Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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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