This year's Children's Day celebrations once again demonstrated the wonderful involvment of our parents. Notwithstanding the lack of funds, our CCEs responded so warmly to the call for donations to sponsor ice-cream and popcorn treats for the SACPS girls. Some parents even replied with notes of encouragement and support.
So on 30 Sept 09, spread across the AM and PM recesses, a group of CCEs (mobilised with very short notice) became ice-cream and pop-corn distributors to our excitable girls. Their excitement was fanned by the PA announcements of this treat awaiting them. In fact, when the ice-cream freezer was delivered the day before, the PM recess girls immediately swarmed around it, trying to visualise their treats. Given the anticipation, the CCE distributors promptly form an assembly-line to give out ice-cream cups, then give out scoops, then stamp hands, then scoop popcorn and finally to give out the popcorn cups. Some CCEs doubled up as traffic-controllers to direct eager girls into the line that snaked from the linkway to almost the hopscotch area. We frantically worked at the 'assembly-line' to ensure that all the 1500 girls had their treats in the quickest way possible.
Despite the frenzy, the CCEs actually enjoyed ourseleves. The camaraderie was natural as we started off by sharing who are girls are. Soon, there were common topics of conversation. Everyone simply jumped in and take on all the necessary tasks including, buying lollies for ice-cream-allergic girls to sweeping the popcorn-littered floor. All these efforts were well worth it when we saw the girls licking their ice-cream and munching their popcorn in delight. Many even asked for seconds. Maybe, next year...
A million thanks to our CCE donors and helpers for giving this Children's Day a very sweeeeeet ending.
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