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Saturday, July 22, 2006

As usual for primary school kids, we waited for half an hour or so for the latecomers. Jin Hong was way too late, and we have no choice but to leave without her. On my way there, she kept calling, to ask us to let her go by herself, and Stella even wanted to go and fetch her...

In the end, we feel that we really could not afford the time and manpower to let Jin Hong come along...

That Kai wee and the rest of the boys were the clowns on that day...when i say clowns, i really mean clowns. You should watch the video that i have uploaded onto Youtube. The one with the balloon demonstration in one of the auditorium. GMPS was bringing up the excitement of the whole demonstration. Way to go!

So we tagged along with the mentees and Mrs Yang was pretty enthusiastic in sharing with them the explanation behind the exhibits. The only so-called trouble that we get from the kids were that some of the boys were playing with the paper-rubberband catapult thingy. They even accidentally hit some of the strangers....

The mentees were always deriving pleasures out of simple things. Balloons, balls moving around, water.. ..you should really see how wet they were. We decided not to restrain them, and juz let them be. After all, perhaps these are rare moments haha. That doesn't of coz mean that the mentors ourselves wanted to get wet too. We were simply onlookers.

Quote of the day is the conversation between Liang Qiao and Jian Yong(hunter):

Liang Qiao: Hurry up, do a chop chop one.
Jian Yong: huh? chop chop? (apparently he couldn't catch what chop chop means) Erm, not lamb chop..or watsoever.

All in all, the whole trip was pretty alright, with less involvement in the actual quiz, but with some effort that was good enough. An excursion with primary school students will always be test on ur strength of your legs; you will have to keep running with them or even ahead.

Jin Yuan and Kai Wee were having this Mosaic Picture being done. A pretty cool software huh?

Please go to these links for the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHCIup-4MQM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4un6x3nSgs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8uiaXfdYc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN58qg6RWIE

~Nick~

posted by jin at 6:41 PM

THE NUS BP MENTORING CLUB
The NUS-BP Mentoring Programme is a community-service project sponsored by British Petroleum. Under the programme, mentors are matched with mentees to help these younger pupils raise their personal development and academic standards. Here at NUS, we mentor academically weak students from Geylang Methodist Primary School from 10 am to 12 noon every Saturday. Our mentees are EM3 pupils from Primary 5 and Primary 6 and we try to kindle their interest in English and Maths through a combination of games and experiential learning.(Shivaram)