For another ten hours for volunteer work, I did a tour guide of Nanjing Foreign Language School and Grand Canadian Academy for some Danish students. I taught the German and French exchange students Chinese. I also helped with the cooking project with the exchange students arranged by my GCA teacher.
For the tour, it was a great time to make new friends. Not only from Denmark but also from GCA as all of the volunteers were from different classes and were divided into groups so I got to know them.
In our group there were students from 10E and a student from 10C. We had two young girls, one is called Sofie and another is called Julie. They were a bit older than us. We all decided to see around spontaneously instead of being so scheduled.
Both of the girls were very interested in our daily routine like when do we start school and when do we finish, what do we do in class and how do we like the classes… At the same time we knew about their school life and daily routine. They told us about what they learnt at high school and they said they didn’t like school too much because in Denmark everyone hates schools and no one would feel so proud of his/or her school like NFLS students do. They also told us they have already graduated from high school and that was why they had so much time free and could have some fun. The girls said they studied different languages at school like Deutsch, English and French and they both could speak more than three languages. However, they had no idea how to speak Chinese. At the end we tried to learn some Danish from the girls and all of us were very pleased with the tour.
We were walking in the campus, on the playground, inside the building or even outside NFLS in the nearby market. It was a sunny day and we enjoyed the sunshine so much and exchanged our ideas of culture and share our experience of travelling, learning and hobbies.
When we were about to say goodbye, we took pictures.
For teaching Chinese to my friends from Germany and France, it was not only about the skills of teaching but also the knowledge of Chinese culture and the language. Anyway, it was my volunteer hours but I would do it as long as possible because I was really enjoying doing this.
I will take my experience of teaching my German friend Miguel. Always, I teach him at the Starbucks and when every time we meet, he will try to say things using the new words he learnt or he reviewed. After doing all of this, I will give him a list of new Chinese characters or words that I think they might be good for Miguel to know. With the help of Pinyin and my correction, he could read the words and the characters properly. Then we made sentences with the words. Miguel is an expert on learning languages so sometimes he could even come up his own sentences with the new words and they sound very funny, but more like impressive. I talk in Chinese with him so often that he has enough chance to use all the word he knows to tell me things. I really, really enjoying teaching him and all the other exchange students Chinese.
A few weeks ago, our planning teacher came up the idea of cooking with the exchange students. However, it was her first time ever thought about doing this and she wanted to have some students volunteering for doing this before so that she could see how everything works. I was luckily one of the volunteers. When I met the French girls, Melissa, Pauline, Raphaelle, they prepared almost everything so soon we got started. Melissa and I decided to make the muffins and we mixed the sugar, the vanilla, the butter and the bananas. I was in charge with smashing the bananas and it was so much fun because everyone was feeling disgusting about the bananas and imagining how it actually looked like. We laughed so much. Finally, we put some chocolates into the sticky mixture and put them into the oven. About 25 minutes later, muffins were successfully done!
I think for those amazing experience up there, I really learnt a lot. I realized that when you get into the society, you will not only work with the people you like but also with people you do not know much or even you do not like. I know that I have to be the one that gets into the situation as soon as possible otherwise I would suffer from working. In addition, no matter what you do in the future, always try to find the interests about the stuffs so you are able to enjoy every second of life. I found myself being patient, devoted and responsible. Usually, I was not a patient person, but after teaching the exchange students Chinese, I realized patience is so important. Maybe because I was enjoying most of the work, I really sort of devote myself into it. I felt like I wanted to express everything about my school activity and all my thoughts, tell everything I know and help as much as I can.
I believe being a good listener is always the best way of working with other people. Respectively listen to other people’s opinions and say your own ideas gently make a group with team spirit.
When you agreed to do something for someone or promised to do things, you should feel like you have duties because since you promise means you own the responsibility and be responsible enough to your promise, your words and your actions.
As you are having more and more experience, you can easily get the advantages from the experience and it is good to only show your advantages when you are employing as it reduces the percentage of failure. Also, you will have less trouble during life time because you learnt to prevent it. To myself, I really think I’m becoming more and more mature and think before doing something. Experiences make me feel more confident and see more about the world.
