IU Day : InDia Shoes

On the 13th of April 2018,  the Interact Club of Wesley Methodist School Kuala Lumpur (International) held their 44th annual International Understanding Day with the theme "InDia Shoes". This theme was chosen to emphasize on the gender inequality that is happening all around the world and to provide the audience a gist of what it is like to be in their perspective. As always, our main goal is not only to let people know about India's culture but also learn about the social issues that is happening in the country itself.

After all the guests have arrived, the event started off with opening ceremony which includes an amazing dance performance to potrait the gender inequality in India. This was followed by the singing of Negaraku, national anthem of India and Interact Song. After that, roll call was then initiated to acknowledge all the guests that were present on that day.

Next, a short speech was presented by President of RCKL Di Raja, Rtr. Ajmal Khan. Shortly after that, social experiment and flash skit was presented. The aim of the  social experiment was to let the audience know that although women worked as hard as men and put in as much afford as men, they will always receive lesser and never equal, and this has to stop.

After that, an hour of activity session was provided. In this time period, the audiences were allowed to roam around the hall to visit different booths. For example, science booth, Indian traditional clothing, India's traditional games and so on. This interactive game not only allowed the audience to enjoyed themselves, but also to learn deeper about the Indian culture.

Next, the continuation of the flash skit was presented and also a video presentation prepared by Interactors were being shown. This was followed by a short speech presented by guest of hour and also IU Director Int. Chin Wan Lin respectively. After that, token of appriciate on was given out to all the clubs and guests present.

After the finale, refreshments was served in the canteen for the student and guests to enjoy. The food includes various famous Indian dishes such as roti canai, muruku, rice and so on. All of the students enjoyed the food very much.

A long and eventful journey filled with sweat and tears have ended in a huge success. Thank you to our teacher advisors for guiding us throughout this events. Besides that, through this event many juniors were able to build a stronger bond with their seniors as we had to work as a team to make this event a huge success. Thank you once again to those who attended this event. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!! 

Cross Country: Beat the course, Run with a cause

On the 10^th of March, the Interact Club of Wesley Methodist School Kuala Lumpur (International) held their annual Cross Country with the theme “Beat the course, run with a cause”. This event was held at Lake Gardens from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. The purpose of this event is to raise as much funds as possible and donate it to charitable organisations. Unlike the previous year, this year we added a new activity, which is obstacle course. In this category, the participants will have to pass through a series of obstacle course to reach the finishing line.

At 6.00 a.m. sharp, all of the Interactors gathered at the venue to help set up the venue and also complete all of the last preparations necessary. After all of the students reached the venue, they were required to line up according to their respective classes and attendance was taken by their homeroom teacher. The event started off with the singing of national anthem, school anthem and Interact club song. After the vice principle said the opening prayer, the headmaster, Mr Wong gave his amazing opening speech. Morning exercise was conducted shortly after that.

After that, we flagged off our first batch of participants which is the students who participates in obstacle course, then lower secondary girls, followed by lower secondary boys. Next is upper secondary girls and upper secondary boys. Then the last category to be flagged off is parents and ex-students. This year, there were 26 stations in total and 2 Interactors were located at each station (except for stations with obstacle course). Some of the stations also gave out bottles of water so

that participants will not be dehydrated.

Around 11.00 a.m. all of the participants managed to finish the run. Light refreshments were served at the finishing line such as bananas, biscuits, bread, milk and so on. Then, Rotarian Hardeep Singh gave his speech, followed by prize giving ceremony. Around 11.50 a.m. , our Community Service Director, Kelly Anne gave her speech of gratitude to the participants and all of the Interactors. Around 12.00 all of the students were dismissed. However, Interactors stayed back till 12.30 to clean up the venue.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this event. This event would not be a success without all of your presence. Not only that, Thanks to all of the Interactors who worked so hard on this event so that it would be able to run smoothly.

Senior Community Service Project 2018

On the 6th of January 2018, Interact Club of Wesley Methodist School Kuala Lumpur (Internatuonal) held their annual senior community service project at BRDB Children Care Centre. The event was organised by the two amazing Community Service Director, which are Kelly and Hsien Ming.

Around 7.30 in the morning, all Interactors gathered at the school canteen and took off. After the Interactors arrive, we kicked off by playing ice breaker games with the kids there. The ice breaker games included Simon says, musical chairs and so on. The kids enjoyed the games as bright smiles were stretched across their faces.

After the ice breaking game, the kids were seated on their places to start creative session. The Interactors prepared a bunch of colourful papers for the kids to fold oragami. Besides that, they also played various other interesting games.

