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Volunteers in Global Citizen Day

March 23, 2016

Volunteers in Global Citizen Day

Throughout all the fun and laughs during the trip to Jiansheng Educational Center, in Fengxian, Shanghai for Global Citizen Program, there is a group of students that we cannot ignore—the volunteers.

While all students from 11th and 12th grade had helped out with cleaning the tables and chairs in the cafeteria after, respectively, dinner, breakfast, and lunch, some students from Campus Volunteers Group especially stayed to check and make sure that the tables were spotless. In addition to the contribution from the 1st cleanup by students, volunteers significantly enhanced the public image of SHSID.

Furthermore, every dorm had a volunteer dorm leader. These leaders, through the instructions from the coaches, managed all the supplies within the dorm, such as the hot water bottles, and were responsible for returning all supplies including all bed sheets, and checking where respective roommates were seated within the cafeteria beforehand. They also managed the dorm key and needed to lock the door every time the students left for activities. Every dorm leader had to manage 8 people (including his/herself). They succeeded to every challenge.

Moreover, the student hosts for all activities also provided a unique experience for those student listeners and for the hosts themselves. The hosts needed to have the ability to immediately translate what the coaches said for playing games from Chinese into English and the power to make the students listen. With many hosts on the stage, including Jack, Joshua, Celine, Derrick, Ricky, Bevin and Bower, the listeners not only had the chance to demonstrate their Chinese listening skills while the coaches were speaking, but also has the opportunity to show off their English capabilities while listening to the hosts. With the final translation for the last game of making jump rope from straw, Jack’s last “what [the coach] said” signaled the concluding scene of Global Citizen Program.

(Written by Amy Zhong Picture by Haifeng Xu)