18/5/2010

Ok guys! this is my blog post for 18th May.

18^th May. Tuesday.

Woke up at 5am and packed the bathing bag because I was planning to bathe at the community hall today, and left the house! Breakfast for today is porridge with omelette and egg! After breakfast, we head off to work. I was hindered by the state of my shoes only after 4 days. It was spoilt and I had to bandage it with masking tape and duct tape. After rescuing my shoes, I head over to do construction. Today for me is mainly plastering and mastering the art of plastering. There is a lot of laughter today because the group of people doing brick-laying was cracking a lot of jokes, keeping the atmosphere rather light. At least we won’t be bored doing the same job everyday!

I went over to the Sibol School to see the children for a few times. Their progression is actually rather good, and enthusiastic in their participation. I guess after some warm-up the children are now opening up to us as compared to the first day when Maoying, Michelle and I took the first lesson. After the morning snack, I continued to do plastering until it gets rather boring. After doing this, I begin to appreciate the workers in the construction site in Singapore. The amount of patience and endurance they have to put in for our buildings. It is not even for themselves, it is for us. I had respected them, because without them there won’t be building in Singapore, but now I respect them even more.

Soon, it is lunch time and after lunch, Maoying and I head back to do laundry. We have a lot of clothes accumulated for about 3 days and especially with my windbreaker. Just last night, I realized that my windbreaker had an infestation of ants because I left it on top of my bag (and I did not put the insect repellent gel). My windbreaker has netting and all the ants were infested inside the netting which made it harder to clean. As usual, Joy is around being the Teacher Joy in washing of clothes and handing us hangers and clothes pegs when needed. That’s really sweet of her. Jodis also started talking more to us, which means he is opening up to us more.

After resting, we went back to the study room to do up the photo frame for our host family. Then we went back to the community hall to rest again until about 2pm. I headed over to Sibol School to help out a little although I wasn’t of much help actually. After a while, I head back to construction. The children started doing things for us. It is sort of like plasticine but is made from sand mixed with water instead, with flowers on top. Somehow it looked like flower pots.

My runny nose started to get worse during mid day. Then I was being quarantined from the rest of the people or rather, the rest of the people was quarantined from me. During that period of time, it really felt rather helpless because nobody is supposed to go near you. I was not feeling tired or lethargic in any way, in fact I was feeling normal except for the runny nose. haha. My temperature was slightly higher than normal at about 37.3 degree Celsius. Then Charissa said that if my temperature is not going down by 8pm, I’ll have to be sent to the hospital which is about an hour ride away from Bagong Silang. Ah! That made me sound like I’m seriously ill. But well, hospital has AIR-CON! =X

Maoying packed some of my clothing for me in case I have to stay over at the hospital, and then suddenly she appeared in the study room too! She is caught with high temperature of 37.7 but she is also feeling very fine. My room-mate is quarantined with me. LOL. Temperature is starting to drop but both of us have to sleep in the study room until tomorrow morning. Being quarantined is not anything bad because I get to have a super long bath in the community hall which is heavenly!

-JOANNE