rotaract

it is my second session for be a volunteer in the "lion befrienders" project

frankly speaking, the most important I would like to join this club is because of the CCA points, in order to help me to continue staying in campus ...

firstly, let me just brieftly introduce what this project is about...

for every sunday, we will go to some elderly's houses in the holland village...

visit them, and be their friends, chit chatting with them ...

actually, this is quite an easy task ...

for our group, we are assigned to two uncles - uncle francis and uncle tan...

uncle francis does not understand mandarin, so we have to speak english to him..

he has diabetes, but he loves to drink coke...

so, the person in charge remind us to check his fridge everytime we visit him .. and must remind him not to drink coke anymore ...

the first time we went his house, it is pretty clean and tidy

i think because of his diabetes, his ears are affected too... we have to speak super louder to him .. otherwise he cannot hear it ..

today, his condition is worse..

his eye sight is getting worse too ..

 he can only see us in a very blurring image ..

today, his house is quite dirty and smelly ...

after we settling down for 15 minutes, i discovered one of the groupmates keep scratching her legs, and acting anxiously,

we do not know what had happened actually,

after few minutes, i found some weird little insects are on my shirt .. o shit

what are those little creatures ?

to not sadden uncle francis, we cannot have really big action or let him discover we are uncomfortable with this environment,

kock su and mei yee, trying to help me to get rid of those insects..

and we decided to leave early ..

after getting out from his house, everyone is so nervous and keep checking on their shirts/pants/ bags ...

we think that, it is a flea  @@

disgusting right .. But uncle francis totally din realize about that .. OMG ...

flea is so a dangerous little creature u know ... and i think the flea is not really happily settling down in uncle francis's home ...

there are more than 20++ /faint

n, we have to report this to the community service center, they will send cleaners / some professional to clean the flea house ...

then for uncle tan, he is 80++ year-old already ...

he suffered from leprosy and hence his palms and feet are all abnormal .. during our first session to his house ...

he told us that, those people in that block do not want to be friend with him, because he is a cripple and "fei wu"

after listening this, I felt really sad ...

most of the elderly staying over there do not have family? or they have been abandoned by their family ...

how are they going to take care of themselves, that's why rotaract/community service formed ..

nurses from hospital will come to uncle tan's house to clean his legs/ wound everyday...

they will send lunch / dinner to him too ...

But, uncle tan seldom eat the food from them,

he said, it is not tasty .. haha ..

But, i really do not understand why children will abandon their parents ?

baba and mama are the greatest people in the world, without them, we will never exist too ...

when we were still young, they tried their best to give us the best things.. the delicious food..

when they are old, why we cannot take care of them just like they took care of us when we were young ...

one day, we will become old too ..

at that time, will our children also abandon us, just like we abandon our parents ?