2013年11月28日 星期四

Topic: Influence of Sri Lanka

Main idea:
This summer vacation I got a chance to go on a volunteer trip to Sri Lanka and I learned many precious lessons.

1. Expressing love to my loved ones is important because it can better our relationship.
(1) They are many natural disasters in Sri Lanka, the worst one is the flood. Every October to December, they have to move to the emergency agency to hide themselves from the flood. During these time, they might lose their lovers and their houses, do they are not hesitate to convey their love to their lovers.
A. Flood is a serious natural disaster in Sri Lanka. As the result of the drainage is worst and the government is not place important on the improvement, the flood hurt hundreds of residents every year.
B.I met a woman and her sister’s house was drowned in the flood so they have no place to live in. Although her house is small but she still shares her house with her sister. Now there are ten people living in the small house. She told me that’s the way she show her love to her sister. In addition, they often tell their love to each other. Although the space that they have is become smaller but make their heart closer.

(2)After coming back to Taiwan, I tried to show my love for my family and it really brought us closer.
A.I was really shy to convey my love to my family, and I thought that was really shamed to do it. Because of the shame, I never told them how important they are to me.
B.When I came back to Taiwan from Sri Lanka, after passing the custom and saw my mom, I ran to her and hug her to express my missing. At that moment, I thought how lucky I am to stand here and hug the one I love.
C. Now, when I am going to bed everyday, I will hug my parents and sister. I think thhey could receive my love in this way.
(3 It is important because if you don’t show your love, no one is going to know it. Expressing love could make your relationship more intimate.
A. Fmaily members' relationships are really intimate in Sri Lanka, they understand how much they love each other. In order to have such familiar realationship, they express their love in defferent ways. Kids will write cards to their families and adult will show their love with words.
B.Hug the ones you love is a great way to transmit your care. When you hug a person your heat is going to send to her and that's the temperture about love.
2.We used to take everything we have for granted, but being thankful can turn us into more positive people.
(1) Being thankful will lighten up your life.. You will be happy when you are thankful.
A. Being thankful make a world more beautiful. If a person thinks that everyone in the world are unappreciate to you, he will be unhappy everyday.
B.Oprah Winfrey said, ''Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.'' Without being thankful, we would always focus on the things that we are lack of and that's the reason why we are not satisfied.
C. Thank to the one that had ever helped you, thank to everything you have.
(2)In Sri Lanka, Their environment is really terrible, so they have to depend on aids from other countries. Because of it, they are really thankful to the ones who help them. Although their lives are not good enough, they are stiil thankful.
A. I went to Sri Lanka with World Vision so we got a chance to visit the families who are sponsored by Taiwanese. The first thing they told us was always how thankful they are to World Vision and Taiwanese.
B. Every famliy we prepared a gift for them, the gift are contained with some notebooks, pencils and erasers. The moment the recieved the gift, they cried. They told us that they are really thankful thet we could come and concerned them, and they hope we could represent the Taiwanese who are helping them to accept their thanks.
(3)I tried to look at everything with gratitude.The world has become nicer and I am in a good mood every day.
A. Now, I a thankful person. I thank my mom to take care of us every day, I thank to my dad to support me while I am deppress and thank my sister always be my side.
B.If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.  I would keep being thankful and my life would always be bright.
3. Positive thinking will make the world a better place.
(1) Negative thinking will make a person depressed and positive will make a person  enjoy life more.
(2)Poor as people in Sri Lanka are, they never give in to their fate because they always look on the bright sides.
(3) Now, I try to have positive thinking and I find that if you are positive and believe that you can do it, the whole world will help you.


2013年11月17日 星期日


Topic: Influence of Sri Lanka

Main idea:
This summer vacation I got a chance to go on a volunteer trip to Sri Lanka and I learned many precious lessons.

