Toys Buffet

I went for the Toys Buffet CIP, not because I need CIP hours, but cos I am inspired by the manga Aishiteruze Baby. After reading that manga, I feel that taking care of kids is really fun, so I signed up for this CIP.

This event did not go as I fantasized. It was crowded, chaotic and badly planned. There were a lot of people, about 130+ sec2s, 90 more people from other schools and only 2 SEC3s, me and toufu. There were people that did all the work and people that did nothing at all. The slackers have hours of free time. ( I saw some ACS people playing bridge) The enthusiastic did not even have proper lunch. There is also a serious lack of communication. Many child ambassadors do not even know when is each shift coming or leaving.

Despite all the negative points, I enjoyed it. It was fun.

I was hoping to be a child ambassador so that I can interact with kids. However, I landed in a ‘Special Special Force’. If they had been honest, it would have been called Sai-Kang Group. They made us shift about 100 crates of drinks from the storeroom, to the stage, to the back stage and then to the canteen. After that, we have almost nothing to do. However, even though there were about 100 child ambassadors, 50 of them were slacking. Thus there was a shortage of manpower. So we were told to become child ambassadors and take care of kids. YAY!

Toufu left at 4pm. So I became the only sec3 there. Sucks to be me.

It ended at about 5.30pm. After that was cleaning up time. I stacked chairs, packed leftover toys and picked up rubbish. I was the only sec3 there so I have a give-me-something-to-do-and-I-will-do-it attitude as I do not want to be left out. After we cleaned the place, we helped the primary school teachers to arrange 300 chairs cos they have a mammoth activity, called primary 1 registration. In the end, I went home at about 7.30pm although the event ended at 5.30pm.

Note: Do not get the wrong idea. The way I write seem like I regretted participating. However, the truth is, I enjoyed it. I liked it. I do not regret attending it. It was a meaningful experience. It was fun. It was a good deed.