Presentation personal reflection:

In week 1, when I joined this IAB120 bridging culture excited, I was very excited to being in such a group from different cultural backgrounds. Cara and Maria are from Australia. Rhianna is from from Scotland. However I was a little bit worried about will we have conflicts during the process as some are doing business major, but some from IT and Accounting. In addition, I was worried about would they get my points when communicating with each other? Would they respect me as I am from Asia? With my excitement and worries, every were allocated for doing research on different parts.

The second week, after a simple self-introduction and completing simple research tasks, I quickly integrated into this active group, with Cara, Maria, Tara, Rhianna. We talked about interesting culture events from different cultures and shared experience visiting a foreign country. After that, we went through all the research information together and collected relevant data we might use for our first assessment and further report. We were required to do further research on our own topic and thought about available time for all of us to meet outside of the classroom in Library V-Block.

The third week,we were doing the online test about culture knowledge to see what is our strength and weakness, and how to improve it in the future study. As a result, we shared and analyzed our result and saw who had strong knowledge in our team and who needed to learn more about the country that he or she is not familiar with. We did communicate each others well and there is few conflicts existing during the process and we were now getting to know each other. In addition, we had 3 countries that we would be focused on which are Argentina, Indonesia and Iran. My part is mainly focus on geographical information and relevant issues for those three countries.

In week 4, we have Tara joined to our group with her prepared printed paper. In the beginning we were worried about this late-join would cause many problems because she was new for us, but presentation was just few weeks away. we introduced the findings from previous week and started doing the powerpoint.

On Tuesday afternoon, we had group meeting at library to fix our content and add theories and reference for data and images. We worked together about 2 hours and we almost did everything. After that, we had a practice presentation. Even the time was over 16 mins, but we believed we could make it 15 mins ar the presentation day.

Week 5, We had done all of the things we need to prepare. We printed out the powerpoint slides and got ready to present.

Week5 and week 6 we did saw how other mates in our class representing which were really great. We would do it in the week 7.