Life still goes on

Finally!!! The big day had come and gone. Today was the MINDS combine graduation day. Lee Kong Chian Gardens School staff was the committee in charge in putting up the big day together. It took us months of preparation with long hours of after work to put together a 6hr party for pupils graduating this year. But I guess it pays off, especially seing their happy faces.

A total of 99 pupils from all 5 schools turned 18 this year and graduate today. For some it might not be something that they are aware of but to most of them, they somehow knew that things are going to be different for them from now onwards. Being pushed into a working adult for this pupils with intellectual disability might not be something most of them looks forward to. I have past pupils who came up to me after working for a year, still telling me they wished they could go back to the times when they were still in school. How different are they really from us? I still have friends who stills wish they could turn back time to those glorious days of schools ;)

Still life has to go on. No point wishing for something that can not be undone. Today as we watched each of our graduates wentup on stage taking their cert, can't help but feel that somehow we had played a part in their life. Like what one colleague told me, " When you see them graduate, its a very good feeling. Cos you knew that somehow no matter how small it is, you had played a part in their life. Even if it is just giving them a push to go up the stage to receive the cert."

Next week is the last week of school. Next year there will be a new batch of students to groomed. A new batch of graduates we are going to help, to prepare for them to step into a young working adult life. That will be next. But for now, its just time for us to take a breather......