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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Before the project, when my teacher, mr goh said that we are going to IMH (institute of mental health) next week, I started to get worried as I always had a bad impression of mental patients . I have an impression that mental patients are unnormal person and that they are some sort of devil person , I also have the feeling that all patients living in IMH are mental people. I also have an impression that mental patients living in IMH are unfriendly people, for example, when you said ‘Hi’ to them, they will beat you. One of the event that made me change my impression of the mental patients during the project is that, on our way to the basketball court, to play some telematch game with them, I got a chance to talk to them and know them better, when I was talking to them, I got to know why they were admitted to the mental hospital and from what they said, I feel sad for them as some patients said that they will stay here for a long long time. When I was playing basketball game together with them, I found out that some were quite professionals in playing basketball, and from there on, I had changed my impression of the mental patients, I found that they were like everyone of us, normal person, I also found that they were friendly and polite as they did not gave any remarks on the game that we had organized. If my group had a chance to go to the mental hospital again, we will still have the refreshments as I find that the refreshments are well coordinated and well planned. The mental patients enjoy the food and drinks that we had provided. We will have the refreshments again because after an activity had ended, the participants might be hungry and need some refreshments, so refreshments is important and we would include it if we go to the mental hospital again. We will still had the telematch if we go to the mental hospital again because we find that the patients in the mental hospital enjoy the telematch very much. But, our group will improve on it by having the telematch being more well-organised. We will work out an activity schedule, for example, how many hours or minutes the game will last, so that we can complete all the activites that we had planned. We will work out a work schedule for each one of us, so to ensure that on that day, we will not be lost and does not know what to do and just stand there and do nothing. We will also plan and create more interesting game. While working on the project, I found out that Rayner is such a kind boy that will care for people around him. When the mental patients are playing the basketball game, he will call them to walk and play slowly so that they will not fall down. I find that both, benefiting the community through our project and learning new things for yourself in order to share with others is important. When we do this project, our aim is to help the community, mental patients in the mental hospital is considered the community. When we do this project, we are benefiting the community as we help to entertain the mental patients, if we does not go there, they will probably be spending the time doing nothing inside their ward. We are also giving them a chance to show off their talents, for example, playing basketball, when a patient throw a ball and the ball goes into the basket, we will cheer for him, by doing this, we are building his confident and letting him to be aware that he is not a useless person. Learning new things for yourself in order to share with others is also important as I can share my experience with my family and friends. I can tell them not to be afraid of mental patients as they are very kind and also to let them know that mental patients have a boring life inside the mental hospital. I think this will influenced them not to be scared of the mental patients and will go to the mental hospital to do voluntary work.
Written By:Qian jie
with love, at 9:58 PM
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