Volunteer/Work Experience（due by Feb.8）

Community Involvement & Employability Skills
Volunteer/Work Experience

At last year, I was a volunteer for the drama ‘The taming of the shrew’. My job was painted the wall. Then the show ended, I got the verification from Ms. Mitschrich.
About 20 people help teachers painted the wall. First, we cut the big paper to the rectangle. Then, we drew the grain of brick with green. At last, we padded grey on the paper. We used brush and paint to finish this work and all the work we just used three colors---green, grey and black. We used green to draw lines, grey to pad the bricks and black to play up bricks. When we finished the wall we can’t believe our eyes. It is like the real one. We also believed the walls will help this show get a big success. The process of painted, because all of us were beginner, we made so many mistakes. But we make concerted effort; these problems were solved at last. Someone painted the bricks too dark and someone who drew lines irregular, too many mistakes. But we helped each other to solve these problems. At last, we waited the wall dry, then, the walls were done. All the work we spend about 2 hours. We felt very tired but very happy.
During this work, I learned everyone in a group should have their own value. Only everyone did their own work carefully, the product will prefect. If we are in a group with 3 or 4 persons, we should do the work together and listen others suggestions because we can’t finish it by ourselves. Everyone should have confident and power to do this work. Also, if each group had a good leader, I think the work will be become easier. A good leader should know the ability of everyone. Then give everyone work to finish, only in this way, we can finish all the work in a quick time.
Teamwork is very important in our life, from this work, we can learn team spirit, we can have a happy time, we can finish the work wonderfully. In the work, we help each other when someone had problems. We can know friendship gradually.
We can use our skill what we study from art class in this work. Contrast and shadow were important skill in this work, we should painted color carefully, the amount of color can’t use too much or too little. We hoped this work should be prefect. It was very funny. All of us had fun from this work. We can learn lots of things to help our life。
This was a valuable experience for volunteer. When we saw the characters on the stage use scenes which one made by us, I really felt happy in my heart. I can’t have money from this work, but I have learnt lots of things. These things can help me have a good future. Thanks teacher gave me a good chance to practice me. Teamwork was the most important thing I learned. I will remember it forever and implement it successful.