cycle of helping will keep going. It's only now that I remember: we are one world and we are one people.
This year has been a very busy year! I'm not in the Good Shepherd's Committee but I did two articles on them this past semester and it was a lot of fun! Mostly I don't get to do extracurricular work due to my already heavy schedule and my inability to really meet and speak with students. However this time, I was able to find out the details of the trips and the activities and the fundraising with the help of Nacha, Bouquet, Wow-Wow, and Ms Nicole. While English is my area of talent, I'm not used to writing actual articles. I'm used to writing long structured essays as opposed to these shorter more free-form articles. As a non-member of the committee, I did not experience many of the activities that they did so I was unable to quite fully understand their words, ideas, and goals. I could understand the whys, the hows, and the whats but I wasn't quite able to feel what they did. Thus this article was a challenge in my capability. It was a challenge to my focus in school. Moreover, it was fun! It was fun trying to figure out the ins and outs with the structure and arrange my mindset to be more free (as opposed to the order that is more common) like the activity itself. The first was an article on what the Good Shepherd Committee was and what they did and what they had planned. The second was a summary of their year.
Ms Nicole: thank you for encouraging me in this. I really enjoyed it and it was a good learning experience for me. I found out I was strong in English but that I need to be more free form in most of life - to be more spontaneous - instead of the order and structure that I always seek. Bouquet, Nacha, Wow-Wow: thank you for collaborating with me this semester. I know it must have been hard since I couldn't meet you and these things are hard to describe in person. Now I can understand how to help these orphan children. After all when you think of orphanages, you think of donating objects or food or money but you never think of enabling them in education and social interaction. The GS committee actions really opened my eyes to helping these children. I, as an RIS Student, value my education and my luxuries very much. I cannot even think of being denied an education. I cannot think of people denied knowledge that will make their future. Part of the reason I wanted to write the second article was because I wanted to show the rest of my fellow students that this is important. We can't just brush this off because there are thousands of such children in the world. We should help the few we can because they can and will change the world themselves. We should help and they will help and this cycle of helping will keep going. It's only now that I remember: we are one world and we are one people.
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