IB English B H2

Change Project

# 1CAREER

Period 8

Chihiro Ozono

IB English H2

‘What career will you pursue and why?”

I would like to be an environmentalist to improve the environment in developing countries

and also to save the beautiful nature of the earth. This decision has been made when I started

to feel that I want to improve such a harsh environment in Indonesia, one of the developing

countries, where I’ve been living for 18 years. In this past ten years, I see lots of dramatic

economical development in Indonesia, but unlike these improvements, I have never seen any

environmental improvement at all. In fact, due to the economical developments, air and water

are more polluted, and also its proudful natures and animals are harmed to grow its economic.

Year by year, as I directly see and feel the changes happening in Indonesia and hear sad news

telling about deforestation and pollution, I feel I want to improve this situation more and

more. This surrounding evokes my desire to be an environmentalist in the future.

#2A Letter of

inquiry

Apt. Bukit Gold A-102 Jl .Metro Kencana Jakarta, Pondok indah,12310

August 31, 2010

Susan Kishi Phone: (510) 643-9479Fax: (510) 643-3132Email: es-help@nature.berkeley.edu

Dear Ms. Kishi:

My name is Chihiro Ozono and I am a senior student in Jakarta International School. I am

planning to apply for Berkeley University of California, which keeps the top level of

Environment department in America, since I am interested in studying the impact of human

activities on the ecosystem. Environmental Science department of Berkeley University would

be the best of all for me in order to cover what I want to learn and study. However, one

question about taking this course of study came up to my mind and so I am writing this letter

to ask the question.

I am taking IB Environmental Science and Chemistry in high school. The reason I am taking

these two courses is that they interact with each other to indicate the impact of human

activities on the ecosystem. Sometimes I am required to use the knowledge of chemistry in

the Environment course to understand how the chemical atoms released by human activities

break the equilibrium of natures. Also in chemistry course, common knowledge of the

ecosystem is needed to comprehend the roles of chemical atoms in the environment. Thus, I

already have basic knowledge of this study and this allows me to have full understanding of

what is supposed to be learnt in the two year introductory course. Could this knowledge be an

advantage when I study in the introductory course? If so, I am pleased taking this course but

it might be a bit easy for me. Thus, is it possible that I take one more introductory course?

I’m not going to feel burdened if I take two introductory courses at the same time since I

already have enough knowledge of this study.

Thank you for your consideration and I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

#3 An editorial

essay

Take an advantage of being an international student

How to get your future?

All senior students are facing one big question. Their last year of high school life is

considered as the time to think about their futures: about the university they will enroll.

Seniors are supplied lots of various options of universities, but among them, especially

international students are having the toughest time in making this decision: whether they

should go to the university in their home countries or not. Including information of

international school students’ situation and others’ experience, I would say that they should

not be restricted in choosing a university because of their special situation. Which way they

choose, going abroad or home country, they are able to take an advantage of being

international school students.

The most considerable reason that international school students are frustrated with returning

to their home countries and studying there is because they have been not educated in the

education system of their countries. International students are educated by English education

system like US, and, automatically, they are capable of speaking English. In this case,

students are accustomed with it and apt to prefer the universities which have same education

system as the international school they are in. For example, lots of students, who have never

been in their own country’s school, tend to speak English as their first language rather than

the languages of their home countries due to this situation. This causes a difficulty when they

study all subjects, which they have been doing in English, in the languages of their countries.

Also it is possible that culture gap prevents them from studying in their home country. Their

surroundings are heterogeneous with a number of nationalities and cultures, thus, they might

struggle in adapting to only one specific culture with same national people. Or this culture

could be uncomfortable and unacceptable for them, even if that is their own culture. “My

background did help me to decide to go to the States. I have been brought up in an American

education system, so it is natural for me to think to continue” being in American school, says

Tek Justin, who was in international school for seven years.

In other words of this tendency, they take an advantage of being international students, who

have an ability to speak English and knowledge of different cultures and nationalities. These

talents and experience are not possible to be gained if they go to the local school in their own

countries. One Korean girl, who has just decided to go to US University, says that she would

like to use English in university rather than Korean because she has been used to it. In

addition, she explains that she does not want to waste the advantage of being an international

school student; ability to speak English. According to her perspective, going to the university

in her home country could be done by anyone living in Korea and it just does not seem the

best choice for her who has another option to go abroad by taking an advantage of being an

international school student, which is impossible for others in Korea.

