yesterday was Service Learning Day

and, although i complained about it so much on this blog

(ok, only as much as i blog here, i.e. not too often)

yesterday was so so so much fun

although there was a little bit of confusion at the start when the cleaning crew didn't have too many people due to the pulling out of the logistics committee to handle the flea market,
it all turned out very fine indeed, if i do say so myself

there was, however, a moment of panic when i thought that i'd lost the keys to the fun house and the utility room of the shelter

bu it turned out that pat had them, so *phew*

imagine, doing work in the hot sun from 9 am to 5 pm

omgoodness, we were all so tired by the time it became 10 am

and the flea market had just started!

but it was fun fun fun fun!

we made a total of $800++, which either surpassed or equalled to their previous record

yay!

and a lot of it came from donations by people who thought we were asking for donations
instead of having a flea market

in fact, this guy who first gave pat and me $10

then came back with another $50!

however, there were a lot of misers who wanted more bang for their buck

we were selling hairclips and stuff at $0.50 a packet

and this lady to five packets and only gave us $0.50!

and although this is for charity, a lot of people tried to bargain things down to such unreasonable prices!

raphael's uncovered a new hidden talent: bugging people till they come out with donations

hahah

most of the donations came from him

he even asked for donations frm monks!

hahah

the kids aspect of the project was fun too

although i wasn't in the part that was taking care of the kids, i managed to talk to a few of them

some of them were really, really cute!

like these two indian boys who were always together

i didn't manage to catch their names, but they were really fun

and this girl called sabrina - was she the one who said that k looked like theodore from alvin and the chipmunks? hahah

and there were these two malay girls - amirah and ain - who so totally had a crush on roy

they were following him everywhere and clinging to him; so cute!

and finally, the kid (might have been sabrina) who beat somebody (won't say who)

my hero!

we left, all of us feeling satisfied with a job well done

the ironic thing was , the only thing that needed as much planning as i'd done in the entire project was only the cooking part - and even then i didn't have too big a part to play in that because ms k and shauna were handling it!

the rest- the programme with the kids, the flea market - was all played by ear

so all the planning and stress and scoldings and shit that i went through before this

was all for naught

hmm

anyways, after the thing,

despite being sticky from all the sweat and stuff, a group of us went to heeren

for a night of *lalala*

hahah

pat and jeremy practiced their competition song

while the rest of us just sat there revering her voice

and feeling our self-esteem go down...

hahah

but still fun

the sad part was when i realised i was $5 bucks short

now i owe pat some dough!

hahah

i don't know how we managed to sit for four hours in the same place

but we did

and we went home quite late

in fact, i reached home at 11!

but that was quite fast considering that we ended only at 10

now, it's time for studying

and darned homework

shoot

fina

*still feels like only saturday though... where's my day of rest?*