儿子做义工啦!

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已经过了大半个暑假了,除了继续在家写地理比赛书籍,儿子决定去汤厨房做义工,帮助需要领救济餐的人们。汤厨房在离家挺远的地方,公共汽车单程需要一个半小时,不过怎么说呢,自己乘车找到工作地点,也是走向独立生活的一部分。以下是儿子做义工的记录:

Today was interesting because I went to volunteer at a soup kitchen. It was not a convenient thing by far, as I had to take the bus across all of San Jose, taking about 1.5 hours to get to the soup kitchen. Although I did not know at the time, one person on the bus would be a fellow volunteer and another would be a diner at the soup kitchen. It shows how sometimes you can’t tell how one is doing in life just by looking at them.

The soup kitchen, called Eastside, was actually a community center. When I arrived, there were elderly couples doing some kind of waltz. The work started immediately after I arrived at the center at 3:30 pm. The cook had already finished the main meal of cream of mushroom casserole, the bread rolls, and the chocolate muffins for dessert, but I arrived on time to help with the salad.

The salad wasn’t anything unusual, but I had never tossed a salad from scratch before. I started with lettuce, which I first chopped its tip off and picked off the leaves. After washing the leaves, I cut the lettuce into smaller bits, and put them into the salad. Other ingredients for the salad were tomatoes and eggs, which was cut by me and another volunteer. Washing the cutting boards and plates were passed on to volunteers who came later. Once we were all done it was about time to open up (4:30 pm).

For simplicity, the organizer split us to do duties based on the order that we came, so I was assigned to serve the starch. Little did I know that today we had no starch because it was combined with the main dish, so I ended up pouring the coffee.

When the people came in to eat, I really couldn’t tell them any different from normal people. There was diversity in race and appearance (clothes and belongings), though most people were old. Soon work overwhelmed me. The amount of people who drank a lot of coffee surprised me, as I spent the entire 45 minutes of meal time pouring and refilling coffee for the diners.

Before I knew it the coffee ran out so I joined other people who were done serving on washing the dishes. The process was a hasty one because everyone wanted to go home as soon as possible. I glimpsed the workings of the restaurant dishwasher, where after rinsing food and oil off you would cover it in a big metal cover so the dishes would get rinsed and dried. It was pretty smooth sailing from there to the end.

I am glad that I could have an opportunity to see how soup kitchens operate. The operation is smooth and gets food to grateful people in need, as well as gives me some satisfaction that I made food for hundreds of people. The only problem is that the hours on the bus getting there and back is even more unproductive than sleeping / chatting / playing games or anything else really.

圈外闲人 发表评论于
回复orange88的评论:
儿子比较细致,所以他有兴趣写地理比赛参考书。
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回复taro_g的评论:
谢谢鼓励!
orange88 发表评论于

旧金山到弯曲是不短的路,这孩子很能干。义工服务的记录这么细致,他真是很用心的。有这样的孩子,你好福气!

谢谢分享。
taro_g 发表评论于
嘿,儿子培养的不错,要大顶一下。
圈外闲人 发表评论于
回复林贝卡的评论:
谢谢,也佩服你所创造的美丽!
林贝卡 发表评论于
谢谢分享你儿子做义工的经历,佩服你把你的孩子培养的这么好。
圈外闲人 发表评论于
回复piao11的评论:
家长与孩子互相学习了!
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回复如山的评论:
谢谢鼓励!
我喜欢你对房市的分析,很有启示!
piao11 发表评论于
孩子走到我们前面去了~~~

我在家唠叨好几次了,最近或者下年我要报名去当义工,特想去养老院陪陪老人帮帮老人~~~
如山 发表评论于
很对不起,你多次访问我的博客并且留言。我今天才“偶然”拜访你的博客。原来你写了这么多博文,还有故事(小说?)连载,需要慢慢读。在文学城,你其实应该改名为“圈内忙人”,哈哈。
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