Our Family Diary: PD's Maritime Museum Excursion : Jun-12

Saturday, June 16, 2012

PD's Maritime Museum Excursion : Jun-12

see my car on the left? first time i get such a near lot!

It has been many years since PD went out. I still remember that time to the Mozart museum, we had lots of fun! Think Xuan was only in P1 then.. That was four good years ago!!

a picture right after the entrance; before duty begins

For this excursion, our own SAs act as our lion cubs' guides and I was one of them. To familiarize ourselves with our role, PDC even had additional tickets for all guides to visit the museum to recce the exhibits and place first under the guidance of the museum guides!

This turned out to be a mega project as response from the cubs was overwhelming. There were two sessions for cubs from different parts of Singapore. The guides and other on-duty SAs were encouraged to take on both sessions as we were rather short-handed after many SAs were required to chaperon our lively cubs to and from and at the kaikans where all the cubs gathered.

my booth.. the second stop by the 19th century maritime route

the largest attraction at my booth.. vietnamese water puppets!

All of us were given scripts for our respective booths. The museum were rather very conservative with the information they shared with us.. which was rather strange as we thought the role of museums was to educate the public, hence they should be more willing to share those information on their exhibits. Well, we can work with and within constraints, no sweat!

a picture with a royal water puppet?

Some of the SAs were so on-the-ball that they even memorized their scripts and did further research in a short span of a week so as to be competent guides for our cubs! Admirable!!

one of the colorful water puppets on display

But boy! It was a really exhausting task.. just one single session, there were like endless classes! And there were two sessions!! Well, exhausting but most rewarding. (^_^)