Books....and more books!

On the 5th of November,we (the form 4 interact club members) made our way to the library during the coco hours. wondering what are we doing at the library? Well we're wrapping library books actually( BM ones) as part of the community service projects.

First!~ we need plastic...

Ther librarian even taught us how to wrap them nicely and plastic-saving-wise

So, we start off work

The guys, well they are trying theirs best to wrap books nicely

We only have 11 members on that day some of them were absent. Intotal we've wrapped 76 books in 2 hours! NICELY~ haha

By Lydia~

Installation Day

This year, our installation day was a joint installation of 5 clubs. They were:
i) The Interact Club of SMK Seri Bintang Utara
ii) The Interact Club of SMK Aminuddin Baki
iii) The Interact Club of SMK Convent Bukit Nanas
iv) The Interact Club of Sekolah Sri Garden
v) The Youthact Club of Sekolah Sri Garden

The details of the event are as follows:

Date : 2nd November 2007
Time: 2.45pm-5pm
Venue:Skylitte area SMK Seri Bintang Utara

First of all, we would like to thank everyone who came to watch our Installation. Secondly, thanks to the other clubs involved in the planning of this Installation. It was really a rush with never ending msn discussions but we managed to pull through it somehow.

After dividing the jobs equally, SSG Interact and Youthact were in-charge of the programme books and souvenirs as well as a performance. SSG youthact and interact's performance was a sketch (the script was done in 1 hr btw). The story is basically about 2 bad boys whose lives took a drastic turn after they joined the youthact and interact club (they had no choice as they were kicked out of chess club). Considering everything was prepared in 4 days, i would say it was not bad. >.<

Although no rotarians could make it, we recorded the entire event so that we could show it to them.

Before i stop typing, thanks again to everyone who came.


p.s. SBU, most of the SSG student's liked your school canteen food

Volunteers in the ‘Valentina Project’

On the 30^th of October, one day before Halloween, the Interact Club of SSG helped out as volunteers in the ‘Valentina Project’ organized by PetPositive in collaboration with FRIM Negara. 14 Form 4 members as well as our teacher advisor, Puan Rohaidawati, took part in this project and we went to FRIM Negara from 8.30 am till about 3pm.

PetPositive is the first and only nationally registered non-profit Society in the country which uses animals to empower the lives of disabled and elderly persons. The Valentina project, was named after PetPositive’s 9 year-old rabbit, Valentina which died of cancer earlier this year.

The objective of this trip is to give about 20-disabled and elderly persons an opportunity that's never been offered before - to go on a nature walk under the thick canopy of wild flora and fauna in FRIM. Participants made up of the blind, Deaf, persons with spinal injuries to others with neurological conditons will be guided through the forest on a special path in FRIM which has been designed for wheelchairs.

Basically, our job was to chat with the disabled people as well as guide them through the walk. The physically stronger members helped push the wheelchairs on the walk. We also helped out in serving food, registration and so on.

The Interact Club of SSG was really lucky as we were part of the first group of people to ever walk on the disabled walk. Even though it was only a short path, about 400m long, there were many different types of plants and animals. It was really touching to see how much the disabled people are enjoying themselves.

Another objective for this project is to promote AAT (animal assisted therapy). A number of animals, were brought to allow the disabled as well as elderly to try to get used to the furry creatures and accept them as their companions. There were about 4 dogs, a cat, 2 rabbits and even frogs from the jungle.

Hannah, Mrs. Lynda(the organizer of this project) and I went one day before to help catch the frogs. We were led by Norsham and Elango from FRIM Negara. Btw, it was at night and it was raining. Therefore, there were lots of leeches. >.<

This event also came out on the news. It came out at about 8.20pm and was about a minute long on NTV7. Quite a number of Interact members appeared on screen.

That’s all for our day out to FRIM Negara.

Year One Sandwich Program

On the 24h of September 2007, the Interact Club of SSG organized a program for the year one kids. Approximately 16 club members from form 4, taught the kids how to make egg sandwiches. This program was held during the upper secondary coco time which was from 8am to 10.10am, on Monday, at the school canteen.

We started with a demonstration on how to make an egg sandwich, led by Hannah. After the demonstration, the kids were divided into groups and they started working on their sandwiches. The members were in-charge of each group and their job was to assist the kids. All the members did a wonderful job as they were very patient with the kids.

After they have made the sandwich, they can enjoy their masterpiece. There were a number of kids who were thoughtful as they wanted to bring home the sandwiches to their parents.

Lastly, before the kids go off back to their classes, there was a short Q&A session. Simply questions were asked such as
a) name an ingredient used to make an egg sandwich
b) what was the first step we took to make the egg sandwich
c) and so on

The kids were rewarded with sweets for every question answered correctly. Although it was only sweets, the kids were really excited to receive them.

After the event, the interactors were lucky as there were extra ingredients. We enjoyed our own sandwiches before we started cleaning up.

With that, the programme ended.

(will upload the pictures after deepavali)


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Sonia