About Unit 3 - Human Rights & Social Justice

Our third unit has showed up in front of my eyes. It's titled "How We Organize Ourselves". This unit is not about how to organize our clothes, or our bed, and etc, it's about social justice and human rights. It's about how the organization help them and everything else about organization. If you don't know what human rights and social justice means, i'll tell you. Social justice means the fairness or law for everyone in the world. Human rights means the basic rights and freedom for all human to have. Our massive summative task is to make an organization with our group. My group is filled with 4 (including me) strong big men, Dennis, Philip, and Antonio. Our group must make an organization, we'll sell brochures and give our best power point presentation. Our group must accomplish these points:

• Name for our organization




• Developed vision and mission




• Values statement




• Organization's structure




• How it is Financed




• Our target




• The activities to help the target




• Resources needed to help the target
  



• Pictures

This task has been flying around my brain which creates a topic which makes me exceeedingly curious of what to do about it. The one topic is child soldiers. My organization is focusing on reducing child soldiers. We (as in the memebers of the organization) feels really sorry for the kids in Latin America, Iraq, Iran, Greece, Turkey,United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Burma, Phillipines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Africa. The kids their are being treated not well, they have been in the army. The kids there are not educated and that they treat a gun as their toy. The International Alliance helps to reduce this issue. We will make a video of why we should stop child soldier.

There was also a distraction on the way to accomplishing our organization. It wasn't exactly a distraction but a task that is also due. The genesis of this unit was started by a field trip to a Non-Governmental organization. My NGO is called YSKK that stands for Yayasan Sosial Karya Kasih. YSKK helps the elders and also uneducated childrens. We had to take notes in our field trips because we'll make a report about the NGO we went to. Then our group must make a power point presentation. Our group must share to the class of what we learned and what we got in the field trip. The field trip was really useful for us because we'll need some of the information to complete our summative task.

Before we started our unit, we had 3 Deep Thought Provoking Questions or the Ib call it Lines of Inquiry. Our school made 3 of its own for our unit right now. We, as in 6B, must make our own Lines of Inquiry. I have 3 new lines of inquiry which is:

1. Does Indonesia do something to help the child soldiers in the whole world? How?



2. The Government system and structure in Africa



3. Crisis prevention and recovery in Africa

Do Hard Things-Chapter 5-That First Scary Step

Chapter 5

TS The Bible verses used in this chapter are 3 Bible verses. One of them is 2 Timothy 1:7; it says “God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline” (NIV). SS That verse means that we have to use the spirits god give us. It also says that the bad spirits doesn’t come from God, but from the devil. The second Bible verse is in Hebrews 11:6. It says that “Without faith it is impossible to please God”. SS That verse means that we must have a strong faith, relationship with God. And it also means that without faith, we can’t please Him. EX. For example William Wilberforce, he had a really strong faith that he spoke to all people in the ship about God. William wasn’t afraid because he had a really strong faith in God. The third Bible verse is Proverbs 24:16. It says, for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by the calamity. SS That verse means that we must be righteous and not wicked. If we are righteous, even though we fail, we still can rise again.

1^st Zone

TS One of the zones is that God works through our weaknesses to accomplish His plans. SS This means that God not only use the best, smartest, etc, but God uses everybody. God works his big plan from our weaknesses. There are many examples of people who God used from their weaknesses; one of them is Smith Wigglesworth. EX. Smith wasn’t a smart student when he was young. Smith started to read until he was an adult. That looks impossible for God to use because what can Smith do? But with God, nothing is impossible. Now, Smith is one of the best Evangelists in England. Smith has lead thousands of people to Christ. 2^nd example is Karen Kovaka. Karen was really afraid to talk to other people and always cries if she shook a stranger’s hand. She never comes out underneath her bed because she’s too shy. Now Karen, the shy girl, is already a Community for Christ. She tells people how to overcome her fears.

2^nd Zone

TS One of the zones the twins are describing is Courage is Not the Absence of Fear.
SS This means that we cannot let fear take over us. We must beat our fears to grow and learn for the rest of our lives. There are 2 examples of a story of beating our fears. EX. Betsy was in a cafeteria. There she heard her friends talking about pregnancy. God wants Betsy to reach out to her but Betsy was afraid. Finally she regrets what the Lord had said to her. Another story is Grace. Grace wanted to tell the gospel to everyone she met in the park, she already promised God. But when she saw many workers in the park, Grace was afraid. But Grace still talk to the workers and she could enjoy lemonade with them.

