Last week most of my Grade, the Grade 7’s went to Chang Mai, but some people either didn’t hand in the form in time to go to Chang Mai or decided to go to Beijing or stayed here instead for other reasons. Chang Mai is a place that is very close to Burma which is around the northern part of thailand. We where there for 6 days, from May 6th to May 11th and we stayed at the Mae-Kok River Resort which had an educational center at the part of resort where we had stayed in which divided the resort from the educational part which was a very nice place to stay in. During the trip, I think the two main learner profile attributes that I have shown were Risk-Taker and Communicator.
I have shown that I was a Risk-Taker, an example is during the rock climbing session at first I was very confident because it looked really easy and I have had good experience with rock climbing before. However I haven’t been rocking in a long time, the only time I remembered that last time I rock climbed was when I was 8 which was 5 years ago, but I easily climbed up but when I got half way through the rocks became smaller and more wider apart so I couldn’t really reach and my legs where shaking so badly and my hands were getting more sweaty but with the support and help from the cheering on below of my team mates and Ms. Carmen’s good advices and help to cheer me on and keep me going I made it to the top successfully. So even though I was scared I was going to fall I still tried to push myself through and I did get through.
I have shown that I was a communicator, an example is during the community and service visiting the kids and working to help build the kitchen by painting the walls and making bricks, I communicated not only by using words but by using actions and a gestures to send out a message to the kids for instructions for games and how to ask what to do when I didn’t know or needed to be clear on in instructions with the teachers or workers in the community. I really enjoyed working with the workers, teachers and students.
In conclusion I felt that this trip that helpt me realize how lucky I am to be able to go to a good school and to be living in a very good conditioned or even better condition kind of environment. This trip has also helped me to continue to visit these kind of countries to help be envolved more in community and service.
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