My Lifeblog: MINDS CIP Part I

CIP at MINDS today was really fun. :) When my class arrived at MINDS, we were greeted by this very friendly lady (who turned out to be the in-charge of MINDS) Roslin. She kinda did a brief intro on MINDS and the people in MINDS. I found it pretty interesting that teachers at MINDS refer to the intellectually disabled people as clients. And I didn't know these people have to go through Sex-education too hahaha. Apparently, Roslin was telling us about how one girl was telling her "Mr Ben is very handsome!" and how MINDS bought 2 very expensive life-sized male&female dolls with private parts (Yes she stated this very explicitly.) from US to educate them. :)

We had our activities at the Arts&Craft room. We were supposed to teach them how to make friendship bands but we ended up joining them at their crafts instead. ML and I settled at a table in-charged of decorating glasswares. We had to use paint to create multi-coloured dots on the glassware. And surprisingly, it takes goddamn lots of patience. The clients actually take one whole day to complete decorating one glassware ok! because they aren't as fast as normal people.

Ok I shall show some photos :) I'm surprised the clients actually love taking photographs :D

Mei Ling's and my Group. The guy on the left most left me with an almost unfinished glassware and disappeared for the remaining of the session. He came back in time for photo-taking though :)

Jiaying's Painting Team. I can't seem to make out what the guy drew though. I think it's Korean.

Hui Yi's client. Her name was something-ling. The girl beside her is called Wei Ling. Haha that's why Mei Ling kept telling me she heard people calling her name.

Group photo of Hui Yi and Man Ting's group. Check out the dude's expression man. MT told me he was hugging her around the shoulders damn tight. I sense a need for Sex-Ed :)

Yi Peng's and his client. They were scrapping tiles. I didn't really know what was going on.

Tiles Scrappers Team 1

Tiles Scrappers Team 2

This group was drawing with colour pencils. The girl on the right most has an excellent drawing of ML, MT and HY. :) Check it out below.

I thought Yan Wen wanted to compare his noobie Secondary 1 photo with a photo of this dude when he told me to take a photo. Turned out he was more interested in the chiobu in the mini photoalbum his client keeps.

Yah this is the one. I really love the drawing :) Don't you think Hui Yi really looks like Hui Yi?!!! Omg. I don't think I can even draw half as good as her. I think I'll end up drawing 3 papayas.