This competition happened in last month, when I was taking part in YEAH! Program.

At that day, the children there did’t do there homework, they held a casual badminton match in the badminton court downstairs. I was not good at sport so that I didn’t play myself, but my friend join them happily.

The children there was really energetic and they played badminton very well.
My friends can’t compare them, but it was still enjoyable.

I participated in this workshop on  October 10th.

This workshop was about how to become a good leader. This topic contained a lot of contents, but the this time our focus was on how to control emotions.  At first we listened to the teacher to give a lecture about it, then we work as a team to find some specific methods.

I really learned a lot from this workshop. I hope that I can first be a better person, then a good leader.

I went to the Night Safari on October 26th with my friends.

The Night Safari is the world’s first safari park for nocturnal animals, it was famouse even in China. I was really exciting to browse it by myself.  It turns out that Singapore has never let me down.

I saw may strange animals which I had never seen. When I walked the trail in the rain forest, I was almost intoxicated. I think that being able to quietly explore the mysterious wildlife in such a quiet place was indeed a rare experience.

It was a worthwhile trip!

Last week my friend and I came to find a famous restaurant which served delicious Mapo Tofu. It took a lot of effort to find it because that this restaurants was very small in a big mall.

It was a really small restaurant and the food was also cheap. We ordered a Mapo Tofu, a Dan dan noodles and a spicy chicken. The food was different from I used to ate in China, but also delicious.

In Singapore we always could eat food from all over the word. I hope that next time I can also find good food!

I participate in this event on September 12th.

This event was about to making friends with other students in TF LEaRN program. Many students from all over the Asia participated in the same program, which was really a fate. Is there any reason we don’t know each other and become friends?

To made us more familiar with each other, we were led to a big room and played many games as a team. It was really fun, and I truely made many friends. At last we painted T shirts together and signed for each other. I would treasure it forever!

 

 

I went to Universal Studio on October 25th, just on the Horrible Night.

At that time, there were lots of Haunted houses in Universal Studio, and many Live show  as also. Although I was very timid , I went in with my friends, hoping that I could challenge my self. However, I still overestimated myself. When I saw the actor dressed as an ghost, I was scared to run far away. While browsing the haunted house, I clenched my friends’s hands tightly and even hurt my friends. Despite the fear, I admired the dedication of the actors, who tried so hard to frighten us!

It was really a surprising night.

This course is the other course I choose in SUTD, which is about Chinese fiction, from the very beginning to the Qing dynasty. I choose it just because I like fiction very much. I had take a course about Chinese fiction in ZheJiang University on my first grade, but I do want to know how foreigners talk about Chinese fictions.

When I saw the outline of this class, it looks very similar to what I had learned in my university. When I started this class, I changed my mind. In Zhejiang university, we learned about what is fiction, how the ancients built them, what did they represent and how they developed as time goes by. Although these content also appeared in the course here, I found the teacher looked at the content of Chinese novels out of the framework of Chinese culture. I started to think about something that I had never thought before.

I felt the connection between dreams and foresight’s, people’s longing for love, and the writer’s imagination and sustenance for female characters. These experience made me re-recognize Chinese novels.

 

One of the course I choose is Entrepreneurship. This course is about how to start a business.

I choose this course because that I majored in product design in ZheJiang University. I have developed products many times in Zhejiang University, but I really wanted to know how other students do it. I had thought this course was just a design class in a different school before I took it. However, I found it was more than a design class at last. We developed product in a brand new way, from how could we start a business with little cost.

It was really interesting. It astonished me when I found that this way is far from what I learned in Zhejiang University. In my school, we often came up with oceans of ideas, most of which would be denied by our teacher. At last we concentrate on the one we think is most feasible, and we started to do many research on it. Finally, after getting enough information from market, users and competing product, we designed our product and finish this class. But it was totally different in this class. We have to come up with a product, and find that if there were any person who want to buy this product. We just made a prototype, and ask what do buyers think about it, then we improve it again and again. I could never forget that my teacher said “ If you don’t think about it, you are just taking another designing class.” This experience forced me to jump out of my comfort zone and I really benefit a lot from it.

I participate in this event on 18th, 25th October and 15th November, during 4pm to 6:30pm for each day at Tampines West Community Club. This is really a relaxing and also interesting event. The things we need to do is to help primary school students to write homework and play with them during the event time.

I had been troubled by whether I have the ability to answer their questions as a foreigner before I came there. However, I found that I have considered too much which is not necessary at all. There are already a lot of volunteers and even many free people even for one-on-one tutoring. We just sat down and see if there was anything that we could help.

In fact, I would feel nervous if a foreigner talk to me, especially when I was not sure if I was able to completely understand what he or she said. But I truly felt relaxed in this event. The local volunteers were very friendly, most of them were local high school students, cheerful and enthusiastic, and we soon became good friends. The children here are very energetic, who were willing to play with me, not minding if I was a foreigner not good at talking. Being with those people make me have the true feeling of being integrated into this society in these days. We were from different countries, but we are playing the same game, playing the same badminton, and even watching the same videos. Although you knew it before, when you felt it yourself you were always exited.

Interetingly, I noticed that they had to take Chinese class in primary school, some of them even had a Chinese name. But when I asked them if they can speak Chinese, they said no and told me that they hated Chinese because it is too difficult. I think it is really funny, and I indirectly felt the wonderful connection between Singapore and China.

I participate in this event on 5th October during 11am to 3pm, at Tampines MRT station. This was a special event that I had never done something like that before. The things we need to do is to collect donations around this area with a can, and then give the donors some stickers in return.

At first I was afraid of doing something like this, asking for money from strangers on the street, especially when I could not speak English fluently enough. But the lady in charge of this event performed very sincere. When she handed the cans to us she said faihfully that she was very grateful for our help and wished us all the best. At that moment I thought that I had no reason not to face this matter bravely.

Although I have made myself confident, I still feel confused and timid when I was in front of a street crowded with busy people. However, when I take the courage to ask a man waiting for the bus at the platform and he put a dollar into my can without hesitate, I was overwhelmed by the great sense of accomplishment. Gradually, I was no longer timid and began to ask more people. More and more people put their change into the can, some of them even encourage me to work harder. At that moment, I was tied to the children I was helping, and really pleased from the bottom of my heart with every penny I have collected. I felt that I was not only collecting money for a welfare institution, but I am also looking for my own value in this society.

I have forgotten how much money I had collected that day, but I could not forget the way people give money to me. I remember that when a mother stopped in front of me, one of her children asked that why she gave money to me, she replied that because we need to share. I was deeply moved by it. When we live a satisfying life, we have to remember that there are still many people living in pain in this society. We do need to share, share happiness with others when we have it, and someone would share our pain when we need.