Reflective Essay "What adults can learn from kids?"

 Hi, my name is Maya Lee, and today I want to share about "What adults can learn from kids?" A speech by Adora Svitak.


 Adora Svitak is a child prodigy who first published books at the age of 6. Also, she did some many speeches. She is a teacher, speaker, writer, and awesome blogger! But this is the only part of it, because she has many talents. But today, I'm writing an assignment about her TED(Technology Entertainment Design)speech. First of all, I was pretty shocked when I watched her speech. She used some hard vocabularies, and nice topic. But one thing that shocked me even more is--her age. She was only 12 when she did the speech. As you all know, TED is where professionals of professionals talk about their career/life. So it'll be very hard to imagine that a 12 year old girl is standing in the big stage with adults audiences. I think that the adults never thought that, one day a child would go up on the stage, and make a speech about themselves.

 < Adora Svitak TED speech>

 As you can see on this video, she talked about the "childishness" and how the adults should be like children. She compared the child, and the adults, and how they think differently. Adora advocated a sort of "Kid's RIght's" sentiment, arguing that adults should take young people more seriously and more interested in learning from kids. She says that because kids tend to be less constrained by social norms than adults as we get older, young people can often offer a unique and perhaps more creative life.

 I agree with Adora. Most of my friends talk like adults, dress like adults, and think like adults. It's kind of annoying talking to them. They don't understand what I'm saying, and as a matter of fact, I can't understand what they are saying.

 Also, adults want everything to be perfect. They want everything to be good to them. They want better and better and better. Isn't that the reason why they had wars? Isn't that why the adults think only about themselves?

 Space is my dream, and I always think about Space. One day, I was thinking about the aliens of Mars. When I asked my friends for their opinions. But all they said was-- "There are no aliens. If you want to go to NASA, think more scientifically!"

  I was surprised then, but now I think that people's mind should be independent like a child. A child thinks freely like a wide open space, but grown-ups thinks only in a notion. So, I think that's a problem that we are having today.

 We children is the leader of tomorrow. We are the one who will lead the future. But if we learn some of those from the adults, this world will never be in peace. So, grown-ups should learn these from the children, and lead this world until our generation comes.

Diamante Poem

 Hi, guys! I'm Maya Lee, and today I wrote a diamante poem.
It's about the Africa and the North pole.
Here it is.

Africa

Trees Wilderness

Sweating running Sun-shining

Lions Tigers Polarbears seals

Freezing Snowing Shining

coldness Aurora

North pole

 Hi, my name is Maya Lee. And today, I ‘m going to write an assignment about Joseph Kony, and my opinions about making him famous.

 Okay, you may know Joseph Kony, or you may not. So I’ll explain about Joseph Kony.

Joseph Kony is the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army(LRA). An Ugandan guerrilla group. Kony has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child-sex slaves, and child soldiers. An estimated 66,000 children became soldiers and two million people have been internally displaced since 1986.(Source:Wikipedia).

The film—“kony2012” is made by Jason Russell. Director and founder of some site called—“Invisible children”. Mr.Russell promised young boy named Jacob Acaye.(Who was kidnapped by LRA)that he will do everything to “stop Kony”. But sadly, many people don’t know about Kony, which I think we should make him more famous that people will be interested in.

 Now, I want to share my opinions about this video. I think that making him famous is a very good idea. This famous depends on “the purpose of this video”. And there’s only one answer—For the Ugandan children who is suffering much pain right now. Some people say that this video is for the resources etc.etc. But we saw the video, and we saw the promise of Mr. Russell. Ugandan children is sacred of what will happen next. And I think we should do whatever it takes to save them from Kony. For that, making him famous is a right way to do it. When there’s something famous, people watch more and more and more. Then, they begins to feel excitements. And in this Kony situation, they becomes furious about Kony, That they join the campaign.

 Also, the best part of Invisible children’s video was the building schools and creating jobs platform. Teach the Ugandan children about peace and give them the tools to fight fair for democratic nation. Mostly located in another nations. They don’t belong where they’re supposed to belong. They’re holding guns instead of books.

 But there are some people who disagree with the video—“Kony 2012”. But they’re just disagreeing because they’re afraid of what the LRA will do. They think that they will be more powerful when they’re out of the hiding place. But, your word can be more powerful than guns. Their army is much smaller than ours. The whole world became one. And the Ugandan children is depending on us. So, let’s join this campaign that will change this world.

 So I think that making famous is a good idea. Ugandan children is waiting for your help, This campaign is not for us, it’s for the Ugandan children. And I think we should keep doing it, for the Ugandan children, and for the world. 

The three things that I know to be true

"Welcome to my blog!"

  Hi! My name is Maya Lee, and I welcome you to my new blog I'd like to call--'Little Einstein's stories'.

Today, I would like to share "The three things that I know to be true". I finally chose the best three things that I want to share with you guys.

 Space fascinates me. When I was little, I found nothing interesting. It was just some same old darkness, with same old stars. And it was common to see bright stars then, so it wasn't exciting. But now, when I look at the Space, it's so cool, and so amazing! Also, my future dream is to become an astrophysicist of NASA. And of course! I'm very fascinated in Black holes, and Mars. My friends say I'm crazy. They thinks that Space is just some boring thing. In fact, they thinks that watching some television show is much better. But, I say different! Turn off some television show, just for a day/week. And then, watch the stars of the Space. Maybe next time, you can join me watching some stars.

 Second, traveling thrills me. I like to travel and learn some new cultures about other countries. I've been to Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China, Austria, and etc.etc. But, I've never been to U.S.A, that U.S.A is the only country that I want to travel. I really hope that I'll be able to travel U.S.A very soon.

 And lastly, learning some new languages excites me. I'm learning some Japanese now, and it's so fun! It's fun like learning English.
I think I like to learn some new languages, because I'm just excited and happy for just speaking other countries' words. Maybe that's why I joined the 'GLPS' camp.

 This was my 'three things that I know to be true'. Maybe, you guys can share some of your 'three things that you know to be true.' I'm really looking forward to see your stories. Oh! and don't forget to leave some comments!