2011 Youth Expedition Project (to Nepal!)
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Every ITE student involved in this very meaningful YEP trip are all from the School of Info-Comm and Technology in ITE College West (CCK branch) and we are all very honoured to be involved in this trip.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:59 PM
First School Painting.
The teachers gathered us and gave us a briefing before we started painting and the three groups settled among themselves of which group shall take which room. Some of us have never painted before and so it's not only a new experience for us, it's holding with a meaningful task. The experienced painters helped us mix the clay with the water; which is the paint in Nepal. And the classes' walls are rough and rocky so it wasn't easy for the paint to cover the portion painted that smoothly.
- wore rubber gloves to paint.
- hired 3 professional painter to assist us and do the touch-up.
- two levels, six classrooms in total that's assigned to us to paint.
- had bee hoon for lunch.
Then, Mr. Teh received an email and broke the devastating news to us. We'll have to go back to Singapore a week earlier due to the earthquake in India affected Nepal, and that the ITE was very concern for our safety. Many were upset and our enthusiasm and mood to paint disappeared instantly so we all just dangled around dwelling over the sudden bad news except for one student, Wei Liang.
Penny, the coordinator, after knowing about this, she was pretty disappointed too as all her plans and efforts done for us were ruined. She then suggested all of us to be involved in a video to show our sincerity to stay longer and send it to the ITE, hoping to have a few days' delay back to Singapore.
After all the drama, the drizzle progressed and many chose to wait for the rain to stop before getting back except for most of the team two members and some team three members. We had great fun running under the rain, back to Penny's house.
This blog post is initiated by Hilda, and revised by Zhang Teng.
The teachers gathered us and gave us a briefing before we started painting and the three groups settled among themselves of which group shall take which room. Some of us have never painted before and so it's not only a new experience for us, it's holding with a meaningful task. The experienced painters helped us mix the clay with the water; which is the paint in Nepal. And the classes' walls are rough and rocky so it wasn't easy for the paint to cover the portion painted that smoothly.
- wore rubber gloves to paint.
- hired 3 professional painter to assist us and do the touch-up.
- two levels, six classrooms in total that's assigned to us to paint.
- had bee hoon for lunch.
Then, Mr. Teh received an email and broke the devastating news to us. We'll have to go back to Singapore a week earlier due to the earthquake in India affected Nepal, and that the ITE was very concern for our safety. Many were upset and our enthusiasm and mood to paint disappeared instantly so we all just dangled around dwelling over the sudden bad news except for one student, Wei Liang.
Penny, the coordinator, after knowing about this, she was pretty disappointed too as all her plans and efforts done for us were ruined. She then suggested all of us to be involved in a video to show our sincerity to stay longer and send it to the ITE, hoping to have a few days' delay back to Singapore.
After all the drama, the drizzle progressed and many chose to wait for the rain to stop before getting back except for most of the team two members and some team three members. We had great fun running under the rain, back to Penny's house.
This blog post is initiated by Hilda, and revised by Zhang Teng.
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