Never Give Up! eh! =)

sat-sun..=P

hi everybody,

another saturday working.. ha.. kinda no life yea. but i think its worth it la.. as i had 3 off days helping out in sundac home for the elderly and disabled. =D
boss must be fuming alr. haha.. anyways guys sth to note, next monday i will not be around, but tuesday friday and saturday will be around. +D

oh yes, the long overdued stuff. haha..i gotta have alittle summary of whatever we need had discussed about. friday was a good day.. some of the guys(jh, merv and nas) went to the botanical gardens, while the rest(hong chuan lyon alvkit and me) stayed back to help out in the home itself, as ppl from the big 4 accounting firm came by to 'volunteer'. yea.. haha.. the inverted comma(s) is to signify their good try in trying to volunteer. i do not blame them, lets call it, they are not v good in this kinda thing and might be their first time. and yea.. after that we went to watch movie. alvin and the chimunks! haha.. super cute trio, alv theo simon. haha..i personally love the scene when they were locked outside the window and was singing the song. haha.. so cute yea.. =P
that was the day, and we went back home after that. the end of a week of volunteering, how did u guys feel? do u think u have learnt watever u guys need to learn in accordance with wat u have written in ur time capsule? if not i have a good news, u still have one more week. =D i believe u guys learnt alot, me too. you guys are great.

alright now for the reflections on wed and monday.

alv-> refreshing and heart warming experience. clients learned words from the art and craft sessions. alv basically drawn pictures and lead them to name the objects they are colouring, thus learning words from there.

merv-> don't know words, but still showed minimum response(art and craft lesson)

lyon-> need time to adapt,but when new people come, some clients will become naughty. as time goes by, will know how to deal with clients better.

Jing juan a.k.a JH->mixed emotions. limitations("thats all we can do" prophecy). amazed that clients will come over to her by themselves.

Nas-> went smoothly, some of the guys are kinda experience, mentally prepared, did well.

Hong chuan-> With his speech...here goes..herrr(breathes in..) As long as we can correct every little thought/gesture/action, quite quiet, ie. have you eated, casual qns. u will develop the clients' trust in u. that is what it means by, making a small impact on them(to u is small),but to them, it is a big impact, as they get new friends. we are there not to solve their problems(i concure!)we are there to just guide them. treat them as human beings too, juz like u will treat us , treat them that way too.

me->taking photographs is ok, but got to let shannon look at it again b4 we can use them. don't merely help the clients, they don't learn that way. instead,guide them. give them an opportunity to think on their own. note that higher performance clients get harder colouring jobs. such as colour with numbers on it. (note the segregation of ability groups to help them improve progressively.)


oh yea, and we met changloo on wednesday evening. at yoshinoya.
some thing he talked about:
1)the one year plan(tf route) tf training 3 days2 nights usually in dec 1st. only certain get togethers during some time of the year.
2)SVC(student volunteer corps.a VWO) organizing and doing 3 main events next year, OD, YVIP'08, ACE.interested please tell ur tf.. or in that case.. me.
3)SVC's reach out and promotion of the game 'BOCCIA', a game that resembles "gor-li"(marble). anyone interested to know more, can tel me ya, will tell ya more about it.


lastly, important emails:
changloo's email: changying85@hotmail.com
special olympics speaker(if ya wanna volunteer in sdsc): kim@specialolympics.org.sg
svc blog:http://svc-studentvolunteercorps.blogspot.com/


oh yea, its sunday morning, enjoy ur sunday! if u guys interested in gg to red cross home, please tel me yea. i will try to make it. ps. sorry merv and alv and renuka. haha. i had ot work today, so nv go down to chersire.

py
0615hrs
17/12/07

posted by py @ 4:05 AM