On Thursday, 1 October 2009, my friends and I went to Pondok Hayat Orphanage, which was located in Dukuh Kupang Street. This orphanage is an orphanage that wants to take care of the unwanted babies. When we first arrived there, a woman named Ms. Dewi directly brought us to the second floor. In the second floor, I had to help the person in the child care. The childcare consists of many children with age around one until 3 years old.
When I came at the first time, all of the children were still playing games. They were all playing until 11 o’clock. At 11.00, the children had to eat their lunch. Therefore, I had those children eating their lunch. Some of them were able to eat by themselves, but some others were not able to eat by themselves. Some of them even did not like to eat. As the result, I had to pay attention on them so that they were not playing with their foods. One of the children was too tired that he slept before he finished his food.
After finished eating, now the children had to take a nap. When they took a nap, I had to go to the babies’ room. In the babies’ room, I had to help the nurturer to change the diapers and to drink the milk. At 12 o’clock, we then had our lunch. At 1 pm, we had to go back to our room and helped the people there. However, when I went back to the babies’ room, the room was still being cleaned. Therefore, I had to go back to the child room.
When I went to the child room, the children already woke up and drank their milk. However, some of them did not want to drink their milk. As the result, I had to help them drank their milk. After finished drinking their milk, the children were then playing again. At 3 pm, the children had to stop playing since one of the nurturer said that the room was going to be cleaned. At the same time, our teacher told us that we had to go home. Therefore, we had to go down to the first floor and went home.
From this experience, I learn that life is not that easy. In the reality, some people have to experience many hard moments. Some of them have to struggle, some of them have to work hard, and some others even have to cry. If we are not experiencing the hard moments, then actually we have to be thankful to God. One way of being thankful to God is by not underestimate the poor people. Instead of underestimating, we have to always help them and share our love with them. If we are able to do that, then one day a big change might become true.
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