Learning through hand-working

   I came to California about a week ago to participate the business Academy for Youth summer camp. The Bay area is such a nice place; there's sun that shines with not-pressing warmness and breeze with cool but not cold or dry touches. The weather is so nice that I am afraid I might cannot adapt to Taiwan's capricious climate when I go back.
   I really enjoyed this one class I took in this program; the one about leadership and entrepreneurship.
   The professor brought in 39 boxes with them and put them on the front floor without informing us what is inside the box. I was really curious about the boxes but I did not ask about them because I was too shy. The professor started the class with a card game. I should have be braver in participating the game. If I spoke up and took the podium to state my idea, I might have earned a recommendation from the professor, instead of frustrating about myself, I learnt the important concept "opportunities are for prepared people".
   After the card game, the professor started to demonstrating the second game --- the game that involved the 39 mystery boxes. In the boxes, there's Lagos with different shapes. From this game, I learnt there is always a gap between the boss and the labor, I did not quite get my boss's description of the shape through the manager so I did pretty badly, nevertheless, I learnt a lot about communication.
   I like to learn knowledge or concepts through games or pictures other than merely description. Often I found myself lost in the words and could not get the true meaning of the author and sometimes, even worse, got the opposite notion. Through games, I can easily understand the concepts because they became a lively performer in front of me, demonstrating themselves for me. Learning through hand working (games particularly) made me feel less stressed and feel more familiar just like I was in kindergarten.

The Conflict in Egypt

Articles from CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/04/world/meast/egypt-coup/index.html

                             http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/04/morsy-arrested-muslim-
                             brotherhood-spokesman-says/?iref=allsearch

Two days ago, a violent incident happened in Egypt. 
The first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsy, was ousted by Egypt's top persecutors. Morsy was first kept in house arrest and then moved to the Ministry of Defense, said the spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, the group against the top prosecutor's coup toward Morsy. The Brotherhood then decided to occupy the street on Friday to express their anger toward the military's action. However, on Thursday the Brotherhood's leader, Mohamed Badei was arrested and led to the violent incident; over 100 people (including 2 children) and 35 people was dead. 
According to the Military in Egypt, Morsy failed the expectation of people who voted him so their action was appropriate and was a "correction of the uprising of 2011". Morsy's approval ratings did plummeted after his election but arresting Brotherhood member to stop the demonstration seemed to be a bad idea. 
The coup divided millions of people in Egypt, there must be more details and conflicts between the democratic and military group in Egypt that I cannot understand. Nevertheless, I can tell from the news and Egypt's stance as a gas-producing country that the gas price will raise and many consequences will effect our life.

Protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi take part in a protest demanding that Mursi resign at Tahrir Square in Cairo July 1, 2013 (picture from International Business Times/ Jacay Fortin)