Caring Citizens

In RIS, all students are considered very lucky people we are born within a good environment and an opportunity to education . However this does not apply to all children in Thailand, that is why being a caring global citizen is important for all of us. Last Friday,  three groups of students are divided and assigned to go to different community services. Some went to the Daycare Center, the blind or to the Children's Village. We all had different assignments and jobs to do there, but we were all demonstrating a caring global citizen. 
As for me, at the daycare we had to put our energy and effort forth into helping the kids learn and entertain them. Further more we organized the food stock. We all wanted to help, and to thank us they even gave us ice-cream as an award, this just goes to show that doing good gets you somewhere good. As for the blind, students understood and appreciated the differences and difficulties the blind have to face each day. Lastly, at the Children's Village, students there all got a taste of culture and what it felt like to farm. 
From the advisement trip we all learned an important lesson. All of us demonstrated that our abilities and responsibilities that were developed from school could be used to help both environmental and community issues as a caring citizen.

Patriotic Terrorists

It is clearly evident that the sons/daughters of liberty abhor the British. I as a student, easily got fooled by their so called name, "patriots." As their title says so, people assume that they were innocent victims of the British, who was struggling to fight for their liberty. These "patriots" boycotted the British in ways like the Boston Tea Party, where they destroyed valuable products. This I suppose was uncivilized and barbarous. Can we still call them patriots when ethnic groups like the Taliban are fighting for what they believe in? The Taliban is very much similar to the patriots. Their goals were to reform Muslims in countries like India, where British culture corrupted the Muslim ways. Now I shall ask, is there much difference in fighting for religious rights and beliefs, and fighting for the country's rights? And if we call the Taliban terrorists, should we say the same for the patriots? I say, the "patriots" are terrorists. Unlike Mohandas Ghandi who used non violent methods to drive out the British influence, the colonists repealed the British in a ruthless way. The Sons of Liberty beat up the tax collectors, scared them away and rebelled against all British products. Therefore it is legitimate to say that "patriots' are terrorists.