Peace Day at ISKL

Today was our peace day activity. We organised games, painting, drawing, cookie selling and online commitments on peaceoneday.com. My job was to operate a game, the game was called tangle and untangle no one joined. When I entered the global issues room I suddenly felt more happy I saw face painting, smiling faces, people having fun and people yelling "make a commitment" but not in a bad yelling friendly yelling. It made me happy because no one wanted to play my game all of lunch. I could just smell the cookies and even the keyboard felt better from the comfort of the room. Also outside everyone was happily playing games on the blue top. There were games like water balloons basket ball and even a heart shape made of people. In the end we had raised 185$ 611RM and made every one have a better mood today and be aware for peace day. We will now donate the money for t-shirts for a group of teachers running a marathon for land mine victims and AID orphans in Cambodia. With the money that the runner can donate we can give legs to land mine victims and parents for AID orphans.

I really think that between the assembly and the activities we operated today we made a big difference even though we didn't stop war we still made a big difference to our world.

blog response #1 about our assembly

What worked: When we did the dance I looked up and saw everyone dancing the dance even if they were not that into it but the crowd had told them otherwise. Also everyone was in a good mood for the assembly. Also I liked the videos about Peace they were fun.

Why did it work: Because we had taught people the dance before the assembly and had a good advertisement. Also the hard work every one put into the show really showed to the audience I had gotten many complements.

What could have been improved: Some of the CD's would not work and so home group teachers could not play them in home group. Also we need to know what time to meet before the assembly because all of my class went to the wrong room.

My job for peace day is to come up with a game to play relating to peace. I think that this is important because a game is fun and people are going to play it and be aware of peace .

What I think of piece day

1) What big ideas did you get from watching it?
That if we stop fire for only a day then many people will think that it is wrong and stop the more that stop we will have peace.
2) Why is peace so important?
Because if we don't have peace then our world will never see a end of war.
3) What are the links between peace and development?
If some countries stop war then other countries will not have to pay money and lives to defend them so they can focus on big problems like the MDG's
4) What are the hidden costs of war?
the number of lives lost, the tourism in that country, the country's development.