1. Expressing love to my loved ones is important because it can better our relationship.
(1) They are many natural disasters in Sri Lanka, the worst one is the flood. Every October to December, they have to move to the emergency agency to hide themselves from the flood. During these time, they might lose their lovers and their houses, do they are not hesitate to convey their love to their lovers.
A. Flood is a serious natural disaster in Sri Lanka. As the result of the drainage is worst and the government is not place important on the improvement, the flood hurt hundreds of residents every year.
B.I met a woman and her sister’s house was drowned in the flood so they have no place to live in. Although her house is small but she still shares her house with her sister. Now there are ten people living in the small house. She told me that’s the way she show her love to her sister. In addition, they often tell their love to each other. Although the space that they have is become smaller but make their heart closer.

(2)After coming back to Taiwan, I tried to show my love for my family and it really brought us closer.
A.
(3 It is important because if you don’t show your love, no one is going to know it. Expressing love could make your relationship more intimate.
2.We used to take everything we have for granted, but being thankful can turn us into more positive people.
(1) Being thankful will lighten up your life.. You will be happy when you are thankful.
(2)In Sri Lanka, Their environment is really terrible, so they have to depend on aids from other countries. Because of it, they are really thankful to the ones who help them. Although their lives are not good enough, they are stiil thankful.
(3)I tried to look at everything with gratitude.The world has become nicer and I am in a good mood every day.

3. Positive thinking will make the world a better place.
(1) Negative thinking will make a person depressed and positive will make a person  enjoy life more.
(2)Poor as people in Sri Lanka are, they never give in to their fate because they always look on the bright sides.
(3) Now, I try to have positive thinking and I find that if you are positive and believe that you can do it, the whole world will help you.




2013年11月11日 星期一

Main idea 1:
Topic sentence: This summer vacation I got a chance to go on a volunteer trip to Sri Lanka and I really learn many things.

Supporting sentences: In Sri Lanka I learned love, thankful and possitive.


Main idea 2:
Topic sentence:Telling your love to the person that you love is really difficult in my opinion.
Supporting sentences:. In Sri Lanka they aren't hestitate to tell their love to others.

Main idea3: Thankful is a very important thing that I had learned in Si Lanka. I used to consider everything I have is normal, it's necessary. But now, I am really thankful to everything.
Supporting sentences: One day, I visited a family. The mother told me that they are really thankful that they stiil live in the world.

Main idea 4: Possitive seems a vital thinking to human. But, in the past, I often thinked in a negative way.
Supporting sentences: Although they have a hard live they are still very happy. They think thet have the ability to change their life.

                                

2013年11月10日 星期日

Main Body

Main idea 1:
Topic sentence: This summer vacation I got a chance to go on a volunteer trip to Sri Lanka and I really learn many things.

Supporting sentences: In Sri Lanka I learned love, thankful and possitive.

Example: three short stories

Main idea 2:
Topic sentence: Because of these lesson in Sri Lanka, I gained some changes.

Supporting sentences: Now I am braver, I am more thankful and I tried to show my love.

I can't think of the third part. I would talk to teacher on Tuesday.

2013年11月4日 星期一

My changes

I think eight days in Sri Lanka was really important to me because I got some changes.

Brave: I think I am more brave now! No matter in which sides, I am braver than I was before. In Sri Lanka we had a chance to converse with the teenagers. We talk about many issue about Sri Lanka and Taiwan, after that we gave a presentation. During the conversation with them, I felt really shy and afraid that maybe I would say anything wrong in English, so I chose to not talk anything, just listened. But after a few minute later, I found out that they did not speak good English either. Although their English is not pretty good but they are confident to talk, how about me? I just like a coward afraid to get any mistake. After that, I learned a thing---- Brave is a important thing. So I tried to be brave on the performance last day. I danced, I sang and I talked bravely.

Thankful: When we visited the family that is sponsored by Taiwan. When they saw us, they showed lots of thanks to us. They said that they are really thankful to the people who had ever help them. After I come back to Taiwan, I am really thankful that I have so much things that they are short of.


