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Report on External Project

On 31 July 2010, I and my group members had made an external project at

Matang Jaya. My group consists of five people. We had spent our time from the

morning until evening to make the investigation. We started our project on 8.30 a.m and

finished on 4 p.m. It took almost eight and half an hour. The aim of our project was to

identify the impact of economic activities on physical environment.

We used simple process for our external project. We had chosen four methods to

do our project which were by distributing questionnaire, taking pictures, doing interview

and doing observation. It was not an easy task when my group and I had to go to the

foreign places and asked for help from the people there.

My group members and I had prepared questionnaire to distribute to the people

in Matang Jaya. They were being our respondents in this external project. It was not an

easy task to find the respondents because some of the people refused to help my group

and I to find the information about Matang Jaya. They did not know we were students

that made the investigation for our course work. They afraid we are from any

government department. We tried hard to find the respondents as we needed to find

extra information about Matang Jaya from the community there. Luckily, we able to find

the respondents. We took almost twenty respondents to help in our project.

Before we were going to Matang Jaya, my group members and I had discussed

about the questions that we wanted to ask. We had written five questions and all these

questions were using as interviewing questions. Doing interview was also not easy.

Some of the persons that been interviewed did not answered appropriately. Some of

them were out of topic. We asked about impact on physical environment but they

answered the impact on human being.

Besides, we also took picture as evidence. All the pictures that been taken were

been used as a tool to support our elaboration. We afraid to take the pictures that

related to our project as some of the factory seem not comfortable with what my group

and I were doing. They afraid that we were the reporters that doing reports on their

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factory. This will threaten the reputation of their factory. We had to make explanation to

the factory to ensure them willing to co-operate.

Despite the hot weather, we still strengthen the spirit of finding information.

Without umbrella we still continue our journey walk along the village in Matang Jaya to

find more information. We had to walk for a long distance to do the observation and took

pictures on the economic activities and the impact of it on physical surrounding.

Although we had faced many difficulties, we had gained many things through it.

Many new experiences we got from it. While doing the external project, we learnt that

good communication was a good medium to build a good relationship. We had to

communicate with people at Matang Jaya to gain more information as well as being our

respondent. Through the communication, my group members and I had created new

relationship with people there.

Furthermore, we had learnt to be patient. Although persons that been interviewed

did not answered our questions nicely, we had to be patient. We had to understand that

different people had different background or may be some of them did not understand

our question. So my group members and I needed to adapt ourselves with this situation

because it was one of the challenges.

Indeed, we also gained experience on the way to gather information. Before, we

were too relying on book and internet. Via this external project, we learnt that we can

get information through observation as well as interview. These two methods helped in

gaining more information.

Ultimately, this external project helps a lot in understanding about the economic

activities and the impact on physical surrounding. With this experience, we hoped that

we manage to do well in the next external project.

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