BLOG Reflection

According to two years ago, when I was a ten grader, I wrote the independent reading responses on tons of papers. I might be exaggerated but I'm sure that you can imagine how many it is. Every Thursday night, I would sit down, take my paper out, and wrote down what I thought of my books that I read over that semester. I really like this way. But now, we are using a computer or laptop as a new technology. We write about our thoughts, feelings, and etc on the blogs.  From my view, I have faced some difficulties when I use my laptop to write reading responses. For example, when I went out with my family over the weekend like Hua Hin. There doesn't have the wireless internet for me to use, so I have to wait until I get back home and it might be overdue. However, for second quarter, I will try to figure some ways out. I will write my responses on Microsoft word first and then, I will go to the internet cafe' and put it down to my blog.

No doubt that laptop is a high technology to use and the blog creates a lot of nice pages, but for me, I think it's hard to use. I want to change to our traditional independent reading response which is writing on the papers. Some might think that writing on blogs is not waste of time, but in contrast, I used about two hours to write each response on mine because when I use my laptop, I couldn't resist to turn on my MSN or look for facebook or other websites. I couldn't concentrate that much writing on my blog.

As I'm a partner with Eisuke and Taku. I think Eisuke's comments are very honest and insightful. Every time I read his comments, it always reminds me of my mom who like to say things straight forward. For Taku, I like his unique writing. He always expresses his personality on the blog. It makes me want to write more comments.

Reading Response #6

"Escaping Paradise" made me think of the political situation in my country! After I read to chapter 51, I could see the connection from the book and myself again. Some of the freedom fighters in Indonesian was caught after their car was smashed into the tree in the city. These freedom fighters didn't resist the arrest but they didn't concede of Nicki's kidnapping. They didn't give any information or tell where Nicki was. Also, people in Indonesian started to recognize this group as political prevention. People in the country became broken in two sides which were freedom fighter side and government side.
This situation exactly reminds me of the political situation in Thailand right now. After Chamlong Srimuang, one of the leaders of the People's Alliance for Democracy, was arrested last weekend, some of the people who attend in the protest and don't like this government which is a nominee of Thaksin Shinawatra walked to a parliament and wanted to stop the conference. But, they were stopped by tons of polices who used a tear gas to disintegrate these people. It was a massive, dangerous situation. One innocent people died because of the explosion of a jeep near the disintegrated scene. Also, one person had lost his leg. This encounter led a lot of lost and a bad image of Thailand. Now, most Thai people only ask or think what side they are in. They don't consider first that we all are Thai. We live on the same land and have the same king.
From my view, one person who caused the separation of Thai people is Thaksin Shinawatra. If he didn't corrupt or buy a lot of countryside people's voice, I'm sure that the situation would be better than this. People would agree to each other and rely on the same rules. I only hope that this situation is going to be a happy ending which brings Thailand as ONE!

Reading Response #5

Have you ever had a situation that you think you are going to die? I and Nicki have had this kind of situation before. After I read to page 147, Nicki's position is getting worse. A big van of those freedom fighters where Nicki was tied inside had an accident on the way to the city. She smashed into something metal and she was bleeding all over her leg as her body scratched with the road. Then, she was pulled by those jerks like people were snatching for something and she couldn't feel anything worse than this. A minute that she was carried out, "she thought she was going to die and not see her mother ever again."
After I spent almost a year in the US, I had faced with many difficulties and pressures that made me become a mature person, not only my thoughts but everything even my shoes' size. However, regardless of the first host family's medical problem, I had to move from Virginia to Oregon. It was the most confusing time in my life. As the time passed by to November, I started to get use to Oregon and its weather. I and my Thai friend were kind of interested to join a ski club with school. So, we became the worst skier that school ever had, I think. We've been and skied at Mount Hood for many times. Once my friend was sick and couldn't go along to Mount Hood with me, I had to go up there alone. It was about 3pm. that I arrived the ski resort. Many people were queuing to use the elevator and T-bar which it will take us to the top of Mt. Hood, then we have to ski down. So, I used a T-bar to go up there and you know? Suddenly, I fell down in the middle of the white trees. One side of my ski was sliding down to another small mountain. My ankle flipped over and I couldn't feel anything because it was too cold lying on a snow. I tried to muster up my strength and crawl out from those trees. Nobody still couldn't see me. "As a minute that I laid down on a snow, I thought I was going to die because where I fell was very hard to see." I closed my eyes and thought of my family, then I heard something, "hey wake up!" A teenager boy shouted at my face and he tried to phone the safety guard at the resort to take me to the ski clinic. However, I was safe and this experience was the one that I would remember till the rest of my life!