"CIP"

"Who wants to volunteer?" Mrs Low questioned, "it must be those whose parents surely can allow." Some of us volunteered, including me. It appears that we were volunteer to help set up the Halloween Party for the P1s and P2s.
At 9am the next day, Ms Dawn Quek came to our class and asked the volunteers to follow her and go down. All 7 of us went down and Ms Quek described what the whole event was going to be like while we sat down on the little chairs in the P1 classroom.
After the talk, we set off to decorate the 2/1 classroom with streamers with pictures of witches, bats, spiders and those 'Halloween stuff'. There were also bottles labled 'poisonous', but unfortunately, there was no liquid in them as Ms Dawn said it would attract ants and did not want to pour anything inside. We did the same for 2/1 and in that morning 3/5 was using it. Some retar* said something that insulted me and I quarrelled with him until I thought that it was no point quarrelling with a retar*.
We brought back some shiny paper (aluminium foil) into the class to cut into pieces for the P1's and 2's Arts and Crafts in the afternoon. Ms Quek said that she needed 60-70 pieces (we did 70 anyway). Amanda wanted the pieces to be 'normal (aka 'crumpled')' but I wanted them to be 'flattened' so both of us quarrelled until I gave in. After we had completed all 70 of them, Mrs Low siad we should flatten the pieces to fit into the plastic bag so we did that. LOL.
AS I had helped to count the aluminium pieces over and over again; and there was marker ink on the sides of the foil, my hands were dyed blue. Yi Sien's and Mathilda's were too. We used hand soap in vain, trying to get the stains off. The bottle of 'CIV'(washing detergent) caught Yi Sien's eye and he tried using that. Miraculously, the stains cam eof his hand. 'Inspired' my the 'miracle soap's power', we tried that too. A few minutes later, Yi Sien told Mrs Low that we used CIV and she gasped in surprise saying '这个很强的！" She then told us to wash with normal hand soap after that.
The shrill bell sounded significantly, meaning that it was time for lunch then. We had from 12.50 to until 1.45 to eat so most of the time was spent in the library, playing and reading.
At 1.45 sharp, 7 of us left the library and waited for Ms Quek at the 2nd staff room exit. We went inside the staff room and wanted to check whether she was there. Instead, some rude teacher came to shout, "1 person enough to meet teacher, need the whole village meh?" If he was an English Teacher, Beckham would be my brother. Outside the staff room everyone agreed that he was damn rude.
Ms Quek walked out of the staff room and went back in again to change into a 'Halloween' T-shirt. We then walked to P1/7 and Ms Quek gave a talk on Halloween to the P1s. She also emphasized on paying attention to the talk to them as they would hae to answer some questions on the topic itself. Apparently, the pupils were split into groups of 6 and were given a task to find 5 diffenrent masks in seperate classrooms or areas around the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor. There would be a teacher-in-charge for each mask and the pupils would have to ask for his/her name and answer answer a quiz question. All their answers would then be filled into their worksheet. All the teachers-in-charge were having their own lessons so in order not to disrupt their lessons (with pupils searching high and low for the mask in the classroom), the mask was put at a fixed area visible to the eye from outside. The pupils were told that they had a 'bank' of 10points and their group buddy (us) could minus points if they were rowdy.
Before we left, Ms Quek lent us a camera each and said that we could help her take candid photo shots of the pupils while they were doing the activity. Darren and I led one group and he took the camera. You could see from their behaviour that girls mature faster than boys (I'm not being a sexist to either gender!): the boys were rowdy but the girls were polite and quiet.
Well, I wouldn't elaborate more on the activities that took place during 30minutes that we were given to find the treasure. In the end, we found all the masks except the skeleton one, which is simply 4 masks. No points were minus ed but on the contrary, we didn't win the game.
Art and Crafts was next as each pupil got a template made by sticking a transparent sheet over a rectangular cardboard piece with a rectangular hole. THey were then given a Halloween picture and had to trace the outline of it and colour. Then we 'buddies' would have to stick the 'flattened' aluminium foil behind the picture to make it shine by the reflection of light.
When it was their recess, we stayed back for 5minutes helping to pack the markers and paper back for the next session. Mrs Quek gave us 10 dollars to buy drinks. After we had gone down, we decided not to use it and return (partly because YiSien said that she would tell Ms Tan and Ms Tan would praise us). We didn't eat much and had actually wanted to play Ultimate Frisbee by asking Mathilda to go up to the staff room to ask Mrs Yeo for the frisbee(s) under her table. Mathilda came back empty handed saying that the teacher was not at her table. Yi Sien lied to her saying someone followed her and saw that she didn't go to the staff room. BWAHAHAHAHA! You should have seen her reaction: so exasperated! The we played soccer (and basketball) with 3 bottles still having fizzy liquid inside. 1 bottle exploded after being kicked and thrown about.
We had actually thought that the P2's would be more mature and would not behave so badly as the P1's but, to our surprise, they were worse. I had volunteered to lead one group by myself as I thought it would give me more authority (Darren had been having more than me LOL), but there was one hyperactive boy that called the other groups 'bad guys'. But the rest of the group members were quiet but involved.
After their Arts and Crafts, by back and legs were aching after 3/4 a day of decoration, climbing stairs and brisk walking. Not to mention, bending down to help the pupils stick the 'shiny paper' on their pictures. But we were rewarded with a goodie bag and a pencil with a Jack 'O Lantern on top of it. And last but not least, a big 'thank you' from the P1's.