Taihen in Malaysia (Lesson 1 Report)

Report 1
Date: 20 Feb 2006
Time: 11am -12:30pm
Venue: 1st Floor, New Wing, Spastic Centre
Participants: Firdaus (Leader) Amir (Assistant)
Muaz Shahrul
Salehuddin (Absent)
Maryani (Bangi) Sabariah (Bangi)
Other participants from Spastic Centre (7 children)
Paul Lau (Kuroko) Seiya Shimada (JFKL) & Guest

Details:

*We started at about 11:30am.

*Firdaus was rather nervous in leading the group. His voice was not clear enough. Amir remembered the process of the lesson and assisted Firdaus, too. The participants who had attended the workshop before were able to remember what they were supposed to do.

*Most of the new participants from Spastic Centre, we rather young, I don’t think they understood the instructions given by Firdaus. As this was the first time that the lesson was conducted, the parents of the new participants were present.

*After the section 1 of the exercise, the group went into Section 2 of the exercise, whereby they are supposed to discover their movements. I believe their movement was restricted because there were no space for them.

*We did not have the time to complete section 3 of the lesson. As the participants had to leave at 12:30pm.

*The room where the lesson was conducted was big and carpeted. There was natural light coming into the room.

*Overall, for the first day of lesson, I think the session went on fine. (With our selected participants there was a certain level of discipline but not too focused, I suspect because there were many distractions. I think they will be getting into the mode by the 4th lesson.)

Prepared by
Nala Nantha (22 Feb 2006)