November Edition, 2013 International School Ho Chi Minh City Fostering highschoolherald@gmail.com ••• issuu.com/highschoolherald ••• (Month) Edi on Individual Ability
HIGH SCHOOL HERALD The SRCs whine…WHAT?!?! The past month has been a fairly busy one, for the SRCs. We planned for the Teacher’s Day Assembly, as well as other events such as: the School’s 20th Birthday and the upcoming Red and Green day. However, the most important thing that we did last month (as you may or may not know) was having a meeting with Mr. Roberts!
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World News: Catastrophic typhoon Haiyan strikes the Philippines Haiyan, the strongest tropical cyclone to ever make landfall, landed on the Philippines on November 8, 2013. The super typhoon Haiyan quickly went through the Philippines, leaving disastrous damage. Page 2
This Month’s Local News The Vietnamese education system is going through a makeover. With new text books coming out in 2015, there is the trend to change everything at once. Vietnamese education is often known for its mass in terms of the material, amount of subjects Page 2
Lorde’s Royals: how lucidity trumps misconception
Back in 2008, Lady Gaga was making GIN Group interview waves with her first full-length album, The Fame, a parodic exploration of materialism This month, the Literacy Group leader, Jeeye and sex which instantly found a niche in a Hong, accepted an interview to talk about her music scene ravaged by the economic crisis. GIN group. Let’s find out what she has to say She allowed us to experience the unattainable and much-coveted lifestyle of the rich and faabout her GIN group, and the role it takes to mous, a strategy which allowed her to sell be a member. Page 4 millions of albums in a period of recession. Page 5 Members of HSH
Yun Won Park
Editor-in-Chief Eun Chai Kim
Editors Chuan Cheng Suk Min Yoon
Reporters Karen Nguyen Seung Hyun Seo Olia Nguyen
Cartoonists Hung O
Photographers Chan Beum Park
Publishers Tae Hoon Lee Jou Young Suh
Young Tae Kim Ji Woo Park Supervisor Martin Grist