Community Involvement and Employability Skills

I have completed 10 hours volunteer work in this term. First, I was a volunteer for the curtain which would be showed on the “GCA Fashion Show”, second, I was a volunteer as a typist for Jiangsu Engineering Consulting Center.
I was the designer who designs the font of the words and painted those used different ways. I stayed at school for a week. GCA is an international school which I am studying in it, the teachers come from Canada, New Zealand, and USA. All of them use English to teach us, which is different from Chinese schools. GCA often provides a lot of volunteer works for us to grow our employability skills, and also provide too many chances for us to show our talent. Designing font is a hard work, because the style of the font must suitable for the title of fashion, our volunteer group had made about 4 designs, but all of them are not satisfied in the manager Ms.Hadly’s eyes, so she draw a new sketch for us, and asked us draw the and cut them out as soon as possible. I was responsible for the words “H” and “N”. The size of the words is so huge that I made some mistakes, and alter and alter for many times. I realized Ms.Hadly used a lot of different font to design the sentence “GCA Third Annual Fashion Show!” not only the cursive style, but also many other ways I don’t know. That is useful for me, from this detail I know it’s good for me to use different ways to think about one question, that may cause a wonderful result. Finally, I was responsible to paint the words. The way to paint them out is also special. We used fans color, cool color, and warm color to paint them look like different things. The skills required to work effectively and safely with others and to succeed as individual and collaborative workers are good modeling ability, creative and good at using art tools like scissors and knives.
I was also a volunteer as a typist with my friend Abby, that’s a very boring work for me. My job was just type the words for this company on computer like the documents and leaflets. Before this volunteer work start, I thought after this volunteer work I could know more about what a typist work is and know more about this company, in my opinion, if I can know more about what is work like in each kinds of company and know more about the “culture” of each company, that would more useful than prepare so many information about what’s the honor I got in my study life, but I got no choice this time, because the manager did not want us to stay in their company, they just decided give us a lot of sketchs which was written by their hands, and asked us to organize them to paragraphs. I felt so disappointed when I listened that. I thought I am a good typist, my speed on typing is so fast that just used 3 hours to finish all of them, but when I looked back and checked them I found I made many mistake, so I need to change them rapidly. From this work I knew I must be careful on each works and never impatient for success, I am not just need to improve my speed on typing, but also need to improve my sufferance on doing each works.
I love volunteer works!