I am New!!!

Hello Everyone!

I'm a new volunteer who just entered WSC Youth. Anyway! Today was the first WSC Youth meeting that i attend and the objective was to plan for the year-end camp. Thus, it was the first time that I got to meet up with the rest of the new volunteers and seniors excluding a few friends that I already knew through Ignite Change.

As we are still new to one another so we didnt mingle much, hopefully we will get bonded throughout the future meet-ups and during our pre-camp! To me, joining WSC Youth does not only involve helping out the youths but getting together with the people who have passion in volunteerism too. So, nice to meet you (everyone) ! haha.

On the side note, as Mid- Autumn Festival is round the corner so our thoughtful seniors actually bought us lanterns to let us have a short-and-sweet-celebration.We lit them up after our meeting and i feel that we are brought back to our childhood times because it's been long since I carry a lantern! so yeah, THANK YOU SENIORS! Feel so fun especially with a group of people since Mid-Autumn Festival is the day whereby family and friends will gather together and celebrate. Last of all, HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL TO EVERYONE & ENJOY YOUR MOON CAKES!!

-YATING-

8th Sept 2010

Today was the first session of the new semester. As usual, we met in school canteen a for dinner before leaving off to the home. (Most of us aren't as lucky as Kahlisah and Nicole to have no lessons).


Upon reaching the classroom, we split into two groups. Kahlisah, Nicole, Melody and Baoling went over to teach tuition. The 'N' levels and 'O'levels are coming so some of them want the extra lessons.


Meanwhile me, Yen Bin, Kailing and Siew Ping and Zhengxin played games with the boys. Today's game was thought up by Zhengxin. All of us volunteers and boys sat round in a circle and we started introducing to each other our names. We would then write down our names on a piece of paper. This paper would then be randomly distributed to us. We then had to describe through words or actions the person whose names we were holding on to. It was quite interesting to decipher who the boys were describing. For example, what do the boys mean when they say "do the dew"??? Of course, the loser would be the one who got the least correct answers. Naturally, the boys were pretty good at the game as they were quite good friends with each other and easily knew how to describe their friends. Surprisingly, Siew Ping got all correct answers!!! Congratz.


Yen Bin and Kailing ended up with the least correct answers and thus, they had to forfeit. The boys really enjoyed thinking up forfeits for poor Kailing and Yenbin. In the end, it was decided the 2 of them would have to dance and do a one minute of fame where they show off their talents. Kailing's talent was dancing while Yenbin's talent was reaching his hand all the way across his back to the shoulder (not as easy as it seems).


Session ended later at about 915 after laughing so hard and having a small feedback session. No supper this week, hopefully, next session, more people can make it for supper.

(Entry by Wei Jin)

My turn to update the blog… Last session for August(26/8) before the holidays end and I believe most of us are already looking forward to the new semester and this means that we will be having new bloods joining our block soon. We meet up at the home directly at the same usual timing. Same thing, the boys were again split to 2 groups cos there were some of them who will be having their schools or national exams soon while others just wanted to have some fun after a long day. So Nicole, Woei Jin and Yen Bin played some games with some of the boys. Game they played was 7-up. This is quite a fun game among the boys as the previous time when we play it the boys enjoyed it a lot. Everyone comes together to form a circle and each one has to shout a number starting from 1 onwards. Eg. 1…2…3…4…… Until the numbers comes to either a multiple of 7 or containing 7 then will have to replace this number by UP. Khalisa and I were doing tuition next door and even with the barriers closed the shoutings and laughter next door was still very loud. Pretty sure that the boys enjoyed this game very much. We end the session at around 9.20 a bit later than the usual timing cos some boys really got a lot of stuffs to ask us. Really hope that these tutoring sessions can benefit them.

Next up will be the talk conducted by the MCYS on Friday evening on secret societies. Khalisa meet me at Ang Mo Kio Mrt before we took a bus to the MCYS building at upper Thomson where the talk was held. We got a Long Time No See volunteer with us…Paul!! One of our most popular volunteers in the boys home. Reach there at about 7 where we have a buffet dinner first before the talk. The talk was really very educational. It was conducted by one of the senior CID officers from the department dealing with secret societies…Forget his name already but seems to be quite a high ranking ones from the way he conducted the talk. We learnt about the origination of triads and secret societies and even he give us some of the info of the different active secret societies in Singapore, their ops grounds and how to identify them through their ‘trademarks’ on their body or even through ‘banners’. Many many more but if you guys are interested to know more can go ask Khalisa. The talk lasted till about 9ish and Paul send both me and Khalisa to Bishan Mrt before going off. Thks Paul. So that’s about all. Enjoy the new semester.

-Zhengxin