Meals at Local Family

I felt very lucky to be selected to join the MOE’s activity called “meals at home”. In this program, every four students would form one group to be invited to a dinner by a local family at their home. Our group’s family was located in the northeast of Singapore. And the husband was Mr. Dennis. This Saturday afternoon, it was the first time for our group to get together with our family.

One group supposed to have four members, but one of our group members quit from this program by some special reasons. So there were only three of us totally. We set out at 4:45 pm. It was really a very long journey; it cost us about 90 minutes taking 51 bus. There were totally 48 bus stations before we got to our destination.

Our group’s family lived in DBH; there were four family members, the husband, the wife, their 15-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. At first, Miss Dennis guided us to visit their house, although the area of their house was not very big, it looked very beautiful. Their son was very tall and they said that their son can play basketball very well; what’s more, when we visit the boy’s bedroom, we found lots of beautiful pictures painted by him. And their daughter was a pretty little girl who loved handcraft very much; she could fold paper into shapes representing many things. After chatting with them for a while, it was the time to have lunch. All of us sat around the table to have dinner. The meals they served were really delicious. During the dinner, we told something about everyone’s hometown. From their talking, we knew that they also liked China very much and they paid lots of visit to China.

After the dinner, they introduced a very good game for us. Its name was “set”. It was game to test your visual ability, belong to IQ game. At first the judge would show us 12 cards which had different pictures on them. And the pictures on the cards had some certain orderliness. We just need to find the cards had the same orderliness. At last, the winner would be the person who finds the most. It was a game needs lots of attention. Although I didn’t win the game, I still enjoyed myself very much.

After the game, it was the time to leave, because it was too late. And lucky, Mr. Dennis was happy to send us back. Both of us really appreciated it that his kindness. It was really a good fantastic experience for me.