they're unique!

This is my first time to interact with special needs children at such close quarter. Personally, I feel that the school has been putting a lot of afford in guiding and cultivating these students. Students with special needs have to be reared with great attention and care by parents and school. This program has been conducted to let these two main parties to works together to assist the children with special needs better. The talk given by Min See gave me a new idea about how ‘play’ can be used when dealing with special needs children. Just a simple game will teach them some of the skills. Activities such as catching the ankle can improve their brain development, riding the horse can let them play the role of leader and follower and how to teach them to learn words by using games. These no doubt will make the learning process become more interesting and help them to learn easily. I was in great agitation when those kids perform on the stage with full of confident. They are expressing themselves through their interests. Awesome! It’s like a celebration of their uniqueness! I think their parents were proud of them too. Just like a snowflake or a fingerprint, every child especially a child with special needs, is unique in their own special way.

-cool to be you-

After such a long period of preparation, our “Cool to be You” kids camp has been successfully held on 11/4/12 at PenangPac. I’m so grateful to have numbers of staffs to help us throughout the event; they diminish our burdens. I’m so touched by their willingness to offer us assistance and guidance. Without their helps, it is kind of impossible for four of us to make this event succeed. Previously, I used to involve in organizing camps and community services. What makes this event so special to me not just because of the earthquake but it improved my administrative communication with interns and parents and publicity. Another thing is language, those camps or community services I conducted mostly are in Mandarin and Malay. This is the very first time I have to lead an activity in English. No doubt that it became a burden for me. Days before the camp I was suffering from excessive nervousness due to my high expectation of myself. I feel great to work together with other interns as all of us can contribute our ideas and capability in different areas. I think we did a great job in distribute our duties.  Thanks for your commitment. Giving will reap the greatest harvest. Finally, it’s over.