Today, I would like to express how I
felt when we did this social engagement task together. In addition, all 30 hours’
feel worth it for me to spent with our member and the kids that stay in Home
for The Angel. Many things were doing in order to give the best experience to
kids there. From one preparation to one preparation.
The hardest preparation that we
make is that we had to find the place to do our task. It is not easy because
many people turn down our offer because they have too many requirement that we
cannot fulfill. Luckily, after tried calling a few more places, we found Home
of The Angel and we try to call it out. Fortunately, they accept us to do our
task there.
The day before we are going to Home
for The Angel, we did some rehearsal such as dancing for zumba, games for
science and many more. We had to stay until quite evening because we are trying
to give the perfect best activities for them
.
On the first day, we are being
divided into two groups which some of us are going by cars and some of us are
going by train. Well since it is quite early when we depart from our college,
the group that went by the train have to wait for a while as the train station
is not ready to operate on 5.30 am. As we arrived there, we quickly clean up
the whole place which is, the first level, second level, toilet, washing room
but not the library because the library did not open at that time. We doing it
for quite some time before putting our bag inside our room. Then we did the ice
breaking session. The kids there are so excited to find out our name so that
they can finished the quiz that we made. They did all of it sincerely without
asking for return. Then we had zumba dance and lastly throughout all the day,
the kids feel tired and we watch movies together with them at night. Well there
are a lot of activities been held, but we have arranged our task to do it.
Second day, we did some spring
cleaning again because even one day, the place can be terribly dirty because we
did some activities with them. Obviously, after that, there many more activities
will be conducted by certain group of people. Some of them are going to the
science experiment. Only the older kids will join this activity to prevent from
accident or stuff. The other children will be doing some craft session and it
is so messy at that time because there are so excited to draw and colour and
cut the paper. Not to forget our kitchen helper as I’m being assigned the task
as the kitchen helper for that day. I would say that I learned a lot. Obviously
from the cutting skills to the ingredient of the food. Although it is vegetarian
food, but they can make it taste like chicken, fish and so on. There are also
selling event on every Sunday.
This short journey really opens my
eyes to the people who are not as lucky as we are. The activities that had been
held, actually give us a time to get to know the kids there. As a team member
of this project, I am really happy because we all are helping each other. There
is no offense session between us. We discussed it through if we had any
disagreement and this make me feel comfortable having them as my teammate.
After completing our service and
our social engagement program I was happy as well as satisfied with the work as
a group we had back then. If I look back at our activities I surely notice that
we are actually not trying to finish this task quickly but we are trying to
engage our relationship towards the kids there. Some of them, are not orphanage
they only had some difficulty with the family matter and had to stay there. I
can’t imagine to have such a big problem in such a young age. We hope that all
the activities that we made can at least make them happy for a while and forget
all the problem that they are facing now. I do encourage people to see the kids
that are not as lucky as we are so that we can understand and always remember
that whatever problem that we are facing now is not the hardest. There are a
lot of people facing harder life than we are. Lastly, my dedication goes to our
team member who had always been the person who always help out and have fun
with.
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