Jude        Batah:52      21/Apr/08

We were eating the IFO manual in this week,and the following exams made us so nervous.2 exams on Monday,and 3 on Tuesday,and then the assessment included 5 of those on Thursday.That was really a scary schedule,but we passed it luckily.I heard that many trainees needed to retest in the previous batches,but all of us passed it at one time,Sam said our batch was very impressive.I realized I'm with these strong and hard working group members.It seems I have to study harder and harder,otherwise I may fall behinde.

We went to Hongkong for the practical training for 2 days.I thought it must be fun,It was,but I didn't know we would be dying tired.

I was the victim in the swimming pool,all people tried to throw the heaving line and rescue me,I was happily pretending and staying in the water,then all of us needed to board on the circular life raft.As the one who can swim better,I was lifting the girls to the raft from the warter,the girls were not heavy,but when I was lifting Felix,I was like "Oh,my god."He's tall and big.Luckily we finished that smoothly.So when Richard asked us to swim to the end of the pool,I was very happy and swimmed as fast as I could.Then I was told"don't rest,come back."After that,2 more rounds,and then we were asked to pretend to rescue fainted passenger in the water 2 more lengths,and my partner was Felix.I was swimming,pulling him so hard and exhausting."Oh,my god"again.

In the afternoon we all did pretty good in the assessments.

The second day,we slided through the slid again and again,everybody was sweating and laughing and learnt how to do that professionally.Then the most difficult part came.Most of us made mistakes during all kinds of different situations.I was clear and thought it was not that hard when others were doing,but when it was my turn,I messed it up for the first time.

I was FA2,Pinky was FA3 and Shining was LFA,I was about to secure myself on the nearest seat when doing decompression drill.But suddenly I stuck there,'cause AACM people were sitting on 4C,4D,FA3 and LFA were in front of me,and in the real cabin FA2's seat should be at the back,I was thinking where the nearest seat was.I was urging myself and no enough time to think that much,so I thought ok,just sit on 3A,so I said"stow tray table"to 3B,3C passengers,then I would squeeze in.Those 2 "passengers" were like"wait a minute,why's that?"I started to feel weird too,'cause we did't need to say that when decompression happens,and it would not be easy to go inside either.Then the weirder thing happened:the other 2 crew followed me to shout"stow your tray table".Then I was confused"what's going on?"I stuck there and my brain was totally in mess.Finally I realized the other 2 were confused by what I said,and then I was confused by them,and after that they made other weird mistakes.I think Richard and Sam must be like"Oh,my god"when we were making those weird mistakes.But we did not make it bad finally when we redid the situation which combined with other different scenarioes.After I slided down together with Lynn who well-pretended as a fainted passenger,the practical training in Hongkong ended.

I've learnt that team work is really important,but we also need to keep calm and avoid confusing each other when doing multitasks,so that means be more familiar with all kinds of procedures is also very important.

安安：白瞳症，双眼无视力。最小的孩子，总闹着要人抱抱，可因为实在太可爱谁见了都想抱他，结果被大家夺来夺去的，抱着后就把头靠在你肩膀上，不时探过头来叫一声：mama...跟他说谢谢，他就双手抱拳给你作揖；说拜拜，他就招招手；说扭一扭，他就脖子扭扭屁股扭扭，简直就是活宝一个，想不疼他都难。

娜娜：青光眼。因为病情比较轻，基本就是个健康的孩子，加上长得人见人爱又很乖巧，才去bethel不久就集万千宠爱于一身了。他们打趣说筹款的时候只要娜娜和我两个往那一站别人就会纷纷捐钱了，说得我俩好像预谋合伙骗钱似的，呵呵。很短的时间内就有家庭把她收养了，后来她留了个西瓜太郎的发型，实在是太cute了！看看，连到医院都被大家爱到不行。

佩芳：视神经萎缩，后自行恢复。假如遗弃她的父母知道她视力恢复的话应该不知有多后悔吧，这么活拨可爱的孩子。不过幸运的是已经被一个美国的家庭收养了，看照片上和睦的一家，应该会过得很幸福的吧。和养父母走的那天带她的妈妈们哭得稀里哗啦的，这个没心没肺的小家伙全然不知，不过也许这样才最好。

爱圆：白内障摘除术后人工晶体植入。我去Bethel做过的第二件最有意义的事情就是发现爱圆和悦维应该做人工晶体植入了。假如我没有发现他们正直最佳手术年龄而错过时机或者因为没有人懂得白内障的医学知识而一直不做人工晶体植入手术的话，我想这两个孩子可能还会一直生活在昏暗模糊的世界里，她们命运可能也会大不相同了吧。特别是爱圆，做完手术后明显爱笑了很多，因为看得见了，以前那一千多度的厚重眼镜也去掉了。每次看到我就一个字一个字吐词清晰的说：“小祝哥哥好！”

悦维：和爱圆的情况一样。见生人就哭，后来好不容易跟她混熟到喂她吃药都不哭了，可是刚刚建立起来的一点小小的信任在一次我带她去医院后又彻底瓦解了。最怕爱哭的小朋友了，在bethel我一见就闪的小孩就只有她了（这句话产生歧义的情况下也是正确的）。

