
Originally Posted by
tosucceed999
Volunteer working is a kind of activity that helps poor people in the community where we live. In July 2010, I came to study abroad in New Zealand. The At first way it was very difficult for me to communicate with the native speakers. Later, I tried to study by myself all the incidents things that I did not know understand and I gradually accepted a new life.
I studied in a boy’s high school. This school is very good and many Vietnamese children that have parents work in the Vietnamese Embassy study there(This sentence says that the children who have parents work in the embassy. The children probably do not work in the embassy. As a general rule, most children have parents. Rewrite - The school is very good and many of the Vietnamese students have parents who work in the Vietnamese Embassy.). By the introduction of a friend, I found out a Catholic volunteer organization for homeless people in Wellington, which was located near my school. Therefore, I thought it would be the best choice for me to have experiences when I was still a student (One has experience all of his life. Rewrite - Therefore, I thought it would be the best choice for me to experience working with homeless people while I was still a student.). I worked every week on Saturday morning from seven o’clock until nine o’clock, so I needed to get up early at about six o’clock in the morning. At The first time, it I was very tired because I am was the main washer in the kitchen. There are were about five people on Saturday morning which includes included a manger manager, me and other volunteers and me. However, we needed to serve for around from twenty to thirty homeless people. Most of them are were from thirty to forty years old. Besides washing dishes, I also cleaned all the tables after they finished their meals. Sometimes I thought I should give up doing these jobs because all my friends were paid with high salaries when they did the same jobs as me but working for long hours in restaurants, supermarkets, and so on. But I think thought again and again many times is that: why do I need to do that? Is it good for me when I do that? Did Would I receive any precious experiences after doing these jobs?
Many nights I thought many, about this and then I decided not to give up my volunteer jobs. I knew that when while I have had a house with a good heater and a warm bedroom, many people still lived sleep slept outside during nights without food, thick blankets and hot water. When While my parents paid money for me to go to study in a good school, meet teachers to discuss about my study my studies; some children who parents had died had to work from morning to night to buy food and necessary facilities necessities for their life. I also remembered one sentence of a person that I have read on my school’s website: life’s most persistent and urgent questions is: ” What are you doing for others?”, that was Father Martin Luther King’s sentence (King was not a father in the religious sense). Finally, I thought my decision was right and I had kept it going well stuck with my decision until I came back to Viet Nam in November, when I finished grade 12.