Newspaper collection

Yesterday, Anderson Junior College went all out to collect old newspapers for Asian Women Welfare Association Teach Me Services for the Disabled peope and kids. For our class 28/04, the blocks that we cover are from Blk 442 to Blk 453. In addition to that, one of the dwellings in the Orientation of the JC1 students are tagging along with each of the JC2 classes. So, after our principal Mr. Tan sounded the horn which looks like a car horn, AJC students went out to AMK neighbourhood to collect newspapers. For us, we walked to Ang Mo Kio Bus interchange to board bus service 261 to Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.

Upon reaching there, we organised ourselves into groups of 4 and commenced our old newspapers collection in those blocks assigned to us. We went around knocking the doors asking whether there are any old newspapers, old electrical appliances or old clothes to donate to AWWA. Around 50% of the households are empty probably because the owners are out at work. Yesterday was a day that I have an exercise on my hands and my legs. We walked at least 2 km in the Ang Mo Kio neighberhood and carry heavy things such as newspapers to the void deck. I was amazed by an auntie living there. She asked us to go to her house to collect the old newspapers. She took out two small plastic bags and one big plastic bags. These three plastic bags are very heavy especially for the bigger one. This auntie sure knows how to pack many things into a bag. Besides that, the things inside the three plastic bags are very organised and the newspapers are folded very nicely. Wow. I still have some "packing" skills to learn from the older generation to improve my organisation skills.