Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Quick update on class CIP.
Hi friends.I was talking to my mum after coming home from our visit to Canossaville Children's Home yesterday. Apparently, there are going to be a few things we need to take note of when we go there.Here's the shocker. They aren't going to be typical kindergarden / primary school kids. They won't be listening to us very well. [Yes, it might be worse than your PW pilot tests!] According to my mother, from her previous experiences, these kids come from broken families. And its not just families who cannot afford to keep their children, but families that have no choice but to put their kids in a Children's home because they are going to serve jail terms. So yup, let's all be mentally prepared for this alright? Mum suggests that we do not do large group briefings cause the kids will be rowdy, so we can split up into smaller groups for briefings [this also means that more of us have to actually know what is going on. We will probably need TJ068 to split up.]A few other not-so-shocker things. We're not allowed to take photographs of them. [Ting is sad.] This is because some of the children there are under protection and we cannot afford to get them into trouble.Mr Wong said that we can take a group picture if absolutely necessary, but before we use these pictures we must show it to them and get them verified safe to use. None of the pictures can be posted onto social networking sites like facebook. They will have a supervisor present to help us take pictures at the correct angles, so our hardboard presentation for post-CIP thing isn't all lost!We also cannot exchange contact information with them. So that means no exchange of handphone numbers, email addresses, etc. Oh, and we cannot give them candy and stuff.Hahah. Okay, I'm going to talk about some more lighthearted stuff now! (:Our class CIP will last 2.5 hours, from 1430 to 1700 on Monday, 8th February. Activities we will carry out include teaching origami and making of bookmarks. Due to clash in timing, we can only reach out to the kindergarden level, as well as primary 2 and 4. [The primary 1s and 3s are in the afternoon session in school!] So according to Mr Wong we will have about 30 kids to look after. He will also be asking if the primary 5 and 6 children want to join in the activities as well, and that will bump the number up to about 60.The games have been cancelled because the children are too young to be running around in the midday sun, so to clock more hours of CIP, we can do a bit of cleaning up for them [also more to reflect on during post-CIP.! and i'm sure they won't mind us taking pictures of ourselves cleaning their stuff, right?]Oh, my mum also suggested that we show them LOVE cause our CIP is near valentines day. Kids from broken homes need all the love we can afford to give, so lets be lovely people alright? I know our class is capable of this (: Think of some nice things we can do with them to show them we love them alright! WE CAN MAKE LONGLASTING IMPACT ON THEIR LIVESSS!Mr Wong also mentioned that if we want to do long-term CIP, we can consider giving them tuition also, so yup. Can keep that in mind if you're interested. :DOkay. That was a ridiculously long post about CIP. I guess i just needed to collect my thoughts before drafting the proposal to send to Mr Wong. Off i go, wish me luck!
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
First week of school
Hello awesome friends.So, the first week of school is over, and honestly, it wasn't as bad as i thought. Especially because of civics on wednesday, and the oh-so-cool bio lecture on friday. Lets just hope that the rest of the year will continue to be great for all of us as we face the new challenges.! Also do try out the quizzes on matrix2! We're gonna get that $50 thing for GNC. and of course, keep Mr Low proud of us. :DRemember your ties on monday alright?
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
OMGOMGOMG!Tomorrow's the first day of school.That means we'll start seeing each other 5 days a week for the next idk how many months of the year.Oh dear...What happened to class CIP?Remember to bring tie and collar pin.And don't be late, especially for OGLs:DRest well.Cheers to the monotonous life we'll be leading for the next few months and the countless strands of hair we'll be pulling out! WOOHOO!!!:DLife is SOOO COOL!Oh wellz, at least we have each other:D-manda
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Friday, January 1, 2010
1st post of 2010.
Happy New Year everyone! Rest well during the week after, school is starting soon! (wake up early again, sianzxz.) Haha, may we all do well for our 'A's in 2010!
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SLin, who feels weird typing 2010, instead of 2009.
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