Introducing myself (edited)

I am 14 years old, and in Grade 9 at SWA. I come from Taiwan, but now I’m living in Indonesia. I like reading comics, making some useless stuff and taking some photos.
Drawing is my favorite thing to do since I was very small, even though I’m not really good at drawing. I think drawing is fun, and I think pictures can express my feelings better then long stories or lots of words.
Cooking is one of my favorite things to do, and I also like baking cookies and making cakes. I like making sweets very much, because I actually REALLY love sweets! Something like chocolate, cake, some cookies or candies, so I also like making it by myself.

I love this lemon tart that I made last time, and make them using the recipe my teacher gave me when I was Grade 8.

I like them very much, because they are delicious but not too sweet.

I also listen to many kinds of music, and in any languages, but mostly in Japanese, even though I’m not a Japanese. My favorite “singer” is called Vocaloid, even though she’s not really a “singer”, this is the link for one of my favorite songs, which is Melt.
So…this is pretty much things all there is to say about me.
See you next time!♡ヽ(●´∀`●)ﾉ☆

Mother tongue Week!!

Mother Tongue Week Reflection

In SWA we celebrated the mother tongue week from February 21st to February 25th. Just like the other International school, in SWA there are many students that come from many different countries, and don’t have English as their first language. Everyday there’s a different topic, according to the continents, Such as Asia, Europe, Australia, and America.

Every day, there are performances in the Bamboo Court. I think the most interesting performance was the Chinese Fan Dance on Tuesday. Chinese Fan Dance is a traditional dance of China, it it’s very famous and always being presented in special events like Chinese New Year. There are also other kinds of Chinese fan Dance, this is only one of them, but I think this one is really cool, and it’s soft but powerful. I think the dance also include some elements of Tai Chi. The one who did the performance were the Chinese teachers, and some staffs. They wore white clothes, which look simple, and the red fan on their hand just stand out with the white cloth. I watched the performance before, but it’s still very interesting to watch again. I liked the part when they open the fan, there will be a loud voice, which I think is really cool. Even though I only watched a small part of the performance, I still like it very much.

I think the teachers really did a great job in this performance, and I would love to see them doing the Chinese Fan Dance again some day.

I got the picture from my teacher

Global Issue- I Movie Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uczEQeliPAY


We made a short video related to Global Issue. We hope that people will start acting to help the world after watch the video. We start with choosing an issue. The issue I chose was Poverty, I chose poverty as my issue because I think it's a very serious problem, and it’s getting worse this days. After choosing the issue, we start searching for information and pictures that can influence people.
I found out that there are 1.7 billion people who are living in poverty, every 2 children 1 of them is living in poverty, and 10.6 million kids die before they reach the age of 5. With this information we start making the video, we video ourselves introducing people to the topic, and tell the some facts so that they will understand how they suffer. We also add music into the video, I add a video without vocal, and the tune is a bit sad, I think it will be better for people to get the feeling. We show our video to other classmates, and Mr. Kenny, I really learn a lot about poverty in this project, and I understand more about other global issue after watching other people’s video. I think I didn’t really did my best in this video, and I think it’s too simple, there should be more picture, so that it can be a bit more interesting, and more people can be attracted to the video. I think next time I will find more information, so it can be more influential. This time I didn’t spend a lot of time working on it, I will work harder next time if we have this kind of project again.