Friday, October 19, 2007,8:05 PM
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-our first post-exam activity-
The activities set up for us today was really fun! :)
It was to create awareness about how people with disabilities felt and what sufferings they had to overcome to continue keeping that smile on their face. To not brood over such matters but move on and lead a happy one.
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A Caucasian lady with disabilities talked about her experiences in daily life.
She was a survivor of spinal cancer, in which only 3% of victims survive. She can move her left hands and feet normally, but being partilly paralysed, she could not feel a thing when injured on her left side. That was why she had 2 tattoos on her left arm and shoulder. It was a pain-less experience. It was really interesting to hear about it. She leads a really active life, even playing sports like golf, basketball, tennis, snow-gliding and many more sports one would find almost impossible to be achieved. She also holds two world records and weight lifting, and could lift a weight of near 400kg. Her wheel chair was custom-made for her, and cost a whooping $10 000. It had wheels that could be adjusted at an angle to enable her to spin around and move faster easily when she plays sports. It was astonishing to find that she didn't stop her disability from leading a normal life. In fact, she leads a much more active life than the ordinary.
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We proceeded to play many games in which we were made temporarily disabled. For example, there was blind-soccer, where participants are blindfolded with a strap of black plastic and with the aid of another partner who wasn't blindfolded, they were to play the game soccer. We were also required to fold paper aeroplanes, write words, and catch plastic balls half-blindfolded. Another game was to hold a paint brush with your feet and write a Chinese character, 龍，on paper using red paint.
The activity which almost everyone enjoyed the most involves the use of wheelchairs.
Participants of up to 6 people for each team are to move around using wheelchairs only. Each team choose one person to hold a bucket. Members of the opposite team are to roll the wheelchairs and try to get as close to this person before throwing a plastic ball inside the bucket. Each ball which gets into the bucket equals to points for the team. Rolling the wheelchair was tiring, but really fun. Especially when everyone was chasing the person holding the bucket. Hahas. He/She must had a hard time trying to prevent so many plastic balls entering the bucket and rolling the wheelchairs as fast as they could to get away from the others trying to throw the plastic balls. Love those wheelchairs. Hahas.
