For the first lesson, I have heard that we will be going either Taiwan or china for the OELP trip. So I'm really excited! But once I know that we will be assessed after the trip, my mood dimmed a little as we can't really enjoy ourselves. But I'm still looking forward to the trip in term 2 week 10. That lesson is also the first time our group created a blog and our first post is posted.
And for the second lesson, we saw 2 pictures of beggars, and we have to choose one of them to help. One of the beggars is a guy who is robbed and has mouthing left. Another begged is a lady carrying a child and wearing thin clothings in the chilly weather. At first I chose to help the lady as I thought that it may be difficult for her to go to work and take care of her baby at the same time, while the guy could just get up and start afresh even though it may be tough. But after knowing their background, I chose the help the guy. The guy has only an arm, which resulted in a limited number of jobs he could do, while the lady was from a "beggars' company ", where she was asked to carry a child and let others donate her some money due to empathy. I think that I should not help the lady as most of the donations will go to the boss of that company, and in the end, the beggars get barely enough money, while their boss get to enjoy themselves with the rest of the money. And if many donated to her, the boss may think that this is a good way toe ran more money, and thus may employ more beggars to work under them. As compared to the lady, the guy has only an arm, which is really hard to find a job. In a nutshell, this lesson taught me that we should never judge anything or anyone just by the surface.
And the lesson also touched on the topic of poverty in Singapore. And I learnt that the difference between the rich and poor is quite big. And the poor will always be poor and hard to get rich, there is something called the poverty cycle, where the poor has no money to provide their children with education, so their children will hardly do better than their parents, and thus wouldn't be able to get jobs with high salary, and so there will not be enough money to provide education for the third generation, and the cycle repeats.
In conclusion, it was a fun time going for CID lessons, I believe there is much more to be benefitted from this lesson. And I must say, this CID lesson is a fun and at the same time, an educational lesson, that I enjoyed a lot.
