Spring 2016
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Dear Readers Freshman, you are probably more than ready to end the school year and evade the bottommost step of this four-year ladder. Sophomores, the Capstone Servi ce Project is starti ng to weigh down on your shoulders and you are probably dreadi ng i t. Juniors, just hang i n there. I’m sure there are a gazi llion of responsibi li ti es on your pla tes, but rest assured tha t you have the last year of high school to look forward to. And my fellow seniors—seniori tis. I feel you. No ma tter whi ch step of the way we are on, here’s the unavoidable pa ttern: we are all occupi ed wi th somethi ng. But even wi th our busy li ves, we must not forg et tha t we belong to a communi ty, and the communi ty belongs to us, so don’t make busyness an excuse to surpass those around us. I’m pleased to bri ng to you our second Hu mans of ICS, a photoblog tha t reaches out to faculty members and young er students to connect and capture the unheard episodes of their li ves and form a pri celess story of the ICS communi ty. Quillfully yours, Titapa C.
THE TEAM
Mr. Mark Cooprider Advisor
TITapa chaiyakiturajai EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
yihyun kwon Managing Editor
surawut withayarukson ART director
Pawat Wirawarn Pann Sermchaiwong Napassorn Wongakkarakhun Ouki Nishioka Werawut Withayarukson
Photographers
Surawut Withayarukson
Surawut Withayarukson
Haripoom Prasutchai Yihyun Kw0n Jin Ha
phatsawut achariyasoonthorn Pawan Wirawarn yunju cho Yunkyoung kim
EDITORS
Layout Designers
Pann Sermchaiwong
WRITERS Titapa Chaiyakiturajai Anvi Mehta Prisha Khimavat Arjav Sanghavi Naran Suvarnpradip Gino Lin Tim Kunopasvorakul
Vichida Phisitkul chanaradee leelamenthep Satida Limtrajiti Pawan Wirawarn Alex Nim-anong Jin Ha Janessa Looi
Tachapol Posaphiwat Yihyun kwon haripoom prastuchai Pumpanchat suthisamphat pawan wirawarn Erica kim
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Above all else we are human, and to be human is to connect. When we take a step back from the busy currents of our lives, we often times find ourselves walking in the shoes of others, learning and embracing their treasured experiences. Humans of ICS reaches out to faculty members to connect and capture the unheard episodes of their lives and form a priceless story of the ICS community. International Community School, one story at a time.
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“The best part of this job is getting to make coffee for the customers. Everybody buys a bag of coffee beans weighing 250 grams and we hold on to them so that we could make coffee for them right away in the morning.” 08
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“Be open-minded. Don’t waste your life trying to be too cool because everyone has something really amazing about them. A person can really waste his life trying to look cool. And especially when you go to college, you usually try to find people who are similar to people you used to hang out with, but like I said, be open-minded and try to hang out with everyone. - Ms. Bo
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“Dear 9th grade boys and all future ROTC students, other than preparing your papers for ROTC, don’t forget to workout too!” - Mr. Charlie
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“I’m honored to work with administrators, teachers, and staff members who work hard and love and care for students.” - Mrs. Aungsana Kinghirunwatana, School Director
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“Do you guys like the bookshelves I made?”
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“My favorite project is the band and strings room renovation. I’m very honored to be part of the change.”
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“ICS is a place where I can work to serve God, His people, and His children. For some reason, I just feel that His children are like mine—I care for them and want the best for them. Although fixing technical issues and building new rooms or furnitures are somewhat a tiring thing, because I am doing them for the people I care about, I enjoy my work.”
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“I like working here since ICS is such a close-knit community school. Seeing others work gives me motivation, and I like working here since the staff and students are all nice.� -Thongdaeng Wattana
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“I’m happiest when he gives his best.” “What about your mom makes you the happiest?” “Cuz she loves me! Duh, easy.”
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“I like to draw in my free time after school.”
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“I’m going to go each lunch with my family.”
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“I have one little sister, but she’s in my mummy’s tummy.”
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“I’m going to be in the magazine (Quill)!”
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“Me and my friend, we’re already planning our future. We’re gonna build a lab, we’re going to study the periodic table elements.”
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“There are not enough food in the cafeteria. We need orange juice. We want more drinks.”
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“Do I need to go get more of my friends? I’ve ran out of things to say.”
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“I like playing games because… the school computers are bigger than my phone.” - Pat
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“For most people, basketball is a sport where players run around, chasing, dribbling, and shooting one single ball. But to me, basketball is more than just a game; I see basketball as my friend, my family, my teacher, and my source of happiness. To put it simply, basketball is my definition of love. I don’t really know why I'm deeply in love with this sport, but I definitely know that basketball is all I’ll ever need.” -Gloria
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“I guess I like hanging out with my friends after school ends. We just talk like this really often.” - Hayoung
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“We put milk in Mr. Greer’s Lipton tea… he never noticed.”
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- krishma, yashvi, kanishka, krisha, sanya
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A Lost Ability BY AMY With the widespread emphasis on the ideology that “nobody is as important as I am�, it has become prominent that people are gradually losing the ability to listen or focus on what others have to say. When maintaining a conversation, one has to make sure answers are short and concise because if they were any longer, the listener would quickly lose focus. over the past years, I
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have come to notice that while maintaining a conversation, if I reply with an answer that is longer than one minute, the listener would either be interrupted by another person and therefore stop listening, or they would lose interest entirely and go do something else. In order to get someone to listen, answers have to be short: the shorter, the better.
this translates to students in classes too—nowadays, students have shorter attention spans and are more likely to fool around with friends and get distracted than listen to the teacher talk. And then, afterwards, these same students fail the test and blame it on the teacher’s “poor teaching”. These problems are due to the fact that many people these days are now losing their ability to listen. Topics that do not relate to the individual or a conversation that does not involve the individual constantly talking about
themselves no longer matter. It’s as if everything nowadays is “me, me, me” and hearing the constant chatter of our own voices seems to be a never-ending pleasure. So, why is this a problem? Well, over the course of history, listening has been fundamental in keeping the human race interacting with and gaining knowledge through one another. In order for there to be proper communication or a proper conversation, people must listen to each other.
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Without listening, there’d only be talking without any care for what the other person says; it would be no different from having a conversation alone with ourselves. These days, it seems as if nobody has the time or desire to hear what the other person has to say. It’s as if silence has to be filled with talking and voices overlapping one another—it’s as if a “fun conversation” is only when constant jokes are being made, but there’s no actual conversation involved. In addition, an essential source of knowledge stems from one’s ability to listen to others. To gain knowledge, one must listen to others and interpret the words that they say. Through listening, people can learn different points
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of views, gain insights on different cultures and opinions, and also acquire information on fundamental subjects. Without our ability to interpret the sayings of others, how can we ever learn from the knowledge of those around us? It seems as though our generation should take a step back and hear what others have to say before spouting useless information from our mouths merely for the sake of filling the silence and maintaining the attention on us. As an old African parable states, we have two ears and only one tongue for a reason: so we can listen twice as much as we speak—not vice versa.
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