COmmunity Service 13/11/2010

Remember about the community service i'd said that the 1st year medical students had to carry out as part of our curriculum???

At last, our group, group11 has completed ours last saturday... we were probably one of the last groups i think.

and here is the school we'd decided to come--Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Kota Kota Bahru.. and this program we planned is to cater for the special children there.. they have a few classes for children who are physically fit, but a little bit slow in learning...

i didn't expect this activity would be fun... even though i'd always thought of going to places like this... but i'm just kind of disappointed that all the decisions and planning were made by the comittee members, and not all members were invoved.. and all i need to do was to 'appear' during that day, and do what i'm asked to do... nevertheless now, i'm just glad that the activity turned out to be fun and memorable... :)

our purpose of going there is just to:

1. carry out some games for the children

2. it's part of our curriculum.. (haha)

3. just because we 'WANT' to help people (lor)... (remember, that was our answer during the interview to the question : why do you want to become a doctor?)

anyway, the main thing is as long as we are HAPPY, they are HAPPY too... that's all that matters

this was the third game we played: finding sweets in the flour... my group ( shin Chan) managed to find all the sweets hidden within the flour... ( they are not allowed to use their hands to take out the sweets, so they have to use their mouth instead,... and their faces were all covered with flour... poor thing.. whoever planned this game???!! )

this was creatively done by.... US grown up children!! wee.. !!!

this was the last game we had : filling in water with sponge and transfer it into a bottle..

the facilitators helps the children throughout the games.. :)

the shin chan members... :) yay!!! they are quite smart also... you know why??

because... they won 2 hampers!!!! in two games!! yayyay!!

and finally this..!! hand printing... all of our handprints are on this paper... the children were so excited when they inked their handprints there :)

and that was our activity-- from 8.30am to 12.30pm.. quite a short one, but we all had fun doing it....

the story below is of a girl wo couldn't keep her hands still... and that's 'You- Know- Who' haha

we gave each child a balloon dog as a memento, together with some stationeries and jelly...

since got extra dogs, i took one...

it has a big weird tail... so i decided to modify it...

for that whole afternoon it looked like this.....

still finding it weird, i twisted it again... and then... it became...

like that!!!! haha.. it didn't burst,i just wanted to add in more air, but somehow, i didn't have enough... so, it became like this!!! hahaha

know why am i so free today?? because it's a holiday!!! HAri raya haji.... kelantan has 2 days off.. wee!! but somehow the management didn't realise that it's a holiday as Facebook is still block as usual from 8am to 5pm... haiz.. whyla!!!

2 more weeks.. then i'll have my holiday!! :) that means, 1 more week to selanjar 2... STUDY STUDY STuDY!!!! many of us seemed to overlook selanjar, and are planning what to do during that mere 1 week break.... me too!!! my plan is to EAT!!!!! hahaha.... everyday in kelantan is like starving... not because there's noting to eat, but maybe i just missed the food at home... 24 hours hungry, always hungry!! nothing seems tobe able to fill up my stomach.. haiz

so envious of them who went back duing this 4 days haji break... too bad, i have o stay here, going back is not cheap ok???

kla, will have to stop here... need to finish my lunch and continue studying.... (while my room mate is not around...)haha..

2 more weeks!!! weeeee!!!! XD

beach again...

when i first came to kelantan, i thought that life would be boring, quiet, and slow in the 'kampung' style setting.... what some of us described it as an ''ulu'' place.. actually, it is not so 'ulu' here la...

on top of that, i didn't expect it to have so many nice beaches around!!!!

on my second visit to kelantan, which was a day before i had to enroll myself into USMKK, my aunt's friend, Auntie Yen brought us to one of the beaches, called the pantai seri tujuh... then, that time i went for CF camp, it was another beach at Pantai Melawi, if i'm not mistaken... and then this time, there's this MSFT (medical student's facilitator team) camp, we went to another beach!!!! that makes my third beach in KElantan!!!!! hahaha....

however, initially i thought that this camp would be quite boring, as there were only 2 chinese joining-- me and siew teng jiejie (our distant relative).. and also, i thought that i couldn't go to church at first, but thank god we depart at around 3pm in the evening, which means i could go to church in the morning... and when i knew that we were coming back around 2.30pm the next day, i was so glad and relieved that this is going to be a SHORT camp!!!!! Halellujah!!!!



the first agenda on the list after checking in was the malay's prayer time... so, the two of us had some time off!!! wheee!!! and we had some photo session on the beach..

at first, we were so woried that we might be left out, as we were the only chinese there... but the seniors we actually quite friendly which makes us feel comfortable with them... it started out to be quite awkward at first, but soon we managed to mix well.. perhaps after the short but fun ice-breaking session :)

at night, after dinner, we are free again!!! the both of us only la... and as what i'll always do, this time i brought my notes along too :) for 2 hours, at least i managed to do a little bit of studying :) for the first time in a camp like this, i can study... woo hhoooo!!!

after that was ceramah.... and then the most exciting part of the camp-- Kembara Malam...
where we had station games in the dark, and under the rain too!!!! it was raining quite heavily at that time...

the activity was expected to end at 12am, but it's normal for activities to start late and end late.... i'm starting to get use to it now...

so, it ended at around 1am... and since 7 people shared a room... it means 7 people will be sharing a toilet... i was the last to bathe.. and guess what?? by the time i finished bathing... it was already 3.30am!!!!! wow!!! luckily i don't have to wake up so early tommorow morning...heehee :)

everything was nice about the camp, except that the next day, there was no water supply to our dorms!!! thank god we all managed to bathe last night.. XD

after the rest of the activity-- another talk, and role play and some public speaking... we went to the beach again!!! it's so nice to be able to feel the sea water again!!! and walking on the sand... :)
and also taking pictures hahahha:)





yay!! but asking us to wear sportshoes on the beach is 1 big mistake... i had to wash my shoes the moment i came back to the hostel... :(

kla, that's all about this camp...
counting down-- 4 more weeks to holiday :)
but 3 more weeks to selanjar 2!!!!!

gambateh!!!! back to studies lor...