Muselisation

Back to doing trails again. Did my first trail on Tuesday, it was to the Zoo with the Kong Hwa kids. The first day was rather chaotic, it's probably due to the lost feel in the job. But am glad that manage to get the feel back. Things got slightly better the next day, and of course things got even better these two days.

Was at the Esplanade with the Primary 3 kids of Kong Hwa today, there was this kid in my class today who is hyper active. I suppose its quite a serious case of hyper active, because he is on medication, which I think its really poor thing. When we first took over the class from the form teacher, the little boy totally ignore us. When my partner and I attempt to talk to him, he just turn away and don't listen to us. We felt quite troubled about it. Looking at the situation and the fact that I just came back to the job, my partner offered to take charge of the group that the hyper active boy is in. My partner must really be having a hard time during the trail. After the trail I tried talking to the boy by asking him whether or not do he enjoy himself at the trail. He just shake his head and ran off. But what happen next was so unexpected.

After arriving at the school, the children alight from the bus orderly and head back to the classroom. As we were walking, the hyper active boy came up to me and started talking to me.

Student: I don't enjoy myself today.
Me: Why? Why you don't enjoy yourself today? (I put my hand over his shoulder and guide to start walking and talk at the same time)
Student: I got bring money, but I cannot buy the chocolate..... (Referring to the chocolate at Chocz, and he was looking so disappointed)
Me: Hmp.... I got the strawberry chocolate in bag do you want???? (Strawberry coated with chocolate from chocz)
Student: YES YES!! (The boy started smiling and clapping his hand)
Me: So are you a good boy today??
Student: Yes! (Knocking his head vigorously)

So I took out the bag of strawberry and handed one to him. He kept saying thank you to me even before I handed him the strawberry. After getting the strawberry, he said thank you once again and ran off to his form teacher to show him what he got. After which, he came running back to me and say thank you again before running off.

Eventually, I think that he is quite a cute boy. Well, I think patience is all it take to handle this boy. I really salute his form teacher who has so much patience over the past few months. The class is in our care for only a few hours and this is nothing compared to the teacher who in charge for the past few months. The teacher was telling us that the boy never fail to challenge him.

Coming back to the job make me realise that I really do kinda like the job pretty much, but taking it as a full time job is definitely out of the question...