Term 1 - Year 10 (2011/2012)

 

Music group

Katrina, Sarah, Aishwarya, Chelsea, Sofea, Tiffany, Tanisha

“...and this is Community Arts. So let’s get started!” We had no idea what Mr. David and Mr. Ajesh expected out of us. Being the first year to start CA, we had no one else to consult with, so we are glad that we can give a helping hand to future Community Artists. We had to come up with ideas about what our project would be like in our very first lesson of Term 1. With no time to waste, after considering all our options, we chose to deliver dance sessions, as a few of us are dancers ourselves.

As the days passed by, the proposal had finished being drawn up and we came up with our group name. Soles for souls, that’s what we chose. Why? Because we feel that we need to help the people in need to continue ‘walking’ through life, despite their disabilities. Thus, we would like to be the ‘soles’ for the ‘souls’ in need.

 -Katrina

On week 4, we were challenged to a ‘Young Project’. In this, we were to deliver a session to the students of Year 1 and 5. The final outcome was unexpected. With the year 5s, it was a ‘disaster’, as Mr. David puts it, with plenty of ethical and health and safety issues, such as holding hands with the children, playing games in the scorching heat, and just generally having a hard time controlling the kids. Learning from previous mistakes, we did much better with the Year 1s. They, and us, had an enjoyable time singing to Spongebob Squarepants and Old MacDonald’s.- Chelsea

On the same week, Adrian Jerome dropped by to give us an eye-opening talk about prisoners and their rehabilitation.

 

We decided that we wouldn’t like the help to end just like that. We aim to sponsor a child by paying for his educational fees. With RM2080 as our goal, we planned sales. As most of you know, our nachos sale was a complete success. The nachos sold out on the first 10 minutes of break and we decided to hold another sale the next day. That too was successful. We had planned to hold another sale during the netball and football tournament a few weeks before this, but the wet weather didn’t allow us to do so.- Darren

Dance steps have been rehearsed and the last procedure was to confirm which orphanage we picked. Luck didn’t take our side this time around. We have called 8 orphanages, no exaggeration, and all of them turned us down. On the contrary to the boys who got their orphanage on their first call, we had to compromise and visit the same orphanage as the boys, the Agathians Shelter.

Though the boys let us down on the day itself , by not bringing in their consent forms, we were too prepared and determined to back down now, so we thought to ourselves this session must go on. When we reached the Agathians Shelter, the children, who already grew close to our boys when they visited them before us, started asking about them. They were disappointed at first, but after playing the chicken dance song a few times, they were in the mood to have fun and wouldn’t stop dancing. After a while, they got pretty tired so we moved on to musical chairs and musical statues. In the end, we treated them with some goodie bags.- San 

Despite the good times the week before, the second orphanage visit got a little out of hand. We had some major problems this time- like the children being less interested this time and leaving the radio on the bus (just to name a few), but in the end we were able to overcome it. We reached the place late so we straight away started with our session. This session was similar to our first one, but this time we brought in the RM1520 we raised. -Zuha