woonyee is yelling!

OK. After looking at all the posts before i start, i'm getting stress up now, why is everyone publishing books and biography?? Maybe everyone is really touched and 有感而发...

Pre-trip
To be honest, I used to dread thursday afternoons, because of ocip meetings. i end 2 periods before 5.30pm, and the meetings usually wouldnt end before 7pm. and most importantly, the process is a long and tiring one. we would go through rounds and rounds of discussions just to decide on what drinks to sell etc. i hate going through all these and in some sense, wasting all my time. in addition, i would have to meet and interact with some weird weird people whom i dont know and not comfortable with working together. i do question why i did sign up in the first place and began to regret, i just wanted to get over and done with it. BUT, the TURNING POINT came. it was the first of several saturday meetings we have in school. through the process of talking, discussing in same groups did i start to feel that it might not be such a horrible trip after all. We fight for our own interpretations of statement, and through these, i began to know more about the people and their thoughts and mindset. i get to know how different they are from me and how similar we are at times. as the departure day approaches, we got closer and closer together. we spent hours packing the stationery from haig girls and dividing the things to bring yunnan. it was then that i felt that everyone in the team is actually contributing, putting all our luggage limits together to maximise the amount of things we can bring over :P.

THE JOURNEY
Before we left singapore changi airport, i was still a bit hesitant about making the first step to talk to the other people. i saw some people gathering at the meeting point, but still walked away to my friends, pretending that i didnt see anything. when i knew that amanda, jumping and i wouldnt be sitting together in that 4-5hours flight, i was upset. but, in that few hours, i found out that there are also many interesting people i can talk to! i've been to china, and seen some of the bad and dirty part of china, thus, i wasnt in for some culture shock or anything when i reach yunnan. see the children for the first time at wan lu qing school woke me from the coming-with-my-family feeling i had. i realised that this time round, i have to actually interact and play with chilren -something that i'm totally not familiar with. as the day pass, i got closer to the children and to the people in the team. everyone told me that i would learn a lot from such a trip and come back a differnt person. but i felt otherwise. i wouldnt say that i've learnt a lot and changed dramatically. i choose to say that through the trip, i see a lot, observe the way of live, livelihood, lifestyle of the people there. maybe through that these i manage to gain an insight to life. i really feel for the people there and hoped that their lives would be better. but thinking about it again and again, i realise that sometimes in life its just like-that. there is a limit to what i or even zhao bing and company can do for the people there. a lifestyle change in something that takes time. no amount of time, effort or labour can help them, and that is their way of life.only with time can there be any change to their current lifestyle. maybe to them, nothing is wrong or bad. (just like how the wan lu qing aunty burnt plastic bags without any hesitant). that would be my greatest takeback. learning that everything in life has its own time. through the various "life journey" sessions, i know more and more about the different individuals in our team. everyone have their own story and the things that they deem important in in life. like what the teachers say at the beginning, "you will meet the team the first thing you wake up and see them seconds before sleep and chances that you might even see them in your dreams." i really did end up dreaming of the team at night...i found out that everyone in the team is wonderful, bringing joy and the teachers are brilliant, taking good care of us.

Ending
i still did dream of the team after the trip, back in my comfortable lovely bed. there would never be a trip like this trip to yunnan. it was a trip to see and look at how the villagers live and spend their lives. and chengmistry is great! we had a difficult time stalking zhao bing and talking to him but it was all worthwhile i guess :P. thankyou everyone for bringing such lovely memories for me. it was all you people that made this such an enjoyable trip for me and encouraged me to pull through. together we can strive to work together to help more people!

28hearts bonded as 1. YELL!