Blind School (26th November 2009)

The Round Square student guild had donated money a few student from our school to give the Blind School a MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Mr. Crouch had thought it was a good idea for the student guild members and Round Square 2010 committee member to tag along and enjoy the day with Blind School student. When I arrived there, I had recognized that place before, because I had been there before when I went with my church. We gave various different snack and drinks for them to enjoy. This day, I quite enjoyed because I had a good time talking with them and they also played music for us which pleased me quite a lot. This day was beyond satisfactory and learnt that even with limitation your world still is open to your choosing and that difficult obstacles are always possible, you just got to try, try and try. (3hrs of Service)

Amnesty International / Building outsized toys (Term 1)

These 2 activities were working in co-operation with each other to help in the center at Pattaya. The toys that we made would go to the children at the center for them to play.

week1
This week we were brainstorming on what toys we could make for them, I had come up with many ideas. This week, I learnt that the most effective way of brainstorming to making a product is to draw lots of sample sketches. These sketches did not have to be neat but able to see the idea and just needed to be quick. (1 hr of Creativity)

Week 2,3,4
These weeks we were assigned to design a 'overesized' snakes and ladders game. I learnt how increase things to scale. And I had been asked to also assist the younger student, if and when they had problems. By doing this, I learnt how do deal with less intellectual and younger student, some with poor English skill, when the don't understand, I would be able to explain to them. (3 hrs of Creativity)

Week 5
This week I went to the center where we would play with the little children. It was extremely difficult because I do not speak a word of Thai and they did not speak English. We played various games like hide and seek, monkey in the middle and sometimes we would let them play with the ball. I learnt how to communicate with another person when there was a language barrier between us (2 hrs of Service)

Week 6
This week I went back to the center again and this time I brought balloon for them to play with. They really enjoyed playing around with them however the balloon had burst quite quickly after a few minutes of playing with them. I learnt how to calm some of them down even though there was a language barrier.
(2 hrs of Service)