Service Learning Day Reflection

Service Learning Day, the 21st of May, is a day where all Secondary 1 classes put a booth to earn money for their beneficiaries. My class 1E6 presented our product:
The Haunted House.

My duty was to make posters to advertise our haunted house. As I has to pass up the posters on Wednesday, 16th May, my four other friends and I, namely, Hui Xian, Ya Xin, Xing Qin and Jia Yi, rush the work during the holiday on Tuesday. As the work load was really quite heavy, we had to do the work from about 10.00 a.m. to as late as 9.00 p.m. But, we never mind, as it was all for the class.

For the logistics, one of our classmates, Eugenia and our form teacher, Miss Thor contributed a lot. We even went to Chinatown and Takashimaya at Orchard Road to buy some of the things we need. The total cost is about one hundred over dollars.

On the actual day, with some other classmates, we did the make-up for the ‘ghosts’. As some of them were sweating profusely, I told them to sit by the air-conditioner so as to stop all the sweating. Finally, the Haunted House started at about ten plus. At first, I did not have anything to do. After a while, as the person in charge of the flying head had to do something else, I take over his job. It was really fun as I get to scare a lot of people! In overall, I think that it was really successful as this time; I really see almost the whole class contributing and putting effort in it.

I learnt that only with cooperation and effort, we can then complete the work. Like in this Service Learning project, I can see that the boys in class are really contributing and also from this, I had discovered something new about my friends. I learnt that the boys were not that slackly and lazy. Instead, I discovered that they can contribute a lot when they want!

Lim Xin Yan