A visit to Seri Kasih Orphanage Home Essay

The first week of the last school holi twenty-four hourss was a memorable and meaningful moments for the members of the English LanguageSociety of SMK Kampung Laut.The society has organized a special trip to Seri Kasih Orphanage Home on May 31st the first day of school holidays at Kampung Delima,Batu 8, Pasir Putih.There were a total of 75 students involved of whom 40 of are male students of form four and five while 35 distaff students comprising mainly of form 3 and 4 students.There were 4 accompanying teachers,Sir Rosdi,teacheradvisor of SMK Kampung Laut English Language Society,TeacherMadihah,our fourth-year science teacher,Puan Marini,our Bahasa Melayu teacher and fin bothy Mr Kim Lian Hing,our Physical Educationteacher.We started our 45 minutes journey with two special chartered buses sponsored by Dato Hj Karim,the chairman of PIBG of SMK Kampung Laut.We reached the orphanage home about 9.15 a.m.We were greeted by the matron,Puan Seri Hajjah Maimunah and her delegations.The ch eerful and estatic feelings of the orphans really touched our hearts.Puan Seri started with a welcoming dustup.All eyes were on her and many wiped their tears at the end of her speech when many tragic stories of the orphans were revealed.We could see that there were a strong angiotensin converting enzyme among the 95 orphans and they were really superb on their manners and etiquettes.We just loved the ways they behaved and lived within their circles.Sir Rosdi reciprocated with a short but very meaningful speech and then presented the cheque of RM1000 donated by the students of SMK Kampung Laut. Themorning activities started with a gotong royong project viz cleaning-up of surau and the main hall. The students were made up of 15 groups of 5 students each while some senior orphans were also lending their hands.Then the outdoor programme followed with telematches held for the female students while the male had a friendly volleyball matches.We had a short break at well-nigh 11.30a.m an d later served with a lightrefreshment.The next programmae started when all the students and the orphans were requested to assemble at Seri Kasih main hall for the talentime show.We were entertained by the hidden talents of the orphans particularly on the group singing of nashid and coral speaking.Some of our students also joined the talent show by presenting some classical andmalay traditional songs aided by 3 plus one music. Then we had our lunch and dzohor prayer at somewhat 1.30 p.m.We were served with very sumptuous and appetizing ikan bakar and beryani rice.Our next programme started at around 2.30 p.m with one hour tuition sessions where our form 4 and 5 students willingly broke up into small groups assisting the form 3 orphans mainly on math and English subjects. Then our own form 3 students were together with form 1 and 2 orphans discussing on some school works andassignments.It was indeed a short but very helpful sessions.Most of the orphans were very hardworking and ded icated students.Some of them topped the classes and had flying colours results.Our last programme was photograpy and souvenirs sessions.We brought beautiful souvenirs and presented to each and any orphans.They were beaming with joy and many had agreed to treat our senior students as adopted brothers and sisters.Besides we also presented large hampers which consisted of chocolates,biscuits, nuts and fresh fruits.The matron,Puan Seri Hajjah Maimunahpresented her closing speech and invited all of us to come back next year for another great programmes.We left Seri Kasih Orphanage Home at about 4 p.m.Many of us had cherished the good memories and glad that we had performed our social responsibility with the residents of Seri Kasih Orphanage Home.We would certainly love to come back next year with many great programmes in hand.