hani's experience

i promise that i'll type something brief... (yeah ryte :P)

how do i feel about the community that i am serving?
let me be honest. at first i was really sceptical. i mean: KIDS?!!! i can imagine all the trouble and burden that i was about to carry on these small shoulders of mine. i was scared (i still remember that first session, and i was in the stuffed van, and i was getting this PANIC attack as if i was about to go for a scholarship interview... i was so NERVOUS meeting the KIDS!!!) i just had no clue what i was going to do with them, if say.. they gave me their tantrums or started doing things that i did not like. i felt too young to be a 'parent' and what?!! dealing with KIDS!!! (the sound of the word KIDS just makes me tremble at times..haha)

but guess what???? i found this community that i am serving, (yes, the KIDS) are AWESOME!!!. it shocks me to find that they have so much POTENTIAL at a very YOUNG age. the kids in my group are SO CLEVER!!! little-EINSTEINs!!! i compare myself to them at their age, and i think that they are way better of than me in terms of knowledge and reading. serious. i'm in AWE seeing how they are so THIRSTY for KNOWLEDGE and FACTS. they have this CURIOSITY that no, does not kill the cat, but kills me... because i am so FASCINATED at how their little minds work and ABSORB so fast. i'm all "WOW!"

it really does render me speechless. and happy.. to know that i am a part of something 'NOBLE'. i am actually one of the individuals that are (and hopefully..remain for a long time) shaping the future of these KIDS. they may grow up to be someone really GREAT someday and i was a part of it all (haha, tumpang gembira). i taught them how to READ. i INSPIREd them. (i think/i hope?)

i learned one big lesson through all this mixing around with the kids. i learnt that when we all were kids, we all were just the SAME. we all were INQUISITIVE little creatures that are NATURALLY born GOOD in person. and i see that in all the kids in the room at the community centre. then i think, why is that some of us turn out to be useful beings and some others turn out to be criminals, addicts, rapists? when to think again, we started out the same: nice, sweet, innocent, good when we were little children. i guess people change due to their environment, influences through out their life. but if we are able to SET GOOD FOUNDATION, GOOD VALUES in these kids from a YOUNG age, then perhaps ALL will turn out to be GREAT society members someday.

i hope to instill values in these kids so that they would not be influenced by whateva BAD things in their years to come. i seriuously want to see them successful someday. cuz they are just AMAZING!! (thought naughty+irritating+evil at times... sorry.. i just needed to spill that..haha)

conclusion... i love this community that i am working with ryte now. FANTASTIC!!

hani