Financial Health Check + Session 3

I'm proud to announce we've spent till the last $2.52 of our initial $180 fund. After being a grumpy middle age housewife like shopper for our sandwich builder kit... yep that's all we're left with.

Session 4 (sandwich day food + nutritional health pamphlet printing) ----- $59.30
Session 5 (sandwich builder kit) ----- $39.45
--> found a run down bookshop selling at 20cts a piece of plastic card holder but they didn't have 120pc. only managed to get 60pc. found another less run down bookstore that charged me 30cts each. at 60pc bulk purchase 28cts each. as Audrey pointed out... not even a 10% discount. *grumpy grumpy* haha...

These 2 events are at the top of expenditure record so far cuz the rest are just mural materials, DV tapes, some stationeries etc all add together, and the kids' prizes.

And suddenly i found some of my little chats documented! *gasp* haha... Yi Eng... copyrighted! Where's my royalties?

Yea we haven been starting on time (except first session as Yi Eng reminded me that the kids themselves were late). But we could explain to Mas that the back to back sessions were really very tiring and demanding on our production speed. And this is only 1 out of 5 modules we're taking.

As for the treasure hunt games. As already mentioned in class, we just lost some boys in the midst of the game. They were entertaining themselves (totally ignoring the fact that we're in the midst of a game with them!) Haiz... writers can document this. Kids have real short attention span. If anything doesn't catch their attention... we lose them. How do we tackle this problem... we have one facilitator will have to go around and gather the lost sheeps while the others conduct the program. Anyway the treasure hunt game I must say that we didn't really have much time to plan also. Up till that morning I was still discussing with Alvin Yi Eng and Audrey cuz I spent the whole night preparing materials didn't really think about how best to conduct the game. So... it boils down to we really dont have a lot of time esp when the prog for nxt session can only be finalized after we complete the previous session. And Kate, NO! Don't read that as blaming you. I always say: accidents are never meant to be expected. From the presentation I worked with you, I know you're not a free rider =)

And the findings from the treasure hunt game is... the kids have very poor health knowledge. Or they simply didn't think at all. I shall try to recall the questions and answers.

Q1. I am high in Vit C --> Kiwi
Q2. I am full of Omega 3 --> Salmon
Q3. I am the fattiest of them all --> Cake
Q4. You need to rest your eyes after watching ___ of TV/computer screen/reading --> 45 mins
--> this question some kids got it right very fast. I heard them say the answer even before finding the paper. Probably the school teaches them. I've seen this ad on TV before too.
Q5. You need to sit ___ away from your computer screen --> 50cm.
--> Found from HPB site. I heard this girl exclaim: "Wha so far!!!"

There's another 2 more questions which I can't remember now. They're saved in my laptop and I'm on my PC now. Will pass to the writers team soon.

My initial discussion with Kate was to have something like a MCQ style with 5 options for each question treasure hunt. But later I realised it's not possible to conduct it that way. Then it became: each question will be asked individually and and facilitators will pass out each team their 5 choices of answer together. The fastest team to get it right will score 1 point. But we dont have enough facilitators to do that. So it ended up pasted all over the room kinda treasure hunt. Which i guess was a contributing factor to the kids running around individually instead of staying as a group. Cuz there's nothing that restricted them to stay together. --> kids always have a way to improvise games that we designed for them. lesson learnt... specific specific specific instructions must be given.

oh my... such a long post. what to do... grumpy middle age housewife + long winded.