Journal Writing 2 - Angeline Kwok

Part One

I do not have a best friend neither did I regard anyone as my best friend. I treat all my friends equally. My friends are from all races and religion. I do not think "ee.. you not chinese. I don't want to be your friend". I feel that this thinking is very childish. It is like in primary school that we say all these. The skin colour does not matter. Your skin may be any colour but I look at the person's personality. I think that it is the heart that matters!

Part Two

1. Character
2. Circumstances
3. Age
4. Gender
5. Race

Character
I feel that the character is the most important. If a person's character does not go well with me, I do not feel comfortable talking or working with that person. I will feel quite irritated in fact! A person must have a good character in order to work well with his/her team mates. If someone points out a point that needs improvement, we should try to change and not be stubborn.

Circumstances
In sports, it is important to have sportsmanship. If we do not have sportsmanship, team mates will feel rather difficult to work with us. If we do not have team work in games like netball, I would not be able to play properly. That is why the coaches always shout for us to communicate with each other during games. If not we will all run the same place and it would be very messy. This will not help in the game. It is the same in school and everywhere else. If we need help we can always turn to a friend!

Age
Image a person older than you by maybe 10 to 20 years. Would you be able to communicate well with them? I don't think so. They would most probably misunderstand what we want to do.
Because of this age gap, it is difficult for us to commmunicate well. Nowadays, students usually talk about some popstars and singers. But in the past for the adults, they do not talk about the same topic like us. There are bound to have somethings that we do not understand about each other.

Gender
Be it male or female. I do not mind. As long as I can work well with them. It is okay to sit around and talk to a guy. When we were young, rumours will pass round if we start to sit and talk to a guy. This never happen to me before because I'm from a girls school.

Race
No matter what colour each and every person's skin colour is, it is important that we do not think that it is because of their skin colour that we do not want to work with them. It is rather insulting if a person finds out that you do not want to work with them because of their skin colour. Race is not a problem!

Part Three
YES! Racial harmony day has definitely served its purpose. I got to know more about other races' traditional costumes and food. I learnt alot during racial harmony every year. It would be better if we could learn about the traditional games that different races play. Hope this would be part of it next year.