Allen writes about the camp

Allen Lin is the son of Susie’s host. He wrote this essay about his feelings of the camp. Allen is a helper in the camp and is 17 year old high school senior in Zhuhai.

The short summer vacation is coming to its end. There’re few days left. Though, that is not the thing I want to talk about this time. I have been going to the “English Summer Camp” for two weeks. I am being a helper there. And I had a really good day today.

This afternoon Bridger, my boss (let me call him this because I don’t know how to say it in another way), and I had an interesting game to play with children there. We call it “Bang Bang”. Ok, I am not going to tell this game. I will talk about my feelings being a volunteer there.

Actually the atmosphere was not very good in the first group. Maybe this was because Bridger had no idea about how long we would spend in one game. And I didn’t know how the game would be going on. So at first the children didn’t feel very excited. But it went very well as we were getting more familiar with the game. So in the end all of the children had a very good time. I felt very proud of that though I thought I didn’t helped much-----Bridger is a very good boy who does a very good job playing and chatting and maybe yelling with children. I think I can tell myself and others that I did a good job; I think I made a success.

And next, I think I should learn to play happily with children----not just the big guys in my high school, yes. I found my disadvantage here that I can be nervous and silly when I am making friends with the children who aren’t my age. That is a big problem that I should solve, I think. So I’m going to face it and deal with it, using my perseverance. It would be difficult but there’s another saying that goes: Impossible is nothing.

Others say I am a shy person and so I think. I want to be more outgoing but I must make efforts to reach that, right? I like to volunteer; it can remind me of many things. And I made friends there, it was so meaningful.

Charlie