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For our Service Learning project, we decided to visit All Saints Home which is an old folks home. There were two parts to our service learning. The first part required us to go on a Flag Day. Sadly, some of us, including me, were not able to make it as we had a Malay workshop at the same time. This could have been better improved by having the Flag Day on a certain day where the entire class is free.  However from what I have heard from the experiences of my friends, I realized that they enjoyed it thoroughly. This is due to the fact that they were able to play their part in helping the old folks. I find this very meaningful. Some of my classmates are able to get more than they expected while others barely reached the target. However, it is not the amount of coins collected which is important but the unique experience that we obtained from it and the amount of effort that each one of us had put in. This is the most significant and meaningful part of the Flag Day.

The second part of our service learning is the visit to All Saints Home where we performed for the old folks. I volunteered to perform a song on the piano called “You don’t have to say you love me” by Dusty Springfield. However, my performance was not very well done as there were some mistakes. This was due to the fact that I was nervous as I had never performed for such a huge group of audience. I also feel that we were not given enough time to practice our performances. I would have played much better if more time was given for us to practice as I was not free during the whole month of June. Regardless of this, I still managed to play my song to the end. There were other performances such as the kompang performance by the Malay boys ( Kompang is one of the various Malay traditional instruments), the guitar performances of Canon in D by the China scholars, the chinese flute performance by Wei Xuan and Royston and last but not the least, the choir performance where the whole class sang two songs. The two songs were “Payphone” and “Fall for You”. We sang our hearts out as a class. Personally, I feel that the performances that were put up were heart-warming and enjoyable. The old folks were exhilarated and thoroughly enjoyed our performances as they were clapping their hands and their faces were lit up too.