ALSA CAMP

After I backed from Malaysia, I have many things to do that make me busy. I have to catch up with classes that I missed, lucky that my friend recorded and gave me lectures, thank you so much! Anyway, there are still a lot of ALSA activities too. My father blames me a lot that I do too many activities, I did negotiate with him but it become a victorious defeat T^T. Anyway; on March, there will be a study trip, which the students from Waseda university of Japan, will participate in this activity. We have to prepare ourselves for this big activity. Therefore, my senior arranged the camp for us to prepare ourselves on February 1-3 at Nakornrachchasrima province. This camp was arranged for the students who would like to be the part of ALSA AU, it was a kind of training camp. As a delegate of ALSIC, it makes me to be a member of ALSA AU automatically.

I believe that many of my friends in Eng II class [I, Dollaporn, Chingtong, Chompoonut, Tinnapat, Phanphatchara] wrote about it in their blogs already, because we went there together!

On the first day, we left the university at 9.30 and arrive there at noon. The weather at Nakornrachchasrima was great, not too hot and not too cold, the air was fresh! I love it, the accommodation was nice as well, and we stayed together in the big room but separated boys and girls. We started the activities with ice-breaking activity that was so funny, then we were explained about ALSA structure to let’s us know more about ALSA. Then they asked us to create an academic project that we had to work in team of six people. I was in the same team with Tinnapat and Phanphatchara again!!! I could not escape from them! And also three other friends, one of them I have never seen him before, but he is a nice guy. We could do it very well, we had quite the same idea and we are flexible, so our team worked smoothly. The project that we created is “School of law and ALSA AU Open house 2008” which is the project for PR our university, faculty and ALSA to the high school students who want to study law. Then in the evening, we had to present our project to the seniors and our teacher to let them commented. For my team, we have not edited a lot; just changed some plans and activities in the project.

For the second day, it was a real training. The senior let us us edited and talked together again about project, and then they imitated that we going to do this project to as real! They pretend to be departments that we have to contact when we wants to do the project, there are ALSA advisor, AUSO, sponsors, university staffs, etc. we had to pretend that it was the real situation. It made us so busy, stress, tired, and sick with account that we created, too much expense and a lot of number to calculate +.+!!! Anyway, our project went well and while we were working there was a big rainbow appeared af ter rained, it was so beautiful. Then in the evening, we had to elect the new committee of ALSA AU, at first I was asked to be the secretary but I refused, but I was chosen to be an assistant of academic department, which was great. Because I think I more suits with academic activity than documentary works. Then, there was an evaluated activity to evaluate the project and spent time to talk together, open minded!

For the third day before backed to Bangkok, we had to do the year plan for the next semester that sounds great, many interesting activities; such as academic sightseeing, public speaking, moot court competition, table discussion, ALSA meeting, etc. Moreover, the project from my team was chosen to do as real, but maybe we have to change to Moot court Camp that sounds more interesting! Then we backed to Bangkok.

This camp gave many things for me that I learned a lot from my seniors, that made me love ALSA a lot and proud to be one part of them. And I will try my best as an assistant of academic department. Next semester will be another hard working semester! FIGHT!!!

MY MEMORABLE MOMENTS

In facts, there’re still many things about ALSIC that I would like to tell you, it was my memorable moments but now I would like to write something up to date!! However it is still about ALSA. I hope that it is not bored you… ^-^, now let’s see some pictures from my “memorable moments” instead reading, because one picture can explain millions words, hahaha!!!





Malaysian highest court, commision of wildlife trafficking, cultural night with Korean delegates



Thai girls in Hunbok
Korean girl in Thai costume, Melaka trip, Petronas, at the parliament






AU delegates- cultural night, dinner with bar council, farewel party at Genting

These are some of pictues that we took, there are more than thousands pictures!!!

WHAT I RECEIVED FROM ALSIC?

From the ALSA conference, I received lot of knowledge from activities that we did there. Moreover, it made me had an opportunity to practice myself with many skills. Now I know how to work in team, how to do research, I have improved my English skill, especially to improve myself. However, the most important thing that I found is “friendship” that it was a great chance to know people from other countries and become friends and we still keep in touch. For the things that I have to improve are my English skill, knowledge that I should know a lot more, it was the time for the real practicing and I realize that my English and other skill are not good enough to use for the real situation. Sometime I could not express what I would like to say or I had no idea what I was listening, because I have no knowledge about it before that made me could not gain all good knowledge.
I think, in our faculty should have more academic activities to practice students to do research, to let them have a chance to give opinions, to know what is a table discussion, practicing moot court or arrange it into competition in order to let them to be more efficient law student.

MOOT COURT COMPETITION

It was my first time to do my moot court. Before that I really interested in moot court; therefore my senior, Kaew gave me an opportunity to do it. I did it with Tarn [Miss Jittima] the third year student. Not only me but also Tarn, that has never done moot competition. So we had to do a lot of research about the law of war; such as Geneva Convention, ICC Statute, Hague Convention, etc. there were many materials that we used. I really want to thanks everyone who help me, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I realized that it was very hard working and we have to care of every word that we charged them with crime. We have to prepare it carefully. I first I was confuse because I do not know how to do it and felt discouraged. But because of their help (also your help) and suggestions that made us did it. Although we got no prize from this competition and it was not good enough, we did satisfy with it. Because, the most important thing that we received is experience and friendship. I think I can improve myself a lot from doing moot competition.

For the competition, there were primary round and final round. They divided teams into A and B. Thailand is in A side, we had to competed with Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia in the primary round. Assumption mooters as a prosecutor of ICC ,and Chulalongkorn mooters as a defendant. For us, we took two rounds with Indonesia and Japan as a prosecutor. In the first round that we competed with Indonesia, we defeated. Because I think our reasons is not strong enough and I was really exciting and nervous because I was afraid if the judge would asked me questions and he did! But lucky that the question was the question that we prepared in the night before competition, we forced delegates from Assumption to see our practicing and let them asked questions, it help a lot. For the second time, we won Japan! Because in the time for defense, they did not defense us for the charges that we charged them but they defense us at a rebuttal time. They made a mistake, so we win. For the round that Chula mooters competed with Singapore, I had no chance to look this round but I heard that they did well but Singapore is better, so we lost this round too. Therefore the result from three rounds of primary round is 1 point from three, could not pass to the final round, but it was better than no point. Therefore, we satisfied with it but we have to improve a lot if there is another chance for moot court.