Living and Learning in Halls 2009-10

112 Pages·2010·7.67 MB·English

Student Residence Offce
Living and Learning in Halls 2009-10
A collection of articles on student residents’ learning experiences
and the roles of residential life education
Living and Learning
in Halls 2009-10
Editor: Esther Lee (Student Residence Offce)
Graphic Designer: Chan Kin Ho, Ryo (Creative Media, Year 3)
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our gratitude to all students, staff members and friends of City University of Hong Kong who
have contributed to the preparation of this publication.
© City University of Hong Kong 2010
All rights reserved.
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Student Residence Offce
City University of Hong Kong
22 Cornwall Street
Kowloon
Hong Kong
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Contents
5 Foreword
6 Message from the Vice-President (Student Affairs)
Building Community & Developing Leadership
10 Being a Residence Tutor is Like… 11 Residence Tutors
22 Working in a Multicultural RT Team is…Part of My Life Experience! Rebecca NEUMANN
24 Change for the Better in the Student Residence LEE Kit Ling, Coty
26 Exchange Visits to Oregon State University WANG Leiming, Dennis
28 Hong Kong and UCLA Exchange Nathan HO and Malcolm QUON
31 Outreach to Residence Halls in Singapore CHEN Yuen Ting, Eutonia
34 相聚是緣 ZHOU Ligang
36 Residence Tutors (2009-10)
47 Our Hall Master and Mentor GAO Pengcheng and ZENG Li
49 The Father of Hall 6 CHAN Robin, Patrick
51 Residents’ Associations (2009-10): Our Missions
60 Encouragement and Cooperation – the Ways to Successful Leadership FUNG Kam Tong, Sunny
62 Serving as a Floor Representative for Two Years LEE Hiu Kwan, Naomi
64 Community Leaders (2009-10)
75 Winners of Inter-hall Competitions (2009-10)
104 Learning Opportunities of a Fire & Safety Marshal YIP Kar Ho
106 Fire & Safety Marshals (2009-10)
110 Qualifed Red Cross/St John First Aiders (2009-10)
Contents Contents
114 Qualifed Mental Health First Aiders (2009-10) 156 A Married Couple Living in the Student Residence FUNG Wai Sum, Sammi
116 Peace Marshal - a Team Leader Working for Peace CHAN Chun Chung 158 The Fate of Romance in the Student Residence LIU Anjie, Angela
118 Serving in the Catering User Group for the Student Residence MAN Cheuk Shan 160 Staying in Jockey Club House as a Student-Mother LU Junxia
120 Security Guards - Our Stay-at-Dorm Parents LUK Kin Wan, Jeff
122 Our Cleaning Team - Smal Actions Bring Us Big Help LUK Kin Wan, Jef Succeeding in Your Study
124 Our Caring and Wise Gardeners LUK Kin Wan, Jeff
164 Practise What I Write Gaargi SHARMA
126 The R & M Team - Restoring Normal Functions for Us LUK Kin Wan, Jeff
166 My Job As a Residence Ambassador and Student Host XU Hui, Dorothy
Appreciating Diversity 168 Smart Goals for Shine @ The Community HSU Na Na
170 ResLink Inspires My Life DENG Shanshan, Sunny
130 Embracing Diversity in the Work Environment ZENG Li 172 Work with the SRO Helps Pave My Career Path HUANG Simen, Jasmine
132 Organising the Joint-Hall Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration CHAN Hiu Tung, Karen 174 Teaching English and Learning Chinese Culture Jack FRASER
134 Joint-Hall Chinese New Year Celebration CHAN Wing Yi, Winky 176 Tailor-made Consultation in Career Chatrooms NGAI Wing Nga, Karen
136 Practising Morning Tai Chi LIU Siyan and Christine SCHREINER 178 Independent Learner: To Be or Not to Be? YIP Wai Ching, Gloria
138 Nourishing the Experience of Diversity through the Healthy Snacks Competition MIU Sunfower 180 舍際普通話辯論賽感想 劉高
140 Tuning Your Mind and Body through Yoga and Ballroom Dancing Dimple THADANI 182 Promoting an Active Learning Atmosphere in CSK Hall LIU Bing, Kellen
142 Acculturation in Hall Life Gülsah GÜRÜK 古玉莎 184 Hall Scholarship Recipients (2009-10)
144 Tasting My Hall Life from a Salad Bowl Brian ISAACs 186 Summer Internship in SRO CHAN Ying Ying, Doris
146 Life at the Student Residence Taju SHITTU 188 Summer Internship in SRO WONG Wai Wah, Rex
148 Bridging Cultural Differences Through a Marvelous Hall Experience QIN Mingde, Karl 190 Energy Effciency Project FENG Xiaoqian, Iris
150 A Journey in Life Exploration LI Qingzhu, Catherine 192 Pathway to Academic Success for Mainland Students JIANG Wenxuan, Jason
152 SAAS Sportsman CHAN Kin Chung, Honey
154 Interaction with Others in Diversity HUANG Dan
Contents Foreword
Learning to Serve
196 Walking for the Community HO Kai Pong, Gabriel
198 “Save Haiti” Activities in CSK Hall LAI Hing Fai, Dick
200 Extend the Civility Spirit by Helping the Victims LI Song, Robin
202 Humanians’ Charity Cake Sale MO Cheuk Yan, Sharon
204 Empower Yourself Through City-Youth Empowerment
208 義工的體驗 耿玉辰
210 Lessons from University Life Julien VERONA
212 大愛潤西南 何秋野
214 群智服務文化：越南義工之旅 于佳月
216 Closing Words The students’ articles in this collection are a microcosm both of the world we live in and of our
Student Residence. In each context, we build ourselves a community in which we each have a role,
sometimes as leader sometimes as follower. In this way, we serve others around us and that is how
the community can fourish. But we are also diverse individuals and lead our unique lives. In so doing,
we seek self-actualization and strive for success.
