Sunday, June 04, 2006
back from batam
been away in batam with poon for the last week and when i came back yesterday, i was immediately told by hanyi to check out the class blog... anyway i shall just tell you about my trip and ignore everything else.
the main purpose of the trip was obviously to do some cip by teaching some of the kids at a village school english, but i think we didn't really achieve as much as we hoped to, because it's just so hard to teach english, especially when most of us couldn't speak Malay. and it was obvious that the kids at the village that we went to weren't really that deprived, cos the villagers had colour televisions and the kids had guitars and a samsung camera phone. oh and there was also this p5 kid that rode a motorcycle to the school everyday. damn cool.
anyway the best part of the whole trip was that i could just escape from all the stress and the hectic life in spore and the impending common test. it was like going back in time to your childhood and spending the whole time playing games and not worrying about common tests and SATS. and now im like chao-tar from playing football everyday at the school on this pitch that was more like a desert rather than a football field, but it was damn fun and the indonesian kids are damn pro, but of course we were much better. did other cool stuff like skipping stones at the beach, playing with the kids at the kelong and trying to fly kites. its just so sad that all of us are growing up so quickly and becoming adults, and we have lost the innocence that we had as kids, when we could just do nothing but fool around and have fun.
another thing that we did on the trip was to walk out to this jetty at our resort and just sit down to watch the sun set together. there was this heart of darkness moment when we were sitting at the jetty and talking when melody (one of the interactors that went on the trip) just started telling us about her experiences in cambodia, just like how Marlow was talking about his journey to the Congo on the Nellie and the rest of us just sat there and listened to her. k nvm, i must be damn sad, doing nothing but thinking about lit texts. it was just so peaceful and relaxing, we should try to do this together as a class, after As or something like that.
must be quite boring reading my incoherent thoughts on the batam trip not knowing what actually happened, but i just had to let that all out, cos i'm still wishing i was back in batam playing with the kids and not sitting down here in front of my computer putting off doing rolly's essay. the trip was a meaningful one for me and a reminder that there are things in life that are more important than just studying.
that's all for now, i'll try to upload some pics that i took on the trip later on.
zhifeng ate breakfast @ 11:01 AM
