Flood In Thailand

                       Luckily, my family and I are not affected by flood personally. My house, the neighborhood, and everything are safe. We didn’t relocate to other provinces. Although many other houses in my mooban are busily preparing for the floods, my family didn’t do anything. One house I see even put their car on top of a bunch of sand bags! Some people cannot sleep because they are too worried. My father said that there would be no flood in our district. If the flood really comes, it will only be about 30 centimeters or lower. So, there will be no worries since our house is one meter above the ground. My current situation is absolutely fine. I can definitely go to school on Monday. My family business is not affected and my parents can continue to work. However, my cousins and aunt on my father’s side are rather affected. I did fine with my personal motivation and self-discipline in terms of being a continuous online learner. I checked emails everyday and try to finish all the homework and submit them.

            In short terms, there are many effects of flood in Thailand. These include the increasing price of supplies, the shortage of food and clean water causing high demands, mass migration, numerous of traffic jams, and transport problems. Since there is flooding throughout the central areas, many supplies cannot be transport to shops, markets, and malls. Lots of industries that are affected cannot produce goods. Clean drinking water become scarce and people are fighting for products to survive. Mass migration happens, people move out of Bangkok and affected cities to other provinces. However, when the flood goes down, these problems will improve. Traffic jams will be lesser and products can be transport as normal. Victims can go back to their homes, and hopefully manage to get everything back to normal. In long terms, the flood effects are such as insurance, decline in tourism, problems in the economics, lack of food crops due to the loss of fields, rebuilding costs, and various of reconstructions.

            As an individual or community member I can do many things to help and give the victims hope. Not only me but also everyone, can sign up for various activities like creating EM balls, packing surviving kit bags, knitting safety vest, or packing sands into the plastic bags. If a person wants to have fun, he or she can go to charity concerts or buy t-shirts from celebrities. Another way is to volunteer and help out the people in the refugee center or out in the flood. The most easiest and quickest way for some people might be to just donate money, supplies, dry foods and animal foods. Nevertheless, we should also encourage family members, friends, or someone we know to help out and volunteers in these activities. From only thinking about helping the victims, we should take actions and do these things. Every support counts. Instead of playing games or watching news at home, why not go out, have fun, and help others? Following my moral compass, I need to be helpful and be a generous person. I am also thankful and satisfy for what I have and not being one of the victims. 

WHO YOU ARE IDENTITY MUSIC VIDEO :)

This is my Identity Video. It expresses who I am based on my personality, my hobbies, and my environment. By watching the video, I really want people who I'm not really close with to know who I truly am.  In this MV, it talks about my hobbies, media, nationality, school, family, and friends. As you watch the video, you can see that I am just like other girls. I love being with my friends, family, and socializing with people. I really tried to express my personality through pictures clearly. As you watch the video, I hope that you see me as a very cheerful and enthusiastic person--not a boring girl. However, I think that I didn't quite tell you about all of my personalities. I love smiling, telling jokes and playing sports. Above all of this, I really wish you guys to know more about me through this video.

While creating my video, I faced some problems that caused me hours. I really had a hard time finding pictures that perfectly describes the categories or what I was thinking. As I was searching the license and the pictures, I was like very, very bored, tired, and sleepy! The licenses caused me like 3-4 hours! I didn't knew why it took me this long---which, it was not supposed to be. The music part was not really challenging thanks to itunes and a website called mp3skull. Putting the pictures and transitions were simple, but putting musics and trimming them took quite some time. When I finally published the video, I was SUPER DUPER happy. However, the next morning (school day) I was shocked. I needed to do the credits part again since it needs to be 30 seconds. After I finished the credits section, there came the music problem. I had to delete, insert, and cut some of the musics again! Those musics cannot be played which left me wondered why. However, I was able to finished it in time. Overall, I really put my best efforts in this, so I guess it will come out well!

Birmingham Grid of Learning

This is my Birmingham Grid of Learning. In the chart, it tells you how well I performed in different category. It also tells you about myself and somehow my personality. As you can see from the diagram, my level is not that high but also not that low. I think I'm in between that kind of people. Average (but not normal).

As the picture shows, it seems to me that I'm most confident in the "people smart" section. The upcoming category is "body smart" then "myself smart". According to myself, I think this is kind of true. Sometimes I actually know how people feel or think. I'm quite a socializer. I love to move around and do activities rather than just staying still, like a rock, staring at something. And this is probably a clear explanation about my "body smart" result. "Myself smart"; I know what I want, what I want to do, and what I prefer. I'm quite clear about my ideas or the things I'm thinking.

There are some parts that are true, but some are not. The "number smart" and "music smart"sections are false. I admit that I don't really like numbers, but that doesn't mean I'm bad in math. Actually, I kind of scored a little high in math! I don't play musical instruments other than piano--which I stopped learning it since I'm about 8 years old. I know how to play some pieces of music too. Therefore, in the music section, I think the result should be in somewhere close to 15.