Today, we have spent time in college, working on our presentations. The topics we are focusing on are global warming, war and lack of trust. These were identified as some of the major issues facing our international community today and each presentation will focus on one of them. Students have been looking at the problem itself, possible short and long term solutions, and what sort of leadership will be necessary for these solutions to be implemented.
We have had some input from our helpful mentors, Helen and Kerena, on what makes a successful presentation, which included hands-on sessions from the students, in which they made short presentations on fairy tales, each focusing on a different aspect of a successful presentation - clear enunciation, using questioning techniques and so on.
The students also attended some classes this morning: half went to a Physics lesson, while the other half went to English classes and studied some poetry. I know they enjoyed some insight into lessons here and finding out about the differences in what is studied. I am hoping to attend a History class on Friday with any interested pupils, though I suspect they will all be working hard to tie up any loose ends on their presentations, ready for the competition later that day.
We are now preparing for this evening's cultural performance, which promises to be an endless delight of dance, song and video presentations from our hosts, and a slice of quintessential Britishness from our students. The performance from us includes some tennis, some Shakespeare and a song from Sara, our student from Italy. She has her own Italian flag to wave at the end of the piece, when we all sing Yellow Submarine.
I don't know why I am saying we - I will be cheering them on from the audience!
We had a beautifully sunny morning and then the rain started after lunch, which is not too bad as we're all working much too hard to enjoy the sunshine anyway. I'm hoping for nice weather at the weekend though, when we go to the coast. It is Western day in the canteen so we were treated to frankfurters, beans and scrambled egg for breakfast, instead of the usual noodles and vegetables.
Tomorrow we're spending the day in Kuala Lumpur, where the students will attend leadership seminars at UEM, the school's sponsor (who also, apparently, own Wessex Water, amongst other things) and HSBC. Then we'l be off to the central market and the mall in the Petronas Towers, to do some souvenir shopping, followed by the end of term Christmas feast in the evening.
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