Konneveden 4H-yhdistys ry on saanut Erasmus+ -rahoituksen vapaaehtoistyöntekijän työllistämiseksi. EVS-vapaaehtoistyöntekijä saapui Konnevedelle marraskuussa 2018. EVS tulee sanoista European Voluntary Service.
Vapaaehtoisen työjakso Konnevedellä kestää helmikuun 2019 loppuun. Vapaaehtoisemme on kiinalainen Mingchen He ja hän saapui meille Unkarista. Vapaaehtoinen voi työskennellä 4H-yhdistyksen lisäksi myös Konneveden kunnan ja sidosryhmiemme palveluksessa.
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I spent few days in the Hytölä school and
Istunmäki school this month. As they are located in the village,the school size are
relatively small, compared to Lapunmäki school. But it let me feel closer with
the students there. The pupils are adorable, friendly and full of curiosity. Although
there was a language barrier, it didn’t influence us to understand each other.
They are not just curious about the stories from me, also would like to share
their talented skills with me, like gymnastic skills J. As
there is no separate dining room for people to have meal, classrooms are turned
into dining room which give students and teachers more time to stay together, and
helps to reduce the sense of distance between teacher and student. Anyway, I like
the harmonious teacher-student relationship in the village schools.
For the break time, we played games together
in the field,f rom playing football to sliding down from icy slope, which
recalled my memory from childhood. As the
Christmas is approaching, the pupils were preparing for the Christmas party held
by school. They invited me to watch their rehearsal in their classroom, where
were chock-full of happiness and vitality, it was a pity that I couldn’t join
them in that evening. Before leaving, in Istunmäki school, I joined the pupils to assist
them to make a mini house out of their prepared gingerbread. And in Hytölä
school, I joined their voluntary cooking activity in the kitchen after school to cook some
traditional Finnish foods. It is not difficult to imagine that Finnish are good
at cooking J.
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| In addition,thanks Janiela and Hilma giving me these portraitsJ |
In a nutshell, it was amazing experience
with pupils in the village schools. Actually, it help me spark an idea to work as
a teacher. Working with this lovely group of people, it worth all the efforts.
Apart from school, I also visited nursing
home, which gave me some impressions from the other side. I still remember the
first time, I got the virtually conception with nursing home was about two years
ago. My Danish friend shared her family story with me that when her parents need
others taking care of them, they will go to stay in nursing home, because they
are more professional, she just need visit them now and then. I was confused
about this thought at the time. As in my country, there is a strong family bond
between children and parents (sometimes it goes too muchL), and
it is the children’s responsibility to taking care of their parents who get old.People
need more emotional connection.
Now I have better understanding, despite in
the nursing home people may miss their home/family, but they can work together
to make the place with the atmosphere feel like home. This May, my Finnish friend
told me the loneliness is a big problem for the elderly in Finland. In the
nursing home, people seems living in a small community, during the meal time or
coffer time, people will gather together in the dinning room, having the meal
together and talking to each other, even joining some activities together to
make the life colorful, for example sing together or some visitors come here to give
a performances for the elderly to enrich their life, which is fantastic for the
mental health. Here I want to introduce my “Finnish teacher”— Helmi, she is 100
years old, will turns 101 next month, but she could stay young at heart. Although
we can’t communicate in Finnish or English, her positive energy can always beyond
the language barrier. Sometimes she taught me with Finnish pronounce, and end up
with my clumsy way J. Happy to see they have good life there. Certainly, the workers in
nursing home contribute a lot for the daily caring.
What’s more, I also visited a second hand
shop here last weekend, and I was suddenly in awe of them when I learnt about
the story behind of this shop. The owner of the shop is a doctor who volunteered
in Africa years ago, after that she didn’t stop providing assistance, which has
lasted 20.5 years. When I visited there, the owner’s parents were working
there, and friendly provided free tea/coffee and cakes for the consumers. It is
easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of
performing such actions. I love this land, because there are so many golden heart
people.
Mingchen J
Mingchen He työskentelee Konneveden 4H-yhdistyksessä vapaaehtoistyöntekijänä marraskuusta 2018 helmikuulle 2019. Mingchen, tutummin Minski, kertoo työviikoistaan ja kokemuksistaan Konneveden 4H-yhdistyksen blogissa.
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