A day with Mr CHEN (ROLE PLAY)

STORY LINE
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This is Mr Chen, an 75-year-old retired elderly who lives alone in Rochor Centre.
We were following Mr.Chen today for a trip from his house to Bank of China, National Library and Guanyin Temple at Middle Road by passing by the hawker centre
, market, traffics and various of shop houses.

source from website

Getting down from HDB

Wait for traffic

Walking in the crowd

Thanks to Joven, one of the member of this group in volunteering himself to experience this role play session.

Only a walking stick is used in this session as we assume our persona is too poor to own a wheelchair. Joven had no accompany as he supposed to be a retired soldier who lives alone but with pride.

Reflection:

1.DANGEROUS- there are a lots of stair cases to be climbed through out the trip.

 -there are a lots of traffic junction in the city.

                                        -all places are crowded and the public werenot aware of person with disability.

2.EMBARRASSING- he was walking quite slow and blocking the way of people in urge.

 -some public were disgusted with him.

                                   -he does not own a senior citizen's ez-link which can be used to extend road crossing time.

 -he blocked traffic.

3.TIRING- it took us so much time to finish this trip compared to usual.

  -7 minutes in usual became 45 minutes

-road surfaces are made up by different texture which are not easy to walk on