2011년 11월 8일 화요일

Proposal; Piano Lessons for young children.

This activity was done during summer vacation in 2011.
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Activity: Teaching younger students who are willing to learn piano.

Goal: Young students in Korea, their mothers want them to have piano lessons however, young parents do not have enough fund to teach their children. what Mrs. Park thought of was to give young children opportunities to learn piano for free.
As a student who learnt piano until grade 10 and also practiced my skills to enter the Korean art high school, I wanted to join the free piano teching held by Mrs. Park.
goal is to give my best effort to young students and develope my spirit of service.

Time: July, 2011 (during summer vacation)

Supervisor: Mrs. Park (the owner of piano academy)

2011년 11월 7일 월요일

Reflection Community Service UN day

On October 21, there was a special day called UN day in our school.
On that day E every students were required to wear traditional clothes of other countries

The community service club was planning to open booth. The booth was for informing students about the environment. All community members were there for the booth presentation.

I was in charge of one booth. There were three parts of booth. One was for the information about the worl pollution and what causes the bad effect on the environment. Second part was for game. The rule of the game was putting the right photo of trash into the right trash can. Students were required the knowledge of the trash that can be recycled. Those knowledges were told at the very first booth among the three.

For me, my job was to tell the students the rule of the game and look at the students putting the photos of trash into the right place of trash cans that they are belong to. If those photos were not put into the right trash can I had to fix it and tell the students it should be placed into the right one.
This required to have certain knowledge of the environment and trash or any stuff people throw away. For example, which is possible to be recycle and which kinds of tray causes bad environmental effect.
Preparing for the booth was not the hard job compare to the part that I had to explain to students about the booth and the purpose of the game. Explaining the game to the low school students was not an easy job. I had to keep on asking them if they were understand or not.
Plus, I had to make the sentences simpler. No grammar mistakes were allowed for me since I was explaining the booth and representing the booth.
Talking in front many people was not that hard also. I tried not to be shy before them but i could not do it at the very first time. However, as people come and pass my booth with the knowledge about recycling and the trash I felt something proud. I could see myself talking and explaining things much faster in simplest sentences so everyone could understand at once.
After all, I felt much comfortable when I talked to group of people than the very first time.

This community service activity gave me another chance to develop my English skills and the self confidence to talk before group of people. Another thing I earned from this activity was about the recycling and it's process. Moreover, knowing about the stuff I see everyday was an interesting thing.