Local Project @ Siling Primary School

We (LH, YY and I) completed our last and final pre-trip local project @ Siling Primary School on 24th November. We have a group of 16 children aged 7-10 at Siling Primary School. These children are like angels, very well-behaved, very easy to bluff.

We started off with some ice-breakers, followed by a presentation on Myanmar by me. Most of the children do not know where Myanmar was. Some were quite surprised by the condition of the classrooms in Myanmar. Overall, the children were very interested and engaged in the presentation. I explained that they will be writing and designing a postcard to a "friend" in Myanmar.

After that we break them into groups of 5. Yong Yan and Leong Hwee taught the children some burmese words. "Mingalabar" became the hottest word after this activity! In their own groups, the children played mini-games to learn more Burmese words.

The children then went back to their desk and started designing and writing their postcards. They were very eager to write their postcards. Some even us if their friends in Myanmar understand English!?

In my eyes, the children embodied innocence, encapsulated by the hope that they can make a new friend overseas. I took a peep at their letters - some of them wrote about their PSP and favorite cartoon characters that are "alien" to us. It seems to me that these children are fervently fighting the onslaught of modernisation with thier new computer games and cartoon characters.

The activity ended at about 1630.