Pace Week 5

This week's PACE activity was a relaxing one.

Students visit to our university and join us for PACE activity in our campus. We arrived at 1pm to enjoy the complimentary lunch provided by our school at Temptation. The food provided was decent with rice, vegetarian chicken and sauce. I had some talk with other groups of PACE and we talked and shared about our experiences throughout this activity. Learnt a lot from the conversations and it was really interesting to listen different experiences from different people.

After we finished our lunch, we are going to classroom to gather up with your mentee. This time X-space classroom was used. It is good because we are able to sit together in a group and it is much better and practical to interact with each others.

We were asked to fill in our comments for our mentees. My mentee was a shy boy so I would like to write some motivated words for him. I encouraged him to follow his dream and never give up to his studies despite he thinks that study is really a difficult task for him.

We started the class by playing a game. We were asked to build a tower with spaghetti. It was interesting because I never know that we are able to build up tower with a spaghetti which I used to eat in the restaurant. This game requires lots of creativity and imaginations. We figured out our own tower and the outcomes was quite promising.

One of the group was really impressive by thinking out of the box. They built really tall tower by hanging on the ceiling of the classroom. It is a bit unfair but I was really impressed with their creativity and efforts.


Next, we played hide and seek with the students. The classroom's environment was really good and joyful as everyone were really enjoyed the game. The game's duration was about 20 minutes and our university's student and high school students participated in this activity.

After the hide and seek session. We presented our feedback in the class to share with the class what our mentee has learned from us. Most of them were really appreciate our efforts and we are really proud to have them as our part of PACE memories. It was one of the most touching sessions in this course.

Closing ceremony was done after that. And it is the end of the day.

PACE Week 4

I know that I shouldn't write this journal because I didn't attend the weekly activity of this week.

It was really frustrating because I would like to interact more with my mentee because I was informed that his exam is coming soon.

However, I would like to take this opportunity to write about why did I missed the weekly PACE activity.

I was having my vacation during the semester break the week before PACE week 4 in Japan. Initially my holiday was planned to starts from 17th October to 27th October. I had a great time over there and really inspired by the country.

Unfortunately, I missed my return flight on 27th October and I couldn't generate enough cash for my alternate return ticket purchase. My credit card has reached its limit and I have to wait for my parents to transfer sufficient amount to Japan in order for me to book another ticket. Thus, it caused me to return on the Friday on that week and it affects my presentation on Thursday for PACE activity.

I sincerely apologize for absentism which may caused inconvenience for my group mates, lecturer, mentee and whoever involved. Thanks for understanding about my situation.

PACE WEEK 3

Greetings!

It was week 3 of our community service. This week we did our activities in our university's classroom instead of going to SMK Methodist Sentul.

We were planning for the games and ideas for our upcoming weeks. Before we started everything, we were given a box of sandwich and also a cup of tea or coffee. I have chosen tea as my beverage. Nothing much special about it because we have been served food like this past few weeks.

We were allocated to sit with our groupmates in order for us to discuss activities. Initially my group mate was Yvonne and Kitt. But today we welcomed our new member, Lucas for his addition into the group.

Lucas is really good in communicating with everyone and his ideas are really brilliant. I am really happy to have him as my group mate because he is a really cheerful and friendly guy to work with.

Overall, we generated some ideas includes of card games and mafia. We also provide our ideas to the rest of the class. Everyone were discussing in a very fun and joyful atmosphere and really participate into it.

After we discussed about the activity, the class was dismissed and we are going to prepare to enjoy our mid term break!

PACE Week 2

This was the second week of our PACE.

Thanks for the good lunch. We had a sandwich and also a cup of coffee to kick start our second week of community service. We visited the high school once again. We were allocated with a boy student this week because the student we consulted last week was late. It was pretty fun and great experience.

English subject was conducted in the class. And the main topic was "part of speech". Our mentee seems very shy to participate in the class activity. We tried really hard to communicate with him by explaining the details of the topic and encourage him to communicate with us in English.

Despite there are some problems to communicate with the mentee, he is able to understand what the class is teaching and obtained the ability to answer the given questions.

Explaining "Part of Speech"

After the proper teaching period, we started the game session. Everyone was really excited about this and we really had a lot of fun! We were having Charades session.

Having Charades Session

After the Charades session, they were asked to do the PACE questions. We encourage our mentee to read out loud for the passage given. My mentee is still quite shy, so I have to guide him along to encourage him to participate in reading.

It was another great experience and looking forward to join them in the future!

PACE Week 1

Because of studying in Taylor's I was given an opportunity to do community service in order to serve our society to make our country a better place. I was really excited to attend my first lecture to understand further details about this module. It was really challenging for us because it is my first time to do community service.

I was really excited, to know which program I am allocated for. Teaching was one of my dreams during my young age. It was really a great news for me since I noticed that I am allocated to do teaching program under PACE. Which stands for Programme for After Class Enrichment. The real challenge comes to us when we are required to create a group which consists of 4 members. I just joined the university since last semester so it is so hard to get someone from my programme (IBM) to be in the same group with me since everyone has their own friends already.

At last, I formed a group with Kitt with Yvonne. It was my pleasure to work with them and it was really my honor to team up with such talented teammates. Their aggressiveness, intelligence and the spirit to serve the community was really impressed me. We had lots of talks and Kitt and Yvonne really makes lots of jokes while we are planing for our community service. Despite they are humorous, they are really serious during the moment we are doing serious stuffs.

 Thursday, it was a rainy day. We went to Methodist high school which located in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur. We departed at around 2pm with a group of around 20 students. It has been awhile since I visit high schools after I graduated from my high school. Teaching is really challenging for me. The language used for mathematics are different from what we were study before. Malay language was used in Mathematics these days so it is quite difficult because we studied our mathematics and science by English. So the terms and verbs pre-study before the class are necessary for us.

Students were friendly. They were mixed by students which comes from different background and characteristics. Everyone were so enjoyed and we really had a great time. The mathematics chapter, "Circles" was presented in the class. Students were giving their full attention to ensure that they are able to answer the questions later on during the revision time.

I gave some of my advice to the students about the mathematics and taught him the concept that I learnt during my high school time. It is simple to understand and able to pick up the theory very easily.

In the end of the class, we played the word games which prepared by another groups of student from our university. Each group has their representative to perform their word games by pronouncing them as fluent as possible. Everyone learnt new things and enjoyed themselves in a rather relaxed environment.

We went back at around 5pm and we are really looking forward to meet the students in the upcoming week.