Fears and Holidays

For those we don't know, March and April is the end of Semester Break. ALRIGHT.
They just have a one month break on October, didn't seems too long ago.

Actually I contridict myself. I wanted the kids to have holiday because then I can spend more time with them, and know them personally, thus I can have classes in the day time, instead of early mornings and late evenings.

But then, Holiday is nightmare to think about, because its when discipline comes loose. They don't have tight schedule anymore. The mercy centre which based solely on Head over head over group leader over this leader etc ( Imagine how many stations to go for creating an activity) will not have full control to send them to different courses organized by the volunteers based on their individual wants. ( They usually send them in groups)

What will happen when only 2 of them will join the Art Class and the rest of them Recreation? They don't have a data entry to jot down names, nor to find out who goes where. Its freaking scary, if I think of it, what if one didn't show up in both sides? Where are they hiding?

Not to mention that the Centre already send some of them ( dunno how many ) to three or four camps outside Bangkok. Perhaps I am the only one panick about the unknown. How many and who and when? Thinking back in the RCN days, its totally up to us which activity to join and even if there are VIPs coming to college, it is still up to us to decide whether to attend the presentation. So activities are created....what's next, I will only know next week. So far, Me and the new volunteers from Canada, Misty and Jodie, planned 'Recreation', Drawing, Painting, and Dancing.

That is just problems inside Mercy. Out in the streets, holiday is when the kids gone wild. Nope, no guardian in ther house. No locks in the house. No activities, No fun games. Who will they meet during the day, What will they learn?

Although kids are just kids, but think deeper, Its hard to believe that they are still pure as snow. They know how to loosen hardware from the Air-conditioning and break in Staff Rooms to steal metal for money, they know how to get forbidden materials, they have DVDs not to mention what genre it is...I have seeing little boys copying the big boys, breaking hardware into pieces by using their toys as experiment and try to bring it together again.

All these recored that has piled up. Mercy called for an off. Not a day or two. But Two whole months. Mercy 1, the home for older rebelious boys, will be dismissed tomorrow for two months. They will have to cope with their own problems after they committed a crime, not Mercy. Their family, if there are still one, have to cope with these problems too. They have to learn how to deal with the consequences.

So , for two days, bedsheets were taken to wash, Beds are kept, all prepared to leave. Some boys are moody, one wouldn't even focus in his English class, probably the family he has got left, is not someone he loves, not someone he knows deeply to love. Those who have nobody, will be helping in the villa of Mercy, planting veges, and learn about farming.

Lastly, I am not a really good in following up . So this two blogs, from my new friends, will be helpful for those who want to know more.

http://jodieinthailand.blogspot.com
http://mistyinthailand.blogspot.com