9th of may activities

From: Soong Woei Meng

That day was our second day of the program. We had our fun and bonding ewith our OKU friends. On 9th May, the activity Family Day which was an SOKUZA Club activity and we offer to help and organised it. So on that day, everyone came on time, had their breakfast and then straight to UM varsity lake. When we reached there, small droplets of water were falling from the sky and we were afraid that it might rain. So, with some consideration, we decided to switched out venue to Gazebo which luckily, happened to be vacant. When moving there, we some difficulties due to there was no path for the wheelchairs. Thus, we have to carried the person and the wheelchair separately to another side which the wheelchair proved to be too heavy to carry. Nevertheless, we successfully brought everyone to Gazebo and the activities shortly began. We began with an activity call "Kotak teka-teki" which the people have to guessed what was inside (tofu, jelly, biscuit, rope and cloth). Then, we also have a word puzzle in the words of braille for people to guess and then, drawing with your eyes folded. The drawing activity was interesting as non-eye OKU people have to fold their eyes and OKU friends alike and drew pictures of human and some lake. The pictures they drew were funny.  Later on, we also had an activity "kotak beracun". It is an box contained some punishment that who get the box after a music stop to play, he or she had to follow the punishment. Then, we brought the our OKU friends to a rabbit exhibition show which incidentally happened to be just around the corner. All os us had fun touching the rabbits. After, all of us went back to have lunch and listen to another talk by another speaker invited by En. Firdaus. 

Overall, what I had learned from that day event was that planning an event was not easy. There were some activities that ended too early. So on the spot, my friends and I had to think sometime to stall the time and not making too boring as well. So, we did add on some challenges during the drawing activity and bring them to the rabbit exhibition in hope of lengthening  the time. Which in the end, everything end a little late of schedule but, we managed to finish everything. Another lesson I had learned was that our OKU friends really friendly. They were very cooperative and commit in the activities. Which I think not many "normal people" can do but our OKU friends can. So, I felt that our OKU friends were no different from me. I even respect their dedication and friendliness toward us. Thank you. 

From: Soong Woei Meng