Lee Hsia Ling

Post: Public Relations Officer
As for preparation before going for the camp, I must attend meetings and help in the preparations for the camp. The preparations for the camp includes; preparing files, students’ handouts, preparing hampers, attending briefing on how to play the games, practicing songs and cheers and others. Besides preparing these materials, I must also be mentally prepared, as I have to understand the games clearly and prepare to carry it out to the students.

My job as a PRO started when I reached SRK Adela. I was the middle person for camp B and the FELDA group of people. As a PRO, I need to know the post for the people in charge in the other organizing committee such as the officers involved in the camp for example the FELDA officers and the people from the SRK Adela. Knowing these people will help me to identify the people in charge of certain job so that I know who to refer to when I need assistance.

One of the things I found out from them was that there were many participating FELDA schools from different districts such as Adela, Sungai Emas, Papan Timur, Air Tawar 1, Air tawar 2, Air Tawar 3, Air tawar 4, Pasak, Keledang, Sening, Tunggal, and Semencu. However, the host for this camp was SK Adela. The people in SK Adela are:

Penyelia petang- En. Selamat Rahim

Teacher- Pn. Sarah

Pengurus Jamuan- Fatimah Yahya

Pengurus Felda Adela- En.Razak

Urussetia Adela- En.Osman



The other people involved in the camp are:

Secretary (Pegawai Pengarah Tunggal)- Puan Zalina

Pengerusi GP- Pn. Aminah Atan

Pengurus Felda Tunggal- En. Jalil

Pengurus Felda Timur- En. Malik Awang

Pengurus Felda Keledang- En. Zainal

Pengurus Felda Semencu- En. Ismail Salleh

Pengurus Felda Sening- En. Razali Husin

The people listed are those who were present in the camp. From what I expected, each district will send their representatives to see how their students were doing in the camp.

My job started when I was asked to find three teachers from the school to be judges for the drama. I went to Pn. Zalina to know who these teachers are. She told me that the teachers would not be in the school most of the time since they were only in charge of the students’ intake. But somehow, I was lucky enough to be introduced to a teacher who was present that time, which was Pn. Sarah. She told me the other two teachers were not there but she will inform them to be there the next day to be judges for the drama.

On the last day was one of the most important days since many officers will be present. My job as a PRO is to welcome the officers upon their arrival and escort them to the hall. Besides that, I need to escort them to their seats and when they are going up and down from the stage. I also need to find out the officers who are going to give out the prizes, inform them beforehand and make sure they are there at the expected time.

In the beginning, I was not clear what I am supposed to do, but I was glad that En. Ghazali and Cik Fatimah have taught me and my friend what to do and how to do it.

Since I have not been a PRO before, I learnt a lot from this post. I learnt how to approach people, how to start a topic, and how to ask and inform them in a polite and correct way. I found this post interesting and I am glad I was given this post.

Besides being a PRO, I was also a facilitator. Being a facilitator has given me some idea of a teacher’s job since we have to control the students and guide them how to play the games. I must also take care of their physical state (health), their well-being (discipline) and also their feelings (whether they are feeling sad, happy, or lonely). We work in pairs to make sure everything is under control. We had to prepare the materials beforehand and group the students. Besides that, time management was a main concern since we have to conduct a few games in the restrictive time and keep the students’ interest and motivation going throughout the games. We must also be punctual when we were supposed to go for break or go to the hall for gathering.

In my group, my students expressed their liking towards us for teaching them how to use English, either in written or spoken. They somehow started to like English and felt motivated to continue learning English. They think that we are smart and somehow became their role model. My students had certainly surprised me and made me proud since they won first prize for Amazing Race.

As a conclusion, we have certainly achieved the camp objectives. We were able to motivate the students to learn English and foster the love of the English Language. This will provide a good starting point for the students to like English and avoid the biasness of English as a difficult subject to score. Besides that, we get to apply and practice the learning theories learnt in the class for all these years. I truly enjoyed this camp and it will be the most unforgettable experience I had in UTM.