consider myself lucky
finally followed nicole to her charity home today. had been wanting to go for so long but it used to be all talk but no action. The place is under Ti-Ratana Welfare Centre, it's a buddhist based home for old folks, orphans and single mothers. Went there with may, joa, nicole and her frens who are long-term volunteers there. We visited the orphanage which has ard 170 children in total, they were all everywhere, loitering around, some are in tuitions taught by nicole n frens while some are tutored by a few others. since we had no idea what to begin with, we asked to tutor the small ones.apparently most of them speak mandarin, that's a little hard for me to communicate with them but overall it's still ok. what's harder is that most of them were asking me to teach them how to do their Chinese homework, which i have no clue at all. so embarrassing cos when u can speak with the kids in chinese, they would straight expect you to know how to teach them too. lol i would then keep asking them whether they haf other homework apart from Chinese. i'm kinda lucky today i got a very nice kid to teach, shy at first but listened well. then slowly when he got comfortable with me, he's actually really cheeky but very very likable. taught him reading and spelling in Malay, not bad for a 7-year old, he can read quite a number of words d.
going there today had made me see how lucky i actually am, being brought up by good parents and receiving lots of love from family members. these children were not treated like precious stones at all, they are always scolded, screamed at, caned, and threatened for small matters or even no apparent reason. it's ridiculous to see an adult finding fault with a 10-year old just because his book was untidy. Does he even deserve being threatened, caned and screamed at for such tiny matter? i don't even see it as an offence, 'torturing' kids like that is jus unacceptable. and i haf to sit at the same table with that annoying bitch while she enjoyed her time torturing the poor kid. hope i won't ever see her doing such cruelty again the next time i go, ahh don't wanna see her at all in fact.
the kids are cute and nice, but the incident with the cane really pissed me off leaving me feeling sorry for them. such places always make me feel good and bad at the same time, mixed emotions. should stop thinking for now....
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