The sun is as hot as the summer vacation, as always, I choose to go home. The first few days, every day to flip through the books brought, listen to music, watch TV, very leisure, but a long time, they feel bored. Happened to meet the selection of civilized county activities, each community organization practice service activities, I immediately signed up to participate. Do a little volunteer activities, one to enrich the life, to grow experience, to develop the organization and communication skills, and secondly, to a grateful heart, to pass the love, to give back to the community, it is very meaningful.
My task is to serve three days a week for a period of three weeks, the service projects are mainly community sanitation and cleaning, summer recreational activities, services, one-on-one help for vulnerable groups. Although the achievement is not big, but I try to pay and seriously complete the task, the process of experiencing a lot, benefit a lot.
I live in the neighborhood, the health environment is quite good, but the entrance is a narrow path, the road on both sides of the overgrown grass. Once upon a time, I've always felt that the path is quiet, grassy, and interesting, but the weeds are growing, the narrow path is crowded half, the grass is mixed with confetti peel plastic bags, more messy. So early Monday morning, I got up early, I got a pair of burlap gloves, a hoe, rushed to the destination. At first, I force the hoe into the pile of grass, before and after slamming, only to feel the arm sore, legs some shaking, and the soil was turned up most of the grass is still tenacious to stay there. Tossed for half an hour, just a waste of effort, simply hoe a throw, both hands pull up. Morning exercise just passing by the aunt, laughed: "Hoeing is not only strength work, or a technical work. The eyes and hands are consistent, powerful and even, and the posture should be correct". She explained patiently, demonstrating as she spoke. Bend over, bow legs, my posture is awkward and even funny, but slowly adapt to, the speed is also fast, busy for a while to clean up a vacant lot.
As the saying goes, "the eye is high and the hand is low", so I guess I really appreciate the difference. Years of study, I think I have accumulated a lot of knowledge, but in the future to enter the community, whether it can be used in practice, it is worth thinking about. Enhance the ability to practice, see more, think more, study hard, ask questions, not only hoeing so, the future of learning, work should also be adhering to this attitude. As the ancients said, "the paper to get the end of the shallow, absolutely know the matter to be practiced".
A few mornings of busy, finally cleaned up the road, although the body tired and sore, but the heart is really happy. Whenever you walk in the community, you will always subconsciously pick up the garbage on the ground, and when you see the cleaners on the street, you will also start to smile at them in a friendly way. Respect for the fruits of other people's labor, for the community to make a modest contribution to the harvest is the home and the soul of the double happiness.
In order to enrich the lives of the majority of residents and enhance spiritual civilization, the community called on all people to participate in recreational activities. However, most residents like to bring home, neighborhood interaction and communication is less, the atmosphere is not strong. The community intends to hold weekend summer activities, I was called to help promote and organize. After discussing with the person in charge of the neighborhood committee, we have roughly determined a few activities such as chess, poker, square dance, etc. First, write a good activity plan, set the process, second, plan the venue, make a good list of tables, chairs, stereos and other items; third, arrange for a good activity manager and service personnel. The next step was to put up posters in conspicuous places and go door to door to mobilize people to participate. Some residents shirk something, I have to be patient and sincere invitation, such as the commitment to help them take care of the children, to help buy food, activities on-site to provide cold drinks. This process requires constant communication and good understanding of the actual needs of different residents, so as to move people with sincerity. A few days of door-to-door invitations, people's attitudes from indifference to concern, enthusiasm is quite high. In the evening of August, the heat slowly dissipated, and people in the neighborhood gathered in groups, either playing chess, cards, walking, or square dancing, enjoying themselves and enjoying themselves. I joined the square dance team to help the aunts play music, move tables and chairs, carry a few bottles of mineral water, things are small, but this simple exchange can really touch the heart. Their joy infected me, and my body and mind were relaxed and happy. Whether their movements were skillful or clumsy, everyone was earnestly stepping to their own beat and dancing with their own joy. I saw a grandmother, following the team, dancing very hard, as she said to the people around her: "people struggle all their lives, do not seek fame, do not compete for profit, can earn a life-long happiness, is the greatest happiness". The meaning of happiness is a matter of opinion, in the future ` life, to laugh at the trouble, timely decompression, good at collecting the joy of life, to pass on hope and happiness.
My neighbors have an old couple, children are often not around, the husband has had a stroke for many years, although the economy is generous but life is very lonely. I spend half a day a week with these two old people, at first just read the newspaper, nagging home, but always I say a lot, they politely answer a few words. When I asked if there was anything I could do to help them, they always said they had nothing. I think, the two old people on the economic well-off, food and clothing do not have to worry about, the old grandfather's disease is difficult to treat, but the government and children to do protection, medical expenses do not worry. The spirit of it, the old man to watch TV, I told some interesting stories, should be improved.
The contact time is long, only to realize the actual difficulties of the elderly. The first thing I've noticed is that I've never been able to buy a lot of food, not enough to eat, but I can't; she rarely goes out for a walk at night or participates in recreational activities because her eyes are not good, her strength is limited, and she's worried about falling; she's not mobile, she can't go to the hospital for regular checkups, so she has to buy some medicine at random to cure herself; she can't change the light bulb when it breaks down; she can't fix the problem with the faucet herself; and she can't take care of the old woman who's sick with a headache or a brainache, so she can take care of the old woman. It's very hard. Such trivial things, in our view is nothing, in their life is very inconvenient. Once I happened to see my wife buying a new medicine for her partner, and I helped her read the instruction manual, only to realize that this medicine has great side effects, especially not for stroke patients, and the consequences of taking it blindly are unimaginable. The old man's eyes are bad, how can he take this into account? The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
My personal power is limited, I can only occasionally help them buy groceries, clean up the house, read the newspaper, chatting about what, but I want to mobilize the entire community to care for the disadvantaged groups around them, really deep into their lives, "old as old as we are old, as young as we are young, and as young as we are young," with love and patience to pay, that the This old couple and more people in need of help will live a more comfortable and joyful. It is best to form an organization, take turns to take care of, take turns to help, to promote and pass on this culture, so that the help can last.
Although the time of community service is short, but I learned from the truth of life, the future of life planning, but also a clear and pragmatic grasp, in the process, their own organization and communication skills can be exercised, and at the same time pay more attention to the social hotspots, a deeper understanding of some of the issues and thinking, but also began to realize that their own sense of responsibility, and would like to do their own strength to help others, dedication to society.
These are the first time I've been to a school.