Constantly Learning

Henna Jurca

Henna Jurca

I am a Senior at Belmont University in Nashville, TN and plan on graduating by May 2012.  I began my college career as a Classical Piano Performance major but quickly discovered that I had a passion for the Asian culture and history.  By my Sophomore year, I switched my major to Asian Studies with a minor in Chinese.  I am so fortunate to […]

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I just spend over an hour writing on my blog but the internet completely messed up and then it erased my entire blog post 🙁 I already posted it and everything but I looked back and it was completely gone like I never even posted anything!  For now I will post the pictures that I had in my post but I will come back later to write the stories that I lost…
This is Huang Yeye - 79 years old - he has a mental disability but it is not extreme - he smiles until it is time to pose for a picture haha
Me and another volunteer (she is from Spain) with an autistic child
Music Class
Only 3 years old and already practicing characters
Helping in "art class" and making it a little fun by putting the paper he cut on his ears! Even though his mother is constantly wanting perfection, I think she was really happy that I could make her son laugh and smile!

All I really want to say is that it has been a great week and I have been learning so much from this whole experience as a volunteer in China.  Since volunteering in China is still not a regular thing in some places I have not had anyone tell me to go there, do this, do that, etc… I have had to decide things on my own to help in the best way possible.  I think that has really caused me to become a leader.  I never even knew I had this in my personality until now.  All of this is hard and tiring but definitely so rewarding!

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