lovespread
The kids rock.
And the younger ones are ultra-cute!
Haha basically I've just gone through two days of this trip, the afternoons which were spent with interacting with them and teaching them. The workshop I was doing was teaching English, which was quite fun.
The first day we taught the P4s. Haha all of them were the ultra-cute and ultra-enthu. Everyone paid attention well except for one boy, but he was like a normal Singaporean kid haha. We went through a programme, which I won't elaborate, but it was very simple. One of their problems was pronunciation. Like "thank you" might turn out "tunkew" and stuff like "egg" they kept on saying "yigg". But they seemed quite excited about "elephant", like a long word that they all know how to say, like how we were once all so proud about "faux pas"! Another problem was that they could not learn English as a language which built up on basics, like they could not relate pronuncing "rain" to pronuncing "rainbow". And Uncle Andrew tried "the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain", and it seemed that they could not relate all the "ain" sounds. They were learning it like Chinese, like for each word they use rote memory.
But I found it quite amazing that they all were so receptive to our teaching, and how they found a story (Noah's Ark) so entertaining. They were enraptured lah. Nowadays all our Singaporean kids are all TV and computer games. And these kids are happy all the time. Despite that they are "worser off" but no, they are actually better off than us in terms of upbringing. It may sound surprising considering they have no parents but it's like they're always contented, always helping, and willing to learn and are receptive to us. They appreciate every single grain of rice they get; they eat up everything. (The food there is actually quite nice too!) So far I've seen no problem kids at all. They are all so happy despite being largely limited as compared to us. And all we do is complain and rant on blogs.
Argh it's quite late I'll post some other time cause I need energy for tomorrow.
And the younger ones are ultra-cute!
Haha basically I've just gone through two days of this trip, the afternoons which were spent with interacting with them and teaching them. The workshop I was doing was teaching English, which was quite fun.
The first day we taught the P4s. Haha all of them were the ultra-cute and ultra-enthu. Everyone paid attention well except for one boy, but he was like a normal Singaporean kid haha. We went through a programme, which I won't elaborate, but it was very simple. One of their problems was pronunciation. Like "thank you" might turn out "tunkew" and stuff like "egg" they kept on saying "yigg". But they seemed quite excited about "elephant", like a long word that they all know how to say, like how we were once all so proud about "faux pas"! Another problem was that they could not learn English as a language which built up on basics, like they could not relate pronuncing "rain" to pronuncing "rainbow". And Uncle Andrew tried "the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain", and it seemed that they could not relate all the "ain" sounds. They were learning it like Chinese, like for each word they use rote memory.
But I found it quite amazing that they all were so receptive to our teaching, and how they found a story (Noah's Ark) so entertaining. They were enraptured lah. Nowadays all our Singaporean kids are all TV and computer games. And these kids are happy all the time. Despite that they are "worser off" but no, they are actually better off than us in terms of upbringing. It may sound surprising considering they have no parents but it's like they're always contented, always helping, and willing to learn and are receptive to us. They appreciate every single grain of rice they get; they eat up everything. (The food there is actually quite nice too!) So far I've seen no problem kids at all. They are all so happy despite being largely limited as compared to us. And all we do is complain and rant on blogs.
Argh it's quite late I'll post some other time cause I need energy for tomorrow.
