Reflection by Muhammad Fathurrahman

Assalamualaikum

First of all, I am so glad that we have done the social engagement activities together. It is not as easy as we hear that we just need to visit orphanage and doing all the thing. In reality, it needs a lot of preparation before the thing gets implemented such as preparing schedule, buying all the things needed, and gathering all the members at the same time

Personally, i am a bit late to register into the team where they have submitted their proposal since previous semester. I did not aware of this since i am international student with lack of information. So my contribution to the planning is not as much as those who already there. I attended only the last two meetings before the activities being implemented

On the first day, i was a bit late since i used MRT bus where the other members were using some of the member's car to went there. I went by MRT with other international students and Ong as the group leader. We arrived around 9 in the orphanage and started to cleaning the room where we will sleep there overnight. After the cleaning, we continued to the next agenda where we were doing the ice breaking session to create relationship between the orphans and the group members. I think this was the hardest part since those children did not abide the game rules. Then we continued by making Tang Yuan or we can call it rice ball that dipped into sweet ginger water served warmly.

The next day, we did some experiments. One of them were mixing detergent with gas, put it on our hand, then lit it with the fire. It looked amazing when big fire created from the bubble gas met the firelighter. Continued by mixing the cornstarch with water to get "solid" sensation when we hit its surface hardly, but become liquid slightly.

I really enjoyed this social engagement. It taught me to be more grateful for everything that i have and being vegetarian is not as bad is it look. I hope one day they are growing up to be a great person for the country.