A New Experience

Last Friday, I organized a environmental project for the Leo Club of my school in conjuction with Earth Day. It was a new experience for me as I have never been involved in such a project before. It was a good learning experience as I got to plan out the whole project with the help of my project assistant. Luckily, there were also people who were kind enough to spent an hour and a half helping out with the project. During the project, me and the other members had a lot of fun planting and watering plants. We also learned the actual way to plant a tree. Overall, the project was a success thanks to everyone who have helped out with the project. Other than that, it was a fun and learning experience and I believe it will prove useful for me in the future. Finally, the project was a good way to instill awareness into the members about the importance of our environment and more importantly, nature itself.

The Freedom Writers

During the last week, I got the opportunity to watch 'The Freedom Writers'. This movie is about how this teacher, Mrs. Erin taught her class of students that were fighting to survive everyday out in the streets. As time went on, Mrs. Erin slowly united the students and stepped aside their grudges based on their etchnicity and skin colour by having different activities and events. Her students started to see the bigger picture of the world and got to see the cruel aftermath that almost wiped out a whole race that was caused from stereotyping people. 

One of the activities that has bonded the students together was to write about anything they wished to inside their journal. Most of the students wrote about their uncertain daily lives that could just be ended in a blink of an eye just because of the discrimination of their races and gangs. Other than that, they also wrote about their fallout with their families because they wanted to join a gang on the street. During this activity, the students are able to express their feelings that they have kept within themselves because they have nobody to talk too except their shallow minded 'friends' who are their gang members that only care about their gang and nothing else. This shows that the students want to change but they don't have anyone to help them change until this moment when Mrs. Erin has helped them to change for the better.

A New Friend

This week, my class got a new student from another class named Muhd. Zaki. When he entered the class, everyone was surprised including myself on why he was in my class. Soon, I finally found out why he was in our class. He was sent to my class because he was punished for his atrocious behaviour and also to separate him with his group of friends that act the same way as him. He is going to be in my class for 3 months. My first impression of him was that he was a gangster. He acted and portrayed himself as one and when he socializes with his group of friends, he doesn't care what other people think of him and does whatever he desires. Although the evidence shows it all, in class, he actually behaves well and doesn't disturb the peace of the class because he doesn't have his group of friends to talk to. I don't really talk to him and don't plan to as I feel that to talk to one, you have to act or think like them or else there is no point talking to them. I feel that it is best to just ignore him and keep the peace of the class intact.

A Mysterious Abandoned Building

One day, Aiman was just walking to school with his school bag. He was just dawdling to school as there was still a lot of time. There was a very cheerful vibe to his gait. As he was strolling along the walkway, he spotted a really runned-down building. There was still a signboard on the runned-down building which was written "Fun Amusement Park". Aiman was curious and since he still had emple of time, he wandered into the abandoned building. It was very dark inside. The wooden flooring looked very unstable, the walls of the building was very fragile and could just collapse at anytime. Aiman carefully treaded around the building, avoiding any cracks in the floor. As he gently paced up the stairs, he saw faded crayon drawings on the walls. Inside a room, he found a charm of some sorts in the corner of the room and he kept it in his pocket. Before he knew it, he was going to be late for school. Aiman quickly rushed down the stairs, out the door and started running to school.