Today went to a senior's citizen centre call "shi le le ling zhong xing",it is at some HDB flat with houses of 1 or 2 room flat.we go there do rations prepare games for them.It is so FUN and i really feel alot there.first we go do rations,we go 4 different units and give them a bag of things containing 2 packets of biscults,maggie mee,a roll of toliet paper,a bar of soap,a paket of milo ,a packet of cereal,toothbrush,toothpaste.all these all bought by our class we all contribute 5 dollars for all these rations.
we also invited them to the activity centre.the old folks there knew about the centre and they are very active and they ebjoy very much.we can see that they are really very happy and thankful.we talked with the old folks there,really fun.i talked to an auntie at first,i asked her to teach us to fold the san.(origami)and i invited many other pple to join in too.we all enjoy the process very much.and guess what?she chat with us and told us that she was a samsui women in the past,she told me about her bos last time and saying that life was difficult in the past in hokkien.i chatted with her in hokkien too.we all chatted for quite a while and i got my swan too but i lost iot in the centre,im so sad that i lost it but nvm think they took it and kept it there.then i went on to talk an auntie for awhile i started with "what language you speak?",then chatted for awhile,juanne asked me o listen to an uncle about his stories on wworld war 2.he is uncl michael,he told us that last time he was only seven years old went japanese came singapore.then he said life was very diffecult last time then every only eat potatoes,no other things just potatoes and porridge.no macdonald or KFC like now.he said that nowadays kids are very lucky.he had no entertainment last time.and when he saw japanese he will cry he is very scared of them.he told us that they had long long guns with sword at the front and when they see pple they feel like torturing them they would kill them,and when they see young girls like us they would raped them.he also told us that young girls at that time wounld put charcoal on their face and make themselfs looked ugly so that they would be save.they all still lots more things he had told us.He was like talkimg to me for so long but i enjoyed it very much as it is interesting and i know he enjoy talking about it too.
I chatted with many other old folks too and all of them then went to play a game called,"bingo!",it was so super fun not only the old folks enjoy it we enjoyed very much as well.the 2 aunties i helped to see the number won prizes haha..so happy for them.although their prizes are just a packet of maggie mee or a bar of soap but they are very happy and content of it.
They also sing karaoke as well and after playing bingo we chatted for awhile more and we went back to school.we said bye bye to them and wave goodbye to them as well,they too said bye bye to us when i was walking out of the door i saw an uncle actively wving to everyone and he told me that he was really very happy and he kept on saying"xie xie ...xie xie.."..thank you..Im really so touched and feel really alot through this visiting.we all relly spent a happy day together.i really hoped that we can go visit them again.because i know that they are really very happy,and i wish i could make them happy again.:)
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