Friday, April 30, 2010
South Africa
South Africa agrees with what America is doing and fully agrees with them sending soldiers in. I am allies with America but we also care about everyone elses safty and we don't want the Taliban going around with Pakistans nuclear weapons risking peoples lives. No matter if they say they have everything under watch and control, people who want to be bad things always, always, always find ways to get what they want. They could get a hold of the weapons if they try hard enough, and that is NOT what any country wants to happen. So America sending in troops to watch over everything is a very good idea.
Simun!
Simun was an amazing experience, like nothing I have ever done in my life before. It was thrilling because I was always on the edge of my seat because my mind was ALWAYS racing for what I wanted to say; agree with them or not? Who should I side with? What could my country really do in this situation? I knew that my country wasn’t very wealthy and I could never really give as much aid or money or help to the extent that I wanted to but I knew I could suggest ideas and ask others to do what I couldn’t. The way that everyone in my group worked together to solve solutions was amazing, considering that most of us knew who everyone else was. I knew about half of the other people in my group, and my older friends defiantly helped me a lot in what I should do and how I should react to things. Most of the other freshmen seemed to have the same thought in their heads “what should I do?”
I honestly think I did pretty well, compared to how much I speak up in class; I really did participate in everything. I think I really handled the first scenario; it was focused right on my country and also Zimbabwe and as soon as I read it all I could think was “this is exactly what I didn’t want”. But I think I handled it pretty well.
By preparing I knew who I would be caucusing with and who I would be mostly agreeing with because they were my allies. Then I also knew all the information for when they were focusing on my country and I could answer all the questions I needed to. When all the other countries would confront me with questions or comments or ask me why I made that decision I could back myself up because I prepared. I searched things for hours at a time on official websites like bbc.com and I actually had fun learning about a different country and their back round. I found it all really interesting after a while and I compared all their information to what I knew about America’s information.
Next year I will for sure search a little bit more about my own country but also about others countries because I think if I knew more about them, I could compare myself more and know who exactly to talk to in certain situations.
I honestly think I did pretty well, compared to how much I speak up in class; I really did participate in everything. I think I really handled the first scenario; it was focused right on my country and also Zimbabwe and as soon as I read it all I could think was “this is exactly what I didn’t want”. But I think I handled it pretty well.
By preparing I knew who I would be caucusing with and who I would be mostly agreeing with because they were my allies. Then I also knew all the information for when they were focusing on my country and I could answer all the questions I needed to. When all the other countries would confront me with questions or comments or ask me why I made that decision I could back myself up because I prepared. I searched things for hours at a time on official websites like bbc.com and I actually had fun learning about a different country and their back round. I found it all really interesting after a while and I compared all their information to what I knew about America’s information.
Next year I will for sure search a little bit more about my own country but also about others countries because I think if I knew more about them, I could compare myself more and know who exactly to talk to in certain situations.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Does my head look big in this?
Muslim: a believer in or follower of Islam. Amal Mohamed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim: sixteen year old girl, living in the modern age, wearing a hijab in the perkiest prep school in Australia.
Amal is a different but normal at the same time; she prays five times a day, but is obsessed with Cosmo, she believes in no physical relations, no boyfriends, no dating, but she has a huge crush on the class hottie Adam. She is a strict believer in her religion and strives to do more, so she decided on her own to start wearing the hijab full time. And in the Muslim, that is a big step for women. The hijab is a spiritual scarf that Muslim women wear around their head to cover their hair and neck, only leaving the face visible. They are mostly supposed to show as little skin as possible as well, but the exception is you are allowed to take it off around family and when there are no men around. In American culture we don’t have any rules like that, we don’t have anything special that were supposed to show and what we’re not supposed to show…well for the most extent. Strong believers in the Muslim world pray so many times and so long because they believe strongly in Allah and his powers.
For a teenage girl to decide to wear the headdress full time is a big religious thing, and Amal is proud to make this choice of wearing it all by herself. Her parents actually doubted her wearing it because her school has a “strict dress code with their uniforms”. She fought for her scarf to be an exception with the principal and won. Now everyday she wears it in different colors and fabrics and still faces her challenges as a junior in high school.
Amal is a different but normal at the same time; she prays five times a day, but is obsessed with Cosmo, she believes in no physical relations, no boyfriends, no dating, but she has a huge crush on the class hottie Adam. She is a strict believer in her religion and strives to do more, so she decided on her own to start wearing the hijab full time. And in the Muslim, that is a big step for women. The hijab is a spiritual scarf that Muslim women wear around their head to cover their hair and neck, only leaving the face visible. They are mostly supposed to show as little skin as possible as well, but the exception is you are allowed to take it off around family and when there are no men around. In American culture we don’t have any rules like that, we don’t have anything special that were supposed to show and what we’re not supposed to show…well for the most extent. Strong believers in the Muslim world pray so many times and so long because they believe strongly in Allah and his powers.
For a teenage girl to decide to wear the headdress full time is a big religious thing, and Amal is proud to make this choice of wearing it all by herself. Her parents actually doubted her wearing it because her school has a “strict dress code with their uniforms”. She fought for her scarf to be an exception with the principal and won. Now everyday she wears it in different colors and fabrics and still faces her challenges as a junior in high school.
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