Hi everyone, for this week there were many things happened at the college. The first important event that happened in this week was a meeting with a JPA officer .It was held on Tuesday in the function room. The meeting started at 11a.m. and ended at 12.30 p.m. The purpose of the meeting was to know about our problems and also to know whether we are doing well in Ausmat or not. We also were given an opportunity during the one and a half hour meeting to ask some questions regarding about our scholarship programme and also about the place that we prefer to study in the future. At the end of the meeting, the officer advised us to put a lot of efforts in order to continue or study in Australia.

For the economic lesson, this week we have a group discussion in the class. For the discussion, we were discussing Australian economic indicators and we were asked to plot four different graphs for different types of indicators. We also learned about the fluctuations in economic activity which take place during the business cycle. While for the Chemistry lesson, we learned about shapes of molecules. There are seven different shapes of molecules with different names and sizes for each shape. We also learned about intermolecular forces between the molecules. While for the Physics lesson we made some revision on sound waves.

For the English lesson we watched all the trailers done by my classmates ( including my group’s trailer) for the documentary. For my group, my group members decided to do a documentary on Fusion Food. Do you know, what is exactly the meaning of fusion food?.Fusion foods are foods that combine elements of various culinary traditions while not fitting specifically into any. We decided to choose this topic for our documentary because it is something interesting and something that many people are not aware of. In our documentary we try to relate and emphasise that fusion food can be related with cultural diversity and also the impacts that the existence of fusion foods have on local traditional foods.

For the purpose of the documentary, we have interviewed some of the local people to ask about their opinions and preferences, whether they prefer local traditional foods or fusion food. We also went to a nearby ‘Pasar Malam’ to take some pictures of local traditional foods there. We also have interviewed some of the food sellers there.

Another important event that happened this week is that we watched Bowling for Columbine on Friday evening in the LT6.It is an American documentary film directed by Michael Moore. It is a film about the violent crimes that happened in the United States of America. In this movie, Michael Moore tried to portray about America’s obsession with guns and violence. One of violent incidents shown in this movie is the incident occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine .Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre(mass murder), killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. This incident is almost the same with the incident that happened in the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (The Virginia Tech massacre) on April, 16, 2007. So, why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence?

So, that is all for this week. See you again. Bye…