Friday, April 30, 2010

Community service- leisure options

7/5
Today we went down to Yorketown and helped those less fortunate them us. It was in a shed called clem's shed at the back of Yorketown. We arrived at 10am and left at 2:30. I have more respect for what they do and unfortunately what we have to go through.

Q1: A volunteer is someone how gives there time and effort to help others less fortunate than them and all along doing this for no pay. They have to have his heart in it and really care. A really volunteer is Don from Aleppo pines and Phil the manager of leisure options.

Q2: What i learnt today is that even though people many walk and talk differently they still are the same caring person and like to have a chat, even though you have to try a bit harder to understand them and get along.

Q3: The experience that i liked the best was playing jack a card game with them and helping them through and then seeing there reactions when they win or worse when they lose. Another enjoyable experience was when we were leaving and Anthony was waving good by to us madly. Anthony is interatually retarded but he is really cool.

Q4: Today i least in joyed the awkward moments when we arrived, these there awkward as we didn't know and we all had these bad and sad impressions about them. Basically we though they were in a class below us.

14/5
today we had the leisure options at point turton. They arrived at around 10 we had a quick walked along the beach to collect cones and bottles for Roj how is obsessed with collecting them. There were less awkward moments than last time but still quite a few. We begin to roll the pizzas base out and and put the ingredients on the pizzas. Some of the ingredients were cheese, tomato paste, ham, capsicum, chicken, mushrooms and salami. to cook all the pizza took ages, but the final out come was pretty good and it was well worth the wait. We also had garlic bread which i quite like.

We played many card games and some games of uno, this was really fun but the only problem was that i didn't win any of my multiple games. We had some speech's from the leisure options and jonny also did a quick speech that was quite funny, but the stood up there so he deserves some congratulations

Overall of the people i got to know were, jess she worked with me sperating the plants, she had a bad memory and always asked the same questions, this was kind of funny at first and then you just felt a bit sorry for her. She was born with this and she forgets what she asks in under 30 seconds.Another was Roj how collects the bottles and cans, he lives at home with his parents and he is 60 and his parents are 80. These peoples parents would have to be very strong and never give up on them, they diserve the same sympathy and bonding as anyone else.

1 comment:

  1. well done on joining in, and recognising what giving work some people do. love mum

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