Joural-You are my sunshine

I woke up 5:30 am this Saturday to go to Tzuchi Hospital for taking care of the children who have some problems with their family or economical situations. The camp is called “Little sunshine “, and it is held once every month.

At the beginning, I have no idea about the camp; the only thing I know is the background of those children, I never think of it as a camp held by the belief totally on the contrary of mine. Honestly speaking, I feel resisted when I knew the fact, but I have already promised to help, there’s no way to get cold feet of it.

Yes, I confess the songs and the videos were difficult for me to accept, but I tried my best not to involved charity with religion. As soon as I have the thought of this, I started to lead the kids with pure love. The kids responded and reacted with me pretty well, and followed as I said though they didn’t obey at the beginning. I saw the improvement of them and felt the sense of achievement from them.
We taught them to be grateful that time, and I really think they will apply it to their lives. No matter how bad the situation is in their family, I want them to feel the love from my ”God” and me one day.

In the end of the half-day camp, one of the little girls came to me and asked me if I’ll come next time, I was so touched that I decided to come for her anyhow. After all, I learned the love regardless of religion and the way to comfort children. And I was also surprised myself about the patient I got for the children- I belittle myself! (LOL) Most important of all, I woke up 5:30 am this Saturday not only see the sunrise but also see my sunshine.

Journal-so called, spring break

Due to the time-off of school anniversary, we had a six-day spring break, which is much more than most of the universities. Although the custom of sweeping the tombs and the concept of mourning ancestors are not as common as it used to be now, I still choose to accompany my family more. After all, study in another city from my hometown indeed decreases a lot of time for the whole family to get together.

I spent my spring vacation with my family in the first and the last couple of days, we chatted a lot, and we don’t mind to tease each other; we went to “eat” luxurious afternoon tea, where I think I had a food baby; we went to the new-opening department store to go shopping …and so on. I love the intimate atmosphere we had when we are together. Laughter is everywhere. And most important of all, I feel totally at ease and unrestrained at home, or in front of my family. I am not ashamed even if I am naked! (Just kidding!)

I also spent a day or two with my friends; I spent a day with my senior high school friends: we went to the bank of love river and merely talked about our collage lives for a whole afternoon. It was relax, comfortable and joyful to realize there’s nothing changed after we have been separated since we are in different schools. On the other day, I went shopping with my collage friends. The feeling was different from spending time with senior high school friends, but both of them were great and full of happiness.

However, most of the time I slept during my spring break. After the tiring tasks in CCU (Dancing, basketball, academics works, and so on…) spring break is really a break for me to rest. It was not special to sleep 12 hours a day every day in these six days! I indeed got the sense of happiness and satisfaction from sleeping!