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_DAY 1_

Today is 2015, 24th April. This was our first time to visit Rumah Penjagaan Juara which is located at Petaling Jaya, indeed, this was the first time for me to visit a so-called child nursery. At first, I thought it was an orphanage but when I learnt the truth that it is actually a nursery for children, I got really really shocked. Back in my home town, Kuantan, we don't have these kinds of nurseries which include accommodation for children for the weekdays as well as weekends. We only have nurseries which will only 'babysit' children, normally for weekdays and accommodation will only be provided when the parents have emergency cases which make them 'unable' to look after their children, but only for a few days. To my surprise, parents in Kuala Lumpur are willing to send their children far away from home because they can't make time to look after their children not because of emergencies cases, but of their work or maybe their irresponsible attitude towards 'raising' their children.

For the first day, we had brief introduction between the owner of the nursery, Miss Cecilia, the staffs and the children. I'm surprised, again, when I learnt that there are two 'houses' in Juara, the Boys' Home and the Girls' Home. After our group leader, John Voon Chun Yee,  distributed work to be done to us, Ming Jing and I went to the Girls' Home as there are only two girls in the group and boys are not allowed in the Girls' Home but girls are allowed in the Boys' Home O.O So we went to the Girls' Home and see what we could help. We were asked to assist some children with their homework. It was funny when Esther, an Indian girl who is currently studying in a Tamil school asked me some Mathematics question. Well, a Standard-Eight-standard Maths won't be too difficult for my level, until the questions came in Bahasa Tamil @.@ One of the questions was:

Sari has an orchard. She will get 230 mangoes for a day. How many mangoes will she get for three weeks? 

Easy, right? But because she knows only a little bit of English and I could only understand the '230' number in the question, that's why this question took more than 10 minutes to be solved ._. And we used about an hour to solve 5 questions HAHAHAHAHAH! There was also a Chinese girl, Joyce, who gave me a headache. She was asking me to help her to finish her homework! When I asked for the reason, she told me that her teacher is always scolding her for her 'imperfect' work. I felt so sorry for her, because there is no one she can seek advice from in Juara as there is no Chinese staff around for her Bahasa Cina. So for that day, I tried my best to help her to understand the peribahasa in Bahasa Cina and also I told her not to ask for others' help so often before she tries to do it herself. Since she is far from home now, and also having a younger brother, Andrew in the Boys' Home, she has no choice but to learn to stand own her feet. And I got to know that their mum rarely cares for them and she only visits them once in two months. *sigh*

We could see that the kids were erm... Very happy (?) to see us. Seriously, they were not showing 'normal' happiness towards us, it was like beyond than that. They were jumping all around, pulling your hands, playing with your eyes, asking you weird questions etc.. They were almost 'hyperactive' for me. I felt pitiful for them deep down under my heart because I were bornt in an one-way income family and since young, my mum has been taking care of me, I have never known the feeling of leaving-far-from-home until year 2013, when I took up Matriculation programme, These children, in the stage of growing and needing so much of love and attention from their parents, and they are left far away from home. Since they can't get attention from their family, so they will show anything they know or they have in order to get your attention from the other kids. I really know how this feels, because I am the eldest in the family and I have a sister, a year younger than me, and also a brother, three years younger than me, as well as a baby brother, fourteen years younger than me. Yeah, it is so so so so so difficult and heart-breaking to 'win' attention from both dad and mum. How sad.. I can say that, there are pros and cons staying in a nursery. You can either be very independent or more and more depraved. I can only wish that the children can stay strong with each other, as they are also having another family in Juara and keep their optimism with them as they grow.

PS: English not good, sorry, many grammar mistakes. Dont wanna bother LALALALALALA~ :D 

Vicky Sim

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