Wow!! I can't believe that I'm here in CI (Children Institute) for 3 weeks, time flies so fast. So let me tell my experience to all of you and what I've learn so far in this trip.
1st week - Malaysia
On Monday morning, I woke up and I was prepared to go, because I was happy to meet my friends again after so long. Then, I met with my roommate, she's nice, I talked to her when we feel bored and it's great being with her for 1 week. We went to a place to have introduction, assigning teams and prep time. For this whole 3 weeks, I became an assistant leader, but I love my leader (Marietta), because she's nice, friendly, out-going, brings joy to the kids, Godly lady and pretty. She's my best leader I've ever have in this trip. When evening comes, I was nervous and excited, because I'm going to teach quite a lot of kids for this 3 weeks. We were in Team 1 and we had 7 kids. I love them, because they bring happiness to the team and they're cute, but I miss them so much. On Thursday afternoon, we had our Y2Y (youth2youth) quite a lot of young people came and we sing worship songs, played games, sharing and small group discussion. Then, on Friday, its our... outing day (yay!!) we took the MRT to KL and a few of the other youths came to join us as well. We went to Central Market to buy some stuff (I bought shoes) and some people went to try the fish massage (they literally screamed). My friends and I went to watch a 6D roller coaster, it was fun and everyone in the room screamed. After few hours, we went to Chinatown and spend our time walking or window shopping, but a few people bought stuff there. It's Saturday (our tiring day), we teach the kids for half day, but it was suppose to be a whole day training, but someone change it to half day. Finally, it's my last day to teach the kids here (sad:( ) and we presented songs and verses to the parents. After a long week for me, it was time to pack our stuff for Singapore. It was a wonderful week and I feel excited for the next 2 weeks.
2nd week - Singapore
Oh my goodness!! It's our 2nd week of the trip already... We safely reach Singapore and manage to pass through the immigration, which I don't like it. After quite long, we reach our hotel, which is an old hotel and the lift can only fit 5 people, but the stairs looks so much like hospital design. While waiting for the others to arrive, one of the staff split us to our rooms and I got to sleep where there's 4 people in one room. Few hours later, we took the double-decker bus almost every day (nice, right?) to the church (Singapore Baptist Church) to prepare our stuff for the lesson at night. I'm in Team 2 with my leader (Jason) and assistant (Mary-Jane and me), 3 teachers in 1 team (how cool is that!). Night came, we had 4 children in our team and they're awesome. There are less than 30 children in s'pore. During the Y2Y, there's only 3 young people came to join us, but it was still fun though. On our outing day, we went to Bugis, I think it's where Universal Studio is, then we went to Chinatown to buy things and KOI (yay!! It's like Chatime). In Bugis, we got wet, which was fun, because it's heavy rain...What a fun day, we went back to have a nice hot shower and prepared for the next day. It's Saturday, we had a fun, yet tiring day, because I taught a lesson which I've never taught since I had my first lesson. In the end, everything was great and smooth, we took pictures with our 4 little cute kids and said goodbye. At night, we had a... Pajama party!! :) we share about ourselves, a few girls comment on us and we've to answer this question, "If you had a million dollars, what will you do about it?" We had a wonderful time sharing with each of the other girls. After that, we went to said goodbye to one of our teachers, because he needs to go back to work in the States. What an awesome and tiring week for us in Singapore, it's time for our... final week of CI Trip 2016. :(
3rd week/final week - Indonesia
What a smooth flight we had! I'm the first batch, so some of us had to wait for the others to arrive in the evening. It's been a great time to see my other Indonesian family and friends again. They split us into 4 teams to stay in different host homes. After we reach the house, all of us had a great time fellowshipping with each other. Our host's are very friendly and kind, they sometimes bought food for us for breakfast and supper. The next day, the drivers fetch us to the office, split us into teams with the translators and prep time. Everybody stayed there until 3+, and the all the drivers in the different host homes came to fetch all of us to the church. I am in Team 4 with my leader (Adlai) and translator (Joshua) and we had a wonderful time working together for 1 week with 8 kids, but... I got sick in the middle of the week until the end of CI :( But I still manage to teach for 2 times and thanks to my friends and aunties who took care of me, during the whole day of CI on Friday. I took a 1 hour nap in the church office and I feel a little better. Well... everything was awesome on the last day of CI and it was time to say goodbye, but...we still can see each other again. The next 3 days is so fun, we stayed in a villa somewhere in the mountain and it is cooling in the morning and night. 1st night - telephone charade, get to sleep late and food was awesome. 2nd day - treasure hunt with a twist, soaking wet at night, all of us throw water balloons and shoot water guns to each other. Everybody literally got super wet like we just came back from the swimming pool. The fun ended around 9-10 pm and while we were waiting for others to bath, me and some of my friends went to the pool to wait. We stayed up around 2-3 am, talking with the others and playing games. On our 2nd last day, we visited a cultural building and went to eat dinner in a food court. Some of my friends went to the arcade to dance and we had a fun time laughing. Then, we said farewell to all our Indonesian family and friends and now we're back to Malaysia. It's time to end my experiences now... See you later CI!!
We learn a few songs during the 3 weeks, so here it is
- Giving All Around (in Malaysia)
- The Light of the World
- When Jesus Came (in Malaysia)
- The Commandment song
- The Hat song
We memorize Isaiah 12 for 3 weeks... Wow!!
Skits we acted
- Ping
- Willy
Gray Island
- Shorty
Breathing competition
- Gallant
Shuan the sheep
- Alligator story
Pinicchio
Knights
Thank God that I went to this trip for 3 weeks, it has changed me of how I should depend on God daily and learn His Word. I've learnt lots of character trait: Tolerance, Persuasiveness, Self-Control, Sensitivity and Thoroughness. I also learn who Jesus is: I am the Bread of Life, I am the Light of the World, I am the Door, I am the Good Shepherd, I am The Resurrection of Life, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, I am the True Vine. Thanks to my parents who send me to this trip, I met a lot of awesome people and most of all... a wonderful time.
Teachers and Staff team and a happy pyramid!! P.S. Try to find me :P
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With the translators
By:
Elise (Y9)
