2011년 11월 8일 화요일

Proposal; Piano Lessons for young children.

This activity was done during summer vacation in 2011.
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Activity: Teaching younger students who are willing to learn piano.

Goal: Young students in Korea, their mothers want them to have piano lessons however, young parents do not have enough fund to teach their children. what Mrs. Park thought of was to give young children opportunities to learn piano for free.
As a student who learnt piano until grade 10 and also practiced my skills to enter the Korean art high school, I wanted to join the free piano teching held by Mrs. Park.
goal is to give my best effort to young students and develope my spirit of service.

Time: July, 2011 (during summer vacation)

Supervisor: Mrs. Park (the owner of piano academy)

2011년 11월 7일 월요일

Reflection Community Service UN day

On October 21, there was a special day called UN day in our school.
On that day E every students were required to wear traditional clothes of other countries

The community service club was planning to open booth. The booth was for informing students about the environment. All community members were there for the booth presentation.

I was in charge of one booth. There were three parts of booth. One was for the information about the worl pollution and what causes the bad effect on the environment. Second part was for game. The rule of the game was putting the right photo of trash into the right trash can. Students were required the knowledge of the trash that can be recycled. Those knowledges were told at the very first booth among the three.

For me, my job was to tell the students the rule of the game and look at the students putting the photos of trash into the right place of trash cans that they are belong to. If those photos were not put into the right trash can I had to fix it and tell the students it should be placed into the right one.
This required to have certain knowledge of the environment and trash or any stuff people throw away. For example, which is possible to be recycle and which kinds of tray causes bad environmental effect.
Preparing for the booth was not the hard job compare to the part that I had to explain to students about the booth and the purpose of the game. Explaining the game to the low school students was not an easy job. I had to keep on asking them if they were understand or not.
Plus, I had to make the sentences simpler. No grammar mistakes were allowed for me since I was explaining the booth and representing the booth.
Talking in front many people was not that hard also. I tried not to be shy before them but i could not do it at the very first time. However, as people come and pass my booth with the knowledge about recycling and the trash I felt something proud. I could see myself talking and explaining things much faster in simplest sentences so everyone could understand at once.
After all, I felt much comfortable when I talked to group of people than the very first time.

This community service activity gave me another chance to develop my English skills and the self confidence to talk before group of people. Another thing I earned from this activity was about the recycling and it's process. Moreover, knowing about the stuff I see everyday was an interesting thing.

2011년 10월 19일 수요일

Proposal Community Service UN day

Activity: 'Live clean, live green' - interactive booth

Goal: Being responsible for our booth. I have to show and explain about our community service
          booth. Since we are going to talk about the environment, I have to research and prepare.
          For me, I am in one charge of the booth. Community Service Club had prepared one, throwing
          trash game I was in charge because I designed the game.
          Through these activities, Community Service Club will represent the meaning of
          'Live clean, live green'. We are going to make a booth that interacts with people telling that
          people should look at environmental pollution.

Time: From October 14 to October 21

Supervisor: Mrs. Mariano

2011년 9월 22일 목요일

PEP raly relfection

Sep. 22 / 2011

Preparing for the PEP raly was such a challenge. Being a house leader was not an easy job.
Well, I felt so proud of our house even though we got into 3rd place because I saw what our house members
did and practiced for the PEP raly.

Preparing for the PEP raly was not easy. For our house, the Yellow, we made spears using the
bamboo sticks. With yellow house teachers' help we, the leaders, were able to finish making spears and plus the cheers. I was in the charge of all the intermediates in the Yellow house. At the beginning of house meetings, I could not even know their names and who are in the intermediates. However, every time the Yellow house had several meetings, I started to know who are yellow house members.

For PEP raly, house leaders had to prepare the dance moves for our performance. This actually, gave me
the challenge since all the leaders should be prepared and show the moves before the others. Karl who was
a leader in the yellow house had to teach us, the leaders, so we could teach other members. As one house leader for intermediates, I had to inform all the other intermediate dancers to come for meetings and practices and show them the steps. We even had to meet on the weekends for the dances. Teaching and leading one
group of people started to bring out the leadership from myself.

For the cheers, all the house leaders should go infornt and shout out the cheers. Shouting infornt of people
made me feel bit shy but during the PEP raly games, I was the one who felt so energetic and ran infront of others yelling out the yellow house cheers.

Today was the actual PEP raly performance day. We did our best and showed the great cheers. I do not
regret for spending so much of my time for PEP raly because everyone in the yellow house also spent their times for the PEP raly. This PEP raly is my last PEP. because this year is my last year for Brent School.
PEP raly gave me a great experience and taught me about leadership.

2011년 9월 12일 월요일

Community Service: Going to Mabini Elemetary School

Activity: Creativity and Service (teaching and take care of children)

Goal: Through this activity, I want to know the difference between Korean elementary students and Mabini students and how do they different from the environment, education and behavior.

Impact: i will learn  teaching skills and i can communicate with young children.

Time: Every Monday

Supervisor: Mrs. Mariano

Volleyball manager -continue- Reflection

On Saturday, our school volleyball team had games against other schools' volleyball team.
This was my first time to be in the actual games. Becuase of that, I felt really excited about it.

7:30 in the morning, I had to be at the gym to check the attendance for our team members.
Since, there were four other teams, my job as a manager, I had to be in the charge of scoring and
checking for players who had made the point or had mistakes.
By looking at the games, I naturally understand the game's rule and which player had made the mistakes.
Before, I become the manager of the volleyball team, I did not know how the games goes and works.
However, after I became the charge of scoring and checking point makers, I even did not have to look at the referees to score the points.

During the game, I even had one player from UC got injured. I suddenly thought of getting the ice from the office. I knew this right away since Anton Ku from our school was also injured during the volleyball practice. Being a manager for our school team gave me the experience.

Games for our school, I had to make the charts that have all the players' names. This was to check the players who made the scores and mistakes. Checking players and scoring was such a hard job. I did not know the time could pass that fast.

Even though our school team got into 3rd, I saw their practices and effort during school days. I felt very proud of our school team. Moreover, to me, they are already in the top.
Watching at the practices and their effort was a big experience to me. Being a manager is not a easy job but have to be very responsible and able to calculate players ability.
This tournament gave me an impression and great experience.

2011년 9월 8일 목요일

Volleyball Team Manager - continue -

Activity : Volleyball

Goal : Watch a actual volleyball game and be one useful manager for the team. Bigger responsibility is required.

Time : September 10.

There will be a game for our school Volleyball team. I believe this is the time when I should shine as a manager.
I will be required to check attendance, getting water, check for points and players who made points or loose the points.
This game will be serious job.