Show the love: People in Sri Lanka are not shy to show their love to their families. On the contrary, Taiwanese are really shy to show their love. The people in Sri Lanka thinks that maybe they are going to lose their families the next moment because of the nature disaster. After I come back to Taiwan, I try to show my love yto my parents and sister in different ways.    




































2013年11月3日 星期日

Love

Every October to December is the rainy season of Sri Lanka, during these time many houses would be drowned and cause many families loose their home. In Sri Lanka, I met a woman that her family lives with her sister's family. A tiny room lives two families, could you imagine? I can't believe it at that time!
I asked her'' Don't you think that it would be so crowded to live with your sister's family in such a tiny room?'' I would never forget what she told me. She said'' Of course not! She is my sister! Sister should help each other and I really thanks god that he just only took away my sister's house not her live. I feel thankful.''
I was touched by her words. I think it is the love between them. Although they do not live is a large house, although they are not rich, but their love to each other is what that really valuable!

2013年10月31日 星期四

Difference

Mindset difference between us:

Study: There is a very big difference between Taiwanese student and Sri Lanka student. Taiwanese student do not show their enthusiastic about studying but the student in Sri Lanka is totally opposite. They seem education the only key to success, so they study very hard.

Goal: What do you want to be in the future? Doctor! Teacher! Accountant! Most of the children in Sri Lanka already find their goal and know how to achieve it clearly, no matter how young they are. But many students in Taiwan still can not find what they are gong to do in the future.

Positive: Every October to December is the rainy season in Sri Lanka, during these time many places will have flood. Because of the terrible flood they have to move to the emergency refuge to protect themselves and their houses will be drowned. As our view, we think that is a miserable thing, but they told me that they take it easy. In their opinion, they think that they are lucky and happy because their family members are together. That's how they look their life.


2013年10月28日 星期一

Topic, main idea, outline

Topic:

Lessons I learned in Sri Lanka

Main Idea:

Because of having a chance to go on a volunteer trip to Sri Lanka, I learn a lot of things from the residents there, and I want to them to everyone.
In Sri Lanka, I learned happiness, love, thankful, dreams and positive.

Outline:

Happiness: Although they are poor but they are happy.
Love: They love their families a lot because og having so many nature disaster they much more cherish each other.\
Thankful: They are really thankful to those who try to help them.
Dreams: They work hard to make their dream come true.
Positive: Never give up, keep going and you will succeed. 

2013年10月7日 星期一

Happy VS. Poor





 This is a video that record what we did in Sri Lanka.  
Although it was only a short trip but I think it is already become a important part in my life.
In Sri Lanka, we experienced poor,  received thanks and learned about love.

Poor but  happy, that is what we could not imagine.
I had heard a story before.
It is about a rich man and a poor guy.
The rich man has a lot of money and can buy all he wants,  he has nothing lack.
But, he is not happy.And he feels anxious about whether is anyone going to steal his money and that make him can not fall asleep.
At this moment he would hear the poor guy lives next to him singing happily. 
In the other hand, the poor guys has nothing.
He lives in a old and tiny house and work very hard every day.
But he is happy every day.

One day, the rich man meets the poor guy on the street.
The rich man asks the poor guy''Why can you be so happy every day?''
The poor guy replies''Being happy? It's easy, if you could have some meat in a meal it will make me really happy. Being happy is just that you could have a full meal and have a place to live.''
'' Isn't that easy?'' The rich man thought to himself.
So he asked the poor guy to change their identity for a night.

Therefore the poor guy becomes a rich man and having so much meat to eat and a beautiful place to live, but he could not sleep and start to feel anxious.
In the other hand, the rich man becomes poor but finally he has a good night.

The next morning the rich man say to the poor guy that yesterday was his happiest day because he finally can sleep very well!


In this story, a person that he is happy or not is not depend on that he is rich or not.
I complete believe it after I went to Sri Lanka.
Although they are not rich, they has less resources than we have, but they are happy.
That's what we could not buy with money.

They are content to their lot.

