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Q: Have you ever volunteered before while in China?
I have done one volunteer work which was to set up vintage posters around the Sanlitun Village place. They were selling them and originally I asked the guy in charge if you get a t-shirt and he told me I would. Later, come to find out he was just yanking my chain. I didn't care if there was a t-shirt involved or not but the fact was he lied. That was a dirty move!
Anyways, all in all my volunteer experience was pretty fun. Have you done any volunteering in China before?
I did thousands of hours of volunteer work in primary school and middle school. Cleaning the school ground and classroom floor, mopping the tiles on the wall, helping with collecting homework and checking and correcting them, marking other students' exam paper, maintaining school order. I think I went too far. Slowly I realized I had just become an assistant of the devils which almost ruined myself. And in their eyes I was just a rat or a free labor/alive monitor. No more volunteering like that. And I regret so much of the improper "volunteering activities".
I volunteered to teach writing, to teach the absent teacher's classes while he waited for his new passport, to teach at the middle school, and other things that are probably too painful to remember.
Wait, I was paid for all of those.
I volunteered to tutor reading at a middle school back home. Dang I actually miss that.
Now I see I completely misapprehended your question. Dang.
I went with some students who volunteered at a local orphanage. They were surprised that I wanted to go along. I couldn't really do much because I didn't speak Chinese, but I think just being there and being part of the experience was something special. There was one young man there who was in a wheelchair, could barely move, and had trouble speaking. He asked new people he met to write something in a notebook. I wonder if my entry was the only one in English? All of the children there had some kind of physical deformity. One of the girls there was the cutest I have ever seen, but she was unable to use her legs. Unfortunately in a country like China, that means she would be unable to go in most buildings, or even use most sidewalks. It looked like she didn't even have access to a wheelchair. I can't imagine.
you could at least ask a different set of questions.
Yes, I volunteered to teach English at my neighborhood primary school to grades 4, 5 and 6 two days a week for one school year. Also taught an English 'refresher course' to most of that school's teachers. It was a fun experience for all and enabled me to really become part of the neighborhood, meeting many people.
One of my girl friends asked if I would pleasure her sisters, I asked what did they look like and without being told, I said I would. However we broke up before I did meet her sisters. Dam I'm stupid.
I attempted to volunteer at a Deaf school in Kaifeng, very very poor, a huge lack of resources. I was intending to assist with cleaning and fixing things up but upon arrival I was basically given a tour and a list of things they needed to buy and a price. So like ohChina said I don't really think they fully grasp the concept of volunteer work here.
