Reflection about Community Service

Last week, Sept. 26.09 , I went to community service at school and it starts from 9 to 12. But there were only six children came and we cancelled. However, I thought we can do something with those children such as cooking and dancing. This doesn’t affect my personal values because we did nothing. Actually, I did nothing this time, so next time, if there were many children, and then I will do something more interesting such as game, sports and dancing. What I learned in the community service is that the community service might be cancelled and we have to think about it. Also when I see the children, they seem to exciting about doing something, so if we do the community service next time, I want to do at least a thing with those kids even though a few people come. This is what I did and thought during the community service from last time.

What Does Community Need?

We asked to Ms. Sue about community service in last values class and I learned many things from her. She said that the Minburi kids really like to swim and last time, we didn’t have swimming, so if we will do community service we can teach them how to swim. To let them swim, we need swimming pool, so we can do it at school because we also have small classes to teach English, cooking and dancing or other things. Moreover, we have phoenix hall and we can play sports such as badminton, basketball, and soccer in there or outside of phoenix. Actually, school is good place to do the community service for them. We can help those Minburi kids by doing like this kind of community service because they don’t have parents while they are working and we can take care of them and also, the government doesn’t help those kind of children that much, so we should do something for them to make them happy and teach them some moral or give education to them. This also helps us to learn how to help poor kids, so it has advantages for both us and them. Therefore, I want to help those kids at school and bring some food to give to them. What kind of project we can make is just make several groups and separate it by the section and rotate it by the time, so that everyone can experience all activities and children also can have different kind of activities. So this is my advice how to make better community services.

Can One Person Make the Difference?

Last week, I read about an article about one man in values class and I think each of us can make the difference. That is because there are at least one person who has the same idea as that person. People can make difference depends on how they accept what they are different from the others.For Example, the Hong Suk Chun, a gay man, who spoke out the world that he is a gay. Actually, many people hesitate and insult him, but by going forward his own personality, many gay people start to go into the society. And now, there are organization for gays, gay bars, and books about gays. Therefore, as seeing this example, we know that one person can make the difference. Also, because of him, many people who are not gay can accept and get the knowledge about those gays, so it also gives advantage to normal people. From the ESRL's I learned that this relates to Caring Global Citizen, because if this person does not speak out about the gays, then maybe people still insult gays, but by knowing those people, we understand that there are people who have different personality and characteristics, so citizens will care about those people. Therefore, I think it this relates the Caring Global Citizen. Actually, this article does not affect my experience because I am a girl and I do not know how boys are feeling about being a gay. Some girls are lesbian, but we do not insult those people because it is depends on people. Different people have different opinion and personality. I do think this way maybe because he speak out about the gays and everyone accepts it. Then it became normal to everyone. It might affect me to know about the people who love the same gender as they have.If I were him, I will to the exactly the same thing as him because those are the only way I can tell about myself. I learned that there are many people who have really different personality or characteristics from the other people and we should understand those people, because the person is still a human being. As a result, I think one person can make the difference by having strong thoughts on their mind and trying to do something with it. The effort will be rewarded.