Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Week of December 9, Evaluating Human Rights Day

Hi everyone,

Today we will reflect on the visit we had with our St Luke's buddies.

But first, enjoy these photos:


ADL training:


Alabama Banner:


St Luke's Christmas Fair:


In Google Docs, please answer these questions:

  1. What was the best part of our day? Why?
  2. What will you remember 10 years from now about the visit?
  3. What do you wish we had more time for?
  4. What part of the day should have been changed and why?
Now post your answers to the blog.

Then respond to two other posts.

38 comments:

  1. I have to say that the best part of the the day was when the buddies arrived. Everybody was just astonished about them, like if they were a new toy or something, Everybody was looking around to find their buddy and have the first words with them. All that new exciting experience was the best part of the day. 10 years from now i will remember being in the Human Rights class writing letters to my buddy Sophia, and meeting her for the first time in my school and having an existing and wonderful day with her showing her around my school, and telling her what High School is all about. I wish we had time to actually take our buddies to one of our regular classes so they could have the taste of what high school is about, also I wished we had more time to talk about us eve though we already knew each other from letters. I really don’t think that there was something to change I liked all the games we had, the food, music, and sharing. All of that was an existing adventure for me that I will never forget and will remain in my heart for ever. And who knows, maybe in a couple of years we get to meet with our biddies again and turn into great friends.

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  2. It was amazing to finally meet our buddies!! we were all very excited about their visit...
    I loved everything we did during their visit but the part which I liked the most was sharing our stories in the groups because we got to meet other buddies and also because we learned interesting things about other cultures. Another favorite part from the visit was the musical performances... Both students from St. Luke’s and Newcomers are very talented!
    Something that will remain in my memory was the moment I met my buddy, it was a little funny because even though we write long letters to each other when we met for first time we did not talked that much. (But it was only the first 3 minutes because then we started talking a lot!) so its an interesting memory... I really wish we could had more time to talk to our buddies but for that we still have the letters we send to each other. Something that I would like not to be changed but modified is the tour we gave to our buddies through the school; I think it would have been nicer if we all went with them to show them the whole school because we didn't had enough time. But after all, WE ALL HAD A GREAT DAY!! =D

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  3. I have no words to tell you guys how i felt that day, i really had fun with my buddy and others too i hope march will come fast so we can go and five them a visit. i enjoyed everything especially when i was recording others doing work i like that the most i got to learn some few things about how do i have to use the camera and record. i wont forget that day until i die and i will tell my friends about it and tell them how i felt. well.... I wish if we had more time to play more music and have fun and if the could stay until 3 instead of 2. everything was awesome we had a lot of fun.

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  4. The best part of our day was the day when we met our Buddies and were interviewing. Because in Human Rights class we were communicating with our Buddy by letters. We never saw them. It was so exciting to see them in face to face and talk with them. And practice the interview and we had so much fun while doing interview. I’ll remember 10 years from now about the visit is the moment when I was waiting for my Buddy and my friends Buddies to enter our School. they got late though we didn’t felt bore or tired. We all were so exited and energetic to meet them. I'm never going to forget this day in my life. My Buddy is so friendly and sweet.I wish we have more time to talk more with our Buddies in face to face and know each other more . And also to show our whole School to them so they can see our School. Wish to have another day like this one. And can't wait to visit again our Buddies school though went there. love that day.

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  5. That day was awesome . When I met my buddy for the very first time I was so excited to finally be able to talk to her in person . I think the moment when they came in and we had to find out who was our buddy was the best to me . This experience is now part of my life and will always be in my memories . I hope 10 years from now all of us will still be in contact with each other and looking back on that day and how we felt . One thing I wish we had more time of was that we could have played more games in the beginning but other than that everything went well (and also the musical performance ;) ) . I think everything went great as I thought it would go and I enjoyed being with my buddy and I can’t wait to meet all of them together again in March at St Luke’s school .

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  6. The best part of our day I think was during the lunch time.Everybody started to gather around and talked to each other. Then goes the Music show part. I did not know that they would love music that much like I do.I was really impressed by the buddies’ talents.They were all so amazing .What I will basically remember 10 years from now about the visit will be when we all gather playing with our buddies and had fun even though we had such a little amount of time. I will also remember when the buddies came from the first time in our school. I was all excited when we started to play and visit the school.What I wish we had more time for is the music show part. All of the buddies wanted to sing and play the guitar with us. I also wish we could have more time to play with the buddies because they were all so nice to us and awesome. About the part of the day that could have been changed in my opinion will be the time we spend. I mean we could extend it a little more.

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  7. Waoo… For me every part is memorable, the best part was when I saw all of them coming and I was trying to find my buddy, I felt like a little girl with a new doll.

