The house visit was definitely an unforgettable experience for me. At first I was still quite excited about the home visits as it would allow us to mingle with the people there and get to know them better. However, when we reached the block, I was shocked. I did not know that such HDB flats actually existed with those dark and narrow corridors with railings on the side. It was just the same as it was on television.
Nonetheless, we started the challenge from the highest floor. For the very first household, we heard funny noise coming from the house before a man came to open the door. However, the woman that we were looking for was not in the house. So it was kind of scary and we came up with a “script” before moving on to other households. The rest was quite successful. All we need was more patience in knocking and waiting for them to open their doors. Most people were fine with anything that we were going to give them while the others just wanted more companionship.
And thanks to the MCS girls who helped us in approaching the Malay households.
Next, the fund raising project that we had in school was definitely a success. A big thank you to Adele, Hongyu and Sye Yuet in putting in so much time and effort in making this project a success.
All the fun raising went quite smoothly from Tuesday to Thursday. My most memorable part was on Friday, during the breaktime. I remembered there were still 3 hampers left and at first we didn’t thought we could complete all 3 hampers. Then, for some reasons, all our friends started coming by and the prices for the hampers started going down and wow, at the very last minute before the bell rang, we finished all the hampers. I really felt a sense of satisfaction and I am glad we did our part for the block 12 residents.
It was quite sad for me to miss out the buying of necessities for the households and delivering it them personally to the households that we actually visited at the very first. I think it would have been a totally different feeling and experience going back to block 12 for the second time.
I really enjoyed the whole cip. Thanks to Adele, Hongyu and Sye Yuet(:
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