For the tour, it was a great time to make new friends. Not only from Denmark but also from GCA as all of the volunteers were from different classes and were divided into groups so I got to know them.
In our group there were students from 10E and a student from 10C. We had two young girls, one is called Sofie and another is called Julie. They were a bit older than us. We all decided to see around spontaneously instead of being so scheduled.
Both of the girls were very interested in our daily routine like when do we start school and when do we finish, what do we do in class and how do we like the classes… At the same time we knew about their school life and daily routine. They told us about what they learnt at high school and they said they didn’t like school too much because in Denmark everyone hates schools and no one would feel so proud of his/or her school like NFLS students do. They also told us they have already graduated from high school and that was why they had so much time free and could have some fun. The girls said they studied different languages at school like Deutsch, English and French and they both could speak more than three languages. However, they had no idea how to speak Chinese. At the end we tried to learn some Danish from the girls and all of us were very pleased with the tour.
We were walking in the campus, on the playground, inside the building or even outside NFLS in the nearby market. It was a sunny day and we enjoyed the sunshine so much and exchanged our ideas of culture and share our experience of travelling, learning and hobbies.
When we were about to say goodbye, we took pictures.
For teaching Chinese to my friends from Germany and France, it was not only about the skills of teaching but also the knowledge of Chinese culture and the language. Anyway, it was my volunteer hours but I would do it as long as possible because I was really enjoying doing this.
I will take my experience of teaching my German friend Miguel. Always, I teach him at the Starbucks and when every time we meet, he will try to say things using the new words he learnt or he reviewed. After doing all of this, I will give him a list of new Chinese characters or words that I think they might be good for Miguel to know. With the help of Pinyin and my correction, he could read the words and the characters properly. Then we made sentences with the words. Miguel is an expert on learning languages so sometimes he could even come up his own sentences with the new words and they sound very funny, but more like impressive. I talk in Chinese with him so often that he has enough chance to use all the word he knows to tell me things. I really, really enjoying teaching him and all the other exchange students Chinese.
A few weeks ago, our planning teacher came up the idea of cooking with the exchange students. However, it was her first time ever thought about doing this and she wanted to have some students volunteering for doing this before so that she could see how everything works. I was luckily one of the volunteers. When I met the French girls, Melissa, Pauline, Raphaelle, they prepared almost everything so soon we got started. Melissa and I decided to make the muffins and we mixed the sugar, the vanilla, the butter and the bananas. I was in charge with smashing the bananas and it was so much fun because everyone was feeling disgusting about the bananas and imagining how it actually looked like. We laughed so much. Finally, we put some chocolates into the sticky mixture and put them into the oven. About 25 minutes later, muffins were successfully done!
I think for those amazing experience up there, I really learnt a lot. I realized that when you get into the society, you will not only work with the people you like but also with people you do not know much or even you do not like. I know that I have to be the one that gets into the situation as soon as possible otherwise I would suffer from working. In addition, no matter what you do in the future, always try to find the interests about the stuffs so you are able to enjoy every second of life. I found myself being patient, devoted and responsible. Usually, I was not a patient person, but after teaching the exchange students Chinese, I realized patience is so important. Maybe because I was enjoying most of the work, I really sort of devote myself into it. I felt like I wanted to express everything about my school activity and all my thoughts, tell everything I know and help as much as I can.
I believe being a good listener is always the best way of working with other people. Respectively listen to other people’s opinions and say your own ideas gently make a group with team spirit.
When you agreed to do something for someone or promised to do things, you should feel like you have duties because since you promise means you own the responsibility and be responsible enough to your promise, your words and your actions.
As you are having more and more experience, you can easily get the advantages from the experience and it is good to only show your advantages when you are employing as it reduces the percentage of failure. Also, you will have less trouble during life time because you learnt to prevent it. To myself, I really think I’m becoming more and more mature and think before doing something. Experiences make me feel more confident and see more about the world.
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