    I won’t never forget that when Megan and I were showing our buddies( Madison and Lucy) the school, one of the boys in the Gym told Lucy “Hey Lucy!” and she completely changed her face, she began to be very nervous, asking how did he know her name? And after a while, we recognize that she tagged her name in her shirt as we all did.

    I wish we had more time to listen some of their talents, and ours also. They did a great performance and our classmates also. I loved to hear Tojo and Kanto singing, and also Luay played very good.

    I think that they should stay more time, it was insufficient; I wanted to take my buddy to home! They were all amazing kids, and we could know each other more if we had more time for.

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  8. 1. What was the best part of our day? Why?

    Obviously the best experience of our day was to met our buddies, it’s not the same experience to write them all the weeks that to have just one day to talk them personally. I learned a lot of things from my buddy and I had the opportunity to make a new friend.

    2. What will you remember 10 years from now about the visit?

    Hopefully 10 years from now I will still have contact with my buddy, I will remember the part when my buddy and his friend sang a song named “heartless” and specially when Christian got excited and he sang with Luay and Tojo. I’m sure that I wont forget this day because it was so special.

    3. What do you wish we had more time for?

    I really would like them to experience a normal day in high school, I think would be awesome if we can take them with us to our classes, to the gym, to our lunch so they can see that high school is not so bad as they think, it’s just like school but with more responsibilities and fun.

    4. What part of the day should have been changed and why?

    Nothing, it was a great day, everything that we did was awesome and helpful, we had an awesome day, we ate delicious food, we had a lot of fun, we just needed more time for more activities.

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  9. What was the best part of our day? Why?

    the best part of our day is work with our buddy,because we could get many happy memories from these activities. and through these activities we get more information about each other,we know our buddy’s life more deeper.

    2. What will you remember 10 years from now about the visit?
    i will remember we have a good time with our buddy in the newcomers library, even though that’s our first time to meet each other, we know each other already,in our heart we are friends. we are work together to finish our poster and talk about our life.we get many fun in the library.

    3. What do you wish we had more time for?
    i want to do more interesting activities with my buddy and i want to listen to my buddy sing the song.it’s very nice,i like my buddy singing.

    4. What part of the day should have been changed and why?
    i think a part of the day should have been changed is the time our buddy come here.if they come here early we could get more time to work with our buddy and we could create more and more happy memories.

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  10. 1.The best part of the day was when our buddies arrived we were kind of surprised and then all of a sudden it got crowded and we got busy looking for each other's buddy.i loved everything
    2. In ten years from now i will remember my buddy jack and his friends and we will be probably still talking to each other till then.
    3. For hanging around and talking and when they were all singing.
    4.The time they left ,because we actually wanted more time, they were amzaing and so much fun during that day.

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  11. Dear Luay, I think the same as you, we should have more time to see you guys playing music :-)

    Dear Megan, the same passed to me, I didn't have anything to say to Madison at first, but them we were like little parrots...

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  12. The best part of our day was the day when we met our Buddies and were interviewing. Because in Human Rights class we were communicating with our Buddy by letters. We never saw them. It was so exciting to see them in face to face and talk with them. And practice the interview and we had so much fun while doing interview. I’ll remember 10 years from now about the visit is the moment when I was waiting for my Buddy and my friends Buddies to enter our School. they got late though we didn’t felt bore or tired.
    I will remain in my memory was the moment I met my buddy, it was a little funny because even though we write long letters to each other when we met for first time we did not talked that much. (But it was only the first 3 minutes because then we started talking a lot!) so its an interesting memory... I really wish we could had more time to talk to our buddies but for that we still have the letters we send to each other.
    I wish we had more time to listen some of their talents, and ours also. They did a great performance and our classmates also. I loved to hear Tojo and Kanto singing, and also Luay played very good.I don't think something from the day have to be changed because everthing was good

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  13. The whole activities with our buddies was the best part of our day! It’s really awesome, especially when we are finish doing the activities and have a free time to talk. I feel that they get along with us really fast (less than an hour). I will still remember that they are all my friends who I hang out and joke around with in this Human Rights class. If we have more time to do anything, I would use it for games, more icebreakers, and some other cool and fun activities. The part that should be changed was the part when we did our posters. We don’t have enough time! We should do something else rather than making posters. Instead, we can make two big murals with everyone signatures on it. We could put it on the top wall in our class, so we will remember our friendship and networking that brought us really close together.

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  14. i agree with Kanto, i was so excited to finally be able to talk to my buddy.and after 10 years i think we will contact with each other because we are friends. even though we just meet once now, we know many things about each other.

