Wednesday, April 9, 2008
We went for CIP today! Lol it was quite scary at first. Peiwei kept saying there was this extra handsome guy. -.- Anyway my 'buddy' was Monica. She was very shy at first. Like, lol, Ruthanne gave this extra hard passage for them. In the end she didn't know anything and then she was like so sad. We tried doing the first two questions and mostly she was just nodding her head a bit and murmuring "Idununderstand". Aiya anyway, we attempted the first two mcq questions. i shouldn't say "we" because it was actually me talking only. Then I gave up and just stuck it in her notebook and asked her if she would rather colour or draw. Then after quite a long pause she nodded and mumbled "Mm" and ya. At first she was like don'tknowwhattodo and then she asked me where she should draw, what colours she should use, what she should draw. Then I was like "just draw whatever you like". And finally she drew a ship. The chimney was black, the top section greyish-purple and the bottom orange. Then after she drew she said " This is for you." I was like so happy ok! :) I didn't quite know how to respond. lol.
Anyway time flew by and one hour passed. I found out that she was actually 20! She didn't look 20! She looked less than 20! She looked like maybe... actually I don't know what age exactly I thought she was. Anyway we waved goodbye.
I think it was quite meaningful. I think I must thank God for letting me choose a nice person. Lol. Because apparently for Peiwei her dear Eugene was quite unresponsive and just kept nodding and saying "mm". And then there was this other person who used sign language to read out the newspaper article, and then there was this person who broke her father's table once or something and the father got totally angry haha.
I feel that I have accomplished something or something. Monica was actually rather shy and frightened and ashamed that she did not understand almost every word in the passage. But she's actually quite friendly and nice when she becomes a little more familiar with you. :))) I think I got one of the more responsive people haha. It was a very enjoyable experince (alliteration! :))
