Skype in Suzhou

 On Wednesday, we had a Skype Session with Mr.Jarret Brown's MYP students of grade 6 from Suzhou Singapore International School, China. 

Our main objectives are to -

• Collaborate with other students and schools, no matter where in the world they are
•  Take a virtual field trip to any place
• learn more about different people and places

Mr. Jarret started off with talking about their country and the environment. Consequently, Iliyan and I introduced our class and talked about India. They were also doing the 'Organizations' unit. we talked to them about organizations, as well as our PYP Exhibition. 

The funny thing was that there were students from all countries other than China! We met people from Germany, Australia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Beijing and many more.

Based on the six topics : Global Warming, Wildlife, Human Rights, Corruption, Terrorism and Poverty, we asked them many questions about the action that they were taking and how it had an impact on their lives. They spoke about n=many organizations such as :

• UNICEF for children and women
• Catnip for cats and their safety
• Animal Asia which helps conserve bears and elephants

They talked about the problems they were facing because of these issues and the actions taken. 

1. Global Warming - The school has air purifiers of the bad pollution and smog. No harmful materials are used and everyone tries to recycle, reuse paper.
2. Terrorism - There has been a lot of bombing.
3. Poverty - Their is economic imbalance. Where as in some parts of China like Beijing, Chen Mei the government is getting richer and richer, in other places more of the population is going below the poverty line.
4. Human Rights - To prevent abortion of the girl child, hospitals do not reveal the gender of a baby. People are spreading awareness by funds and posters.
5. Wildlife Conservation - They talked about the different organizations working towards it, and how they themselves are volunteering.
6. Corruption - They talked a bit about the government.

Even they asked us a few questions about India.

It was a really exciting, friendly, informative, interactive and amazing session!!! :D