Name: Ong Chee Keat CIB180109
The project finally come to the end. It is a unforgettable memory with the community at Home for the Angels. When we reached the place, a feeling of strange come to the mind,but it come familiarity hits when the time pass through and we become more like a family.
We feel strange when we have our first meeting. We do not know each others, even the members we know also seldom chat. Its come worst when we have no idea what to do, where to do and when to do. We just keep quiet for a long time. Fortunately, everything go on track. We get know each other and start step by step with the guideline in the slide. Driven by the approaching days, we started to act more like a team and eventually it worked out. But we still can't find a suitable place to carry out our project.
After a long silence, finally we got a place to work for our project, that is, the Home for the Angels. But the another problem come when we know the location is very far away from us, we felt disappointed. But this time, we didn't waste a lot of time, we think for the solution to solve this problem. Fortunately, we get a car from our group member and we decided to go there by MRT and that is well solved at the end.
Planning activities and flows:
We planned different games and activities, just hope the children there will enjoy. We have few meetings to discuss and plan for the activities since there are some requirement from the home. We tested out different games and modified the game until it suitable to the children there. During the the preparation, our group relation become closer and closer. It also come with few problems when we prepare the activities. We lack of time, we lack of money to carry out the activities. We don't have enough time to have fund raising. With no choice, we only can collect money from our group member. My group member give a high corporation when we collect the money. We have no enough time to buy the materials for experiment and games. To save the time, we come out with a final list of things that we need to buy. We went to market and buy all the things one shot. I felt happy when the receipt come on my hand because we able to run the project within our budget.
We also prepare the gift for the children. We drive to a market to buy the gift. We bought sets of stationery and pencil cases as gift. i just prayed hard that out project can run smoothly and successfully,
Final meeting
We have our final meeting before the actual day of the project, and then we tested out all the experiments to make sure they really run well. We also run through the games and practicing the zumba. We have no enough sleep the day before as we stay up until 2.00am for doing the final checking.
B. Implementation Phase
First day:
5.30am
B. Implementation Phase
First day:
5.30am
On that day, we woke up at 5.30am in the morning while there was still a degree of darkness, which is quite early for the majority of us. We divided into two group, one is by car and another one by MRT.
8.00am
8.00am
When we reached, we straight away start with cleaning the room and help the children keep their room. But we didn't know what to do after the cleaning session until the PIC assigned us to our tasks. We start our ice breaking game with the children. It was difficult to control them but it make me back to my childhood time. I was also same with them, can't wait for the instruction and start the game myself. It's like a reflection of my childhood time.
Some of the member were assigned to help the kitchen out, some of the member clean the pathway, some of the member clean the accommodation rooms and some of the member handle the toilets. I was responsible to play games with the children. After a few games, we felt tired and have a rest for 10 minutes, but the children seem like have a exhaustless energy. They keep playing themselves.
12.00pm
Later, it was 12.00pm the kitchen called for lunch. We had our first lunch with the children. This is the first time i had vegan food for my three meal a day. Talking about meal, the children will sing a song before having meal. Imagine hearing the melody and you know its lunch time!
1.30pm
After the delicious lunch, we carried out our cooking activities, that is to make a traditional food, the rice ball. We pour the flour and mix it with water, and the the children happily come over and knead the dough, playing it around before we can actually cook the rice ball. We have part of the dough and make it the correct shape of a rice ball, and drop them into a pot with boiling water. That is how a rice ball is cooked. Simultaneously, we cooked the sweet soup, which is an important complement of the rice ball.
7.30pm
At night, there is a sudden black out as the short circuit occurred. Before, going to the bed, the children ask for a movie. We let them to watch movie since second floor didn't affected by the short circuit. While the children watching the movie, we try to restore the electricity supplies. We could only restore part of the electricity supplies and some of the rooms doesn't have fans. This make the situations tight and we rushed all over the place and move the standing fans to their respective rooms. It's can't imagine if the children sleep without the fans and that day was a hot day! By the time we settled all the things, we are sweating profusely. Later on, all of us went back to our rooms and had a short rest.