In these articles, you will read the experiences that the student residents have enjoyed as they have
participated in these various strands of residence life. You will read how they have built the community and
served it. You will also read how they have chosen different paths according to their aspirations and sought
their self-fulfllment in diverse yet unique ways.
Community and service, diversity and success - you will read in these pages how our student residents have
celebrated these values over the past year.
The frst section of the book, “Building Community & Developing Leadership”, showcases
how our student residents relate their living experiences to teamwork and leadership
through their different roles as Residence Tutors, members of Residents’ Associations, Floor
Representatives, Fire and Safety Marshals, Peace Marshals and Residence Life Assistants. The
section on “Appreciating Diversity” reveals how our students from many different backgrounds
are engaged in a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment within which they learn to
appreciate diversity and the inclusiveness of this community. It is heartening to learn from
the section on “Succeeding in Your Study” that, beyond classrooms, our student residents
have enjoyed various learning opportunities and applied their professional knowledge to their
assigned jobs in the Student Residence. The Student Residence, as a microcosm of our
society, also offers opportunities for “Learning to Serve”. Through engaging in service learning
programmes, student residents refect in this fnal section on the importance of community
Welcome to the third edition of the Student Residence Offce’s
citizenship at the university, community and global levels.
publication “Living and Learning in Halls”, a collection of articles
sharing student residents’ learning experiences and the role
of residential life in their education. This publication presents I would like to thank and congratulate all the students who have contributed articles about
student residents’ refections on their exciting and meaningful their learning experiences as well as the student designer for the excellent design work. I
engagement in living and learning in a multi-cultural residence would also take this opportunity to thank all students, staff in the Student Residence Offce,
community. and Residence Masters who have made valuable contributions to making our students’ living
and learning experience unique and valuable. I hope that this book will inspire and motivate
us to continue striving to create a dynamic living and learning community for our students in
the years ahead.
Paul K S Lam
Vice-President (Student Affairs)
City University of Hong Kong
Message from the
Vice-President
(Student Affairs)
Building Community &
Developing Leadership
10 11
SPIDERMAN
Being a RT is like being a SPIDERMAN
because we understand that with great power
comes great responsibility.
As Residence Tutors, we are constantly
involved in the effective management of the
Halls. We are given the power to manage
each hall’s fnances, with the ultimate purpose
of providing an enjoyable residence life. This
means that we have the responsibility to
allocate the funds cautiously and to arrange
activities that are for the beneft of our hall-
mates.
Being a Residence Tutor is
In addition, we are given the authority to
evaluate our hall-mates on their contributions to
the Hall. Such authority makes us responsible
for informing hall-mates of the ways in which
like… they can get involved, encouraging them to be
active in hall functions and recognising their
inputs when they make efforts to contribute to
nurturing the Hall and building the residence
community.
CHAN Ngok Man, Fiona
Juris Doctor, Year 1
Residence Tutor, Lee Shau Kee Hall
(serving as a RT since Aug 2009)
February 2010
12 13
CHAMBERLAIN
GARDENER
Being a RT is like being a GARDENER.
The hall community is like a garden and
every resident stands for a certain type of Being a RT is like being a CHAMBERLAIN.
plant refecting the peculiarity of his/her We aim to serve, assist and guide residents
personality. The work of the gardener is to so that they feel at home and work together
make the plants grow healthy and strong. to create a cozy, caring living environment.
For this purpose, the proper duties of We are constantly engaged in miscellaneous
the gardener are to make sure that the issues related to the internal and external
soil is rich, the sunlight suffcient and the management and communication of the hall,
temperature appropriate. That is to say, under the leadership of SRO and with the
the gardener should focus on improving concerted efforts of other university offces.
the environment rather than interfering
with the growth of plants. RTs should We feel rewarded when events get fulflled,
establish a comfortable living environment issues get resolved, and all get gratifed. And
so that residents can reside there freely. we are proud to have contributed our bit to
the well-being of the big family of CityU.
GAO Pengcheng
PhD Candidate in Laws YAN Yan
Residence Tutor, Hall 8 PhD in Media & Communication
(serving as a RT since Jan 2009) Residence Tutor, Jockey Club House (serving
January 2010 as a RT since Aug 2006)
December 2009
14 15
MOBILE
PHONE BRIDGE
Being a RT is like being a MOBILE PHONE–
you must be an “all-in-one”. We talk and send
messages on a mobile phone. It can also be used
as a camera or for entertainment. It must also be
multi-lingual. As RTs, we are able to speak and
translate English, Cantonese and Putonghua. RTs
“How time fies”. This old proverb keeps
have to communicate with different residents from
circling in my mind. Looking back on being
different countries, orally and on paper; take photos
a Residence Tutor for more than 4 years,
to capture the happy moments; make residents
what do I feel that being a RT is like? For
feel at home and happy.
my foor mates, I am their ELDER SISTER,
especially on occasions when they face
Most importantly, we never switch off our mobile
problems, whether in academic matters or
phones – RTs are always prepared to assist,
affections. At the same time, I am their friend
translate and entertain – 24 hours a day, 7 days
when we play together. How energetic I
a week!
am! For the hall management team, I am
like a BRIDGE with outside parties like the
MAN Ho Yin, Jacky
Alumni Offce or CityU Convocation. It is
Bachelor of Laws, Year 4
really exciting to cooperate with these big
Residence Tutor, Hall 9
people and even make friends with them.
(serving as a RT since Aug 2008)
December 2009
LAU Pui Yi, Hyphae
PhD Candidate in Electronic Engineering
Residence Tutor, Alumni Civility Hall
(serving as a RT since Jan 2006)
January 2010