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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 DAY 1 OF CAMP : started the day badly by having an arguement with my father. it went even worst when our class had to split up into 2 groups. utterly unfair. it was 4H that were suppose to be splited up but Ms.Mah begged for em'. apparently Mr Phua didn't do the same for us. i bet he even said it was ok (as he's always so kind). Zzz. so much for the "team bonding" of the camp. hur hur. ![]() STATION 1 : study trail. nothing much to elaborate on. in fact,one word's able to summarise all. BORING!!!! ![]() yes. extremely boring it was. everyone was complaining. the games were not fun,the competitions did not have any challenges in em',facilitators were boring...what else? except for the last part when we had to go into the stress management classroom. that was fun. the facilitator was great. the music really did help us relaxed and the exercise was useful. LOL. 5 stars for that manns!!! STATION 2 : MOVIE @ MARINA SQUARE (: watched the movie Freedom Writers. ![]() omg. that show's marvellous!!! it's a must watch. cried like nobody's business at some touching parts. heh. ![]() The storyline: Freedom Writers is inspired by a true story and the diaries of real Long beach,California teenagers after the 1992 Los Angeles riots , during the worst outbreak of interracial gang warfare. Set in and around Wilson Classical High School in Long beach,California during the mid 1990s, two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank stars as English teacher Erin Gruwell. After a few days of class, Gruwell and her students get into a debate about racism during which she compares a caricature of a black student with big lips, drawn by another student, to the Nazis' caricatures of Jews with big noses. She then takes her students on a field trip to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance to teach them about the Holocaust. An exterior view of the museum is shown, and there are scenes inside the museum, showing simulated entrances to gas chambers in Nazi death camps. One of the books the students read is The Diary of Anne Frank, and money is raised to have Miep Gies come over to talk about the Holocaust. The roles of four Holocaust survivors, some of whom survived Auschwitz, who meet with students in a dinner hosted by Gruwell, are played by the actual Holocaust survivors themselves. Since the school is not very capable and unwilling to pay for books and excursions, Gruwell pays a lot of the expenses herself, financed by two extra, part-time, jobs. Because of the little time she spends with her husband, he eventually divorces her. Over the course of the movie, Gruwell finds more ways to teach her students about racism and respect. As Gruwell begins to listen to them in a way no adult has ever done, she begins to understand that these kids believe that surviving is enough — that they are not delinquents but teenagers fighting "a war of the streets" that began long before they were born. For the first time, the teens experience hope that they can show the world that their lives matter and that they have something to say. Ms. G, as her students come to call Gruwell, hands out journals to her students so they can write about the past, present, future, good days and bad ones. Happily, she watches each student come to her desk and take one. Later on she sits down to read and becomes amazed at their stories and hardships. These students become freedom writers. Ms. G makes her students type up their stories into a book they title, "The Freedom Writers Diary," and according to the end credits, this book was published in 1999. rated by mii : ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AFTER MOVIE/DISMISSAL: it's SAKE for mii,LT,Marc and xuan'an @ marina sq. tried the new seats whereby our legs can be put into the hole. ate alot. Marc and xuan'an pillow fighting(below) because xuan'an took a candid shot of Marc. ![]() ain't feel like posting other photos of the buffet. maybe next time. hur. didn't have dinner when i went home. ![]() PS: ![]() 从这里跳下去...感觉会是怎样的? 没有人会了解我的痛苦. ~我承担不起你的承诺 ~ ever wondered why?
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