My diary 25/7/2013 - week 8

I studied Learning Experiences in the worksheet with Aj. Usaa Noytim. She gave us the sheet and she asked what does"you're never too old to learn" means. She asked us to explain the meaning and share idea of the proverb together. Aj. Usaa asked us to do the activities about learning experiences in the worksheet by answer the questions about the vocabularies  and share idea together with my friends. After that she advised the movie for us that's the grader. It was about a man who is 84 years old, he really wanted to study and learn more and more with the primary school in Kenya his name is Kimani N'gan'ga Maruge. It was so different age between him and other students. It was a very good movie that I ever seen. It teaches me even though we are old but we can study as other people who are young. Because we can learn anytime and anywhere we want to study, learning never end for us. Finally, Aj. Usaa asked to summaries the first grader's story and make a comment what I learn from the movie. It was a very nice lesson I can apply it in my diary life.

My diary 18/7/2013 - week7

I went to attend the NPRU national academic conference. The research for sustainable local development preparing for AEC.

 First lecturer, from Germany,  discussed the risk of earthquakes in the future as well as recent natural disasters in Thailand and  throughout South East Asia. He talked about the problems that Thailand has had with disasters. He showed us  pictures and charts of disasters in Southeast Asia and talked about how they are different from each other and how violent they can be; they can be categorized  as low, moderate, high or extremely high. We have to solve this problem for sustainable local development in Thailand because if more disasters happen often in Thailand, then we can’t develop at all. Everyone must work together to solve this terrible problem. 

The second lecturer, Surayut  Juranon, is privy counselor or former prime minister of Thailand. He discussed the philosophy of the efficient economy of His Majesty which our King has given us for more than 30 years. Mr.Surayut also explained how to apply it to sustainable local development.  He said that we have to value people and that they should learn equality and try to keep pace with the changing world so that they can develop sustainable economy. The King always gives us advice to allow us to apply in the right way. 


I got the idea to develop myself for prepare to follow the AEC that they will happen soon. They will be the unity so I have to develop my languages because it will be useful in the future.   

My diary 11/7/2013 - week 6

I had to study The age of immigration with Aj.Usaa Noytim. She asked us to answer the questions in the sheet before we read the text about immigration. I learnt how to find main idea step by step by reading. She asked to read the paragraphs and find the main idea by six steps each one paragraph. They had many exercises that we had to do. We also had to find the words from the paragraph to match with the meaning or synonyms and did the word in context from the age of immigration. For the last activity Aj.Usaa Noytim asked us to do homework that we have to organize the group for five person in one group and research to find information about immigration from our country into the united states and into our own country other countries. It was very good lesson but it was very challenging for me because it was very difficult to understand and find main idea step by step. It took me a long time to find the main idea and read many passages. I think I should try to practice more and more.

My diary 4/7/2013 - week 5

Today I had to study about identifying the main idea from a passage with Aj.Usaa Noytim. At first, she asked us to explain the meaning of a main idea and how it is important. We had to share our ideas together in the class. After that, she gave us the sheet Living in a Multicultural Society. She taught us about the strategies of how to find the main idea in a passage step by step. At first, we have to form a hypothesis and test it by reading the next sentence and ask ourselves how does this sentence support our hypothesis? If yes, the information will support our original hypothesis, if it does not support our guess, then we have to revise the hypothesis. Next, she asked us to read and practice the passages on the sheets she gave us. We practiced so much together in the class by reading seven passages to find the main idea in the passages in steps.
I think, It was such a difficult lesson because it's difficult to find the main idea; we have to read so much and do it step by step. It was challenging my ability to understand. However, I could still understand some of them and now I know how to find the main idea step by step.