Reflections on Learning!

One of the best modules I have ever taken is ES2007S since my two years studying in NUS. From this module, I have really grown alot and become more confident! I am also very happy to know and make friends with most of the classmates in group 4. What I have truly gained in this module is the life skills, writing skills and presentation skills.

The life skills that ES2007s introduced, served as a reminder to me of how to deal with difficult people and to control my emotions. This module has provided an opportunity to test whether I can effectively apply the lifeskills to good use. I have learnt how to understand people with different personalities and try to empathsise with them. Moreover, I have learnt to be a good listener to find out what problems my group members faced when doing the project. From there, I will try to provide advice and see if I can help them on my part. My group members also listen to my problems and we help each other whenever we can. We get to know each other better as we shared our own personal experience together. From there, I have gained insights of how to deal with problems with different sets of methods.

One of the challenges faced by me is getting the international schools' interviews. Having no connections with anyone from the foreign schools make it even harder for my group to get an interview response as compared to the local schools. Furthermore, this is my first time contacting several private organisations to request for an interview. This was the time where I really have to make use of the interview skills which I have gone through during the peer teaching to good use. As I am not very good at English, I have to read through the emails several times before clicking the send button. Nonetheless, this has led me to be more careful whenever I send emails to anyone. Moreover, I learnt to be more confident of myself when I spoke to the management staff of the international schools, making sure that I do not stumble when explaining myself and convince them to accept the interview. All these are really invaluable experience that I have gained throughout this course. There were also times that I felt frustrated as the intended interviewees did not respond to my emails or phonecalls. But surprisingly, my group have secured two schools' interviews on the same day after spamming many emails. That really makes my day and make me realised that as long there is a will, there sure to be a way out!

I think my group has succeeded in presenting our project is because all of us are open-minded and willing to listen to everyone's ideas and opinions. It is impossible to have a perfect group where everyone is perfect. What we can do is to work with whatever resources we have and gather everyone's strengths together, making the imperfections into perfections. I will say that I am very lucky to have cooperative and responsible team members (Yu Tian, Paula and Isaac) in my group. I really enjoyed working with them.

I hope that even after ES2007S, I will continue to apply what I have learnt to good use. I know it is inevitable that I may meet monsters in the future. But I will remind myself of EQ! No matter what kind of monsters I meet, I can still deal with them and not let them affect me in anyway. At the same time, I do not believe that I will be so unlucky to meet monsters all the time, I am sure to meet some good people. With communication skills I have learnt, I hope to establish good relationship with everyone.

12 weeks have come to an end really fast, just like a flash... But I am sure that I will miss the class discussions I have together with my classmates and Brad's funny stories. Here, I want to wish everyone all the best in their exams and future endeavours! By the way, after the end of ES2007S, I still do not know how to add the blogging list. Can anyone teach me how to add the blogging list to my blog? I always have to go to jac's or benjamin's blog to view other classmates blog. Thank you.