Hello! I am Minnie and is currently in middle school in class 8-6. In Ruamrudee International School, the grades are divided into sections. I am born in Thailand and is also living in Thailand. The weather here is really hot and sunny but some mornings are quite cool.Since it's usually hot and sunny, we could eat ice cream any day we want not like countries with snow. I can speak Thai, English, and Chinese, but my Chinese is not that fluent. At school, almost all our classes are in English except Thai class and language class. For the language class,we could choose any language to learn. I chose to learn Chinese. Chinese is a hard language with all those difficult and complicated strokes and characters. Whenever I have free time, I will usually play games, read books, listen to songs, and watch movies. Tetris Battle is one of my favorite games. I play it whenever I want to have a break from my homework. In school, we had miss lots of school days due to the flood. So now we have longer school days. Other than having longer days, we also have to come to school on some Saturdays.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Cool and Creative Innovations Invented During Thai Flood
Thai people are getting really inventive and creative with trying to think of new innovations that would help them adapt to the current flood. Now because of the flood, people couldn't live their normal lives where it's easier to do things and travel to places. Therefore they now have to live a new way of life that weren't prepared for at all. They have to wake up early in the morning to get to work and it takes hours longer to get to their work place than before. This is not the way of life they choose to live but no matter what they still have to face it and live with it. Although Thais are living under this awful condition, they still try to think of new ways to live easier.
There are lots of innovations that were thought of and invented during the flood by Thai people. One of them that appeals to me most is the flood alarm that is made of a pipe and a ping pong ball. This is very creative because we have never thought of something like this. It looks simple but is really useful and effective. This creation would allow people to sleep at night and not have to worry so much that it would flood while they are sleeping. This would also enable people to have more time to pack and move out before it is too late. This is a small issue compared to the bigger problems that lie ahead. Still the students took this issue up and made an innovation to help people with this problem. It was really clever and creative of them to design this. This would help lots and lots of people under circumstances like this. I also am looking forward to using it for it would be really helpful!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Troubles caused by The Flood
Bangkok is currently flooding and is creating lots of problems and complications. This flood has caused lots of trouble to people; some people had lost their jobs while some lost their houses and loved ones. If our house is flooded, we will have to lose all our pets like fishes and dogs but it's not likely that my house will get flooded. Our house is not likely to get flooded because it is built quite high.
The flooding that is currently happening in Thailand hasn't affected me directly yet, but it had caused my family and cousins lots of trouble already. Before moving to Pattaya, my family and I helped carry all the furniture upstairs except the sofas, chairs, and tables. Then my mom had covered the piano with a waterproof bag. We did this to protect the piano from getting wet and broken.We didn't want to lose the piano for it is very expensive. My family and I then moved to Pattaya for a while because we thought that our house was going to flood soon. When we came back home, we were surprised by how dry it was. We had gone away to avoid the flood but it ended up that we had wasted a lot of money for nothing.The trip has cost us a lot of money due to the expensive hotel rooms. We had no choice but to stay at expensive rooms because other hotels and rooms are already occupied. The flood caused my aunt to have to flee out of her house without even packing. While my other aunt has to continue living in her flooded house because there was no way out. Unfortunately, the flood hit my cousin's house in the middle of the night and no one was aware of it. In the morning after they have found out that their house was flooded but it was too late. Everything on the first floor was now underwater. All their old things collection was gone with the water. Luckily they were able to get out of the house and are now living in a condo.
Now that some factories are closed down, prices tend to get higher. It is hard to transport certain goods due to the flooding. Some factories are only closing because of the flood while other factories are permanently closed. For this, many people are losing their jobs and are not able to live and survive.
Even though we are still safe and dry, there are other people who are living miserably because of the flood. My parents and cousins have helped them by donating money, food and things for them. Here are some pictures of people who are affected by the flood.
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The flooding that is currently happening in Thailand hasn't affected me directly yet, but it had caused my family and cousins lots of trouble already. Before moving to Pattaya, my family and I helped carry all the furniture upstairs except the sofas, chairs, and tables. Then my mom had covered the piano with a waterproof bag. We did this to protect the piano from getting wet and broken.We didn't want to lose the piano for it is very expensive. My family and I then moved to Pattaya for a while because we thought that our house was going to flood soon. When we came back home, we were surprised by how dry it was. We had gone away to avoid the flood but it ended up that we had wasted a lot of money for nothing.The trip has cost us a lot of money due to the expensive hotel rooms. We had no choice but to stay at expensive rooms because other hotels and rooms are already occupied. The flood caused my aunt to have to flee out of her house without even packing. While my other aunt has to continue living in her flooded house because there was no way out. Unfortunately, the flood hit my cousin's house in the middle of the night and no one was aware of it. In the morning after they have found out that their house was flooded but it was too late. Everything on the first floor was now underwater. All their old things collection was gone with the water. Luckily they were able to get out of the house and are now living in a condo.
Now that some factories are closed down, prices tend to get higher. It is hard to transport certain goods due to the flooding. Some factories are only closing because of the flood while other factories are permanently closed. For this, many people are losing their jobs and are not able to live and survive.
Even though we are still safe and dry, there are other people who are living miserably because of the flood. My parents and cousins have helped them by donating money, food and things for them. Here are some pictures of people who are affected by the flood.
http://images.google.com/imgres?q=the+flood+in+thailand&hl=th&biw=1366&bih=643&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=U1_OhHsVCfvuNM:&imgrefurl=http://nikonrumors.com/2011/10/10/thailand-flooding-reaches-nikons-factories.aspx/&docid=yI1hhNehLU5S5M&imgurl=http://nikonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Thailand-flooding-Nikon-factory.jpg&w=618&h=436&ei=WR6yTqjqAc-mrAfWzoCNCA&zoom=1
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