Caring Citizen ESLR

A caring citizen is someone who contributes time, energy and talent to family and community. Demonstrating a commitment to the shared guardianship of the earth and its resources is also part of a caring citizen. In my personal point of view, I believe that being a caring citizen is very important. Helping others when they are suffering disappointments with fortitude and patience, helping someone who isn’t as lucky as us.

On the 27^th of January 2012, 8^th grade students from Ruamrudee International School made a visit to Pattaya. We were all divided into 3 different groups to complete 3 different tasks at children’s village, the blind school and a day care center. What we did during the advisement trip demonstrates that we are all caring citizens.  My friends and I went to the Father Ray’s school of the blind. When we reached at our destination, we were asked to watch a video explaining what is this school about and how the school teaches their students. We demonstrated a caring citizen by helping the blind kids and played games the teachers provided for us. We were given the opportunity to actually talk with blind kids and learn more about what do they do in their daily life. After we spent 2-3 hours at the blind school, we went to restaurant before making our way back to Bangkok. I enjoyed myself doing activities and playing with the blind kids. I realized that I can be a caring citizen as referred that a caring citizen is someone who contributes time, energy and talent to family and community.

The Boston tea party

During Social Studies class, we did a seminar about the Boston Tea Party. We discussed about the reading that we were asked to do.  During our discussion, some interesting questions emerged. In order for patriots to protest against the taxation on tea, the patriots disguised themselves as Indians, they sneaked onto three British ships and threw tea overboard. One of the most interesting questions that appeared was   “ Are patriots actually terrorists?” In my personal opinion, I believe that patriots are not terrorists, they are loyal to their country and they were just trying to fight to what they think is correct. For example, in Thailand, there had been fighting going on between the Yellow shirts and the Red shirts. Both sides have different point of views about who should be the Prime Minister. The Red shirts want Thaksin Shinnawat while the Yellow shirts want Abhisit Vejjajiva to become the Prime Minister of Thailand. Both the Yellow and Red shirts fought against each other causing many injuries and problems, they have different point of views, however, what they did was because they both love their own country and they are trying to protect their country.