My Thoughts On Basic Helping Skills Class

          Hello everyone. I am Nur Ashikin. Probably one of the quietest in the class that I am not sure if you guys know that I existed. Pardon my joke if it is not funny. I am here to share my thoughts on the class that we are currently attending in our first semester which is the Basic Helping Skills class. At first, I don’t understand why should we learn about helping people when it is actually something that we had done in our daily life. I mean, even a 3 years old would be able to do it. So, basically what’s on my mind was probably this class is going to be like the boring usual class in our secondary school. Here are my thoughts after attending the class for a while now.

On my first class for this subject, the mentality I had was like the one I had stated until, our lecturer, Dr. Fa came in and we start to do the ice breaking activity. I was very nervous that my hands felt cold, sometimes I felt like my stomach was rumbling and it hurts. Not because I was hungry but, it was all caused by my nervousness. The introduction of ourselves was very interesting. One of the question was “what is your specialty?”, sounds like a simple question isn’t it. This was the hardest question for me, because I am a boring person. Unlike my other classmates, they had the talent to play instruments, they can sing and the list goes on. I had never thought very hard on myself on what my specialty was. So, I decided to tell the class something I can do for others and something I am known to be good at. Well, I told them my specialty is that I am good listener instead of telling what my talent is. I find it to be kind of weird because it was so different from others.

Next, on the last week 7 of our semester it was the due date for my individual assignment. Of course, I am a bit excited I guess as it is my first individual assignment to be submitted. I want to talk about how I felt about completing the individual assignment. I absolutely love the assignment because I think I am free to tell the lecturer about myself. It was as if there is no restriction to what you want to write about and one thing I wish about the assignment was that I would love it more if it has no restriction on the number of the pages allowed. When I completed the assignment, I just realized on how much I had done good deeds on a particular day even without I realized. At first, receiving the three good things exercise was a bit of a challenge to me. Because, I thought of on how people would react to it and another thing I thought of is to smile at stranger especially the cleaners. I am prone to think of the bad feedback I would get from people but, I was completely wrong. So, this actually taught me to do good things voluntarily and it won’t hurt to do good things.

Finally, I am excited of awaiting the days coming to be in this class. My thoughts on the class had completely changed as I learnt this class taught me the skills on how to be a professional helper and not just a helper like I had imagined before. So, I think things and the coming assignments is going to be very interesting and I am looking forward to accomplished what ever it is given to me.

NUR ASHIKIN BINTI MOHD RADZI ASMARA

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