Personal Essay: My Volunteer Experience

It is undeniable that volunteering is widely acknowledged as the most contributive activity to both communities and ourselves. However, finding a place that can truly provide me with the aforesaid experience incisively is quiet difficult and challenging. At the same time, it is most essential part. I have known SFU as one of the most renowned and reputed in Canada for several years, but I never thought it is a school that provides tremendous fun activities for children to participate and intriguing volunteer opportunities for youth, in my age, to contribute, and more so, to learn from the rare experience, until my great friend Andrew called upon me. He carefully described the experience he had in many of SFU leadership courses and other useful activities in SFU. After that, he took me for a tour around SFU, so that I uncovered the “mysterious sides” of this glorious school. Following his swift

Hence, my main goal, as a volunteer, is to help the children in the summer camp to have fun through every single activity, and hopefully guide them to gain knowledge or moral through the fun activities. In terms of the qualities I have for this volunteer position, I am responsible and accountable for the tasks I am assigned to do. Besides, I did my work experience at Staples Inc, and I think the experience I had there can aid me in this volunteer experience, as I had a taste of interacting with different kinds of people, with different personality traits and different social backgrounds. I reckon it will help me to conduct problems with confidence and ease. More importantly, I have a loving heart. Working with children, love plays a decisive part in the interaction. I take care children with great respect. I am patient and tender without condescending them. I really do want them to “live well and laugh often.” In order to accomplish this, we must “love