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  15. For me every second of that day was just AMAZING! It was sooo nice!! For the best part I will say when we interviewed each other. B/c by that activity I got to know even more about my buddy. I could ask question to her. I got a chance to know more about her as well she got a chance to know more about me. Another thing was best to me is sharing our cultural deserts with all. I really enjoyed the deserts and I really had fun!
    I think I will remember everything about the visit 10 years from now as it was just AWESOME! I will remember me, Megan and Owen was waiting long for them and when they came we were VERY happy and we walked them to the library. Also I will remember the first expression of all when we all met with our buddy! We started to talk which was like we never gonna stop!! Then the activities and and food from many different culture. Also the teachers from St. Luke’s was so kind and so friendly. Overall everything was so nice and I think I will remember everything!!
    I wish we could have more time for making the posters as we planned for making it more creative and colorful but we didn’t get enough time. So we had to finish up without doing the things we had planned.
    I think everything was perfect so nothing needs to be change BUT it will be better if we get more time overall... =)

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  16. I agree with Kanto and me too, I will also be in touch with my buddy..

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  17. I think the best part was when we say hi to our buddies because let me tell you I didn't recognize my buddy but I was so excited to meet my buddy and have fun and she had a lot of fun. that the was the best because we look like a family. Also see everyone smiling.
    What will you remember 10 years from now about the visit?from ten years or more this visit will be unforgettable and I will remember forever. I will remember my buddy smiling and saying this is so fun. I will be my friend buddy forever. Also how much I like this class and great experience.
    I wish we can have more time to talk, do more ice breakers and the buddies to meet or teacher.
    Nothing everything was perfect I really had a great time with my buddy and see all the smile of everyone.

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  18. @luay: I agree with you, it was really fun to play music with them, I hope we have more time for it.

    @tojo: Yes, the lunch time was also awesome, we could see everyone interact with each other without any problems (boundary breaking)

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  19. @luay : I agree with you it seems like it forever until March gets here .Can't wait to see the buddies again .
    @Abbas : You are right they should have stayed a little bit longer .

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  20. My favorite part of our day is leading my buddy to my official class, because, at that time,I “force” everybody I met to say “hello” to her and welcome her. And I introduced her as a new student, they all surprised by her small age. And it’s the only time I was with her and talked along.

    I will remember the foods from different countries for ten years from now about the visit.

    I wish you had more time for performances of students, if teachers are willing to perform, it’s better.

    Every part of the day is OK, except the little lateness of cute students from St, Luke.

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  21. @JASSICA: I agree with you that the buddies are so fresh to us, like a new toy.
    @Yasmani: I agree with you that it's really nice to watch the performance of students, we all enjoyed it.

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  22. The day was something special for me which I don’t know how to explain. Every part of that day was awesome and I really enjoy it. I was surprised that she is taller than me and it’s totally different when you see a person in the picture. We talked a lot about our culture and what kind of activities we are doing. We share a lot about or country food, peoples life. My buddy is so nice with us and she was talking with me and Yingying frankly. I will remember 10 years from now that I had a good time with my buddy when she came to visit us in our school. That day was my birthday and everybody wished me all together and I would say it was my memorable birthday I ever had before. We brought dessert from our home and we enjoy it. We made the posters and doing other activities. if I had more time I would talk with more about me with my buddy. I would say we need little more time to spend. Also, I want to connected with her after graduation from high school and I want to keep touch with her.

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  23. The best part of our day was the time when we were eating pizza. That’s the most relaxing for me because my partner and me were sitting on the same table to eat, which reminded me the feeling when I have been eating dinner with my family. Ten years from now , I might not be able to remember most of things happened about the visit, but what I do remember was that I had been in human rights class in Newcomers HS and worked with kids from a Junior High School. If we had more time, I wish we can get chance to give a gift to each other, so that our friendship can be forever. I cannot think of something that need to be changed, everything we do matched with our purpose.

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  24. The best part of our day was the day when we met our Buddies.I was so excited to talk with her in person, instead of using letters.
    And i think it is so memorable, i will not forget this special experience.And i think it will be better that i have more time to communicate with my buddy. I want to learn more from her. Every part is perfect of that day!

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  25. The best part of this day is that we got talk to our buddy and learned their background. This is pretty strange that talk to a human being that you have never met before. But we talked to each other, and we made it a happy day. I will remember that i had a buddy visited me from a school which is very far from my school.and we talked to eacher ,and ate together. Especially that he performed for us. I wish we could have more time to our buddy to walk around in our school. He even didn't have chance to look carefully, because of that rush, he had to walk by. That was a very successful event. I think the teacher should work together. When we gave them the gift. They all said that their teacher didn't tell them about this. I think that make them feel awkard.

