A self discovery morning.
On a nice morning, after finished my daily duty, checking blood-pressure of Elders, Me and Sam had nothing to do, so we decided to ride the motorbike that JingGo lent to us and ride around the town. There was raining but we still decided to ride on and up to the mountain.
But we were lucky enough when the sky stopped raining and the Sun started to shine upon us. And of course, the view of everything was wet right after the rain was amazing and beautiful.
We didn’t go up all the way to the mountain top, which might took us a whole day, so we just stopped in the midway, but still, I got a nice sight of the Jiaxian’s bridge from far away alongside with Datian and Jiaxian town.
A happy morning in Xiaolin Community.
On the next day, we change our daily schedule to Xiaolin Community. This time, all the morning activities in Jiaxian will be in Xiaolin, so that we start to drive the Elder from Jiaxian to join with the Elder in Xiaolin.
We start with same daily activity, blood-pressure checking.
While having blood-pressure checkup,We walk around to talk to other Elder and start setting up to prepare for the activity. Our boss, ZhangQi, as usual, is very good with creating the atmosphere and talk to the Elder.
Then to the fun part of the morning, Dancing exercise!
DIY
To the main activity of the day, we were taught how to make handmade soap. With the help from us and teachers, together, everybody was very excited and happy while making soap. we successfully made a lot of cute, lovely soaps.
We successfully made a lot of cute, lovely soaps.
And of course, one happy group picture with everyone!
A day of good deeds, giving and sharing.
Today is Qixi day, a Chinese festival celebrating the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in mythology. It falls on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month on the Chinese calendar, and also a biggest day of Buddhism. Because of that, ZhangQi gather us and drive to a big temple in Baolai, Kaohsiung to receive tribute from Buddhists and bring back to Jiaxian for distributing.with food, snacks and fruits.
Loading supplies onto the truck.
Full!
When we backed to the Community Center, everybody gathered around to help unloading goods, also dividing everything in to bags to be able to share to people who come to take.
After finishing dividing everything, we announced about the give-away time and place to all people in Datian throughout speakers in the whole village. Not so long later, people started to come and taking supplies after signing their name and information.
“...I saw big happy smiles from people “
Even though many people had come and received their supply, there were still many left, so we loaded all onto the truck again. In the late afternoon, we started to drive around the village to send the supplies to all the houses that couldn’t be able to come to the center.
We were tired for the day, but still until late, we still trying to go every houses in the village, and got pay back by every people happy and lovely smile, those gave us energy and made us willing and trying harder.
At late night, we finally gave out everything successfully. Everybody was really tired but because of we just did good thing, we still feel happy and satisfied. And the best thing was, ZhangQi drove us to Meinong’s night market and treated us dinner as our reward for hard working day.
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