First Night at Shantou. The nightview is quite nice!
This is one of the classrooms
The school is dilapitated...
There is no flushing system
This fridge looks more like a museum with the no. of unknown 'artefacts' in it
The seven brave souls for the the third part of the Shantou teaching trip!
Young and Hyein (South Koreans) giving their first lesson of the day!
Me and Ayaka in action in the other classroom
The students!
These young girls are really keen to learn English.
Sumptuous meals in the school
There is a pavilion on top of a hill besides the school
On top of the pavilion!
Rose and Myra!
Snow wolf (the name he gave himself)
School canteen and shop
Last few pictures before we left for the City Tour
Farewell!
We had our lunch and left Shantou with much things to think
The trip to Shantou really left a humbling effect on us. The condition of the school is really bad in any Singapore or Hong Kong standards. However, the students there are not deterred by the environment they are in and I can see that everyone of them are very eager to learn. Yet, a lot fo people with access to better schooling conditions are wasting their time away in school.
When we introduced ourselves and place we come from to the students, I can see that they are very envious of us. Most of them seems to be resigned to their fate that they will not be able to get out of their hometown as they are poor.
There are so many things that they do not have. A multi-function phone is all they have (camera, mp3, phone and QQ- a Chinese version of MSN)
I asked one of the students and they told me that the subscription for the service is around 10 -20 yuan per month but most of them actually spent only 5 per month)
Their monthly allowance is about 400 yuan/ month to cover food expenses.
The students love KTV and every tuesday, they will go to their school hall for a KTV session! However, most, if not all, of the cds they used are pirated one. Somemore, its bad quality ones.
However, they are undeterred by all these and one really see that they enjoy what they have
I tried to encourage them to try and tell them that they have control of their future and must not let 'fate' dictates it for them.
In the future if I am able to, I will surely donate money to rebuild the school !!!
The students deserve something better!
This trip has been a fruitful and memorable one. One has to really take a different perspective of one's situation before complaining about everything and anything.
These students are very 纯真and 单纯. Hope that they will remain uncorrupted in the midst of the rapid changes in China
May God Bless these students in 礐光学校!
Tata for now!
The trip to Shantou really left a humbling effect on us. The condition of the school is really bad in any Singapore or Hong Kong standards. However, the students there are not deterred by the environment they are in and I can see that everyone of them are very eager to learn. Yet, a lot fo people with access to better schooling conditions are wasting their time away in school.
When we introduced ourselves and place we come from to the students, I can see that they are very envious of us. Most of them seems to be resigned to their fate that they will not be able to get out of their hometown as they are poor.
There are so many things that they do not have. A multi-function phone is all they have (camera, mp3, phone and QQ- a Chinese version of MSN)
I asked one of the students and they told me that the subscription for the service is around 10 -20 yuan per month but most of them actually spent only 5 per month)
Their monthly allowance is about 400 yuan/ month to cover food expenses.
The students love KTV and every tuesday, they will go to their school hall for a KTV session! However, most, if not all, of the cds they used are pirated one. Somemore, its bad quality ones.
However, they are undeterred by all these and one really see that they enjoy what they have
I tried to encourage them to try and tell them that they have control of their future and must not let 'fate' dictates it for them.
In the future if I am able to, I will surely donate money to rebuild the school !!!
The students deserve something better!
This trip has been a fruitful and memorable one. One has to really take a different perspective of one's situation before complaining about everything and anything.
These students are very 纯真and 单纯. Hope that they will remain uncorrupted in the midst of the rapid changes in China
May God Bless these students in 礐光学校!
Tata for now!
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