Jan. 27 - Trip to Day Care Center! :)

                On January 27^th, my classmates and I went to Day Care Center in Pattaya, Thailand to help take care of the children there and see how life is like. There were a total of 3 activities for us to do; sweeping the yard, help clean and organize the food storage, and playing with the kids.

                We were broken up into 3 small groups and rotated at each station. The first station I went to was the children’s classrooms to help them work. When we got there, the teacher’s assistant told us there were 3 classrooms with children ages 3, 4, and 5. My small group and I decided to go visit the 4 year olds. When we entered the classroom, the 2 teachers leaded the children into singing and acting to a song they have practiced for our coming.

                After the introduction was done, the teachers and their assistants helped pass out coloring books to each student along with baskets of colored pencils.  Then, it was time for us to help them with their coloring books. It was fun at first and I thought they were cute, but in about 10 minutes, when I was helping kid A, kid B asked me for my help so I went to help kid B. I didn’t it was something to be mad about, but kid A got angry at kid B and punched him and swore extreme bad words. I got shocked because I never thought these kids would fight or knew any swear words since they are just 4. So, I tried to stop them and helped both of them at the same time. 

                After our time with the children was up, we were taken to the Day Care Center’s food storage where we helped them tidy up supplies and ingredients in the correct shelves with the correct labels. It was hard work, but from that experience, I got to cooperate with everybody and worked hard. For some reason, we didn’t get to the last station, but stayed at the food storage until the end. When the time was up, we took some photos, said goodbye and thank you, and went to lunch.

From this field trip, I have learned new things, like working in the food storage, tidying up things and having cooperation, taking care of smaller children, etc. (I also learned that 4 year old kids know lots of extreme swear words and punch each other. :S) Although working in the food storage required hard work and we all got very tired with aching knees, it was a fun trip and we learned new things from this experience. J