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  26. I think the best part of our day is the St Luke's Christmas Fair because I saw many children with happy face coming to play games. After 10 years, I will remember that I have I have a great experience of human right and I also will tell others about human rights. I wish we can had more time for the event about human right, maybe we can do some outdoors activities with human right class. I think everything in the day is excellent because I saw everyone enjoying their time with buddies.

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  27. 1. What was the best part of our day? Why?

    the best part of the day was the gallery walk and taking pictures with our buddies.

    2. What will you remember 10 years from now about the visit?

    ten years from now i will remember all the fun i used to have and that i will still keep in touch .
    3. What do you wish we had more time for?

    i wish we had more time doing fun activities such as writing a poem together.

    4. What part of the day should have been changed and why?

    the part of the that that should change is when they had to leave

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  28. 1.What was the best part of our day? Why?
    The best part of the day was when the buddy arrived in the school and we need recognize them. I was nervous when they was arrived there. I recognize immediately my buddy. Also the best thing is work with our buddy during the day.
    2.What will you remember 10 years from now about the visit?
    In ten years I will remember the food .and the game in which all students make a line according our birthday.  
    3.What do you wish we had more time for?
    I wish we had more time for interview and know one to other, and take more time to do the posters about ADL ( Anti-Defamation League)
    4.What part of the day should have been changed and why? 
    I think that all that we did during the day was perfect and we don’t need change any thing.

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  29. Liwei Zhou
    I think the best part of our day was the time I shown our school to my body. I really enjoyed that because I realized I have a lot to say to introduce our school to my body. I was very impressive about that. I thought this school I go to everyday, everything must be boring. But I really realized how good our school was; and It is fun to show my school to my body with proud.
    I think this visit is unforgettable. I am sure that I will remember this visit after 10 years. I will remember there is a guy we just write letter to each other; and we become friends. The most important thing is that he is 14, and he is taller than me. I will never forget about this....
    I wish we had more time for really talk to my body as a friend. Not only just base on the paper that we have to complete. I wish I could show him our school basketball team. And also, there was a game after the visit day. They have to leave at 2.
    Every thing is great. I think we can get more time to spend with body. And also, staying in Library is kind of boring. We may go to a park or museum next time.

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  30. The best part of the day was when we met with our buddies, it was nice to see them face to face and not writing letters, I really enjoyed all the activities, the games, the food, when we showed our school to them, it was fun. I will remember the day when I met with my little buddy and the way we enjoyed and shared many things together, I wish we had more time for interview and ask questions to get to know them more and tell them about our lives, I think everything was perfect for me, it was really awesome, nothing should have been changed.

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  31. Visiting you guys was so amazing and we loved it! We had so much fun, and spending time with our buddies was great. We hope in March that more people will perform, I know we are! Shoutout to Tojo and Luay, you guys were amazing!! Also, Christian you were hilarious, and you are so talented :P ! We really enjoyed eating all those yummy desserts!!!! We are looking forward to learning more about our buddies in March, and to just have another wonderful time! Thankyou to Lucy's buddy for the nice compliment on our performance! WE CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS IN MARCH!!!
    Love,
    Madison and Julia



    Julia:
    Aysha and Yingying, I had such a great time with you guys. You are both so nice and funny, and I can't wait to learn more about you! Macjec: I know you loved my drawings :P
    Luay, Tojo, and Christian you guys were soo good!! Christian you were hilarious, you have to perform again! You guys were all so nice, and I had such a great time. This day will be very memorable for me.

    Julia

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  33. @Julia: My pleasure!! =)
    @Maddy: Yes.. It was such a funny memory!

    *We can't wait to see you guys in march!! have an awesome Holiday.... <3
    Pdt. Say hi to Lucy from me!!

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  34. YES!!!!!! We also had fun with you guys... you are also nice and funny. I wish I would have more time to spend with you I would do more funny stuff.. You also sing very nice which I didn’t knew and I also looove to sing. And the poster we made it was really interesting. I can’t wait to see you in March. that day was the most memorable I ever had. Thanks to all of you to visit our school. You guys are very lovely, funny, very cooperative and unforgettable.

    Your Lovingggg

    Aysha

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  36. I forgot to tell you guys “Happy Holiday” & see you next year ^_^

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  37. In my opinion the best part was when our buddies came and we meet them personally for the first time. I was exited because finally I could talk to him. He is very intelligent person. Also I enjoyed almost all what we did.

    For sure I will remember my buddy and that day and the things that i enjoyed.

    For the whole day, it was so good I would like to meet my buddy again.

    I think a part of the day should have been changed is the time our buddy arrived in our school. If they come here early we could get more time and we will remember even more

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  38. @everybody :D nice meeting u guys and cant wait to see u in march and we will sing more songs together :P happy holidays enjoy your vacation playing PS3 Call of Duty MW :P

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