子玲：角膜白斑，眼球震颤。是我把她接到bethel的，那天给她体检完后趁着药效还在，一路扶住她的婴儿椅回去，生怕在车子里颠醒以后大哭，还好她一直睡到底，把仍然熟睡中的她抱下车才长舒了一口气。每次在旁边的时候，她就把手里的玩具塞给我，还给她后又一直塞给我，还‘^_^ 嘻嘻…’的直笑。这么好的孩子仅仅因为眼角膜的问题而成了孤儿，哎。真该倡议一下人去世了以后捐赠眼角膜，让像子玲这样的孩子不用等那么那么的久。

利好：双目失明。吃得也不少可还是瘦得可怜，健胃消食的药也没少吃，也排查了代谢性疾病。难道这就是传说中所有女生都羡慕的长不胖的体质么？！

小新：法诺氏四联症心脏手术术后，双眼球发育不良。这么高难度的手术术后效果非常理想，实在是不幸中之幸事。Joanna最喜欢的小孩，不会说话，只能‘咯嘀咯嘀’的跟着旋律唱，走起路来一歪一歪的像个不倒翁。

腊东：双目失明，听力障碍。在bethel我做的第三件最有意义的事情就是给腊东配了助听器。不过那次没有阿姨跟着而由我单独带他去聋儿医院的经过也实在是太太太难忘了。在车里一点也不听话，一次次自己解开安全带后到处乱爬，给他吃蛋黄派的招数都没效果了。后来把大便大在纸尿裤里，又给他换纸尿裤。在餐馆吃饭的时候在婴儿椅里爬出爬进的，连过来帮忙的服务员都拿她没办法。在检查听力之前给他用完水合氯醛后迟迟不睡觉，身体变软了还在一蹦一蹦的，硬是要你扶着晃来晃去。后来只好又加量，还是不睡，然后领着他转圈圈，差点没吧我累死。最后没想到他烦躁了开始又哭又叫的大闹天宫，医生跑过来说叫我第二天再带他来检查好了，我的妈啊就这样驱车几个小时来这里，受了一通罪以后无功而返，明天还再重复一遍，这……这不简直要人命吗。于是我发挥博取同情的技巧，可是那个中年男医生不买账，后来死缠烂打、连蒙带骗的好不容易说服了医生，没想到这个腊东又开始大闹，于是我心一横，照他屁股就是几巴掌，没想到打哭了没一会儿他就筋疲力尽，加上药效的关系睡着了。经历了这番折腾才终于得以做完检查，而做完检查后他醒来的速度之快差点没让我气得昏死过去，于是又一路拿蛋黄派和饼干哄他回去。我想，经过这次的磨练以后，大概无论多顽劣的小孩我都能对付得了了吧！

党文俊，角膜移植术后，仅左眼残余少许视力可以靠放大器看字。口头禅是"哎呀，真烦人"，语速较快却辞不达意的家伙。有事没事见我就喊:"祝哥哥~"我回答的话她就会学我回答然后傻笑，不回答她又会说:"叫你都不做声"或者"哎呀，你怎么这样呀"。在孩子们中散播"祝哥哥特别好玩"这句话的第一人。

党小华，双目失明，大理石骨病。因曾患有脑积水所以头比正常孩子大，却十分的开朗，记得她说因为自己长得跟别人不一样所以常常被以前福利院的孩子笑话，她说别人越那么说她，她才更不能哭。所以她总是很大声很大声的笑，露出一口奇形怪状的牙齿，看她口腔牙平片的时候还是被吓到了，从没见过那么杂乱无章的牙齿，后来才知道这也是目前没有确切办法能医治的大理石骨病的表现之一。因为罕见的骨病而不能蹦跳，对很多东西过敏而不能随意的吃，脑积水留下的特殊面容和大脑瓜，这样一个双目失明的孤儿对着你露出笑脸的时候，那感觉很复杂……可是当她模仿甄光摇头晃脑的乱唱，还故意装出甜得腻味的声音叫你名字，还是会吧你逗得开怀大笑的。动不动就整一句"哎呦喂~~"，不肉麻死你不罢休。

天元元，双目失明。老实到总是被比自己年纪还小些的小华欺负，那次把小华抱起来而会导致小华摔倒的可能性这个把柄不知道会被小华念叨到什么时候。碰到我就突然大喊一声"祝哥哥！"模仿Joanna咳嗽差点吧我笑到呛死。Bethel里除了眼睛看不见这点以外最无异与普通孩子的一个。

天利英，双目失明。不爱学习的她一直被遮掩于利琴的光芒之下。Bethel真正的大姐，教训起小孩子们来还挺有架势的。比我只小几岁，可是由于和社会接触太少，和普通的同龄人比起来欠缺的东西还是挺多的。和小孩子一样喜欢嘻嘻哈哈的用跟我打成一片后的强硬派语气责怪我说:"祝哥哥，你怎么这样呀！"