75. Community service can be a valuable part of the college experience. If you were to devote one year of service to a volunteer project, what would it be, and what would you hope to accomplish? (Goucher)
There was once a time when I volunteered to teach Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art, to poor children in a village. At first, I thought Tae Kwon Do wouldn’t be appealing to children since it requires lots of practices. But to my surprise, the first day of class, around 100 children attended to know and learn what Tae Kwon Do is. Their curiosity and passion to learn new things were more than I could have imagined in my dreams. With this astonishment, I became close to these children as I taught them for two weeks. I was even more surprised when I found out that these children learnt faster than any other people I’ve ever taught in my life. They were more curious and eager to learn, more hard-working and patient, and more questioning to explore Tae Kwon Do even more. But two weeks was so short. I didn’t have enough time to answer all of their amazing and clever questions. I could only teach them the basic moves of Tae Kwon Do.
When I left that place, I told myself that one day, I would come back to that very village to teach more things to the children. I hope I would be able to let them know more things about the world, Tae Kwon Do, music, and any other thing that I know of. I wish I could get closer to them and talk to them about random things happening around them and me because I felt that warmth in my heart when I spent two weeks with them. One year is a short yet long time. Within that period of time, I will do my best to help them get a step closer to their dreams by teaching either Tae Kwon Do which requires patience and hard working or any other possible thing I can do. That will bring me a step closer to my dream as well because becoming a helpful person to our society is the shared goal of every citizen of this world.
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