During the preparation for Service Learning Day, I helped to do the posters with Xin Yan, Hui Hien, Xing Qin and Ya Xin. We all went to Xin Yan’s house to do the posters. We put in a lot of effort on them. On that day, we had no time to waste. We had to finish all the poster by the next day. However, Xing Qin and I had to go back earlier in the afternoon or evening. Xing Qin had something on and I was not feeling well. Only the three of them stayed. Luckily, they managed to rush the poster out by around 10pm. They were all drained out by the end of the day.

Before the actual day, we went back to school to set up the haunted house. It was a tiring day. We went to the school early in the morning and went back home in the late afternoon. We had to do a lot of things on that day. We hade to move boards and set up everything in the haunted house. We had to cover the whole place with garbage bags. That was not easy, as the room is quite big. However, it was worth it. I learnt teamwork and how to do work orderly. With that, we finished the work on time. The boys put in more effort than usual. They had helped to carry the boards down to the CD shelter, which was not an easy task to do.

On the actual day, everyone was so excited and enthusiastic. Everyone rushed down as fast as our legs could carry to the CD shelter, as we had no time to waste. In the CD shelter, I helped the hand community members to put up fake nails and wrap aluminum foils on their fingers. I also helped to put up some make ups on the crying ghost.

Everything was quite successful. My friends exclaimed that there was a long queue outside the CD shelter. Our props frightened people who came in mostly, which is a successful thing. We also learnt a lot of lessons from this Service Learning Day.

However, there are some unpleasant things. Two of the back air- conditioner was switched off where the crying ghosts were. They had put up make-ups but some were smudged as they were perspiring profusely. Another thing was that the customers hit some of our ghosts. Some of the customers complained for letting them wait so long as there was a long queue. They were not pleased for waiting too long. The last thing was that Ms Thor’s favourite lamp was broken. When she realized that her lamp was broken, she was so sad. Even if Ms Thor did not say, the whole class also knows that she is sad. Sorry Ms Thor for the broken lamp. Ms Thor had sacrificed a lot for us. Her lamp was broken and her doll was wet. Thank you Ms Thor, for all these!

After all this, I had learnt a lot. I learnt that we have to manage time properly and cooperate with our classmates. A lot of teamwork is required for this activity to be successful.

I also learnt something about my classmates. The boys in our class are always not serious. However on that day, they put in a lot of effort. They helped out a lot. They can be very helpful if they want. Even though they played and fooled around, they played their parts as the ghost, operator and others. They did the tasks that were assigned to them.

The Service Learning Day was a fun and successful one! Our class did a great job!

Toh Jia Yi (23)
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