ccsa100的部落格

        一大清早太陽出來，天氣有點潮濕，Rebecca和她爸爸開車載我們到巴士站，我們準備前往高雄縣的六龜育幼院。CCSA研究員偉禎和Connie一行人也與我們會合將一同前往，十點鐘搭上巴士，這段旅程很遠也累，而等著我們的志願服務行程，卻相當具有挑戰性。

        第一天在六龜的感覺非常興奮，負責教保院務的全組長邀請我每天早上五點半與他一起晨跑。跑了三天，第四天因為他很忙而停擺，儘管如此，我還是每天保持晨跑，享受六龜美好的清晨。

        而志工服務開始，我們相當緊張，因為這是第一次和孩子近距離相處，院童們非常活潑、好動，因此，我們必須更有耐心和發自內在的愛心，並且知道如何表達自己的意思。孩子們畢竟是孩子，他們的想法和成人很不同，但令人感動的是他們純真的回應，也讓我們覺得是大家庭中的一份子，即使我的中文無法很流利的表達也無妨。

        從政治大學前來的志工有五名：我和 Elise、Rebecca、Sylvia、Wendy。Wendy是我們的小組長，Sylvia是副組長。在南行之前，我們作過許多次行前訓練會議，調整要帶領的活動。服務開始的幾天非常忙碌，因為每晚都還有小組討論，但是在六龜被熱情的歡迎，感覺很棒。

         第二梯次到屏東信望愛育幼院服務，相較這裡的孩子較安靜，新加入的志工使服務更多元性。舉例來說，Jean有很多志工服務經驗，所以她知道如何領導我們，而Ray承擔很多責任，引發團隊成員也都很努力，我們分工負責家庭單位；回想在六龜時因人力有限，負責的孩童數目較多，所以就辛苦一點。

         對我們而言，不同育幼院的孩子有不同特色，管教方式也不同，參與服務也有不同的學習。面對安靜的孩子，我們有多餘的心力專注在活動設計上，而對好動的孩子，則要費神讓他們的注意力集中，無論如何，都需要多了解，尊重和欣賞。此行我學到很多，也更清楚自己的優缺點，我將會試著克服缺點，同時發揮優點，與身邊的人共享。

       Elio 和院童玩大地遊戲                                             Elio分享服務過程的收穫和心得

Reflection of Voluntary experience in六 龟 children’s home.

Elio Rash

National  Chengchi University

         It was an early morning we were leaving Taipei and heading for Kaoshiung county. The sun was out and it was a bit humid and Rebecca and her dad drove us to the bus station because we had to board a bus at Taipei main station. Ms. Connie was waiting for us at the bus station and Weichen also joined us on our way to Kaoshiung. We left Taipei about 10 a .m and headed down south. It was very tiring and we had tough schedules when we started our voluntary work. At first I thought I could handle the schedules that most of the children carry. My first day at 六 龟  was very exciting and the vice president asked me to him for jogging with him every morning and that is 5: 30 a .m. I jogged for atleast 3 days but the fourth day he was much busier so sometimes I went and sometimes I couldn’t.

        In the beginning I was quite nervous because this was my first time to be dealing with kids and in general I know that kids are very active. So someone who deals with kids has to be patient and have that caring inside and knows how to convey the information wanted to be transferred from the volunteer to the kids. Kids are kids and they think a lot more different than adults or grownups do. But what touches me a lot is the way how the kids at the children’s home act and communicate with us. It is very heart-touching to be with them because I feel like I was in a big family and could really survive with them even though my Chinese was not fluent enough for them to understand what I tried to say. I felt like I was a part of their home because of being called big brother so this was what most touched me and I knew from the beginning that it would be tough  for me to leave the children’s home because I would miss them a lot.

       There were five of us volunteers from National Chengchi University which were: Me,(Elio), Elise, Rebecca, Sylvia and Wendy. Wendy was originally responsible to be the leader of this small group from National Chengchi University and Sylvia was chosen to be vice- president. Before  leaving Taipei we did preparations and discussed about our schedule, reviewed and edited some mistakes we had and some activities we cannot be capable of teaching were taken out.

        Our arrival at the children’s home was great. They greeted us and welcomed us with open hearts and treated us great. The first few days that followed were busy as we had to discuss with the vice- president apart from our nightly discussion between our group. So we had a tough schedule to keep on to.

           Apart from other things I have learnt a lot from my past experience at the children’s home in Kaoshiung and now I know my weaknesses and my strengths so now I try to cover up my weaknesses. Compared to my experience in Kaoshiung  children’s home I think Pingtung children’s home Is a lot better. The children here are a lot calmer and they aren’t that noisy and active as those of Kaoshiung. What also helps us is the diversity of the volunteers we now have. For example Jean has been doing voluntary work recently so she knows how to lead us and also Ray is very dedicated and shows a lot of commitment so we all have to put in the equal amount of efforts required. Ray and Jean focuses more on leading and we are mostly responsible for the family units so this group is much stronger than the one we had at Kaoshiung. Back in Kaoshiung we were only five of us and the amount of children we were responsible for were quite a lot so we had this weakness. Now we hold different family units and each volunteer is responsible for approximately 4 or 5 children.

        The kids here also don’t require that much strictness from the workers because they are a lot calmer although the workers are not that strict as those of Kaoshiung. So each home has different methods they use to control their kids so these different methods probably may be the easy way for us so we focus more on content of our programs rather than focusing more on how to get the kids attention.