Greetings from a flood victim

Hi! My name is Pim and Im in eight grade, attending RIS, Ruamrudee International School.  I live in Thailand, where it is hot and humid all year long but a flood has occurred recently.
Durring the beginning of October, a flood occurred and lasted to the end of November.  Because the flood was uncontrollable, our school has closed down durring mid of October and we returned by mid November.  Durring the time off, me and my family had evacuated to HuaHin, hoping for relaxation after the stressed we have received over the flood but I couldn't exactly relax.  We had online lessons and online homework to complete.  Many people were eager to return to school since they have received major stress over online lessons and homework. School was originally scheduled to resume by the end of October, then it was pushed back by about a week, then it was pushed FAR FAR back to the mid of November, then it was pushed forward to the 11th of November.  There were a whole lot of changes but school has finally resumed on mid November.  We were very happy because the returning of school marked the ending of online lessons and homework.  Nevertheless, our happiness soon disappeared when the make up schedule was finalized...  We had no more half days, some of our holidays were taken off, we had to come to school on a Saturday, but the worst of all, for 2 weeks straight, school hours were extended. School hours are from 7:00am - 3:25pm which is a big change to my schedules.  Now, Im basically dying from that schedule.  I have to wake up earlier and I have to stay longer at school.  I really hope these 2 weeks ends soon!

Floating Toilets

Because of the flood, people in some areas are forced to live with dirty water; therefore i believe that hygiene is the most important issue right now.  There have been many new inventions and products produced during this time focusing on the hygiene of the people and the water including EM ball, multi purpose spray, floating toilets etc.  In my opinion, the best product and the most useful one so far is the floating toilet.  Floating toilets have been distributed to flood-hit areas around Thailand and has been extremely useful.  Looking at another side, without floating toilets, majority of the people would be forced to release their waste into the water causing the water to be even more polluted than it already is.  With polluted water, diseases come.  With diseases, there is a huge possibility for the death rate relating to flood to increase dramatically.  For prevention, the floating toilet is invented.

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Flood Crisis

It has been flooding very seriously in Thailand right now or what people call "Flood Crisis".  Many types of damages has been formed; speaking seriously it does affect the economy of the country.  28 of the provinces are affected, roughly about 4 million acres of the land.  12.5% of the rice paddies have been damaged, leading to shortage of rice.  Not only are we short of rice, we are also short of water, food (mainly instant food) and sand bags as well.  Looking at the people as a whole, they have suffered from many types of diseases that comes with flood water; not only do they suffer from diseases, they suffer from stress as well.  Roughly about 10,938 businesses were affected and forced to halt their business.  This flooding case is the biggest case in Thailand for over 80 years.The flood is very serious therefore many people had to evacuate to somewhere safter, including me.  My house area, Don meaung is flooding loads therefore I was forced to evacuate like the rest of the people.  I have evacuated to Hua Hin, where it is safe and certainly dry.  Its not easy here though.  Loads of people have decided that Hua Hin was their destination for evacuation as well so the traffic is very heavy and water in super markets here have also disappeared.  This flood crisis is very scary and I hope it goes away soon.

Identity

The fact of being who or what a person or thing is, this is the definition of identity according to the dictionary but in my opinion, identity simply tells you who you are and how you are different from others.  Identity plays a very important role in life especially in middle school.  In middle school, everyone starts to change and become more mature; their new found personality then have given their new identity. 

In middle school, people will start to judge each other by their looks.  Looks have become a really important part in life, it determines all about impressions and whether or not people want to befriend you.  Speaking frankly, yes, looks are important but I don’t think it should determine who or who not to befriend.  You cannot judge a person’s identity by looking at their looks; looks are just the outer appearance, the important thing is inside, who you actually are.  Don’t judge a book by its cover.

MV project introduction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMVYnluQ9mg
This is the link to my Who Are You MV project.  this is basically a video project which i have put together to introduce my self to my new classmates and teachers. i have included 6 topics which are Family, Peer and non family adult relationships, nationality/geographic location, spiritual life, media and hobbies; i personally think these topics represents me well.  this is a project that involves finding pictures and music that represents the topic; finding the songs were quite challenging but i was able to complete it.  i have used imovie and garageband to arrange my project, they are really good programs for making MVs.

Metacognition

Today in mrs.Torie's class, we learned and did some activities about metacognition.  One of the activities we did was the "Think Aloud" activity, I found it really interesting.  I noticed that my partner was really concentrated on making the clay animal and he was speaking to himself; I also noticed that in myself and mrs.Torie.  The thing that was hard about this activity is that I discovered that I still tried to control what I was talking about unconsciously.  Some things that I learned about my partner in this activity is that he is a really concentrative person,  he concentrates really well when he was making the clay figure; therefore the clay figured turned out nicely. Another thing I also noticed was that he worked really fast.  He finished his figure before the timer rang and as i said, his work also came out nicely.  In my opinion, metacognition might help me as a student by strengthening my ability of critical thinking which I am naturally weak at.