Disabled are not deterred to become involved as volunteers in Expo pavilion
May 29, 2010, Saturday
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THE two deaf-mutes from Minhang District's Qiyin School expressed their Expo hopes with sign language: "Now everyone is doing their service for the Expo and we think we should be among them."
One of the pair is Lu Xiaoyan, a dance teacher at Qiyin School and the other is Zhang Min, a Grade 9 student. They believe that their silent world can be wonderful as well. Therefore, they signed up to become Expo volunteers and were selected to serve in the Life & Sunshine Pavilion at World Expo Shanghai.
When you first step into the Life & Sunshine Pavilion, you'll see some volunteers in dance dresses. All of them are people with hearing disabilities, and Lu and Zhang are with them. They offer guide and explanation services with sign language for deaf visitors. Throughout the Expo, they'll spend two or three days a week serving in the pavilion.
Lu has performed in the famous dance "Thousands Hands Guanyin" in the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe. At the start of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, she was lead performer in the opening performance "Hello, Star." Despite that experience, she's still very excited at being an Expo volunteer.
"It will be a very valuable life experience to serve the Expo," says Lu.
As Lu's student, Zhang shares the same feelings. "Being an Expo volunteer could help increase my knowledge, widen my views and practice my communication skills."
Seeing such an optimistic girl, you can hardly imagine that six years ago, when Zhang first entered Qiyin School, she was so quiet that her teacher worried about her.
But things changed. Since January, Lu and Zhang have been involved in a series of training courses on how to become a good volunteer. These courses included dressing and makeup, manners, sign language and Expo knowledge, which cost them a lot of weekends.
For Zhang, who had never used makeup before, it was not easy to learn. So, during the training days, she often practiced makeup on her own at home.
"I was just afraid of screwing it up when the Expo came," says Zhang, "because there are also some strict requirements for the makeup of volunteers. We have to be natural and decent to make visitors feel warm."
For Lu, what she practices more is her sign and body language. "We serve the visitors with our sign language. That's our window," says Lu. "So I want to make it clearer and look more comfortable."
One of the pair is Lu Xiaoyan, a dance teacher at Qiyin School and the other is Zhang Min, a Grade 9 student. They believe that their silent world can be wonderful as well. Therefore, they signed up to become Expo volunteers and were selected to serve in the Life & Sunshine Pavilion at World Expo Shanghai.
When you first step into the Life & Sunshine Pavilion, you'll see some volunteers in dance dresses. All of them are people with hearing disabilities, and Lu and Zhang are with them. They offer guide and explanation services with sign language for deaf visitors. Throughout the Expo, they'll spend two or three days a week serving in the pavilion.
Lu has performed in the famous dance "Thousands Hands Guanyin" in the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe. At the start of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, she was lead performer in the opening performance "Hello, Star." Despite that experience, she's still very excited at being an Expo volunteer.
"It will be a very valuable life experience to serve the Expo," says Lu.
As Lu's student, Zhang shares the same feelings. "Being an Expo volunteer could help increase my knowledge, widen my views and practice my communication skills."
Seeing such an optimistic girl, you can hardly imagine that six years ago, when Zhang first entered Qiyin School, she was so quiet that her teacher worried about her.
But things changed. Since January, Lu and Zhang have been involved in a series of training courses on how to become a good volunteer. These courses included dressing and makeup, manners, sign language and Expo knowledge, which cost them a lot of weekends.
For Zhang, who had never used makeup before, it was not easy to learn. So, during the training days, she often practiced makeup on her own at home.
"I was just afraid of screwing it up when the Expo came," says Zhang, "because there are also some strict requirements for the makeup of volunteers. We have to be natural and decent to make visitors feel warm."
For Lu, what she practices more is her sign and body language. "We serve the visitors with our sign language. That's our window," says Lu. "So I want to make it clearer and look more comfortable."
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