First time as a Guide (and first CIP hours this Year!)

Saturday, first day as a guide at Jacob Ballas Children's Garden at Botanic Garden in Bukit Timah.

And the worst part - we are supposed to form our own tour group -.-

So I was doing my shift with Nick, and we decided to do the tour together and so we rehearsed our route. Now the hardest part was to look for people to come on our tour...

We got rejected like 10+times by people with children. Apparently, they either claim that they are attending a course, or seem to be going for this birthday party at the entrance. Two of our potential customers got away by telling us, "oh I think they are too young" and "I don't think their interest will hold long in plannts, but thank you!" and made a quick getaway before we could say that we do not mind their age.

So we were given a table and we sat their manning the sign up sheets, with a pathetic piece of paper saying "Free guided tour for children of all ages" which was supposed to stand up and kept on flopping down.

This is pathetic, I thought.

And on sunday all the visitors will probably be going for this white rabbit drama at the party place, so well wishes to them. I wonder if they managed to do better than us.

Finally the security guard managed to get us an adult couple who was interested in going on our tour. So from then on it was two to two. There is nothing better we could have done.

So we talked and started the tour, and the couple was very friendly and nice to talk to. Soon, 1 hour 15 minutes passed and it was over without us really looking forward to the end. It did not turn out so bad after all:)