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ALLY’S CAS DIARY ♥
Friday, September 5, 2008

Autism Group
12:00 – 12:45pm

Today was yet another day for me to give hours towards my CAS – and to be specific, Service hours. Autism Group was held today and it’s a chance for us Year 12 and 13 students to look after and play with autistic children in school. There were lots of children and of course a lot of volunteers too. Out of my own free will and not by the will of my friends or teachers, I gladly volunteered to join the Autistic Group because I love being around children and getting the chance to play with them seeing as both my younger sisters are a bit grown-up to play nice with. Anyway, we were supposed to buddy up with a Year 13 so that they would be able to show us the ropes on how to handle an autistic child. Well the other volunteers were lucky, but not me – I worked on my own looking after a child with his Mom by his side. It’s just that there weren’t enough Year 13’s that came today. But I didn’t have much difficulty as I could say that I have a bit of experience working with autistic children only because my other sister does have some mental problems. She’s not autistic, but her brain is delayed by 3 years, so even if she’s 14-years-old, she still thinks and acts like an 11-year-old and it was hard for my Mom and I to help her get enthusiastic about going to school in her early years. This was also one of the main reasons as to why I wanted to join the Autistic Group, because I wanted to learn more about how I should treat an autistic child if ever one does come across my life again – and I will say that nobody is perfect so it is very likely that I will come across a child who is merely different that others.

Before I end, I would just like to say that it was really touching to see how the parents of these autistic children are really there to support their child as I know it is really difficult for them to have to see their kid grow up being autistic. I would just like to end this post by saying that I was really glad that I got to make friends with a little guy called Yi Shen. I found it really emotional how even though he was new to the program and so was I, he always held my hand and even called me ‘jiejie’ which means ‘big sister’ in Mandarin.

Anyway, on a last note, I really do hope I get to see more of him in two weeks time – since we were a big volunteer group, we were split into two. My group worked today and the next group will be helping out next Friday. But I would just like to say that I am dedicated to looking after Yi Shen and any other child on the weeks that I get to spend with him...


That’s all for my Service and later on at around 4pm I’ll be off to Mabohai to do some Action hours through Swimming...

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