8/7/2016
We had a lesson on
decision making today. The teacher shared his experience in his life of how he
made his decisions. It is very inspiring and we have understood more about
making decisions when we come across dilemmas in life. He also showed us a
video about students visiting a high school in Nepal, and what difficulties
they faced during the journey to the school. They have to choose to return or
to continue their trip. If we continue the trip, we can choose to go by an
alternative path or by helicopter. We
all thought about the advantages and disadvantages of all the choices. The teacher also taught us to draw a diagram
which is similar to the diagrams we drew at school, they were related to probability.
Half of us chose to return and half chose to continue the trip. At last the
people in the video chose to take the
helicopter as they hope not to see any injuries or take risks.
After lunch, we went to have creative writing lesson. The teacher first played a bingo game with us, then she talked about what is rhetoric. She discussed with us what ethos, logos and pathos means. She showed us some advertisements as well as letting us find what elements the advertisement fulfills. Then, she asked us to work in groups and create our own advertisements with the topics on self-controlling car, camera in eyeballs and one way trip to Mars, etc. We had learnt more about the techniques of writing a persuasive advertisement.
After lunch, we went to have creative writing lesson. The teacher first played a bingo game with us, then she talked about what is rhetoric. She discussed with us what ethos, logos and pathos means. She showed us some advertisements as well as letting us find what elements the advertisement fulfills. Then, she asked us to work in groups and create our own advertisements with the topics on self-controlling car, camera in eyeballs and one way trip to Mars, etc. We had learnt more about the techniques of writing a persuasive advertisement.
When we arrived at our
dorms, the counselors had prepared a scavenger hunt for us. We had to run to
different spots and do different tasks, such as taking photos with tourists and
taking pictures with a dog, etc. Our teacher, Mr Wong ran with us also. We made new friends as we were working with
other groups. We all cooperated and it
was fun as we played along the fountain.
The tourists were very nice as they cooperated with us also. Although we had not finished all the tasks,
we had a great time.
After dinner, we had a house
meeting at the common room as we are going to have an excursion to San
Francisco tomorrow. It is the first external trip for us to go outside of
Stanford University. The talk would help
us stay safe. We are looking forward to
it and we can’t wait to start there soon.
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