Assalamualaikum and hi yalls !
Currently due to the rise of a global pandemic, our situation has been so weird and scary. All of the people all over the world are asked to stay indoors, and practice social distancing. Isn't it crazy how it felt like it was just yesterday we were living our normal lives, thinking 'Oh this year is going to go good', and in the blink of an eye, boom everything changed. But guys, staying indoors can be tough, and it may be very hard on few families that can't go out and support their families. But, if we wan't to end this sooner, we need to help our front liners to reduce cases of infections by staying indoors. And as of today, my beloved country Malaysia. has 537 patients cured from the virus and I am so very proud of our healthcare workers. Unfortunately, to those that have lost their families due to this virus, I am deeply sorry for their loss, and would pray the best for them. (Al-Fatihah).
Currently due to the rise of a global pandemic, our situation has been so weird and scary. All of the people all over the world are asked to stay indoors, and practice social distancing. Isn't it crazy how it felt like it was just yesterday we were living our normal lives, thinking 'Oh this year is going to go good', and in the blink of an eye, boom everything changed. But guys, staying indoors can be tough, and it may be very hard on few families that can't go out and support their families. But, if we wan't to end this sooner, we need to help our front liners to reduce cases of infections by staying indoors. And as of today, my beloved country Malaysia. has 537 patients cured from the virus and I am so very proud of our healthcare workers. Unfortunately, to those that have lost their families due to this virus, I am deeply sorry for their loss, and would pray the best for them. (Al-Fatihah).
During the study sessions, the kids are divided into groups and
1-2 volunteers would handle each group
However, that is not what today's post is about. In this post, I'll be sharing about some side activities that we did throughout the last two blocks. So, to briefly explain, our college is one of the colleges under Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), and there is a volunteering organization known as Volunteer Services Organization (VSO) which is very active and have lots of activities that you can join every week. Because, the organization itself it quite a big organization, our college has formed another organization, running under VSO itself, known as Reach Out. Automatically, if we sign up as a member for VSO, we would be also included in members of our college Reach Out. Okay so that's it for the brief introduction.
So the great part of being under Reach Out is, they would have a weekly program, on Sundays, for us to teach kids aged probably around 10-15 years old. We are just to teach them basic English grammars, which honestly sometimes can be very confusing to teach, but the kids are very very enthusiastic to learn. Some of them are very clever and they would always so eager to finish all the handouts that we provide them. Although it might be probably because, we would always play games with them after. The program starts on 10am -12pm every week, so usually me and my friends would straight away eat out for lunch after we are finished with the program. Transport is provided to get to the program location, so you honestly only need to just not think about anything and go.
It's always a great change of pace while interacting with the kids, because after a long stressful week, packed with memorizing this and that, being with the kids, is kind of a relief and sometimes it heals my homesick-ed heart. A few of my friends, really enjoy volunteering with the kids and they'd sometimes go every week regardless of how hectic the week is to just de-stress themselves and just have fun. Sometimes we also try to learn a few basic Kannada words like numbers, greetings, and we would teach them a few Malay words too. Sometimes if u warm up enough to them, they might tell u a bit about their lives like how they found a tiger behind their house (not sure if that's true lol but if it is then that's crazyyy 😱) and you could even have a chance to watch them dancing!
The kids are so very active and if you ever suggest a game of tag to them, you would most probably lose. I honestly miss going there so much and I really hope they're doing good during this pandemic. Hope I could have the chance to go there and interact with them again ! Until then, enjoy a few photos of us with them.
Ameera playing an old game of rock-paper-scissors with a little bit of twist
We were deciding for games to play after the class was over
No caption here. Just a simple hallway we need to walk through
Darshika and Asha playing with the kids
We had the kids to spell some words in English
Sometimes when we arrived early, we get to see this, those are costumes for
the kids' performances and there are also a bunch of such small cute kids😲
At this time, we arrived while they were practicing their dances.
And peep Ze Hong, Wanie and Wen Syuen 🤣
So that's all for this post today. Hope you enjoyed reading and sorry for not posting for a while. I needed a lot of time to adjust with online classes. ps; I'm trying out a new note to write on the end of my each posts to let you guys know how long I've been editing a post. So as you can see this post has been long written before but I just haven't had the time and mood to write more about it. So starting from this post, you guys would know how long I 'procrastinate' to come up with a simple blog post! Byeee 😗
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Written on : 31 March 2020
Edited on : 11 June 2020, 12 June 2020, 21 June 2020
Edited on : 11 June 2020, 12 June 2020, 21 June 2020
Posted on : 21 June 2020
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