Games!!!

In my first session at Tanglin School in my Research Education Service Learning, I was amused by the students there, especially during the time when my group play games with them. First of all is the memory game, where each person must memorize other people's vegetables and fruits that they spoke out before, and add in the sequence one of their own. It was a good chance for us to memorize their names and make friends with them. The game was fun and entertaining for them and us also. I was quite surprised by their ability to remember things, as they memorized easily the things that were spoken, and even our names, while I only could remember about half of their names.

The next game that we played together was the rope game. We instructed them how to play, which was simply held the rope, bent down, trusted friends, then said out their names and hobbies. We didn't participate in the game with them; instead, we stood outside and took notes of their names and hobbies. Although it was effective, I personally think that we should have joined in the game to mingle with them.

We continued the session with the statue game. We became the statue, and they used verbal power to instruct us what to do. We were quite surprised that some of they were very active, not as shy as what we initially thought. And they came up with many interesting posts and ideas also. It was very fun and relaxing. We actually enjoyed playing with them.

We ended up the session with the game of cherades. In this game, we told one of them to act out the actions we told that person, and them made the others guess what that person was doing. They were quite clever, they got it almost everytime. I could see that they were enjoying the fun and excitement of the game, as all of them put in efforts to infer and think of the ations.

All in all, I think that the games in the first session was very effective in getting to know them more and get along with them better in the future.