ACID camp was funfunfun!!! (: n i must blog everything down before i forget abt it/

firstly, i learnt alot. i learnt more abt joe n more abt other kids (yepp, i just found out that low yong, however u spell it, is soo cute! n i won him during the 'rocking' competition! heh heh) secondly, i got to interact more with the other volunteers other than dear pan n qing! it's not that i dont talk to them usually but i tend to miss out dinner after guilly or their ktv session so i guess i miss out alot. im real thankful that jiaqing helped me take joe cos joe was quite difficult to handle. maybe it's cos of his fever also, poor boy. ive learnt alot frm xiaofei during the weekly sessions n it's good to learn from another volunteer his way of handling the kids.

the first day wasnt very smooth cos peixuan asked me to fetch rongying also cos she stays near joe. imagine, one of me handling two kids! it wasnt that bad cos rongying was sucha good girl. joe just kept nianing n nianing but it was still managable luckily! nothing much happened just that as expected joe peed in his pants n slept early. so the first night was horrible cos when lowyong n kenny finally stop making noise n slept, joe woke up n i had to entertain him. it was torturous!! o, pan n qing, if ure wondering abt mingsong, err, dont tink he actually slept! haa! joe's fever was not that bad yet but he vomitted on the mattress n my sleeping bag. o ya he peed on the another mattress also so he alone stained 2 out of 3 mattresses, hais.

the station games were ok the next day. i thought the higher functioning kids will enjoy more. poor joe was obviously not in a very good mood so he didnt really partcipate in the games. esp in captains ball cos the rest of the kids were either frm RSPID or MINDS yck n joe was the only one from guilly so no one pass the ball to him. after that it was water bombs budden as usual, he's up to his mischief again, he burst his own water bomb the first time, second time he threw it. so it was game over n he dint get to play. so a few of us jiaqing, andy, tingsoon just sat at a corner n lepak!! haa.

omg this post is getting boring for those who dunno wads gg on budden, err will still continue cos i wanna take note so next time i can refer to wadd i wrote abt joe n try my best to cater to his needs n maximising his potential!! anw after that we went to ecp to build sandcastles!! cool yea? hmm joe dint do alot cos it was kinda cramp n it was hard for the volunteer n kid to squeeze in so i decided to let joe have some fun since he keep wanting to go home since the start of the camp. he loves standing at the shore n letting the seawater wash his feet! so when i ask him 要不要回？he said wait wait! haa it was super funny la! so jiaqing ask him 饿不饿？要不要吃？n he wanted it!! haa, hilarious food is more impt then play which is more impt than home! haa. k watever it's hard to explain anw. during dinner n campfire it was real bad for joe cos he's starting to have a really high fever n he was uber drowsy so we let him sleep early even though we knew we'll have to face the 回s n wait-waits in the early morning. luckily they ask me to turn in early if not i'll die. but in the end me n xiaofei kinda dozed off also frm 6-7am. felt bad cos when we woke up we saw poor jiaqing n tingsoon half dead entertaining joe. bet it was real tedious for them/

o ya i forgot to mention!! n this is to kailin especially! cos that day i went up alone to accompany joe ma. i was real scared but dint tell tingsoon cos i wanted him to join the campfire. so i tok to willie on the phone while staring at the high ceiling! then the malay kids came in. actually there real nice just that cos they're young (12 n 14) thats y they're so giggly n noisy. tink they r not mature enuff to understand la thats y they made sucha din, tink they dint mean to. i felt bad cos at first i dint really like them cos they kept disturbing the kid's sleep. hais, this tells us not to judge a person by first impressions cos usually it isnt wad u perceive as.

i tot the station games on the last day was well planned. the games they tot of were suitable however it was the way they conducted it cos there was too much waiting time. budden the arts n crafts part was fun too n they got to do this really nice cup with sand tingy which i myself was tempted to bring one home!! halfway tru i felt joes forehead n it was so hot/. guess wad we tried inserting a thermometer into his mouth but he refuse to put it under his tongue n when we tried sticking it under his armpit he was really frightened. as in REALLY frightened!! the scene was hilarious cos he was actually scared of a thermometer!! it wasnt sucha bad ting afterall cos in the end it was a real powerful tool for us to discipline him. lol

btw there was a doctor in the camp (coolness) n he measured his temp with the ear thermometer n it was freaking 39 degrees can. so scary!! budden he's still like super active hitting me n jiaqing n company!! o ya i forgot to mention but he kicked me in my face a couple of times. it was horrible for me cos im like sucha cleanliness freak n like the shoes is how dirty la. budden with vomit, pee, mucus watever constantly on me, by the end of the camp i was used to it. n ya, hwa chong toilet sucks can. we used the pail n scoop tingy la n it was so irritaing!! thanks lots to qing n kai for refilling my pail for like dunno how many times (: oops, go back to joe's fever. in the end we let him have his lunch early so he can yo yo (sleep in his language) after that. we packed our food to the room n joe started sleeping so lepak us (jiaqing, andy, tingsoon n o-no-forgot-his-name) started playing tai-tee. suddenly heard joe crying so i went to attend to him. he kept crying n i told it was v funny cos he was v cute. he kept saying that he wans to 回 n i kept telling that we're gg home already but he just cont crying n crying. then it struck me that he must hav felt real sick. i just kept patting his back till he dozed off. then i went back to the tai-tee corner n awhile later he started crying again. poor joe, i reallly wonder if he had fun in camp cos he usually sleep early (ard 8pm) but the activities in camp last till ard 10-11pm. in addition, the fever must have been a killer. poor joe.

then finally it was the usual phototaking, blah n home!

wad i learnt:

1. i shdnt restrict his consumption of water cos im afraid of him peeing. i shd instead bring him to the toilet regularly (learnt this frm jiaqing) n wake him up at night n bring him to the toilet so he'll not pee in bed (frm meien, sucha simple ting n we actually couldnt tot of it!)
2. help to improve his fine motor skills like cutting, colouring n maybe even writing?
3. talk to him in a softer way cos he react to loud noises. so refrain frm angry n loud tone when disciplining him (i tot i did well for this part during the camp)

i miss his 回， 饿饿，wait wait, yo yo, yee yee (: if u realise, it's all one syllabus cos he cant pronounce words with two syllabus

those who werent bored n still reading on. appreciate wad u hav! y complain abt schooling when some of them out there have problem writing their own name. today willie was telling me he watched this show n it was abt the physically disabled, it triggered lotsa tots for him. y complain abt ur legs being fat when some of them dint even have them to begin with. y complain abt work when some of the pple out there nv have the chance to work in their life n only wish is to work. these were my tots though, even though sometimes reality often force u to act otherwise.. watever it is, just--

love life.

live to the fullest. (: