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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Haha, finally managed to squeeze out some time to blog about the trip to Singapore Discovery Centre. This being my dunno how many time going there ever since the forbidden memories in the army. Indeed this was GMPS's last excusion for this current batch of primary six students. Nonetheless, they never fail to leave us sometimes in despair. I guess they were in their usual goofy selves, playing around at the discovery centre. Even an attempt in taking away the 3D glasses, only to return after Liangqiao and I tried to stop them from doing so.
Praises to Tedmond and Stella for organising this last excursion. Stella was exasperated towards the end of the trip, when Kaiwee tried to go down this canal on our way back to bus, and only to climb back up after we sternly told him to come back up.
Stella and Jean had arrived as early as 845 am to make the farewell gifts for the kids. So i kind of joined them at 950am and join them in making the stuff for the kids. Those were pretty nice handmade stuff. Stella and Jean bought some staplers, and with the help of some fabric paint, they painted the names of the mentees on some stickers, stick to the staplers, and then scotch taped the labels.
I guess kids will always be kids. THey like to bath in fun and we often have to remind ourselves that so that we will never expect them to have any "thank you" hehe. Bear that in mind huh?
Look out for the video i have posted with Stella inside. It was this interesting station in Discovery Centre, where you can have your first taste of being a television broadcaster. Cool huh. Not to mention those 3d Shows we have. Boring as it can be, but 3D effects are real cool. By the way, Discovery Centre forbade the taking of pictures...so i only have these few pics with me..sad.. Jus wanna wish this batch of kids all the best in their future endeavours. The mentors in GMPS have so much fun with them. We laugh, we shout, we scold...there are jus so many memories with them on every single saturday. That, the mentors in GMPS will never forget. Good job to our new coordinators, as well as LiangQiao who also came down last saturday, and of course to the new mentors!!
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)