Gavin's Reflection

Reflection on 06.10.07 Saturday 9am-5pm

Spirits: Abit high, amazingly din't fall asleep.
Biggest return: Skills on asking questions

-Definitely a long day, learnt about questions that i wouldn't have otherwise asked.
-It is the process of learning to ask questions and to question questions that is probably more important than asking questions.
-And that service learning and OCIP does have certain significant differences, but it is in the end, that the participants' mentality during the process that really matters and defines what the end result really can be.
-Different questions that I would love to ask about Yunnan
--> Religion
--> Minorities
--> Lifestyles
--> Habits/ things that defines the population
--> The rich VS poor even within the village

Task: To do research on Singapore so as to better answer some questions the Chinese may pose to us.
Sidenote: Are we the ones that are helping them or are they the ones helping us? A question that a teacher just recently posted to me, that whether overseas outreach participants are in fact "helping" people or are in a way generating jealousy and/or dependency?
*just a sidenote that we should/may be considering*

-The impact?
- And importantly, that we are in no way "superior" to anyone anywhere and that we are certainly in no position to view ourselves as 'helping' them, but rather treat it as a service.

Other pieces of information
--> 2 schools of population 200 and 270 in a village of 95% muslims.
--> Goal: building a road and to pave a possible trade route through the road
--> Project group: Forever 18
--> Project task: Photo essay