SMAP Labu Compost Demonstration Part 2 :)

Hey guys!

I just got back home from UIA and I have to say I am absolutely simply delightfully happy because of the long holiday ahead :) I got lotsa fun stuff planned to keep  me from dying of boredom and so that I dont sleep all day myself occupied throughout this entire week. Its weird how I was just up swamped these past few weeks with  midterms, assignments and presentations..not to mention a little GT event as well! (Yeah, it takes a lotta effort for small programs too, okay!)

If you guys remember, we already had a composting demo a couple of months ago at SMAP Labu, so this was sort of our follow up demo. Unfortunately (and quite adorably too) the students didn't get the liquid solutions quite right and the Form 3 students were busy with PMR to focus all their energy on the composting farm.

Haneesa:"The Takakura is good!.... especially for your mothers :)"
Student:"Would she know I'm not listening if I painted eyes on my eyelids? o__o"

So how did I feel about this? "Its okay guys!" I really didn't expect the project to kick off so easily, especially for beginners. Plus they're doing it on quite a big scale y'know? At about 10 am Puan Jumaatol, our go-to person, gathered the Form 3 kids in the same hall for another demo. I was actually surprised to see these new faces since I thought I would be talking to the previous group I had presented to! So yeah, you guessed it, I basically had to teach them from scratch... but this time they got an added bonus ;) Since the Fourth Formers had already prepared the solutions, I decided to use those as a demo tool for these guys.

Student: It stinks........I wanna touch it!

By the way, those involved in this demo were only the Three Musketeers Haneesa, Razin a.k.a Toi and Faeq. Yup, it was the three of us only; me as the speaker and the guys as the technical crew :P I'm glad they came because they at least were able to sit with the handful of moody teenage boys who were at the demo. Kidding. I love those lil guys for putting up with me <3

Spot the two oddballs in this picture. Clue: Mr Red and Mr Grey.

The demo started out with my presentation on composting. I did my routine intro by explaining to them a few things:
1. What is composting and what are its benefits
2. Why composting is important especially because of our lifestyle as Malaysians
3. What benefits do Takakura have over other methods
4. How to start composting using the Takakura method
and other topics related to Takakura like alternative ingredients or problems in the process.

Ooooh.....aahhh....

After that we moved on to the hands-on part of the program. It was so funny how the students were all like
"Ewww..That smells awful.."
"It smells like poo!"
"*Sniff* That reminds me of pickles!" and
*Gagging sounds*

but when I asked who would volunteer to mix the rice husk and the solutions, they were all like

"ME!!!"

Cute little school kids. You guys are gonna grow up to be awesome.

We took our time doing the second step of the Takakura home composting and left it at that. The students had to continue with the Recycling event afterwards anyway. (Heh. It was a coincidence.) Plus they weren't completely prepared for the demo, which I have to take some blame, because they didn't know what to prepare beforehand. This is a good reminder to myself to email all tools and ingredients, or radas dan bahan as we call it in Malay, to Pn Jumaatol to prepare for our third trip.

I'm already excited :D

x,
Haneesa