Pattaya Lions donate to local school

Lion Somchai Manothaworn and members of the Pattaya Lions Club organized a local charity on October 8 in celebration of International Lions Day and 85 years of service under the motto “We Serve”.

Pattaya Lions Club - “We Serve”

The members of the Pattaya Lions Club presented trees for planting and gardening tools for use at Pattaya City School 1, supporting the school’s beautification and environmental programs.

Later in the day the Lions from Pattaya joined other Lions from Pratumnak to prepare activities for the evening and continue to serve the community.

This year, 15 students from the International School of the Regents are taking part in the International Award scheme. The International Award in known in the UK as the Duke of Edinburgh Award after its founder and is well established in many countries worldwide. It aims to provide a challenge for young people between the ages of 14 and 25. The programme is made up of cultural, practical and adventure activities covering four different areas: service, expeditions, skills and physical recreation. Participation is voluntary with students choosing their own activities within the four areas and then setting personal goals.

Dinner time! Students participating in the International Award scheme prepare their barbecue dinner during an overnight camp in the school grounds.

Students participating at ISR will be involved in all sorts of projects covering the four areas nominated by the award. Recently, in preparation for a weekend camping expedition to a local island, the students pitched their tents and camped in the school grounds for a night. They also prepared their own barbecue dinner.

Other activities include helping in the school library and assisting with supervision of younger children in Primary. A team also worked hard on the school stall at the recent Jesters Fair.

by Daisy Vogt

Over the last couple of years ISE has added about 50 new computers to replace computers that were out of date, and in some cases not working. The students in the High School Computer Tech class, who are also designing the new ISE Web page at (www.ise.ac.th) took on the job to see what could be done with some of these old computers.

The class spent more than 2 weeks cleaning, repairing and checking software of the computers and printers, in order to get them up and running again.

ISE Students (left to right) Brian Chou, Daisy Vogt, Yi Hao Chiang, Jack Lin, Kate Jiraboondilok and Michael Tang and advisors of the Computer Tech class with some of the teachers from the Ban Nong Chun Hed School.

On Wednesday morning, the six students in the Computer Tech Class, (Brian Chou, Daisy Vogt, Yi Hao Chiang, Jack Lin, Kate Jiraboondilok and Michael Tang) and the two class advisors, Mr. McIntosh and Mr. Romel, set out to the rural Thai school to deliver 15 of these.

There was a warm welcome, with lots of speeches (translated by Daisy to the great delight of all) and some Thai dancing, in which all the visitors were asked to join. From all reports the girls did a fine job, but the less said about the dancing of the gentlemen from ISE, the better.

After a delicious lunch, provided by the Ban Nong Chun Hed School, an introduction to the teachers, how to make the best use of these “new computers” and a tour of the premises, which holds 345 students, the students of ISE left, after a day well spent.

ISE is very proud of the students who contributed to the efforts to help a neighboring Thai school, in these times. It is important to know that people from different backgrounds and cultures can help and care for each other.