Education and Career Planning

Sunlight Volunteer Activities
Chapter 3.1

In our school there are many kinds of clubs such as tennis club, badminton club,basketball club,volunteer club and so on.I just take part in the volunteer club and have a lot of experiences.

There are quite a few students attending this club, and the leader of the club is Nick who often organizes members to do volunteer work outside school.

On September 21st 2008, Nick informed us that we would go to the blind school and help the small students there study and give them happy feelings in their hearts.The first time, Nick took our new members to the blind school, and that was my first experience. When I went into the blind school, two big buildings were standing around me, not gorgeous but more normal-looking.Then there was a girl coming to us and asking if we were the students who came from Nanjing Foreign Language School to help them.She led us to the classroom. Here I would tell you that all the students from this school cannot see the world, they can only “see” the world by their hearts and mind. It is very difficult for them to study because of their blindness, but they all put more efforts into their study to get good grades. That spirit we can not imagine.

Nick told us that we would teach the small kids English from grade 3. They had learned 26 letters and Unit 1 from Oxford Primary English. I came to a kid and saw his book. Then I opened his book but found nothing. More carefully, I found many small points were dotted on the pages. Though I could not understand what were written on them, I asked the boy to teach me how to read and write. He carefully took out an object just like a ruler and a small particullar pen.There were many holes on the ruler, he started to teach me how to use the ruler to write. Actually I did not know the way of using the ruler, but I focused on the emotion on the boy’s face which was full of naivety and happiness,very beautiful. Later Nick told us that they would have an exam the next day, the test was to write 26 letters and read the dialogs in the book. So I helped a boy whose name is Wu to practice writing and reading the dialogs in the book. Then I came upon a game which could help them to remember the words in the book. I called my classmate Jack to help me. Jack and I gave them the Chinese words to say in English and English words to say in Chinese.We let Wu and his deskmate to ask the words each other. At last they both could say words quickly, we were very happy that they could remember these words well. After our help, we played with them in the playground and it was sunny outside, we all had fun.

From this club I have learned how to be kind and ready to help other people, be more patient to friends of yours. These are all the children who are blind and can not see the world at all. I should help them know how the world is, how the people around them give care and love. The club experience helps me to improve my way of dealing and working amicably with other people. We now live in one world, everybody needs help from other people, show your love to other people and you will receive love in return. I think this club is good, it can help us know how to care about the disabled and handicapped in the society.

We were playing with blind boy in the playground

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