This reflection is going to talk about the first experience of learning this course and working in a team. Actually, I miss the lecture so I have no findings in the lecture, but I got much information from the group meeting and i initially to understand this course use a problem-based teaching way to apply its learning approach. Therefore, the group studying and working is the necessary process to facilitate work done.

Firstly, I’d like to thanks Raymond who has arranged first meeting for our group. So basically I felt the face to face meeting is much high communication channel than virtual communication like discussion board. Therefore, we are agreed a consensus which at least meet up once a week in order to gathering information and allocating individual task.

The first week group meeting is basically based on information gathering, so I and every member did some initial researches for each question in order to get a concept idea. Then Idea and information presentation is become next step, this is good, because the information sharing and discussing always relates to different opinion between different peoples. I got much information I didn't know it before and other members mentioned during the meeting. The most impressive one is ‘What do we know? What do we need to know? How are we going to find out? And who is going to do it?’ The four simple sentences help me to find more critical thinking, so I put it in every question as benefit.

Furthermore reflections is about the work we have done, so firstly, let’s talk about what is meant by Humanitarian Aid, our group have searched a lot of definitions and other knowledge that relates to and may give a definition for it. My initial concept to find the meant of it is to separate the words Humanitarian Aid, so Humanitarian can be defined as (a person who is) involved in or connected with improving people's lives and reducing suffering (Cambridge Dictionary), and Aid is absolutely relates to assistance, so we finally define its as assistance designed to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain and protect human dignity during and in the aftermath of emergencies. At this moment, there is a lot of good exist definitions of HA on internets or books, but to find the way to get a understanding by ourselves is more important, this is in order to avoid misunderstanding once there is no previous analysis in the future study.

And secondly, we were stocked at the second question which is what relevance it has to the Ministry of the Environment. This is because we all thought HA is simply to share the labour, money; information and knowledge as its way of donate. And it is also required to answer third question, so we are initially confused what relevance could have to the Ministry of the Environment. However, we decide focused on get understand on the principle of Ministry of the Environment thereafter, and then to find the common when we put HA inside. This gives us an experience which we can turn into the different side to see the question when we stocked or confused in the future study.

So the first week study is basically based on the group meeting and more useful experience could help me and my members more tacit and more efficient to find a way to avoid misunderstanding on both question and communication.