On the other hand, not all international school students go abroad but plenty of them choose

to return to their home country and study there rather than leave for abroad. Unlike the

students mentioned before, some students have high identification that they actually belong to

their home countries. Even though students are educated in American education system, some

of them speak English as their second language and sometimes the languages of their home

countries provide more understanding to them when they are studying. In another case,

students feel they miss the cultures or people of their countries as they are in international

school. Thus, these students tend to go back to home countries in order to pursue better

understanding of study and also their cultures. In the opposite way of this case, other students

acquire more interest in their cultures or people of same nationality since they hardly spend

their life in their home countries, or sometimes parents would like children to live in their

countries, hoping them to know and understand their own cultures or common sense, since

being in an international school decreases students’ national identification by mixing up lots

of cultures and different senses of people. As a result, even international students, who have

wide range of options, make a decision to go to the university in their own countries.

In this case, they take an advantage of being international students as well as in case of going

abroad. When they enroll in the university as international students, several privileges are

offered to them. I, who graduate JIS last year, applied for a Japanese university in Tokyo as a

international student, and the privilege that was given to me decreased the level and the

amount of examination test. In my case, normally, applicants were supposed to take Math,

English and Japanese test plus interview, however, I just needed to write a Japanese essay

and do English interview at the time. Of course, TOEFT and SAT score was required, but if

students choose some universities which do not require high TOEFT or SAT scores or even

do not require any of them, they succeed in enrolling in the university more easily, comparing

to the other examinations. It is considered because non English countries desire to have lots

of international students to rise their national English ability. Besides, even being formal

international student offers them more possibility than local people when they obtain job such

as English teacher or translator.

To sum up, I would say that both studying abroad and returning home country are beneficial

for international students. The most important part is that they find one university which suits

them and in which they want to study the most. If they focus on only countries and the

disadvantages of their decision, they would not able to reach the best decision.

# 4Curriculum

Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Personal detail

Name Chihiro Ozono

Data of Birth: August 25th, 1992

Email chiro_0825@hotmail.co.jp

Telephone 7659320

Cell phone 081280752146

Home Address Apt. Bukit Golf A-102 Jl.Metro Kencana Pondok Indah Jakarta Indonesia

Education

2013-2016 University of California

2009-2012 Jakarta international school

2000-2008 Jakarta Japanese school

Academic qualifications

2013 Chartered Environmentalist

2009-2012 SAT Math Level 2 SAT Chemistry

SAT Japanese Level 2 IB Math SL

IB Environment SL IB Chemistry SL

IB English IB Japanese HL

2011 SAT 2140 TOEFL 105

Work experience

2012-2014 Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)

2012-2013 Environmental volunteer (cleaning the rivers and lakes)

2010-2011 Habitat of humanity

(helped poor people in Indonesia, held donation in JIS for orphans)

Awards

2012 Award of Environment IB SL

Language skills

Japanese (First language), English, Indonesian, Chinese

#5A letter of application

Chihiro Ozono

Period 8

September 30th, 2010

Action Without Borders/Idealist.org302 Fifth Avenue, 11th FloorNew York, NY 10001United States

Fax: (1) 212-695-7243

Dear Jeff Sprague

I am writing this letter to apply for Federal Transportation Advocate for Environment America since I am interested in improving the quality of our environment and so our lives. I am attracted to this job because the aim and the strategy of solving our problems are what I have been looking for my job. If I could get this job, I am sure that I would exercise all my best for contributing this company.

I had been living in Indonesia, one of the developing countries in Asia for eighteen years before I moved to America. This experience built a feeling that I want to advance the environment in the world. Indonesia is not organized or maintained for its environment condition since people do not have knowledge about its significance, and also the recent economical development contributes to the pollution in the Indonesia. Living in a poor country, I could directly feel the importance of the national environmental management. Being in this situation, I was given a lot of chance to participate in volunteers or organizations to recover this environment by picking up trashes in the rivers or visiting recycled-goods shops.

Accumulating the interest in the study of environment through these activities, I enrolled in Environmental Science department of the University of California Berkeley and gained Chartered Environmentalist, the best qualification for getting a job of Environmentalist in America. This qualification gives me lots of confidence in working as Environmentalist. Having this background and the experience, I would like to say that Federal Transportation Advocate for Environment America is the most desirable job for me.

Thank you for your consideration. I’m looking forward to hearing back from you soon.

Sincerely,

Chihiro Ozono