3^rd Zone

TS This last zone is brought up with a title or main point which is You Can’t Get to Success Without Risking Failure. SS It means that it can’t be successful all the time. Like winning, we like winning but we can’t always win. I’ll give you an example of a boy who never gives up but finally ended up in successful. 14 year old Caleb made his bedroom a music room. He practiced using all the equipments about 70 times and failed. But now he already can use all the equipments and he and his friends have made 2 songs made in 3 months.

TS My life could look different if God overcame my fears. There are many ways I can to explain in more details. It can be different because I wouldn’t be afraid to preach. If I’m not afraid to preach, I could be a young priest. I have an example of this discussion. EX. There is a young kid in the NTT (Nusa Tenggara Timor) who is already preaching many people In the village. He is still 10 years old. I could look weird because I would preach adults and adults will learn from a kid.

TS My life would be different because if I maximize myself I could be famous. I could be famous because maybe I could be in a military when I’m still 11 years old. If I step out from my comfort zones, I could be rich and maybe I won’t be in Jakarta and Mr. P will be able to see me in the TV or hear my voice in the radio. I could rarely go to school due to the works I have for the job I’m doing. It could be different because I would be like an adult doing adult stuff. Even though I’m still a kid, I could be in big meetings. I could also meet famous people and the president if possible.

DO HARD THINGS Summary

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of Do Hard Things is a really good chapter. But sometimes i don't unsertand some phrases and i have to re-read it. Some of the parts in chapter 3 is boring, example is page 26-28. It is boring for me. There are some opinions i have for this chapter. One of them is in page 26, the first question in the first paragraph, it says,"Do you know anyone who owns a elephant?" Actually there's no problem to say that but it's weird for me. The next opinion is on page 28, the second paragraph. It says about dreaming to own an elephant, I have a question for that, is an elephant expensive, what's the price of one elephant?

My next question is on, still, page 28, 3rd paragraph where it says about attaching a ropw to a wooden post and the other end on the elephant's right hind leg. Why must it be the right hind leg. On page 29 also says about having MySpace or Facebook. What about the people that doesn't have facebook? I have more questions but I'll just comment on one more. On page 41, paragraph 3. That is unappropriate for me.

I feel that chapter 3 is a really good chapter. Especially when it talks about 3 kids, George, David, and Clara. The story was really cool when a teen could do impossible things. I feel that this book is helping us in many kinds of ways. But in Indonesia, everything else is defferent. On page 38, paragraph 2, it says what preteens are expected to do. One of them is clean your room every week, in Indonesia we have maids.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 has many inputs on a better way. The subtitle was quite weird, not really on topic. Even though, the inputs are exceedingly useful for our lifes. It also talks about the future. The future is really bright but God can come anytime. So from this point on, we must trust in God, have faith, etc. In some of the pages, it says things. In school, we're taught not to say things too much because it's not good.

I feel that this chapter is good. It supports us to really do hard things. It makes us more confident and have a stronger faith in christ.

DO HARD THINGS Summary

Chapter 1

I felt quite bored at the first chapter. There wasn’t anything I liked in this novel. The first chapter is full of boring pages (in my point of view.) But they are exceedingly wise for us to apply in our lives. After I read this chapter I felt that these 2 boys are exceedingly wise. I feel that God wants us to take a stand in trying new, impossible things. I feel these twins are inordinately blessed by God. I feel that now a day teenagers are profoundly wrong. They are supposed to take a stand and not take drugs.

What I dislike about this chapter is that it’s quite boring for me. Instead of that, there is nothing else bad about this book. The good thing I like about his chapter is that it gives us great wisdom about what teens should be in their perspective. One of the wisdom they gave us is that we must take stand. This book tells us to try impossible things. The twins can prove that they can do it in a young age. These twins have been having conferences with parents at the US. They already can do this in still a very young age. I like this chapter because they give examples like monks. Monks always choose the hardest decision even though they don’t like it. This chapter tells us to step out of our comfort zones and start to do really hard things.

