Job Week, 15th - 30thMar2019

Written by Bryan Low, Sixer & Scribe

I came to school very early at 7.20 a.m., and was really excited as today, we would be having our last job week briefing before setting out to begin our job week.

I put down my bag and talked with my friends for a while before the senior sixer, Min Rei, blowed the whistle signal for horseshoe and i quickly got into my position in the horseshoe.

We did the usual colour party, said the scout promise, and lined up in indian file to begin the briefing.

Once in indian file, the sixers were asked to think up of a few skits to show good and bad examples of scouts and different people we meet.

While we prepared the skits, the other scouts were briefed about job week with more detail. Mr Tan mentioned something very important: never use “donation”, and instead use “contribution”.

Eventually, the skits we thought of were a scout and…

•        A pervert or chi kopek uncle,

•        A person not willing to give any money

•        A person who doubted that job week was a legitimate thing,

And more!

The main idea of all the skits was basically to teach the other cubs that we should stay calm and patient at all times even though the people we meet may be slightly annoying.

Most importantly, never do any pranks or purposely mess up a job!

Once the briefing was complete, we were dismissed.

We got in our pairs or threes and discussed where to go and how to go about doing things.

As for me and my partner, we teamed up with another group of three and decided to go to Ming Teck Park.

I looked forward to doing jobs, raising funds and having fun and was sure that the other cubs did too!