After their five-day learning trip to Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and Malacca, the 32-member group, comprising of 24 students and teachers from Tzu Chi University Affiliated Senior High School (TCSH) and eight "Yi-de" parents*, arrived in Singapore for a two-day tour before heading back to Taiwan. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), NEWater Visitor Centre, and the Singapore branch of Tzu Chi Foundation were among their destinations.

*"Yi-de" parents are a group of Tzu Chi commissioners assigned to Tzu Chi’s high school and university to care for and counsel the students, who mostly come from various places in Taiwan and stay in the school hostel. 

Not total strangers: TCSH was one of the destinations of Anglo-Chinese School’s student study tour to Taiwan last June. The group had an exchange session with ACS’s Chinese teachers during the 13 August visit.		School tour: Mr Neo Hock Kheng, Head of ACS’s Mother Tongue Department (Chinese Division), led the group on a tour in the school library.
ACS Principal Dr Ong Chin Teck (left) personally received the group and gave introduction on the school’s founding beliefs as well as its courses and extracurricular activities. Dr Ong exchanged souvenirs with Tzu Chi Senior High Principal Kuan Hui-mei after the meeting session.		The group also took the chance to visit Singapore’s famous NEWater Plant. Picture shows the students observing the advanced membrane technology used to purify used water.
All cheered up: The group was divided to six teams to visit 12 care recipients of Tzu Chi Singapore at their homes on 14 August. During the visits, the Tzu Chi lyrical sign language has proved handy for the students.		When he noticed the home visit volunteer was about to wash care recipient Mr Tan’s clothes, Chou Chi-hsuan, who just gave massage to the elder, quickly offered to help with the laundry. The teenager did not expect the life skills he acquired while staying in the boarding school could be used to serve people one day.
Student Chen Pin-rong trimmed a care recipient’s mother’s nails after giving her a massage. Chen said she is surprised there are ill-off people in a modern city like Singapore and realized she could be more caring to the people around.		Brainy and brawny: The TCSH students performed a series of entertaining shows in the closing programme on 14 Aug. The demonstration of the Chinese Martial Arts Club had particularly left the Singapore Tzu Chi volunteers in awe.