Second day:
6.00am
Since we have not enough sleep for two days, my member woke up late since we have a meeting at 6.00 am. That day was a windy day, it make our plan gone. We plan to hiking originally, but due to the weather we cancelled it. The sun rises indicating the second day had come. We had our usual breakfast before going into the activities. We were told to help out the open day and then setting up booth. Later, some visitors came in and have their lunch here and we stay guarding the booth and the front door. It went smooth and then finally ended at 3pm.
3.00pm
This is the time where the experiment came in. My members, Chi Kean and Kirshen carry out the experiment with the children that reached age 11 years old. This is because some of the experiment are dangerous to the children. I was going around since i'm the group leader, i had to meet up with the principle of the home, and the teachers there to discuss the tasks and the activities. They also give a positive feedback to us. It is not easy to become a leader. It had a lot of things that leader need to cover. I was confuse when here and there calling me.
Evaluation Phase
Social engagement kind of reminds me how I really was back then. The activities with the children navigates me back to their ages and I feel like I was that age too when playing with them. But it does not mean we do not execute the the main purpose of the course. We lend out our hands and bared difficult works on our shoulders to show them how well we can do and how efficient is as a student of University of Malaya.
Lastly, i need to thank my group member, without them, the program can't end this successful. Thank you my friend, great to have you all with me in this project.
Some of the member were assigned to help the kitchen out, some of the member clean the pathway, some of the member clean the accommodation rooms and some of the member handle the toilets. I was responsible to play games with the children. After a few games, we felt tired and have a rest for 10 minutes, but the children seem like have a exhaustless energy. They keep playing themselves.
12.00pm
Later, it was 12.00pm the kitchen called for lunch. We had our first lunch with the children. This is the first time i had vegan food for my three meal a day. Talking about meal, the children will sing a song before having meal. Imagine hearing the melody and you know its lunch time!
1.30pm
After the delicious lunch, we carried out our cooking activities, that is to make a traditional food, the rice ball. We pour the flour and mix it with water, and the the children happily come over and knead the dough, playing it around before we can actually cook the rice ball. We have part of the dough and make it the correct shape of a rice ball, and drop them into a pot with boiling water. That is how a rice ball is cooked. Simultaneously, we cooked the sweet soup, which is an important complement of the rice ball.
7.30pm
At night, there is a sudden black out as the short circuit occurred. Before, going to the bed, the children ask for a movie. We let them to watch movie since second floor didn't affected by the short circuit. While the children watching the movie, we try to restore the electricity supplies. We could only restore part of the electricity supplies and some of the rooms doesn't have fans. This make the situations tight and we rushed all over the place and move the standing fans to their respective rooms. It's can't imagine if the children sleep without the fans and that day was a hot day! By the time we settled all the things, we are sweating profusely. Later on, all of us went back to our rooms and had a short rest.
Second day:
6.00am
Since we have not enough sleep for two days, my member woke up late since we have a meeting at 6.00 am. That day was a windy day, it make our plan gone. We plan to hiking originally, but due to the weather we cancelled it. The sun rises indicating the second day had come. We had our usual breakfast before going into the activities. We were told to help out the open day and then setting up booth. Later, some visitors came in and have their lunch here and we stay guarding the booth and the front door. It went smooth and then finally ended at 3pm.
3.00pm
This is the time where the experiment came in. My members, Chi Kean and Kirshen carry out the experiment with the children that reached age 11 years old. This is because some of the experiment are dangerous to the children. I was going around since i'm the group leader, i had to meet up with the principle of the home, and the teachers there to discuss the tasks and the activities. They also give a positive feedback to us. It is not easy to become a leader. It had a lot of things that leader need to cover. I was confuse when here and there calling me.
Evaluation Phase
Social engagement kind of reminds me how I really was back then. The activities with the children navigates me back to their ages and I feel like I was that age too when playing with them. But it does not mean we do not execute the the main purpose of the course. We lend out our hands and bared difficult works on our shoulders to show them how well we can do and how efficient is as a student of University of Malaya.
Lastly, i need to thank my group member, without them, the program can't end this successful. Thank you my friend, great to have you all with me in this project.
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