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If you follow me on Instagram, you'd have seen my photo of the WeeTrip 13 team and our outing last night.
It was really such an awesome day. In the afternoon we went to sort of a home to play a few games with the kids there. They're mostly kids with troubled backgrounds or lower income families. Initially, I wasn't really in the mood to do anything coz... The past 2 cip trips to homes weren't very rewarding and Id feel physically and mentally exhausted just trying to befriend the kids and playing with them. A lot of them can be extremely naughty and like to misbehave. So I was expecting yesterday to be the same. And I honestly wanted to get it done and over with. I easily get disappointed and sad when I see that we aren't really bringing happiness to these kids.
But yesterday, I left my team members to do their best to play with the kids and I'm really happy the kids yesterday had so much fun.... All of them weren't distracted and were actively involved in the games and listened to instructions. Seeing everyone so active and happy, motivated me to put more effort in playing with them. My own team contributed to that motivation coz I was thinking, everyone's so onz and I'm the only one here thinking about other sulky stuff. So it got me going and my spirits lifted a lot more. I figured... These kids needed a lot more than commands and instructions. They just needed motivation and encouragement when they did well. And when they didn't, let them know that at least they tried. All we had to do was facilitate and not really force them to do certain things. It takes a lot of patience so I really respect my team members. And I could see it in the kids' eyes that they felt happy. And everyone on the team was happy and had a lot of fun too, albeit exhausted by the end of it.
After all the games were over, and after the children watched a video of themselves playing the games, a boy asked, "Can you play more with us?"
That line just made my heart breakkk. I think they're used to people coming and going. So when they really had fun, they'd hope people would stay. I felt sad, yet happy that at least for that day, they were happy and had a lot of fun.
What's more the team looked so happy lah.
And to celebrate and reunite, we had steamboat at bugis after haha.
It was a great meetup. Everyone was having conversations and it really felt like we were back in Laos. We brought the noise everywhere we went- mrt too. Thankful for it too coz it was nice talking to my friends about internship and sharing about the stuff we learnt through work. More than we ever could in school.
Therefore I blogged about yesterday. Coz it was truly a great day.
It was really such an awesome day. In the afternoon we went to sort of a home to play a few games with the kids there. They're mostly kids with troubled backgrounds or lower income families. Initially, I wasn't really in the mood to do anything coz... The past 2 cip trips to homes weren't very rewarding and Id feel physically and mentally exhausted just trying to befriend the kids and playing with them. A lot of them can be extremely naughty and like to misbehave. So I was expecting yesterday to be the same. And I honestly wanted to get it done and over with. I easily get disappointed and sad when I see that we aren't really bringing happiness to these kids.
But yesterday, I left my team members to do their best to play with the kids and I'm really happy the kids yesterday had so much fun.... All of them weren't distracted and were actively involved in the games and listened to instructions. Seeing everyone so active and happy, motivated me to put more effort in playing with them. My own team contributed to that motivation coz I was thinking, everyone's so onz and I'm the only one here thinking about other sulky stuff. So it got me going and my spirits lifted a lot more. I figured... These kids needed a lot more than commands and instructions. They just needed motivation and encouragement when they did well. And when they didn't, let them know that at least they tried. All we had to do was facilitate and not really force them to do certain things. It takes a lot of patience so I really respect my team members. And I could see it in the kids' eyes that they felt happy. And everyone on the team was happy and had a lot of fun too, albeit exhausted by the end of it.
After all the games were over, and after the children watched a video of themselves playing the games, a boy asked, "Can you play more with us?"
That line just made my heart breakkk. I think they're used to people coming and going. So when they really had fun, they'd hope people would stay. I felt sad, yet happy that at least for that day, they were happy and had a lot of fun.
What's more the team looked so happy lah.
And to celebrate and reunite, we had steamboat at bugis after haha.
It was a great meetup. Everyone was having conversations and it really felt like we were back in Laos. We brought the noise everywhere we went- mrt too. Thankful for it too coz it was nice talking to my friends about internship and sharing about the stuff we learnt through work. More than we ever could in school.
Therefore I blogged about yesterday. Coz it was truly a great day.
