Possession VS Action

It's true that when I see a sport car, I say "Wow". It's true that many times, I can't take my eyes off a blink diamond ring. Those stuffs might make me think the owners are cool at the first few minutes but then, I forget that they are cool because of those wealthy objects.

My parents are not rich but they are important to me. Even though my sisters always quarrel with me and use my stuffs without asking for my permission, I miss them a lot here. My teachers own second hand cars. Some of them ride bicycles to the campus but they all are still important to me. What you have doesn't matter to me to consider you more important than that cute girl with a brand name bag whom I don't know. What you're doing and have done is the core value.

So, what make a person long-running important for me are their precious mind, our experience and relationship and whatever they've done to me. That make me feel to be responsible for not hurting their feelings and trying my best not to lose them just because they're supreme.....to me.

Is all mankind the same or different?

I don't think people all over the world are very different but we're different somehow. (??!!)

Physically and traditionally, we all are different. Our finger prints never be the same. We have different beliefs. We react to a certain situation in the different way. Even though we're from the same country or sharing the same tradition, we still slightly have something different. Fon (my Thai friend) and I are both Thai. We speak Thai. We have great respect to the King of Thailand. She believes in Jesus. I believe in Allah. She drive to school. I ride a bicycle. She speaks politely. I shout. The differences reveals (may be) because we're raised in different place among different people. The environments we are in make you are "you" and I am "I".

Anyway, I believe that we're psychologically the same. No matter where we are from or what we believe in, we all need care, love, self-esteem, being accepted and so on. Of course, all mankind need peace.

In my opinion, the differences are the challenges for us to learn and understand. When we understand each other, we can automatically create love and sisterhood/brotherhood among us. With our open-minded to learn and accept the differences, there'll be no fight, no war. Here comes PEACE.

Walking Tour

I've walked on Water Street and to downtown - Eau Claire a few times. Every time, I'm astonished by the unique buildings. They look completely different from the buildings in Thailand. Here, many old buildings still remain. I'm a person who loves taking pictures. When I first walked around downtown, I took lot of pictures of buildings here.

Last week, I's assigned to take a walking tour in order to take pictures in front of 5 historical buildings. At first, we were about to walk downtown but when we took a careful look on the map we printed out from a website, we found out that we didn't have to walk that far. We can find a lot of historical buildings on Water Street (It's on the west side of the map.) and the area near by!

John Pinkum House is the first place we stopped by. Look! The house is pink and I was in pink. Haha.

I'm not a direction person, so such sign (on my left hand) helped me a lot to find an antique building. :)

Charles Ingram (the owner) was a son of a lumberman. No doubt, there are a pile of logs in the house.

Here's the First Congregational Church. Before we reached there, we heard the bell rang. It's was calling us for a visit.

I was in the Randall Park. The statue in the photo is "Adin Randall Statue". Who's Adin Randall. Below is the answer.

The picture answers the question! Adin Randall is the one who gave this park to the city of Eau Claire in 1857. It's a beautiful and peaceful park. Let's see how gorgeous it is.

Dun dun dun!!

I know, it's cool. Hah ha.

First School Week in UWEC

I can obviously see the differences of students' behaviors in the U.S. classes. In Thailand, students wear uniform to school in almost every university and if it's the made up class, it's impolite for students to wear flip flop to the class. So, eating and drinking are also not allowed in the class. It's not a rule but a norm. But here in the U.S., students can wear whatever they want (I haven't seen girl students in shorts, anyway, which is pretty good.) and they can put any food in their mouths during studying in the class. I once saw a student ate snacks while she's listening to the professor!

Even though students here are allowed to eat in class, they participate in the class actively. That makes me feel as if I was the least smart student in the class. (Maybe I am but I wish I'm not.) As a student of Faculty of Education, I wish classes in Thailand would be lively as these in the U.S.