Portfolio of Jessica: 五月 2009

2009年5月3日星期日

Religious Service

In most Chinese eyes, temple is a very sacred place. And people need be respect to it. I had a chance to go there with my family
At past, when I was young, I didn’t know what a religion is. Now, I am growing with the time, something that I know. Different countries have different religions. We are in China, and most of Chinese believe in Buddhism. And there are three other religions in China except Buddhism. They are Taoism, Islam, and Christianism. Christianism also belongs to world, western people also believe in it. That day, I went to the temple, there were many rooms, people can into everyone. Looked everyone’s expression, I could find wishes and clam for them. They wanted to go there to relax and improve their own sensibility. Buddha for people likes a helper; it is the same as Jesus, the common between different religions are all just have a god, so they can follow the god’s way to do the things. It is a very huge bailment. This temple is not very big, but also has lots of people to visit. The condition in there was very quiet and true. Nobody talked loudly and my mother and I were kowtowed to the Buddha. The behavior about the action is important; we should use right behavior to do in the temple. In temple, it has many rules to obey. So you cannot do anything you want in the temple, it is about different culture when my mom and I finished the chapel, we also took the photos there. I think it can as a part of portfolio and it also a special experience for me.
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2009年5月2日星期六

Be a volunteer to teach students

On 25th March, our planning teacher Ms. Bartell arranged us as a group to be a volunteer to teach primary school students English. Before we went to the primary school we prepared a lot, in order to not let them feel bored we made some uno cards and tried to teach them how to play it. However, when we arrived there we found those students were too excited and they just wanted to play games, they even payed no attention to what we teached.

My student was a lovely girl, that's awesome because it was easier to teach, but since all the class wanted to play uno she seemed not really listen to what I was talking about. I didn't like this situation so I told her we would learn some knowledge first, then we would have a little quiz to test how she understand these things. After that, if she did well of course we would play games, but if she didn't we have to restart. This idea worked fantastic, she was interested in uno so she learned very hard and got full marks in the quiz! O(∩_∩)O~ As I promised, we had a great time playing with each other. When I went back, she hugged me and gave her phone number to me.

Through this volunteer work I understand teachers' mind, all they did just be responsible to us and hoped we could have a bright future. I also learnt to be patient and try to stand in the position of other people's thinking, that could make the way to achieve our goals easier. I should admit I gained a lot from this experience. During this process, I had felt a sense of accomplishment, after it I had understand teachers' work better. I deeply realized there are some big differences between work in a group or own your own. As individual, we should prepare all the things and be confident, we must have the ability to face and solve all the problems what would happen. As collaborative, we don't need to do so much work, but we should get along with others well and reveal what you are good at adequately. On the other hand, I wasn't a careful person, but this process trained and changed my characteristic.

In this process, since we acted as a teacher we should be responsible to our students and make sure they all understand. In some ways, this experience has some connections with life skills. Since we know how to work with others and stand in others' situation think problems, we may do better in the future, and it can help us be successful more easily and quickly.