On our first month of CAS (Community and service), we were introduced to the basics of agriculture. Pak Udin, the schools house keeping staff and our supervisor, started us off with an easy job. Our first job was to remove the Chinese cabbage plant so that new seeds can be plant. We then replanted the Chinese cabbage plant in a new ground. This was our job for the next fortnight. Not only Chinese cabbage, we also remove and replanted water spinach. Pak Udin then gave us more job by also watering the plants after we’re done removing and replanted them.
Every month, with the help of Grade 11 students, we harvest the plants from our garden. The result from the harvest will be sold in the Al-Jabr Community. We started collecting the ripe plants, washed them. We even packed them into portions.
As we are seniors, we also need to focus on our National Exam. For some of us, we have study groups outside of schools. Because of that, we decided to split into groups. For those who are busy and cannot do the CAS, will have to do it on another day while the other group gets a day off.
For our next job, Pak Udin gave us the task to hoe the ground to loosen the ground layer. We also removed the weeds that are scattered around the Garden. For the past 2 weeks, we didn’t do much CAS due to school works and projects. But this week we continued our CAS. We were given the job mixed the old fertilizer with the new ones. We then separate the big chunk pieces to be recycled while the rest is being turned into fertilizer for the plants.
Written by: Nino & Nani
Date: September 20, 2017