Our Event Daysss ^^

Hey guys…it is me Sin Hui, after 3 days event, I am sure u all remember my name already right? Especially Ruben, our head of bureau programme and protocol, always call me yeo sin hahahah… actually yeo is my surname ok >< Through this event, I have also a new nickname that is SHY ( shortcut of my name, Sin Hui Yeo ). I think it is easier to be remember. Really have a lots of feelings and unforgettable memories I wish to share during this 3 days event…

Day 1
    All of us have to gather at Bioinformatic Building as not everyone of us stay at kk5 during the first day. Although I was tired have to wake up so early, I was more looking forward to visit the NURI home and the children there as we have prepared for so long since last semester and all of us have do a lot of effort in this event before that. Upon reaching there, I found that the situation is not the same with my imagine one. As there were just aound 20 children there, different with we were told the total number of children there will be 67 before. Although there were only a few number of children, it is also quite hard and have to spend some times to gather them together as they were enjoy playing among themselves.  After dividing them into group, we have also to start our activity.

    First and foremost, we have our ice-breaking session with children. This is important as this is the chance for us to break the bond with them and make all of us including the children know the name of each other. The children are still small so they are quite shy to introduce themselves. I was understand about that… But their face expression were really cute and make me feels like want to laugh. I just cannot control myself.  That is soooo cute especially a little fat boy in group 3.

After that, we have our gotong royong session there to help the children clean up the place they stay. After sweeping the floor inside the house, I help to wash the kitchen utensils. It was really a challenging task as the utensils there already put aside for a long time and most of the utensils rusted. It is very difficult for us to clean it thoroughly. However, we still try our best to wash it by using scrub. After completed the task, a sense of satisfaction come over me. Really hope that the children there have a more comfortable and tidy place to live.

    After having lunch, we have our indoor games session which is called “rainbow” and “sharks and islands, I think the first game is quite nice and excited as it is the great opportunity for us to get more familiar to the name of each other and required us to response fastly. The second game also need them to respond rapidly and have well develop limbs coordination. I can see that everyone of us including the children, ajk  and Dr. Arpah enjoy it so much. Feeling satisfied can see the smile face of the children.

    Soon it comes to the end of day 1, we have our post mortem session after going back to kk 5. We still got a lot of things have to improved. There were some event changes we do not know so most of our time are wasted for waiting each other to start first and make all of us feel boring too. Sometimes, the children were out of our control make the situation becomes chaos. Although we were tired, we still have to pay attention to listen to the comments as well as the suggestions and make some improvement for our event to make sure our event can run smoothly on second day.

Day 2

    A brand new day!!! Upon reaching there, I feel shocked when I see the children there welcome us warmly and friendly that is different from yesterday. Today, they are quite obedient and follow our instruction well. Feeling glad to see this situation as we finally managed to control them. We start our day with zumba session led by my hyperactive teammate, Shazrul. I found that he is really a talented PIC as he can led the  children well and the children is quite willing to listen his command and follow the steps of zumba. Every children enjoy dancing happily.

    After having breakfast, it is the art and design session. As a PIC incharged the activity, I have distribute the material needed to all fasi tetap to make sure that the activity can run punctually an smoothly. After giving the instruction and showing the sample to all of the children, the children start immediately to draw whatever things they like. I found that there are some children is really creative and talent in drawing as they can draw nicely and quickly. After that they can paste the craft paper thoroughly and produce a colourful picture although some of them are still small. This show that they were really patient and interested in art. This make me feel so grateful too. During the motivation session, as a fasi bantuan of group 1, every faci of each group have to share our own experience to the children. I can feel that children listen patiently to our advice and pay the full attention to what we share. The children also share their thoughts and feelings actively with us. I think this activity is very meaningful and had make us more understand about each other.

    Besides, I think the most interesting part is learning mandarin session as every children are curious about how to speak mandarin. So they more concentrate on this session. As a fasi bantuan, we also have to teach them how to speak properly and also how to write their own name in mandarin. It was really impressed me as they could pronounce the mandarin word correctly and understand the meaning of it. I can see their smile faces as they get the opportunity to write their name in mandarin. It was indeed a great satisfaction for me. Learning a new language is not that easy, but the children able to do it. Well done!!

    After lunch is the children long awaited activity—Explorace. As a photographer, I can see that the children in each group were trying their best cooperated well among themselves. They never give up to complete the task given by the PIC. This spirit was really impressed me so much. I can still remember we have a game with the children that is called “ bola beracun”. This activity really made me feel I was old already as I saw the children was full of energy and never feel tired when they keep evade the “ball”. I was lost this game at the beginning few round as I was really not that agile as the children.

    My only feeling on second day is the happiest time always pass so fast as that day is really a well-spent day.

Day 3

    Some of the PIC has started to prepare for the decoration of closing ceremony outside the NURI home…It was the last day of our event. Knowing that we have to leave the children after a few hours, it was really make me feel so sad as our bond getting stronger during this two days activity. What we can do is continued to enjoy the activity together with them. During the English language time, I found that some of them were quite clever and active by using the vocabulary I taught to making sentences. Some of them can also able to find the crossword rapidly. Good job!!

    During the origami session, every fasi taught the children how to fold frog, butterfly and  crane patiently and slowly so that they can follow all the steps. Feeling grateful when they were able to fold it by themselves. Awesome!!

    At around 12pm, most of the children have to go out to attend another event. So we can only conduct a few small activities with the children left in Nuri home. The unforgettable activities is the mystery box conducted by our bureau programme and protocol leader, Ruben. It was really funny as the children wish to try to put their hands inside the box to grab something but they were scared about is there got any insects or “cicak” inside at the same time when the facilitators keep yelling purposely to make them feel afraid of the “ things” inside the box.  We had also our cheers training and preparation of performance  for closing ceremony. Really appreciate the cooperation given by all the children.

    Unfortunately, it was rained heavily when we were about to start the ceremony. So sad because we have done the decoration of the tent outside of the Nuri Home. So we decided to make the closing ceremony inside the Nuri Home immediately as we have our plan B already. What we can do is just move the banner into the home. There was a surprise during this ceremony when the birthday cakes were prepared for the February, March and April babies. So warmthhhhhh.Every children were so happy to see the birthday cakes.

    It was really very hard to say goodbye. All of us were busy took photo with the children there. Before leaving, they also gave us a big big hug to us. I think I will never forget them and they will become part of my memories in my mind.

This time visit to Nuri Home really make me feel actually I am a lucky girl as I have both my parents even my grandfather and grandmother by my side and always support me. In contrast, the children in Nuri Home lack of the caring from their parents. I feel they are so pity especially when I listening to the dikir barat presented by them…This also inspires me to be responsible to take good care of children in future. Undeniable, the event really make the bond between our teammates getting closer and we knows more about each other. I would like to apologize to everybody for any mistake I had done. Thank you to everyone who helped me a lot throughout this event especially Dr.Arpah, Rehana, Ruben and Dr.Norpisah who allowed us to have our Social Engagement event at Nuri Home. Without u all, we could not run the event successfully. It is really a memorable event for me!!