Reflection During the past few lessons of CID, I have learnt how to see,think and wonder. Whenever there's a scene or happening, we should observe what's going on or what the people are doing. After that, we should think about the people's feelings and thoughts, and lastly we should wonder and ask ourselves questions. i really enjoyed the lessons during CID. One colour,one symbol, one image Colour: red I chose red as it symbolizes good fortune and joy. Plus, red is found everywhere during Chinese New Year. Symbol: horse Since this year is the year of the horse, I chose horse to represent the symbol . It brings luck and joy to Image:
Reflection: I learnt that we should say out our opinion, we must think carefully before doing something, for example the beggars. If you give them money, you are not helping them, instead you are harming them. The association will think that they can make a living from these beggars and will capture more people to be beggars, and make them beg everyday. If you don't give them money, they will be tortured by the association, and they will have no money to buy necessity. In both ways, the beggars will be harmed. I also learnt that we should see things in other people views.
One Colour, One Symbol, One Image
Colour: Gold I choose gold because it is the colour of success, achievement, triumph and wealth. I hope that i could make an new achievement this new year.
Symbol: Horse I chose horse because it was the year of the horse and horse represent life energy, freedom. Image:
For the past 3 weeks, the lessons for CID I have attended allowed us to voice out our opinions and observation about 2 pictures and our school. I find these lessons fun and I had also learn to widen my perspective by listening to my friends' opinions and thoughts. A lesson I have personally learnt so far in this module is to observe our surroundings. For example, when we were told to write a word that we think describe the school, we could think of the word, but some of us were not able to find evidence to support their answers. I personally think it is because they take the small things that happen in school for granted or did not observe their surroundings.
One Colour, One Symbol, One Image
One colour that I think best describe my feelings and experiences about Chinese New Year is orange. Orange looks a little like red which represents auspicious. Orange is also a bright colour which shows that Chinese New Year is a lively event.
Symbol:It best describes my thought of the upcoming Chinese New Year because this year is the year of the horse and I am looking forward to see how others show it or include it into performances. Image: it best describes my feelings because i look forward and find doing the "捞鱼生" the best and most fun part of Chinese New Year. Personally, I love the crackers and Sashimi.
Poverty in Singapore
So the other day in CID class, we talked about Poverty in Singapore. In such a well-developed country, it's definitely hard to imagine that there are still people who are still living in very poor conditions, but there are. In Singapore, it is highly unlikely that you will find beggars lining the streets or see starving children walking the pavements, scrounging for food. The poor and needy in our society struggle with “relative poverty” —simply defined as that their financial resources fall substantially below what is needed to pay for the necessities of living in Singapore.Due to various factors like health issues and family circumstances, they struggle to survive on a day-to-day basis. Moreover, they are caught in a vicious poverty cycle, with little or no means to make a better life for themselves. Their children are often not able to do better than their parents due to lack of access to knowledge and educational support. For example, the child would quit school to work and supplement the family’s income, simply trying to put food on the table. Here is a video I found regarding this topic:
Photo Challenge
(a) School Spirit
This picture is just a regular picture of the school canteen at lunch time. My focus was not on we RVians usually eat or anything like that.
In RV, whenever it's someone's birthday and the entire class celebrates it by singing happy birthday in the canteen, the rest of the school (Ok, those in the canteen), starts singing along or clapping along. I was really surprise when I first witnessed that sight in 2013, but it gave me the impression that RVians, no matter in which level or what age, are really bonded and united in a special way. Fun fact: When we sing 'Happy Birthday', we sing it in the RV style, where the beat was 2 times quicker than the actual 'Happy Birthday' song. ^^
(b) Happiness
Year 1 Orientation Camp Class Photo
This picture was taken in early 2013, when every single one of us has just joined RVHS and class 1G'13. The 3 days 2 nights camp at school was amazing! All of us had a ton of fun with all the cheering and the games and especially the LCD night! We jumped and danced and sang the night away. It definitely helped up bond. If I'm not wrong, this picture was taken on the 2nd day, when all of us were starting to come out of our shells and be more outgoing.
(c) Fear
Even though we might not literally be afraid of homework, it is definitely reasonable for many students to be afraid of a pile of homework and a busy schedule. (This might not apply to everyone.) After all, I don't think there's anyone who likes to have to be at school for the whole day on a Saturday every week and having to rush through homework on Sundays.
Of course, there's definitely going to be some people who likes to stay busy, but sometimes, I think it's important to spend some quality time on yourself, your hobbies, your friends, and your family. :)
(d) Life
This is a picture of what the school field looks like during CCA timing. Most of the CCAs take place at the field/track, such as Softball Uniform Groups, Cross-Country, and various Sports CCAs.
As RVians, we spend a lot of our time in school Also, it is compulsory for us to have at least 1 CCA (co-curricular activity). Most of us stay back 2-3 times a week for our CCA, and some of us might even have to stay back everyday.
