Last 3 weeks in CID2

Unlike CID1, CID2 is more enjoyable as we are able to learn our lessons through games such as 'egg,chicken and hen' that make the learning process more fun. We were able to make our own decisions when looking at situations. We had to create a blog to post the homework that we have been given during CID2 lessons every week. The quality of our class' blog determines where which country we can go this June holidays as a class so I really hope that our blog will have many page views and we will be able to do well for CID2.

Recently during CID2 class, we looked into the topic of poverty. We were instructed to look at two pictures, that of a beggar who was robbed of all his belongings and a woman carrying a baby who was also begging, by using the technique of 'see, think and wonder'. We were asked if we had a dollar who would we want to help. At first, many of us choose the lady with the baby in her arms as we thought that the man was still capable of getting a job whereas the lady had to take care of her child. However, after looking at the inside story of the man and the lady, majority changed their decision. Turns out the man was physically disabled as he only has an arm, whereas the lady was part of an beggar syndicate, where people are captured to beg. Women were given babies to carry to look more pitiful and a large percentage of the money that was donated to them by kind souls were given to those in charge of the syndicate, making the beggars in the syndicate genuinely poor. As many of us did not want to encourage such an dishonest act, we decided that we wanted to help the man instead. Through this lesson, I learnt that we cannot judge a book by its cover and when we want to help others, we have to learn the right way to help them. Because we may sometimes bring more trouble then help.

-Clarissa Lee