Holiday reflection (Sun Yuyang)

I spent my holidays watching anime ,surfing the internet and doing homework ^_^.I also went for enriching VIA and did a lot of meaningful stuff.

         When I first heard that we are going to an old folks home to do VIA,I felt rather disappointed since I wanted to go to an orphanage or child care centre.Honestly speaking,our first day(they celebrated Deepavail) there was rather awkward.They treated us as guests so we couldn't do much.I didn't know how to communicate with the elders since most of them speak hokkien while I don't. I felt really out of place.However,our second session was really fun and interesting.I was relieved when they gave us work to do unlike the previous session.We helped them to keep all the Deepavail decorations and get ready for Christmas. Grace and I were given wreaths to play with. At first, we were kind of puzzled when they told us to remove all the decorations on the wreaths since most of them were meant to come with the wreaths.After we removed them, a lady came told us to put all the decorations back on according to different color scheme.It was really interesting and fun since I don't celebrate Christmas at home,that was the first time that I ever got to play around with all those lovely decorations.

I had been to the kitchen for a few times.By the end of our last session I could tell where all the the utensils were placed. Washing dishes was a actually quite a new experience to me especially when the number of dishes, bowls and cups each could go as high as 60+,furthermore they all came in at one go.It was tiring. Also,I had to serve the elders food too. I spilled some of the soup accidentally.I felt really guilty even though the lady there told me repeatedly that it's ok. I guess I'm really too reckless and excited.

I didn't manage to take a photo of the finals products. We traced the decorations out on cardboard and cut them out before wrapping them with wrappers.We made around 36 balls and 54 leaves. 

Cutting cardboard was really tiring.It reminded me about the pebbles that we made for Teachers day. 

We first painted the birds blue before sprinkling glitter and decorations on.I can still remember how my blue skirt almost turned into a Christmas dress due to glitter that I had to sprinkle on the paper birds.We spent almost a full day session just sitting there and decorating birds. It was unforgettable. 


I think I learnt a lot through this Via session and gained a lot of new experiences.haha,I guess i have grown to be more artistic and patient due to these Via sessions.