2013年9月16日 星期一

Take wings with love

吳清桂 愛帶我去遠方
 生命文化的形成,是人生在經歷各種不同的體驗,包括歡樂、困頓、悲苦之後,所呈現出的生命標誌,而生命火花的點燃,往往來自生命中許多必然或是偶然的碰撞。

人定勝天的論調在此是行不通的,面對大自然,謙卑的態度不足,人們懷抱的是畏懼。

雖然抗拒死亡的降臨,卻無法阻止死神逼近。在這種情況下,生命的價值是不存在的......

對你我來說,活著是生命的一份恩典,但貧困國家的人民只能依循自然法則,生死由命。

因為貧困,他們沒有太大的慾望,對小是無所求,對大事不敢夢想,因而常感到愉悅。

他們眼裡閃爍著對幸福的渴望和期待,但那卻只是一種無法想像也摸不到的夢想。

是什麼在驅動我們,把援助帶到被遺忘的世界角落?我在一張張充滿決心的臉上找到答案。

在為別人付出的同時,才能看見自己的渺小。

Although we use different way to help them, although I am just a student but they are adult already. There are so many difference between us but the only thing that we are the same is we try to make this world better.
When we are trying to make this world better, when we regarded ourselves as their savior, we are changed by them. I couldn' t understand why they re so happy although they are so poor. But after many days, I realize that they got a treasure  that I had before but I lost it. That is HOPE. They have hope, they know how to dream, they keep their way to their dream. That's why they are so satisfied.
We are not their savior because we find hope on them!

2013年9月7日 星期六

Books

I found books about volunteer trip and hope it could help my project.

吳清桂(2012)。愛,帶我去遠方。台北,一起來出版社。

楊采妮(2007),凝,心感受。香港:三聯出版社。

鄭栗兒(2013)。CATCH斯里蘭卡,純真國度的微笑。台北:有鹿文化出版社。

台灣人在斯里蘭卡,http://blog.yam.com/srilanka。

賴樹盛(2008)。邊境漂流。台北:天下雜誌出版社。

家扶基金會/策劃;謝玲玉、李威龍等/文字(2013)。與你同行:家扶社工的故事【第二集】。台北:飛行貓創意社。

國立清華大學學生事務處/策劃(2012)。扎根:2010國際志工成果集。新竹:清華大學。

國立清華大學學生事務處/策劃(2012)。種籽:2008國際志工成果集(第二版)。新竹:清華大學。

國立清華大學學生事務處/策劃(2012)。萌芽:2009國際志工成果集。新竹:清華大學。

張瓊齡、施盈竹(2012)。從Me到We的旅程。台北:慈濟傳播文化志業基金會。

程敏淑(2012)。追尋角落的微光。台北:木馬文化。

Dan Bortolotti(2012)。槍口下的急診室:無國界醫師的奮鬥故事。台北:貓頭鷹。

宋睿祥(2010)。回家的路 是這樣走的:無國界醫生在葉門。台北:天下雜誌。

程敏淑(2010)。我們:走進青海、新疆、甘肅充滿愛的角落。台北:天下雜誌。

2013年8月23日 星期五

Main project

Main project:
Because I went to Sri Lanka for a volunteer trip, I saw I listen many things, and i want to share all my touches to everyone.

To enforce:
1.Sharing what I had learn
2.Video
3.Photos


Anxious about:
1.The topic is too boring
2.There isn't a main point(because there is too much too say)

Dream

This summer vacation I had a trip to Sri Lanka, not for holiday but for volunteer.
I saw many people and listened many stories.
I was touched by their attitude about life.
Although they are poor, they never give up.
Because they are poor so they cherish the chance to go to school.
Having chance to go to school, they are already satisfied but how about us.
We seem going to school as usual, we just know that we have to go to school but no one know the reason.
On the contrary, they know why they are studying, they know what their dream is and also know how to make their dream come true.
Every time when i was listening how they love to study, what they want to be in the future, I felt great shame.