Sharing Session at ITE College West

Last Friday, I was invited to give a short talk at ITE College West to a class of 40+ students. Mdm Fahimah, my ex lecturer was the one who invited me, she would like me to somehow motivate her  new class of students to perhaps take up National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) or perhaps strive for the Lee Kwan Yew Scholarship too.

I guess it's nice to help motivate students, but then again I had mixed feelings about it. Sure it was the time of my life but I'm not exactly sure if I was 'happy' with who I was 4 years ago. Stephanie the motivated perfectionist, the high achiever. Then it became Stephanie the girl who fell, and boy she did fall hard.
Now I am Stephanie, the girl who fell but picked herself up again.. the girl who evolved and she did it with that same MOTIVATION (mind you).

So I decided, I shouldn't be motivating people to be who I was last time, I should encourage them to be who I am now. Motivated and doing what you love, not for anyone but for yourself.

I also understand that some of them might have some emotional issues, so I decided to share abit of my Journey too and introduce them to CHAT hub - a platform for youths with mental health issues.

Then came the troublesome part. I need to create slides to engage the students, as a student myself I know how short the attention span can get. Also because I'm a visual person, I hate wordy stuffs.
So after much thinking this is what my slides look like.

I end up drawing on almost all the slides lol.

The next morning I travelled from my home in Pasir Ris to Chua Chu Kang. Yes, ITE College West is in Chua Chu Kang if you didn't know.

So there I was, talking about my experiences, sharing with them about the goals I hope to achieve in future and trying to tell them to do what they love and not stress out.
They were really nice, enthusiastic and quite hyper. They would interrupt me and ask silly questions!
I think the weirdest question I got that day was "How did you try to kill yourself?"
Hahaha, after the sharing I had coffee with Mdm Fahimah, Mr Aaron the Course Manager and Dr Eric Cheung the Director. It was really nice to catch up with them again and I hope to go back again soon..

omg I still have an old photo of them.

Left to Right

OK, back to work. I actually took a short break from working on my assignments to blog about this.