Term 3 Week 9

Monday: today we had a test on the play “Are you lonesome tonight?” Mr. Chua came in with Ms. Chala and I knew that Ms. Chala will be the adjudicator for our class. Once we greeted them both, Mr. Chua explained how seriously we should take this test and went off. Ms. Chale was left in charge. She distributed the papers and we then began. It last till the end of the period and so we didn’t have any lessons today other than the test. After finishing the test, we handed up our papers and greeted Ms. Chala and we were then dismissed. Our class behaviour was perfect today although Ms. Chala reprimanded to keep our noise level at zero as we were having a test. We behaved ourselves and I think we deserve a clap. *Clap* {:
Thursday: For today’s lesson, it was all about Famine. Starvation, hunger, shortage of food and many more… But before the lesson started, Mr. Chua scolded us for being so reckless and ridicules for wondering out of class when there was no teacher around. About 15 minutes of our time was taken away. We greeted him as usual and sat down to being our lesson. We were then given a worksheet on a picture of an African boy lying no the ground and a vulture standing right behind the boy.

This picture says a lot. What I think of this picture is that there is a small little boy crawling to the food shelter and has no energy to walk. He is dying soon and worse, there is a vulture waiting for him to die so it can feed on his dead meat. It’s really sad seeing how people in other countries have no food to eat and then we were here wasting food that we can’t eat by throwing it away. Those people who don’t have food to eat will come rushing to garbage cans looking for let over’s. This picture is also an award winning for the Pulitzer Prize by Kevin Carter. Ti is said that Kevin Carter left the scene after taking this photograph without helping the boy. It is too simplistic to suggest that he committed suicide as a direct result of his experience with this child as implied in the message. It is also unfair to judge his actions without having some understanding of the man's state of mine along with the terrible conditions in Sudan at the time the photograph was taken. This was what he said in his diary
“Dear God, I promise I will never waste my food no matter how bad it can taste and how full I may be. I pray that He will protect this little boy, guide and deliver him away from his misery. I pray that we will be more sensitive towards the world around us and not be blinded by our own selfish nature and interests. I hope this picture will always serve as a reminder to us that how fortunate we are and that we must never ever take things for granted.Please don't break... keep on forwarding to our friends on this good day..Let's make a prayer for the suffering in anywhere any place around the globe and send this friendly reminder to others; think & look at this...when you complain about your food and the food we waste daily.........”

This was what he wrote before he died “depressed . . . without phone . . . money for rent . . . money for child support . . . money for debts . . . money!!! . . . I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain . . . of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners . . . " And then this: "I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”
I feel very sad for him and that he should at least help the boy before walking off. If I were him, that is what I would do. Millions of lives are being loss due to Famine. We should also be grateful for what we have and never take things for granted. To find out more about Kevin Carter http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981431-1,00.html