Meaningful Day
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 / 11:02 PM
Woke up super early in the morning at 6.30am in order not to be late for the first time volutary experience at the spastic chn association. Met up with super blur venn at je then trained down all the way to pasir ris to meet of with the rest of the NP LEO club volunteers. We were farely early and managed to have a 15min breakfast.
It was actually the first time for most of us and we were all very excited in meeting the children and guiding them in making the kites. As these children have different difficulties, it is even harder for us to teach and make sure that the children will understand us. I also realised that most of us were from early childhood education but in diff years, I am sure that all of us have the passion for bringing happiness to the children's lifes.
At the start, even me and venn don't really get how to make kites ourseleves also but die die have to figure it out our own before even guiding chn on how to do it. The child that is with me is called Megan, she is super adorable and goes around smiling and hugging me, it actually takes quite awhile for the children to follow our instructions and even so, most part of the kite was done up by the volunteers. I even painted the kite MJ (heart) NP which represents Megan & Jiaqi, but hadn't got the chance to take a picture of it and show here.
Brought the kids for lunch then time to fly the kites we made tgt! Its more of an interactive time among the children and the volunteers. It was really a very wonderful period of time spent there, the children are really full of energy! After kite flying, we proceeded with simple ball passing games, some kids were even excited that they screamed with joy. Drawing and colouring activity was also very fun! I really got to understand so much more about children with special.
In a nutshell, being able to experience a 1st hand interaction with those children really benefits me alot and seeing them being so happy is really worth the time and effort I had spent there. I really hope that more people will understand how children with special needs really are and also learn to accept them in our community.
Well, its not exactly very late now, but I'm already so tired after the whole day of voluntary work. Shall head to bed now even though my hair is still wet so that I can wake up early tmr to head to ICA building to collect my renewed passport. yawns. Nights all :D
It was actually the first time for most of us and we were all very excited in meeting the children and guiding them in making the kites. As these children have different difficulties, it is even harder for us to teach and make sure that the children will understand us. I also realised that most of us were from early childhood education but in diff years, I am sure that all of us have the passion for bringing happiness to the children's lifes.
At the start, even me and venn don't really get how to make kites ourseleves also but die die have to figure it out our own before even guiding chn on how to do it. The child that is with me is called Megan, she is super adorable and goes around smiling and hugging me, it actually takes quite awhile for the children to follow our instructions and even so, most part of the kite was done up by the volunteers. I even painted the kite MJ (heart) NP which represents Megan & Jiaqi, but hadn't got the chance to take a picture of it and show here.
Brought the kids for lunch then time to fly the kites we made tgt! Its more of an interactive time among the children and the volunteers. It was really a very wonderful period of time spent there, the children are really full of energy! After kite flying, we proceeded with simple ball passing games, some kids were even excited that they screamed with joy. Drawing and colouring activity was also very fun! I really got to understand so much more about children with special.
In a nutshell, being able to experience a 1st hand interaction with those children really benefits me alot and seeing them being so happy is really worth the time and effort I had spent there. I really hope that more people will understand how children with special needs really are and also learn to accept them in our community.
Well, its not exactly very late now, but I'm already so tired after the whole day of voluntary work. Shall head to bed now even though my hair is still wet so that I can wake up early tmr to head to ICA building to collect my renewed passport. yawns. Nights all :D
