Artemis Faculty CIP

Hello :)

Havent blogged for a very long time. Today's fac cip was really fun... here's the details.

before 8.30am: we were waiting outside the audi for the buses... everyone grew bored after a while... (esp. DK since Xin Yi (09s6k), Zhe Wei and Jia Jun were playing with his cubes) So the wonderful welfare rep decided to play GAMES!!! wanted to play tuki-tuki initially but then Zhao Dan introduced this new di-didi-di-di, di-di finger game. played for 1 or 2 rounds only and the buses came...

11.30am: 08s6k and 09s6k met up for LUNCH at blk 211!!! sadly our A/CT rep had to leave for his H3 lessons and didnt join us... Continued playing the finger game... Took more class photos during lunch, even more photos of JJ and Xin Yi cubing. Coincidentally, Joel was photographed taking more food as they were cubing (JL, upload the pics!!!) and Joel's facial expression in the class photo was rather hilarious.

Profiling: We had 3 grps in the morning, but left with only 2 after JH left... Yuting did join us later in the afternoon though. Profiling wasnt as difficult as i had expected. The main problem was probably trying to communicate with the elderly or the non-Chinese who dont speak English. I encountered this Malay couple who could speak a bit of English and Hokkien... and I ended up asking them questions in broken English, Malay and Hokkien, really like rojak. Fortunately, they found the interaction rather humourous and were laughing while answering..

Hui Min and Joel also met this elderly woman who could only speak Hokkien... in the end, the entire group of us went to look for the woman after we're done with the other units to try and converse with her in Hokkien. Found it really weird to speak Hokkien when I'm actually a Teochew. Not much difference, but some words really dont sound similar and I just have to guess what they're trying to say. Of course, thankfully, there's Zhe Wei who can understand the dialects but cant speak them.

Got kinda tired after lunch, but we suddenly chanced upon 3 primary sch boys who injected lots of fun and joy into today's CIP. JJ was doing profiling when he came across the kids. I have absolutely no idea how he hit it off so well with the kids... So the 3 very energetic kids became our little tour guides and tagged along with us for the rest of our cip, giving us directions to the various blks we had to go to. Most of the time, they just stick to Jia Jun gor gor, which they call affectionately. It started raining, and we wanted to share our umbrellas with them. But they only wanted Jia Jun gor gor to shelter them... so all 4 of them shared 1 umbrella -_-" It was quite a hilarious sight.. 1 of them (i cant rmb their names) held tightly onto JJ's shirt, and the other 2 boys stood beside the boy. So they were standing in a line (think polymer chain) and trying to cross the road with only 1 umbrella. Of course, Jia Jun gor gor decided to sacrifice himself and shelter the kids... Ok as a matter of fact, the rain wasnt that heavy, so they werent very wet.

3pm: We finished combing the area and decided to go McDonalds for a quick bite... the kids tagged along too. Hui Min bought fries but in the end, she ended up treating the kids to fries. So here are some pics:

The very nice Jia Jun gor gor even helped to carry their bags!! I think they were quite sad when they found out that Jia Jun gor gor is not going on Sunday. Anyway, we brought them home after that, and went over to find our juniors.. Helped them clear up... and in the process, JJ dirtied his pants and I had paint all over my hands :(

Overall, fac cip was quite fun this year.. and you really get to know that the economic crisis is indeed something real which has affected some Singaporeans. Personally, I gain a lot from today's experience. Sometimes we really ought to reflect and be grateful for whatever we have.

All right, jia you for Blocks everyone!!! (sorry for the sudden random change in topic :p )

Mui