reflection[nabilah ismail]

MY INSIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ELC 2007

 

Salamz and gd day 2 all…

 

Parting is such a sweet sorrow…

 

 

PRE CAMP

 

The camp was great. I hadda lots of fun. Mostly by watching these kids struggled to participate in our activities. And I get to know more about my fellow friends.

Basically, my job for this camp was:

 

Assisting Siti Hajar as the Treasurer of Camp B. Helping her in allocating money for the bureau that needed it, balancing the account and the typing up of things.  My role here is a minor one only. She was the one who had been carrying most of   the burden of our budget as I was and still a number intolerant.

 

Helping other bureaus especially the Souvenirs and Materials, along with other facis. Sorting out the never-ending participants' folders and their tags, wrapping up the souvenirs, (not very artsy in this department).

 

Preparing the flashcards for the Word Idol Session, along with Rubi. It was like a factory operator. Auto piloting in tracing, cutting and pasting the cards, all 200++ of them.

Dreading the Battleship session. It was a nightmarish game!

 

 

DURING CAMP

 

I was assigned as the Mini Director of Camp B, along with my friends cooping in at the Study Room of Block B, Aspuri.

My Group was the HARRY POTTER [with Prema & Mira]. I didn't help them much with the kids. Sorry gurls…

To THE GURLZ:  Mira [soooo material,hehe…], Izzati, Ina, Prema, Malini and Jeya. Thanx a  million to all of u!!!! Camp B was a  success. All of us had loads of fun.

Game master for Merry Go Round. [Icebreaking session]

Collector of overall marks for the closing ceremony, calculating and deciding the winners for the awards prepared. I missed the final round of the Drama Presentation with other mini directors. 

 

POST CAMP

Helping Hajar closing the account.

Alhamdullillah, we managed to save some for beneficial use later on. Right guys?   Better have balance than suffered from insufficient fund.

 

MY EXPERIENCE

Once upon a time there was a place called the Faculty of Education, 

UTM. This was where the country got its fresh supply of uppity teachers, eager and wide-eyes to teach the young brats who could outdo them anytime and anywhere. Then there was this course called the TESL  program, which tragically, the only course there that was exciting and full of fun people, unlike the mad scientists-to-be,  running around with their precious experiments a.k.a world pollution, and also the maths people with only numbers dripping from their ears. And or course, not forgetting our fellow aspired athletes and ustazs and ustazahs which no words could ever describe them. 

To fulfill the requirements  of graduation, the TESL people needed to take this one particular paper called the LANG GAMES. After huffin' and puffin', toiling away doing the appointed tasks assigned by the ever clever and professional director, then it was time for the people to carry out the main event: the LANG CAMP at STAR PUTRA, KULAI. Braving the early hours and hunger, the people traveled to the school by bus. The first session with the participants was the make or break session although it was too early to tell. Things were a bit awkward at the beginning, but the people slowly gaining speed as the day went by. Especially at the MINI CAMP B, out of the 4 mini camps established due to the large  number of participants, things were great. The facis were enjoying themselves along with the participants. During the night session, new participants kept popping up like mushrooms. But the Camp B people handled it well.

On the closing day, the last breakfast together was a very special  one.The "mee masin" was the culprit of the day. Luckily the ever  present and caring lecturers: Mr. G & Dr. Norazman were kind enough to go out and bought the people a variety of buns as substitute, as they themselves were unable to stomach the mee!!

All went well and ended well. The closing ceremony was a very memorable one

in a long…long... time. Too many things happened during such a short time.

Everyone must be remembering the bits and pieces of things there.

I would like to thanx Mr. G, Dr.  Norazman, fellow friends from CAMP A, KLUANG for their insights, guidance  and cooperation in making  BOTH camps successful. 

And also the facis from CAMP B, KULAI for sticking together thru everything, swallowing every hardship, misunderstanding, grudge, back stabbing, some fun and laughter, the meaning of cooperation and getting to know the unknown sides of our fellow classmates, in the process of making this happened, in getting the marks that we were fighting for, some more than others. Hey, it's a free country,  rite?

And lastly, a thousand apologies from me if these are to blunt and real to handle. It's the reality, not just some fairy tales. I'm sure I'll be getting a lot of hate mail after this!!! Hahaha…. Do I care? Not a bit. Only for those who really worked hard with honest, down to earth intention just to see the happy and appreciative faces of all the participants that we have met and loved there. Their faces were priceless. 

We have made it, 3SPL!!!! We have succeeded in putting smiles and interest in  learning English even if it was temporary. That's more important than the marks that we'll be getting after this. To MIRA, ZATI, INA, PREMA, MALINI AND  JEYA, thanx for making MINI CAMP B a success, even if we didn't win the drama thingy. We sure did grab others.

We are not anyone's subordinates. We are equals. 

  We Did It!!!!!

~nabilah ismail~

 

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