Reflection MMSEL's Project

Rahma Chintia Reski / 2010120007

Reflection MMSEL’s Project

“Kamu Bisa Jadi Apapun yang Kamu Mau”

The Incredible Motivation Project

            This course already brought me to another incredible experience. My groups and I were really excited during our implementation project. Our project titled “Kamu Bisa Jadi Apapun yang Kamu Mau”. We came up to this idea because we want to motivate and inspire children to believe in themselves and be brave to have a dream. Our project was really simple but I am pretty sure that at least they were happy and learnt something from this project.

We conducted this project on Sunday and we were so surprised when one of my member’s group told that the participants that would come more than 10. Anyway, we just provide the refreshments for 10 children only. I never think about unexpected thing like that because I assume the participants that would come might be less than 10 because at that time Jakarta was flood stricken anywhere. We were so lucky because we still have a time to prepare more refreshments for the children.

Apart from that, all the participants were so enthusiastic in followed our activities. Started from introduction session, watching motivation videos, games, drawing up to sharing session and we also gave them a dream sheet as their assessment. Everything run well at first time but when we wanted them to grouping, problem seemed to appear. The children tended to grouping and did not want to mingle with the others and also there was a girl who is avoided by other children. Then, we told them that the group who is cooperated well each other will get a prize in the end of the game. It succeed to make them help each other during the game and I was so happy when I looked them finally could get along each other.

Another challenge that I faced was a fact that controlling 12 elementary students were extremely difficult. Indeed. Although they were smaller than us, but their spirit was much much bigger than us. They even could not be quiet for a moment when we gave instructions or when we conducted sharing session. They run over to the football field and around campus. Now, it seems make sense to me when I remembered what has been told by Bu Mima that ‘they can carried you on the back’. In the sharing session, once I asked the children why there is no one who wanted to be a teacher and the children answered because being a teacher will make them tired because the students are naughty like them. I just laughed at them because they were aware that they were naughty and hyperactive. Obviously, I learnt something from this project that I have to re-think again to be an elementary teacher. In short, that was another incredible moments for me; could sharing, playing and motivating children. Hopefully their spirits to achieve their dreams will never get dying down. Thanks God, Thank Bu Mima, Thanks my friends, thanks cutie children and thanks to me J