"Diamond Fell From The Sky"

 "Glittering and the view makes one heart fascinate that it makes people to fell in love"- Siti Sarah Mansor :)

                                                                     "The Memory"

I still remember that day (Friday, 1 March 2013) when we are all together welcoming special guest from the Refugee school ( Myanmar). All the guest from the age of 5 years to 17 years coming to the lecture room stepping the stairs and went to sit into their respective place after being guided by the "Education students". Seeing the students, makes me wonder... "Are they really from Refugee School?" ... the way they dressed and even have their own i-pad and smart phones bring unbelievable situation to us. Not only that,it change my conception about refugee students as whole. "Real life situation sure is different"...that's what I though..


Anyway, we have brief introduction with  the special guest and move along into grouping them into five groups. What makes it more interesting for me is that I am one of the group leader, therefore, I have the opportunity  to know and interact more with the "diamonds". I am the tour guide of the Orange group with 5 students and one of the students have fluent English and it makes the process of interacting among the small students and the rest much more easier for me and them to as the fluent students can translate what I am saying to the rest ;)

More than that, we played several games ( scavenger hunt, building bridge from newspaper, traffic light game, blindfolded game, loop news paper game)with the students around the campus, firstly the students cannot comprehend what we are trying to make them played ..well, except for the  proficiency English language student. Then, I need to make my classmates to simplify the words he's using and do some practical demonstration for them to understand better what is going one :) I learned that the little ones is very excited and determined to help her group mates, which is very good from my observation :) They actually enjoyed and starting to be friendly with me and after the first round and I use this "extra" opportunity to talk to them about the campus environment and the purpose of each building. Even though some times I need to use sign language and mimicking a certain objects to make the students understand better, I really it's worth it because to be able to learn and teach people is one of the wonderful experience for me.

I also learn to control myself not to be over- excited because it doesn't seems professional as a teacher but it's alright sometimes as a tour guide :) Move on..I am a little concerned about the safety issues for the little children as they are so active when they are too excited in a period of time...hmmmm...

The last game is also very fun when all the students given the opportunity to "fight" to conquer the remaining chairs in the music chair games. Besides that, the scissor, paper, rock games makes me laugh because one of my friend, So Yeon lose to a little girl from start. I get the feel that all of the people involved in the process enjoying themselves a lot that day because another friends of mine turn into hyper active during the musical chair music..which makes me mesmerized..

End with the games, we allocate all the students into the Admin building to view the scenery of the mountain and give them some snacks of ("kaya" pau- rich pau :)and a botol of water). I have a talk session with my group about their experiences and they said it was very nice and they appreciate it. As a memory, the requested photographer takes pictures of my group together :)

In the future, I have a high hopes that we (Education people) go and visit the Refugee students and help them in their learning. It will be good to if they can come and visits us again :) 

Thank you to all my friends for the good day!!!  :)

This are some of the pictures from that wonderful day:

My "ORANGE" Group
One of my students- only 5 years old :)





My Friend (So Yeon0 losing game to little girl :)The Final War.... :)