Community Service: Reflective Journal 5

Time flies, but the memories collected along the way can never be replaced. The day has arrived where I may not get to seethe bunch of kids often anymore and Miss Sharon as well as the study environment here. It had been five challenging and fun week for me teaching them English and I believe that they manage to learn something from the games.

Since Miss Sharon had not arrived yet, the group responsible begun by “Hanging over” and“Music and mystery box” games. Everyone was overly excited until we had difficulty to pause when Miss Sharon walked in. Miss Sharon purposely contacted all students to join today’s Pace activity. Without her effort, the turnout rate today will be lesser which will affect our activity and food prepared. Besides that, people are always impressed by her hilarious yet funny character while teaching. I truly appreciate teacher like Miss Sharon, to end today with unforgettable memories created for both mentors and mentees.

After completing the exercise given by Miss Sharon, we proceed to the next activity which was short farewell speech by Ms Sharon and Ms Kelly. The overwhelming feeling ruin us as all of us knew that today is our final day. My favorite mentees, Kanna and Nuaisyah glance at me sadly and I act like crying which made them laugh. But deep in my heart, there is truly lots of unwillingness to leave them. If I ever have the time or chances, I will stay to teach them willingly with hope they can improve in their weak subjects. After the speech, the students gave us a small handmade key chain as an appreciation token and in return I gave my mentees a small gift to motivate her study hard. After the exchange gift session, we continue with the “Music and mystery box” games. Kanna and Nuaisyah dragged each of my hand asking me to join their group to play the first game. This appreciated feeling definitely send adrenaline to me. Unfortunately, I had to assist my mentees, Nuaisyah in playing the game. Arishah who absents for weeks did turnout today as well and in the same group with Nuaisyah. She was naughty as she really rude sometimes, but still she is one of the mentees that I had been assist and I do have fun with her. None of us get bored, we had a lot of fun throughout the games.

It’s time to party! All of us proceed to Canteen to have our farewell meal! Food of the day is Subway and I can see everyone is enjoying the foods. Instead of standing aside, initiatively I helped to arrange the food and coordinate the mentees when taking group photo as the situation was messy. Mentees were shy to take the foods prepared and I distributed out for them and make sure they had enough of it. We had a good time during the farewell party. Not to mention that photo booth session is everywhere ever since the speech ended!

It’s hard to say goodbye. Everyone slowed down while chatting with their respective mentees. I am pleased to be here for them every Thursday and this was an amazing journey. My journey with them has ended and I would like to end with a quote of friendship. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which value to survival” (Lewis, 2002). All of them create value in my life which I will never forget of. There never be a boundaries when come to friendship although we may have different religions, different languages, different skin coloured, difference education level but we all belong to one human race and I never prejudice against he/she age when making friends. All in all, I believe that strong friendship is built along the PACE activity and it kind of waken me that do not prohibit my friends from projects merely because they are in younger ages. They might somehow have the knowledge that you lack of and respect the ideas and opinion of others.

We start the class by "Hanging over " Game.

Next, "Music and Mystery box" Game.

Short farewell speech by Miss Sharon, it meant a lot to us.
Thanks to her hard-work and contribution for making this PACE activity successful.

Token Appreciation for Miss Sharon.

Farewell Speech by Miss Kelly is ongoing.
Specially thanked to Miss Kelly who helped us throughout the program.
Although we drive her up the wall, she still forgive us willingly.
Indeed, she is truly a very kind teacher and carries a smile everyday that definitely brighten up your day!