you won't believe this. this is the 2nd time i am typing this post coz the first one got wiped out when i posted it. i'm not sure what happened also.

anyways, remember the time i told you guys about touchkidz? where there're all the little kiddies? i was serving at the youth service slot, which is on saturdays at 5pm. it was set up in july last year but now it's closing down. it's closing down coz there're not enough children! well, being the slot for the youth service would explain that. but there're a lot of parents who bring their kids to service... they're just not leaving their kids at touchkidz.

only that slot is closing down... other slots at other timings are still up. well, consider other slots? did think about it, but that would also collide with other things that i'm committed to. *sigh* so this is it, i'll be leaving touchkidz.

well, my pastor did explain why things turned out this way and the plans that they have to make this work the next time. he's actually meeting up with some of the parents who attends the youth service, and working out how there can be a group of people to meet their needs, and if they wanted this at all. oh well, guess it's a chicken and egg problem. which comes first? have a team of people who're available to help take care of kids? or have people who want to put their kids with caretakers while they attend service?

all in all, learnt a lot of things while i was there for the 6-7 months... learnt how to handle little children... learn how to see the up sides when things look down (like when toys are broken... hahaha... that's a super down for a kid)... learn how to encourage these kids not to give up but learn to be more patient with others, as well as themselves (especially when they do colouring... sometimes they'd have to colour the sky but give up coz there's too much to colour and they have to keep sharpening their colour pencils)... learn how to speak my point... hahah though that's rather easy with children... coz the things that they usually get themselves into is quite easy to teach... like fighting over who goes first on the slide... and not to scold other people stupid... to greet people they meet... and stuff like that...

enjoyable. =)

and of course, there's the occassional weird and naughty behaviours from them... but hey, that's absolutely ok... many adults behave worse.

don't know why... i like little kiddies... coz when i see them i see something... that something is called "hope". important note: i'm not saying that adults are hopeless... just that there's so much newness, so much ahead of a child, so many plans to be accomplished, so many...

and i'm sure that little kiddies feel the same. they have many many hopes... many many dreams... but somehow when they grow older, these hopes are dashed and these dreams are forgotten. sad, really... hmmm... i remember saying that i wanted to become a doctor when i was younger... coz i wanted to heal a lot of people... well, that's still possible now =) hey.... =) think about it. =)

{ Monday, February 14 }