Term 3 Week 9

Monday: Mr Chua and Ms Chala came in to conduct our Literature test. Ms Chala came in to take over and Mr Chua went out. Everyone took the exam seriously except for a few students who have to be told to keep quiet for a few times by Ms Chala. The test was not very difficult, and I hope that I could score better this time. 




  I think that some of the students have to be more disciplined in their studies. They should not create such a ruckus to the teachers. It wastes everybody's time. 


  Thursday:  It was Literature lesson. Many students went out of the classroom to check if Mr Chua was coming. When Mr Chua came, everyone rushed back to their seats. Mr Chua then scolded the class for being so ridiculous. He then told us to hand up our work. Mr Chua had to waste another 15 minutes to scold the same students for not handing up their work. I wonder why they don't they cooperate and stop making teachers to lecture them? It doesn't benefit both of them. Mr Chua moved on. He gave us a worksheet. A picture was printed out on the first page. There was some questions on the back page. The picture shows a vulture and a African child lying on the ground. 




Pulitzer Prize in 1994 by Kevin Carter


Mr Chua then told us to write down what we see in the picture. I wrote two inscriptions: "Vulture waiting for the child to die, so that it could eat him/her." and "People in Africa suffering from famine as the grass around dried up" .
Mr Chua then explained the picture and talk about famine. 



He said that the picture was taken by a photographer called Kevin Carter. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994, where a famine took place in Africa. One student asked, "Did Kevin died later on?" Mr Chua told him that he would answer his question later. Mr Chua told us that the UN (United Nations) provided food aid stations. The female child was crawling to the food aid station more than 1km away. The child was too weak to walk, and was dying. the vulture at the back was waiting for its prey to die. Kevin couldn't do anything, so he took a picture and walked off. He was criticized for not helping the little girl. 3 months later, he committed suicide. Some students were laughing at the picture. Mr Chua told us that he understood the reason why they found it so funny as they have not experienced famine before. Kevin's suicide note: "I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...."  I think that he was suffering from depression due to the things that he experienced. I feel sad for him. I think that famine is really has a big impact to describe something really devastating. Victims can really do something extreme that we can't imagine. Such things causes much sorrow, and I think that all of us should feel grateful. The students who laughed are so immature. I think that they did not suffered from things before. They should learn more about the world and get send to less developed countries to experience the people's misery. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter