The Danish and me

I will never forget March 14th this year, about 20 Danish students came to visit GCA. Luckily, our planning teacher Mandy let me to become one guide of these students, I needed to take them travel around our school for 1 hour.
My partners and I received two handsome boys------one is called Martin, the other called Rajesh. They are both very interested in Chinese culture. Firstly, we played table tennis with them, to our surprise, these two international friends are very good at it. Then we took them to our dorm, they felt very curious about Chinese dorm and asked me some questions. Afterwards we went to the market near our school, they thought this kind of market is very different and kept taking photos. One hour passed very quickly, when we wanted to say goodbye to them, they actually invited us to go to have lunch with them, so we take them and another two groups to eat in a Swiss restaurant in Xinjiekou. On the way there, we lost our way, my partners and I all felt very sorry about that, however, they didn’t care about that at all, they said we can travel around the city slowly to see the beauty of Nanjing. One and a halt hours later, finally we arrived at the reastaurant, but we all felt happy.
In the restaurant, we made our group mixed, Chinese students and Danish students sit with students from different country. Firstly, I didn’t know which kind of food was delicious, so I asked a girl who sat beside me to recommend food for me, she told me to eat a kind of porkchop.Shortly after, we all got our dishes, we talked with each other, discussed the differences between culture happily. After I finished my dishes, a Danish student asked me if I wanted to share her pizza. That made me feel the we became friends with each other a long time before.
After the lunch, other students took Danish to play soccer at school, I took Martin and another two girls to send postcards. We arrived at two post office, however, there are no enough expensive stamps, we still felt very happy. Finally, we sent the postcards in Gulou. After that, they wanted to go back to the hotel, so we hugged each other and said goodbye to each other.
Now, I still connect with them by Facebook, I can talk to them any time I want. We all think the time that we met in Nanjing is a shiny part in our lifetime. However, the postcards that I helped him to send they haven’t received yet, I am very sorry about that. I will try to send them several new postcards if they want. I want to keep the friendship forever.
This activity let me know some Danish cultures and practiced my English skills. I also made several international friends. I think this kind of activity is very wonderful. I am looking forward to another activity like this next time!

Important Experience

During the winter holiday, I did a 10-hours volunteer work in XinHua Bookshop near my home. I felt it is very interesting. When I was a young child, I liked reading books very much. At that time, I thought the happiest job was to be a salesman in a bookshop. Because salesman there didn’t need to do many though works, they just walked around the bookshop to find people needed help to help them. The most important, they could read books without paying money.
When I was a volunteer in the bookshop, I changed my mind. I found this job isn’t so easy. On the 1st day, a young child wanted to look for a book but he forgot the name. He tried his best to describe that book to me; I also tried my best to look for that book. In the end, we still couldn’t find that book. At this time, the manager came to me; he asked that child several questions about that book, shortly after, the child found that book and left the bookshop happily. After the child left the bookshop, I asked the manager why he could find the book. He smiled, then he told me the answer: Firstly, I should ask shoppers the details of the books they want to buy, as many as possible, the questions must be regular, then you used these details to inference which books they were. I also needed to know much information about the books, or you also didn’t know the books that shoppers wanted to buy, still couldn’t find the books. This is an important experience.
Not all the shoppers were very easy to communicate with. On February 3nd, when I walked around the bookshop, I found a boy sitting on some books. As a volunteer, I told him not to sit on the books. He looked at me without saying any words, and then he kept reading books. I felt very
Angry and argued with him loudly. At last, we almost fought with each other. Luckily, the manager came to interpose us, then that boy went away. After that, the manager told me: “If you were really one employee in the bookshop and did this, I would ask you to go home.” From this event, I knew shoppers were God to the bookshop. This is a useful lesson.
I also did one hour volunteer work for Ms. Hadley. My job was to clean the art room. I thought it’s very interesting to be a volunteer for her. During the volunteer time, we also chatted with each other about our different cultures. I knew lots of knowledge about Canada that day and felt very amazing. This kind of knowledge is very important to me.
In conclusion, to be a volunteer can help other people and you also will feel happy. From this activity, you also can get lots of knowledge and experience. So why don’t be a volunteer? “If you do volunteer work once, you will keep doing it”, I promise.