After the ice breaking games the kids were separated into male and female. The boys went to the basketball court to play basketball with the Interactors while the girls and the other Interactors played some amazing games.

Next, they had their lunch. The foods were prepared but the Interactors which include fried rice, fried noodles, fishballs and sausage. Both Interactors and the kids enjoyed their meal and had a great time. Around 12.30 Interactors bid their farewell and took the bus home.

Convergence (Annual Carnival 2017)

On 10th of November, Interact Club of Wesley Methodist School Kuala Lumpur (International) held their annual Carnival themed Convergence. This year's Carnival allowed the students to have a taste of the difference between the Carnival in the older days and the Carnival now. The event kick start with Mr Wong officiating the event.

After the opening ceremony, the students rushed to the registration booth to purchase their coupons. On the other hand, Interactors went to their respective booths such as reverse dunking machine, redemption booth, ring toss, balloon popping and so on to get ready.

Unlike the previous year, the redemption booth this year have prepared some mini games for the students to receive Convergence Dollar to exchange prizes. For example whisper challenge, piñata and so on. Many students were eager to participate in the mini games as they were able to receive more Convergence Dollar to exchange many interesting prizes. The prizes ranged from hampers, soft toys, headphones and so on.

This year, there were many food trucks that sells different types of food for the students to choose from. For example Takoyaki, pasta, rice, shaved ice and so on. It received overwhelming response from the students as their tummies were grumbling after using all their energy on games.

Overall, the students and the Interactors enjoyed themselves during the Carnival. The event ended about 2.15 and the student were send back to their respective classes. The junior Interactors played a huge role as they helped out to clean the venue. This event would not have been a huge success without the help from our amazing teacher advisors who guided us throughout our preparations for Carnival and a huge shoutout to our two amazing Funding Director Int. Kian Jin and Int. Ashley Lim. We would like to thank all the people who supported this event and we hope that you guys will continue to support our future events!!

Senior Interactors Farewell

The Interact Club of Wesley Methodist School Kuala Lumpur (International) organized a farewell event on the 25^th of August 2017 (Friday). The theme for this event was Jamais Separe, which means never apart. This is because although we bid farewell to our seniors, we will still stay connected no matter what as we have built up a strong bond throughout our time in Interact Club with our seniors. This event was held at Timbre at The Row. A total of 84 Interactors and 4 teacher advisors attended this event.

This year, the farewell committee was made out of four junior Interactors. The committee consist of Interactor Goh Choi Yin as the organizing chairperson, Interactor Iman as the assistant, Interactor Anderson as the secretary and last but not least Interactor Chong Kai Zhen as the treasurer.

Before the event start, junior Interactors were divided into different group to do preparations for this event. For example, Decoration group, performance group, registration group and so on. Although the time given for preparation was very short, but junior Interactors manage to finish all preparations by the dateline given.

On that day itself, some of the junior Interactors left the school at 10.30 a.m. and take LRT to the venue to do preparations and also decorated the place. After that, at 11.30 a.m. rest of the junior Interactors left the school to help out with the preparation. Then, Senior Interactors left school at 12.30 p.m. After finishing all preparations, all junior Interactors lined up at the entrance to welcome the senior Interactors. After the senior members enter, they each receive a flower bracelet made by junior Interactors.

Next, we started the event with the video presentation prepared by the junior Interactors. The while waiting for the food to be served, we did a little “Talent Show”, where the emcee invited the Interactors to perform their hidden talent. Then, the Interactors started to enjoy the food. The food was so delicious that some Interactors went for second round. Then while everybody is still enjoying their food, the performance team preformed their song. The performance team consist of Kelly Anne Leong, Ashley Chew, Izzad, Mathias, Hannah Teoh and Kai Li.

After that amazing performance, Madam Grace was invited up on stage to present her speech. In her speech, she shared her love for this club and also hopes that we continue to do good things to contribute to this society. Next, Madam Norhayati was invited up on stage too to deliver her speech; it was an amazing and heart-warming speech. Then, Mr Kenneth, Madam Lavanya, Naomi Lim and Hannah delivered their speech respectively.

Last but not least, it is gift exchange time. The junior Interactors presented their gift to the seniors that they are assigned to. Every senior Interactors have a wide smile hung across their face when they received the gift from the juniors. It was a heat-warming scene. After that many interesting games were prepared by the juniors for the seniors to participate in. The games were interesting and fun. However some were terrifying. For example, the “What is in the box?” game. This is a game where the senior Interactors have to close their eyes and try to guess that object inside the box without looking at it.

We had a lot of fun as we get to bond with each other. We sincerely hope that senior Interactors truly enjoy their time in Interact Club.