bluesky--bobby's portfolio: Community involvement and Employability

Volunteer work

Chapter2.1

After our mid term exam, my classmates and I started to help Mr. Harris our PE teacher as our volunteer workers. This was the first time we helped him to clean the PE house, and we had fun there.

In the PE house the stuff were in a mass.There were many things such as mats,various kinds of balls, paddles, a desk, a shelf, some iron sticks and so on.The room was also dirty, ashes were in the air, there were also lizzards on the walls. We must clean the house two times as suggested by Mr.Harris.

On January 3, Mr.Harris called us to carry all the stuff out of the house. We spent a lot of energy on removing everything. Each of us had much sweat after doing this work, then we stood out of the house for a short break, throwing the flying disk for fun. After that we cleaned the room and sports apparatus thoroughly, moved back the stuff and arranged them well in the room. At last we were all tired, but saw a neat PE house in front of us,and we were all happy. Finally we took photos for the verification.The second time on January 10 Mr.Harris told us to make the room neat first.We worked for him about 30 minutes.Then he asked us to calculate how many mats can be laid in one court. He had made a proportional plan on the paper. The length of the court was 40cm in the paper and each mat was 2cm in the paper, so we need 20 mats for one court. There were many mats in the PE room, some were light and some were heavy. Some of us loaded the soft mats in a small trolley, it took four people to lift and move heavy mats to the court. After all the mats were delievered to the court we started to lay them one by one. Though this work was first time for us, we successfully finished the work with excitment. We run out of breath but all felt very happy. Actually I have never done such work before, but it is a new experience that I helped the teacher to do so many work. In my heart I have some good feelings that can not be expressed out.As reward, Mr.Harris invited us to have dinner with him for our hard working. We had a long chat and had fun eating together. I had never been out eating with my teacher in the past.The dinner made me feel more comfortable with the teacher.

From this volunteer work I learn several things.The first one is we must get united in a team work when doing things.Suppose an important work involves a teamwork with a few people having different minds, the work can not be fulfilled successfully. So solidarity is a very important fact in doing collaborative work.The second one is one must try to take part in volunteer activities as much as he can so that he can learn new skills, build the friendship and understanding among friends. Last, volunteer work lets me learn how to help other people and this can give me pleasure.