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Stanford Day 11 Group 1

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20th July, 2018 The last day of lessons came much sooner than we’d expected. We started off the lessons with Visual Storytelling. We learned that in order to tell a compelling story with photographs, we had to consider all aspects of photography: light, composition, story. What was most important, however, was the message we were trying to bring across, for that made up the core of the photograph. In the afternoon, we had Dadaist Games. We learned the background of Dadaism and Surrealism and how they connected to the culture back then. We then played some games involving creativity and collaboration with others. It inspired us to think out of the box, and we understood that by working with others, we could create works of art that were unprecedented, unique and utterly impossible without the help of other people. After class we had a fun karaoke session to wind down. Our cluster dinner was held next to our dormitory and we treasured our last chance to socialize with the i...
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Day 11 Group 3

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In the morning, we had the Visual Storytelling lesson. We learnt some phototaking skills, then we went out and practised our photo-taking outside of the classroom. We took many aesthetic pictures, both of architecture and scenery. I really enjoyed this lesson as I took many beautiful photos. After lunch, we had our class: Dadaist Games. We learnt about the art of surrealism and modernism, and we did some activities about creative writing. It was interesting and rewarding. I learnt a lot about the history of modernism. Then, we had a karaoke gathering in the French House. Everyone was hyped! We had a great time and we enjoyed it very much. It made everyone feel relaxed. We had so much fun! In the evening, we had Cluster Dinner with our friends from 1047. We gathered in the French House and chatted with each other as we had our dinner. Afterwards, we went to have the final preparation for the Global Solutions Project. Our team did a great job on the display board, and I was so pro...
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Group 4 Day 11

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In the morning, we had the Dadaist Games class. Each of us wrote a mad lib about our first impression of Stanford University and then exchanged our work to fill in blanks. We shared our finished work and laughed together as the mad libs were hilarious. We wrote poems by passing sheets of paper with a question on top to start the poem, and also by erasure of magazine articles. It was a brand new experience for us to write poems using these methods and we appreciated each other's work. The fun class activities encouraged us to be creative in writing and boosted our interest in literature. Sharing our poems with our classmates   Taking a photo after our lesson In our Optical Phenomena class, the intriguing activities granted us an opportunity to gain knowledge while having fun. Apart from the reflection and refraction of light, we also learnt about the coherence and polarisation of light. The phenomenon that fascinated us the most was the naturally fluorescent turmeric...
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Stanford Tour Day 10 Group 2

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Today, we had Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age with Joel Simon. We mainly learned about 3 aspects which made a compelling photo, which were story, composition and lighting. At first, we were really surprised by how Joel conducted the lesson. Normally, teachers would set up the agenda of their lesson by themselves before the lesson starts, but Joel set up the agenda during the class, after he asked us what we wanted to know more about photography. He also inspired us a lot by telling us it didn’t matter how good you were at taking photos, all that mattered was how the photo reflected the story of your life. We really enjoyed this lesson as we also had the chance to take photos around the Memorial Church. It was really fun and we were really grateful for this opportunity to learn more about photography. After lunch, we had Dadaist Games with Margaret. We made our poems and stories using surrealism techniques like mad libs, erasure and much more. It was really interesting b...
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Stanford Tour 2018 Day 11 Group 6

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Stanford Tour 2018 Day 11 Group 6 20th July, 2018 This is the last day at Stanford having the regular schedule. We had our last two classes of dadaist games and optical phenomena, which were very interactive and aroused our interests. In the evening, we had a cluster dinner with our international friends. We all had a great time with our new friends. The class with Ms. Margaret was really good, as we got to do a lot of experimenting. After a lecture on surrealism, dada, and the timeline of the Victorian era; we got started on our first game, where we had to make up a short story leaving blanks, and getting our friends to fill in the blanks with the correct part of speech. The outcomes were truly hilarious. After a break, we started with the second activity. Ms. Margaret gave us random pieces of papers filled with words, and we had to choose words that interest us and use those to create a sentence. We had an enjoyable time. In the afternoon, we had optical phe...
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This morning, we had dadaist games where we learnt about literature in the 19th century and how they enjoyed their literature.  We did a lot of fun activities, like Stanford Mad Libs and exquisite corpse where we had very creative answers for our questions. We also did blackout poems where we got to choose words from a page of national geographic to form a poem.  Everything was related to literature and it was interesting. After lunch, we had optical phenomena lesson, where we learnt a lot about light - its properties, and behaviors and we learnt a lot of new information about light that we have never learnt before like polarization.  It was real fun!! We also had the chance to make holograms at the end of the lesson and it was the most interactive - but also the last - lesson we had in the whole programme. We sang some karaoke of various songs from english to chinese songs to korean pop songs. We had a lot of fun and we almost ruined our vocal cords. We then...
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Stanford Group 2 Day 10

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Stanford Group 2 Day 10 (19/7/2018) Today is another day of engaging lessons and panel talks, where we were exposed to knowledge that changes our decisions and attitudes upon facing challenges. Our day started with a lesson on quality decision making with our teacher, Miss Dana . She taught us the appropriate steps on making a wise decision, through an interactive game of investment. We've fully understood about the essentialness of being clear on our values, able to make proper reasoning, and being mindful of the resources in hand when making decisions. The scenario case study on teenagers making critical, life-changing decisions on the cliff of Himalayas was thought-provoking and has reminded us not to fall into the decision traps, like banning any advice or deciding merely by fluctuating emotions. We were reminded that better decisions do not guarantee better outcome, yet they give better lives. This was a useful lesson where everyone was inspired deeply. We soon had ...
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