Chapter 2

I felt not bored in this chapter because it’s getting better than the 1^st chapter. I felt that God is forcing us to take a stand. I feel that I must change into a better young adult like these guys. I feel that having a blog after all isn’t so bad. I felt that I will make a new blog that tells God’s word and there will be so many comments. Then, I can get them to help me make a book. I feel that we are honoring God every day, in everything we do. For the bad thing, I felt that I’m lazy to make a book. But with God, nothing is impossible.

The bad point about this chapter is that they talked about pressure in one of the pages. Sometimes when teens go to pressure, they think of suicide, drugs, alcohol, and other bad stuff. This chapter should be alert to tell in the chapter about not doing these kinds of things when facing pressure. The good point of this chapter is that they are forcing us to change. They made a blog called rebelution. The combination of rebel and revolution. This chapter tells us that God is always with us. God helps us in every situation we are in. Even though it’s impossible, God will still be with us.

Weekly Reflection

This week, we started a new unit. This unit is called HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES. In this unit we will be focusing on social justice and human rights. I focused on crisis prevention and recovery and child soldiers. Those our exceedingly important in this year. Especially Indonesia, Indonesia is facing earthquakes lately. I also focused on 2 organizations. They are UNDP and The International Coalition. We also have a project due on Tuesday. Its a poster about Samuel 2:30b. the poster must look neat and tidy. I also had a match at Saturday. It's a badminton match. It was really fun and i enjoyed it so much.

Alex Rider: Skeleton Key

So Alex jumped over the wave and the man in the jetski couldn't make it. Alex was profoundly ecstatic. He was as jubilant as a small boy who got the World's coolest toy. But when Alex reached the coast, an MI6 agent was waiting for him. Alex then have to go to MI6. Alan Blunt told Alex that a Chinese triad had been chasing him for what happened in Wimbledon. MI6 will take care of that. In the other hand, MI6 wants Alex for another mission. This time it's in aprivate island near Cuba. It's called Cayo Esquelato, or Skeleton Key. This mission isn't MI6's mission but the CIA's. The CIA will team-up their 2 agents with Alex. The next day, the 3 of them will be disguised as one family. When they were having lunch, one of the CIA agent, Turner, went to a boat to get to someone's party. Troy, Turner's partner was so worried about Turner, so Alex went inside the boat. He set a fire outside the boat to get the guard's attention. Then he went inside the boat because evereyone was immensely busy outside. Alex saw Turner being wrapped in a chair. Alex un-wrapped Turner. Then a man came inside. Alex used his handphone that can shoot knock-out darts. Alex aimed it at the man and the man was drugged. Turner and Alex jumped out of the boat and swam away. They were safe.

(summary) Alex Rider: SKELETON KEY

This week I read a new Alex rider series that is : Skeleton Key. My aimis to read the whole Alex Rider series. I've read Stormbreaker, Point Blanc, Scorpio and now I am reading Skeleton Key. I think I've read quite a lot this week. I read 1 chapter everyday. Skeleton Key is an island near Cuba. It is a private island, in the other hand, the island is very beautiful and many tourists like to visit the place. Only some parts are forbidden for tourists to visit. Alex was waching his friends playing tennis. Alex was part of the team. After the game was done, an MI6 agent, Mr. Crawford. Mr. Crawford offered Alex to be ballboy at the match tomorrow. Alex accepted the offer. The next day, after the 1st match Alex had a break. He drank for a while and he was exceedingly curious at someone. Alex was as curious as James Bond. So, Alex purposely hit the guy's hand and the handphone fell down. The guy looked immensely crossed. Alex tooj his phone and the an snatched it from Alex. The man was a horrendous monster when he snatched his handphone from Alex. Alex felt more curious, so he followed the man. The man lead Alex to a loading bay. The man knew Alex was following, and Alex knew that he's one of the gang because of what he saw yesterday. The man tried to kill Alex by using a transportation to hit him. Alex jumped and the transportation was stuck in the wall. The man jumped down and fought with Alex. He was uncharacteristically fast. Alex took a fire extinguisher and spray it on his eyes. Then he smack the man's head with it. Alex opened a refrigerator and lay the man inside. Alex locked the doors and he set the temperature to the coldest. The next week, Alex went to Cornwall with Sabina ( and Sabina's parents). When they went surfing, there was a man in black on a jetski following Alex. Alex was inordinately scared. He was as scared as a man who will get to be executed. Alex thinks it's one of the gang, they want revenge of what happened last week!