At first, we had no idea on what to do because we had no decided school. However, we were able to find a school with the help of Dr. Santiago. When we found a school, we went to visit the school right away. During the visit, we realized that the school was quite good than what we have expected. However, we still wanted to help in the field of sports because the students of that school loved to do sports but they lacked sports materials.
After the visit, we had several meetings to decide on what we could buy for them and how we are supposed to raise funds to buy those things. When we were brainstorming about those things, we realized that the Christmas Bazaar was in a few days. Because of that, we started to prepare for food that we can sell on the Christmas Bazaar. I, together with other members of the group, prepared so much for it but 3 days before the bazaar, I had to have the operation. When I was moved to the room after the operation, that was the first thing I worried about. I was worried that I could no longer go to the bazaar to help my other members.
I was really sad that I could not do it any more and I asked my mom for help because I wanted to help my other members. So, the night before the bazaar, my mom and other members of the group gathered in my house to prepare the food for next day. Also, I made sure that the barbecue that we were going to sell at the bazaar is ordered properly. Although this was just two days after my surgery, I believed that I still had to do my responsibilities in the group. With the hardwork of the members of the group, we were able to raise a lot of money from the bazaar. On that day itself, we were able to raise more than 4000 pesos.
Next thing that we had to decide on was what to buy for the school. Since we noticed from the visit that they were really interested in badminton and they also lacked the volleyballs, we decided to buy badminton shuttlecocks and volleyballs for the school. When we were ready with all the things we needed, we had to schedule a day to invite them to our school. During this time, I really felt stressed at some point because our school had so many activities and it was hard to schedule it with the school that we were helping. I had to contact the principal of the school several times to fix this problem. We continued to contact each other for about 2 months until we realized that it is no longer possible to invite them here and our option was to go to the school. When we finally decided on the date, we immediately went to the school to hand them the things that we have bought for them.
During the visit, we played dodgeball with them. At first, it seemed hard to let them be engaged on the game but as the time went on, we were really enjoying the time with the kids. After the game, we handed them candies for their active participation. We were really thankful that they were even happy with the candies that we prepared for them. We also handed them the things and it was the end of our project. Although we were not able to do much for the year, I was really happy that we were at least able to make the school happy with our little effort. I was also happy that our adviser helped us a lot along our ways and our group really cooperated well to see a good ending. It was once again a great experience for me and I hope it was a happy experience for the school that we helped.
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