Campaign in schools
- pantofbox
- Dec 15, 2017
- 2 min read
Working with children is always great and exciting. You don’t know about their reaction or behavior, you don’t know what you can expect from them. But I think expecting something from children is to make a very big mistake, they can surprise and predict their next action is mission impossible.
Last week we spent at primary and at high schools. For sure I feel two emotions – excitement and misunderstanding. It was nervous of the thing that you need to go and talk with children of four grades. The main task was to explain who are the volunteers and the benefits of donation and to ask them to participate in our donation campaign (it means to bring some cloth or toys, or school supplies). And the problem consisted on to explain such things with easy words. You need to give information in interesting way. To be truly, I was practicing: I asked my friend to be a 10 y. o. child and to listen my speech (it sound funny, but in reality it’s hard to be serious and to do it in a proper way). On my first (real) lesson I relaxed, children were amazing, they took part in our conversation they were involved in presentation. I felt feedback from them and it was excited. When next day we came back to collect some things, I didn’t expect so much. I was trying to keep my tears inside; I wanted to hug every one of them. It’s hard to explain your feelings when boy of 10 y. o. came to you and gave you his own pencil, because he wanted to participate in this campaign. All their smiles, words, hugs gave you inspiration and belief that this world can be better.
After that we visited two more high school. The task was the same, but we had limited time. Here I got my misunderstanding. Maybe we had more time with children to find connection, but sometimes when I entranced the class I felt that no one was interested in that. I felt more nervous about that, because I thought it would be easier because we are more or less the same age. Just imagine my surprise when we collected a lot of stuff with them. On that moment I reminded to myself that they’re teenagers and they want to pretend to be older. So that was just a mask of indifference that covered big concern and warm feelings.
I can’t explain in any words how I’m thankful to everyone who took part in our campaign. You’re great and amazing people, who can rule the world. Of course, our team work and the support of each other made this work much easier.
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