On Tuesdays and Fridays, after we are dismissed at either 2 P.M. or 2.45 P.M., we get ready for our CCA and head to the respective venues at 2.55 as CCA starts at 3 P.M. sharp. CCA usually last for about 2.5-3 hours and we'll get dismissed roughly around 6 P.M.
(From left to right: Isabelle, Clarissa Neo, Alyssa, Yao Hui and Wesley)
Isabelle
During the December holidays last year, besides doing homework , going for cca and training, I went to Bangkok for swimming competition with my swimming club friends. I really like the Thai cuisine especially the tom yam soup and the mango sticky rice! The people there are really friendly and I even made friends with some the Thai swimmers. The most interesting part about my trip to Bangkok was that just outside the hotel that we stayed in was the riot. Many protestors were outside shouting and protesting. I really enjoyed the trip very much and hope to go again.
Clarissa
Over the year-end holidays, I went to Paris and London with my family for a vacation. As we went there in early November, the weather was just transitioning from late fall to early winter, thus it was not very cold and the weather was really comfortable. We stayed in Paris for 3 days before heading to London for another 3 days, then at last going back to Paris for our flight back to Singapore. Overall I had a great time on the trip, we went to the Eiffel Tower, Musée de Louvre, Palace of Versailles,River Seine, shopped on the streets of Montaigne Ave and Champs-Elysées in Paris, while in London, we visited the Windsor Castle and went to Bicester Village, a factory outlet. There is a saying in Paris that when you make a wish as you take the boat trip down River Seine under a particular bridge, your wish would definitely come true.
Returning back to Singapore, I spend the rest of my holidays catching up with my friends, finishing homework, attending dance practices and preparing for the new school year. My grandmother visited Singapore at the end of December, thus I spend quite a lot of quality time with her as well, since I rarely get to see her as she lives in China.
I enjoyed my December holidays really well, and I hope that soon, I'll be able to visit Paris and London again.
Alyssa
During the holidays, I was mainly in Singapore. I had Floorball training twice a week until the first week of December. In November, my uncle held his wedding at home and the whole family helped with the preparation. We spent the whole morning decorating the place and our house. It was quite a busy day but I had lots of fun.
I went to Gold Coast, Australia in December. We stayed in an apartment there and went to 3 different theme parks. The part I liked the most about the trip was the jet boat experience. I liked the feeling of the thrill and the speed of the boat. One night, we cooked our own steak in the apartment. It was quite nice but not as nice as the ones we eat in restaurants.
Yao Hui
During December holiday, I visited china. I went to shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hang Zhou with my family and cousins. First we went to shanghai on a plane. Then we met our tour guide there. He was very friendly. Our tour group consists of only 14 people in which 7 people are from my family. We visited a lot of places in shanghai like the tallest tower which has 101 towers. We took the elevator to the 100th floor and we could see a lot of places from the top. Then, we went to Wuxi. We got to take a boat to our hotel. We changed hotel everyday except for the last two days which we stayed in shanghai. We visited a lot of popular places. We then went shopping and bought a lot of clothes. It was so cold in china that we wore clothes, 1 jacket and 1 wind breaker. The food we ate in China was quite delicious, though some of them was like too sweet or sour. The fishes served on the restaurants have a lot of bones, thus it was quite hard to eat. We also visited the place where they make silk. They have to wash the silk first, then separate the silk to reveal the insect and throw away the insect. Then, they will stretch the silk to make it longer. The salesman was always asking us to buy but we did not want, then they keep offering us discounts and offers, but we always denied them. The next place we visited was the selling of sapphire, emerald and jade. The people from tour guide bought a lot of stuff from them, they bought like $10000 worth of Singapore dollar. We also visited the place that made pearl. The family from our tour guide also bought a lot of pearl necklaces, they even bought a gold pearl necklace. They spent a lot of money on this trip. The last day was free day, we spent the day shopping at the shopping mall nearby the hotel. Finally, it was time to go home, but we reached the airport too early and have to wait for 2 hours more in the airport. I enjoyed this trip very much and I learnt a lot about china history.
Wesley
I had a fruitful december holidays. At the beginning of November , i went on a 5d4N trip to hong kong and guangzhou. I found out it was convinient to travel between he countries as all was needed was just a 2 hour train trip from hung hom station.
I found guangzhou to be much different from hong kong and our country. For one, food and
electronics is inexpensive. However, if you plan to take a taxi, it would be better if you took the train as many drivers insist on a exorbitant price which is usually 3 times the normal price.
At the start of december, i went to kuala lumpur. I usually more than 8 times to Malaysia a year. Thsi time, i toured the outskirts of malaysia, such as near the palace of the prime minister. Im the last few weeks, i took the chance to finish my homework
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