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Marut and Sajinee of Bangkok, Thailand
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 Photo of Marut clowning around with Dad, Ned
Photo of Sajinee and Dad, Ned
Closeup of Marut
The above photos were sent through Ned's webcam
from his office at Red and White
in Bangkok, Thailand
Here is an update on lovely Sajinee, along with a story.
Sajinee Srichawla, 14, New International School of Thailand
"I’m planning to become a market researcher,""says Sajinee Srichawla, a 14-year-old middle school student at NIST.
The Bangkok Post
asked how she could be so certain at such an early age, she replied, "I kinda explored some things I could be. I looked through the classifieds to see what seems interesting – also on TV and stuff. I like to judge things for myself. I think, well, if I was an advertiser, would I be good at it. Sometimes I’m not creative, sometimes I am. Would it be interesting to me?"
Sajinee may never become a market researcher, of course, but chances are she will employ the same analytical skills when she does finally make her career choice.
Such thinking is second nature to many NIST students. In fact, it’s part of the curriculum. Says Sajinee, "in every subject we take they (our teachers) always tell us to think it over carefully and come up with questions that matter to us and we can relate to the topic to ourselves. They don’t tell us the questions. They ask us to come up with the questions. Then in class together we decide which questions are important to us and why."
"(This) makes us very independent", Sajinee’s continued. "It makes us always judge and evaluate what we learn. And helps us link our subjects together and think how they link together. It makes us think a lot."
Sajinee’s course of study has been designed and accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization. NIST is the only school in Thailand to use the rigorous IB curriculum for all three levels – primary, middle school and secondary. Upon graduation in four years time, she will receive an IB diploma which is accepted by most institutes of higher learning throughout the world.
The IB curriculum makes every effort to help students develop proficiency in their mother tongue. As a Thai national, Sajinee therefore has a compulsory 5-period-a-week Thai language class. "We learn Thai grammar, Thai spelling, Thai history – what you would learn in English – but in Thai," she explains.
Although Sajinee speaks, reads and writes Thai fluently, she admits that her Thai language skills are not on a par with students in the Thai school system. "I think I am at a disadvantage because I only get a period a day, so they know more Thai – they know it more fluently," she says.
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