Global Citizens

I participated in many charitable events throughout my life. On this Page, I reflect on how charitable and global I really am.

Involvement with Others

 During my past years, I was involved in many charitable events. The one single thing that makes events like these fun, hard-working and collaborative is/was that we work with many different people from many different cultures that actually want to make the world a better place, just like us.

 For instance, the Coca-Cola team (which included my Dad) and I participated in the Habitiat for Humanity event, where we had to construct and build a house for the poor. We worked hard underneath the hot scorching sun and got treated with some Coke branded refreshments. Interior and exterior, inside and out, we were constructing like machines! Furthermore, I did some of the hardest jobs during the construction process. I mainly did the foundation (which included making bricks, building the mesh, placing the bricks, block by block and digging the soil (our main ground)). To add to this hard work (on a poor little man), I also painted the interior. This job was the quickest and lots of fun, since I was using simple tools. But, on the other hand, I was very careful on the walls that I painted, avoiding any white (or beige) spots, which totaled down to the average, or mean (I hope you're happy, Mr. Lee!) of 10 minutes per wall portion.

 At the end of the day, I wasn't making myself happy. I was making the poor happy, and happy for a good cause. We walked home with smiles on their faces, and everyone was just thankful of them.

 Reflecting on Change 

 When I was first born as a baby, the only people that I knew from that point in time were my mother and father. I got to know their lives as humans and I got to know their personal attitudes. As I grew up, into my pre-school child years, I was faced with more children my age, and lots of them were from different countries of different cultures. I was scared and horrified, at that time, I didn't know anyone from other countries. I only knew myself and my country - Australia - and its local people. As the years went by, I was transferring to primary school - into the 4th grade. By the time that we had to move to Thailand in the same year, I was worried. I was moving to an international school (ISB), which meant that I would see children and adults from a variety of global countries. On my first day, I was in trembling and in tears while walking into my classroom, with the 24 students staring at me while I sat at my seat. One student came up to me and greeted me. The person who met me was Lorien Bond Hinsz. He was American, and came from Kenyan African roots. At first, I wasn't used to Americans, but soon, I got accustomed to them and started meeting more students, who later became my friends. As months went by in my new school, I started getting used to the societies and cultures of people around the world and started acquiring the 'tastes' of the world. By that time, I was finally becoming a global citizen! The year ended with a BANG, as I finally made a life-changing achievement. One year later, I moved to another international destination - Indonesia. But, something