Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Home Team Festival 2013

The home team festival is a family targeted event that offers plenty of activities and educational experiences free of charge to the public.

So us medical instructors have been 'arrowed' to set up a booth of 5 manikins to let the public learn and experience what doing CPR is like.


This wasn't something new to us. We did do something similar for CBD 2013. And what's funny was that it was just at ITE Simei, a short distance away from EXPO.

The chairman said they wanted to reach a target of 40k visitors in the 3 days. I think they've passed it. The crowd was crazy


We had kids, students, young adults, parents and even the elderly approaching our booth.

Secretly we were hoping people would not stop at our booth. Not that we're lacking enthusiasm, but kneeling isn't the most comfortable position to teach in. And we kneeled for hours


My knees were red and pretty sore when I got back. Even prickly while in the shower. Cushions shall be on the list of items to bring next time.

Luckily, our officer in charge was willing to let us roam around during non peak hours. We tried some of the more exciting activities there like abseiling, the quick jump, and shooting the hand gun.


It was fun. Sure our knees felt like they aged 20 years in 3 days but we got to try things we otherwise wouldn't have gotten to do.

 
Great job team!