After preparing for a couple days before all the students arrived, the South Asian students presented on their cultures for the international students. You can read more here, and see a few student interviews here, beginning with Olga!
Monica
Mohammad
Rohini
Kultwisiso
Shilpi
I often used to ask question what are friends?
I used to answer myself: friends are those who are selfish, cheater, wants only entertainment, fun and want to bully to make down. I think this thought came in my mind because there are no friends in my community. I used to live alone in my home and used to play with my dog. He used to become my friend but he is no more with me now.
In my school there are my friends but they used to bully me because I don’t belong to their class. Whenever I took part in extra curricular activities and I felt its my luck that each and every activity I used to hold the position. I never have feeling of revenge to them because I believe myself that one day I will make my school´s proud and family. That´s why today I am making them proud and I am representing my country through this 360 Plus leadership collective. So I never have feeling to make true friends because I am not able to trust them.
In my opinion friends need to be those who can be there when we need, understand each other very well ,accepting each other fault and have the relationship of long lasting.
Real friends are those who accept your past, support present and guide future.
From this leadership I am looking for the real friends and I don’t want the name of just friend.
Today I learnt some techniques to spread knowledge. Sauhard team came up with some different acts about how youth are excluded. I learnt about Fifth space . It is a space beyond Family, Friends, Education and Leisure. We had some fun activities. The session was so creative and interactive with each one of our ideas. We also discussed how young minds are being ruled by politicians and some elderly people. We had so many fun activities one of them is Power game (The person with power in ones hand can eliminate the another person by touching him/her in group of members. To skip elimination the targeted one should say someone name. ) When I was eliminated I felt excluded.
Through this game they (Sauhard) explained how important to be included in the Society or community. We were asked to make rules and laws of imaginary Island that we’ve given. We named our island as Neend island means Nap island. That was a funny name. We made our own laws and rules. Our island has National anthem too..!
By all these activities I learnt that we should build inclusiveness and communication for better community.
The plant is inside the room and it seems happy, healthy and clean to us. But the reality is that the plant is deprived of freedom. He is forcefully brought from his native place and compelled to survive in a neighborhood where he has no one to talk to and no one he can express his feelings to.
He is just looking outside the window with his tearful eyes where he sees his fellow friends living how they want to live like.
The plants outside in the field talk to each other , play around and help each other but here he is one who even has no means to express himself.
So, sometimes we need to think about how the other person is feeling, his perspective rather than us deciding how he must be feeling.
