Volunteer work

I went to a senior’s home with an organization to do some volunteer work for elders. We met with each other in front of a primary school’s gate. Then we went into the senior’s home. When we got into it, I saw a lot of elders between 70 years old to 95 years old. They looked very happy because of our visit. I saw that the garden of the senior’s home is beautiful and when we got into their rooms, I thought their rooms were tidy and clean.

Then we began to work. I looked after an old lady and she seemed 80 years old. First, she appreciated me that I could come to visit them. I said you are welcome. And then I asked the environment of the senior’s home and some basic condition. I got very satisfied answers and I felt happy too. Then we just chatted and I told her some interesting things that happened around me. She always laughed happily. She also told me some thing about her family. She said her husband died few years ago, and she had 4 children but they all did not want to look after her. So she was sent to the senior’s home. When she said these, she seemed very sad and almost cry. I consoled her immediately and I encouraged her to have a positive life. After that, I helped other elders to make the bed and cleaned the rooms. And before we left, all the elders there prepared a song for all of us.

I really learnt a lot from this experience. In this organization, some people had many volunteer experiences and they knew how to take care of the elders. So I knew how to do better next time from their behaviors.
During the process, I enjoyed helping the elders and chatting with them. I learnt how to look after elders and I thought I would be more respect the elders in the future. I also found a lot of adults ignore their parents and just sent them into senior’s home and never care about them. I just couldn’t believe that how could they so cruel and had they ever thought that their parents looked after them carefully when they were young. Let them had education and expected them to be a successful people. So after the process, I also felt really distressing deplorable. On the other hand, I saw the positive side of the society. That is more and more people joined the volunteer work and help the people who need help.

This experience gave me a deep expression. And it effected me a lot, at least I knew we must pay more attention on elders because they donate their effort in many aspects at past. Although their actions are slow, we can never ignore them and we must respect them and be kind to them. I will attend more volunteer work like this and help more people.

Work in a restaurant

I worked in a restaurant called “Dan Feng Yu Lu”. This restaurant offers the service all day and likes kind of a teahouse. I used to eat there and I thought the waitress’attitude were very good. So I want to do better and give customers good impression.

First I wore the uniform and the manager told me some skills about how to deal the problems that happen suddenly. Then I began to start my work. There were some people in one table said they want to order. I took several menus and walked to them. They looked at me and asked if I am the waitress there. I said no and explain the reason why I pretended to be a waitress. They smiled and be more kind to me. I finished my first task very fast and successfully. Suddenly someone shouted why his dishes came too slowly and he had something to do later. I walked to him immediately and said sorry to him. Then I told him that I would help him to tell the kitchen faster and let him not too angry. He realized his attitude was really bad and said he could wait for a while. Other waitress were all praised me and said I was really clever. After that I offered service to a lot of tables and seemed that they all very satisfied with me .

Before I went to work, I was expected and excited. I imagine a lot of situation in my mind and felt a little bit nervous. During I working, I felt active and full of energy. I almost forgot everything except customers. I need customers believed me and I must pay attention to all the corners and focus on every detail that could make the customers more comfortable. I always need to work with other waitress together. We must cooperated well. For example, after I recorded customer’s orders, I needed to tell other waitress and let them to tell the kitchen and we couldn’t do everything by ourselves. Also, I met many kinds of customers. Some were kind and some were mean. But I couldn’t just judge them but I needed to offer the service to them. I must learn to bear a lot. After I finished my working day, I felt relaxed but very exhausted and even couldn’t move. But I felt happy and really proud of myself. I learnt a lot whatever the working skills or the way that how to communicate with others. This experience was really helpful and useful to me. This was the first work I got and in my future I will get a lot of different kind of works and I must learn to fit every job. That’s an important skill that I learnt from this experience. I also knew that not the society fit you but you must learn to fit the society. I hope I can get more experience like this and learn more that can help me to be more intelligent.