pelf-ism is contagious

As I was uploading some pictures taken during Terrapin Independence Day, I realized I had earlier uploaded a few pictures that show our preparations BEFORE the event itself. I never got to write anything about it, obviously, and I was wondering whether I should include those pictures in this post instead.

OK. I shall go on with them, I don’t have much time to blog actually *winks*

It was four or five days before the event itself that my Supervisor suggested that we make hand-held fans to be distributed on the day itself. I did not object to the idea but argued that we did not have much time to do all the designing, printing (front and back), cutting the pointed edges to make rounded ones, laminating the individual fans, cutting the corners again and finally gluing the tongue depressor on the fan. I suggested we make bookmarks for the kids instead and she almost bought the idea. Almost, because when Rohan and Kate dropped by, they offered their help and we reverted back to Plan A.

Two days before the event, we went to the school to put up an exhibition. For certain reasons that I have yet to discover, the kids simply loved to take pictures! Some of them were practically following me my camera!

And we gave them separate talks - I was in charge of the Standard 1 to 3 students while my colleague was in charge of the older students. Our talks were basically the same, but the way we presented it was different - at least that was why we decided to separate the students in the first place.

I brought along sweets to encourage the younger kids to respond to me, as well as to ask questions. Whenever they looked like they couldn’t understand me, I asked them questions concerning that particular slide and if anybody could answer, or even attempt to answer them, I would gave them a sweet.

We also gave the teachers and students each a T-shirt and asked them all to wear it on the release day. And I briefed the kids on the things that we would do the following Saturday, and requested that they gave us their full co-operation.

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