H.Y's update

Hihi~~I know I been disappear for a long time. My life becomes busier this year. There were many things happened. But I will try to keep this mail as short as I can. Here comes my update.

First, after Chinese New Year I went to work in the EQ office for two month. There was a secretary gave birth to a baby girl and I was taking her work. I never thought I will work in an office which I will wake up early and be back at home in the evening. I love freedom, working in the office I felt I lost my freedom because I need to be in the office from 8 am to 5:30 pm. Two months was long enough for me. This might be the longest working time in the office for my life. Most of the young people after graduated will find a full time job to earn money. I didn’t, after I graduated I kind of started my work with IofC without pay. During AFL when we thought of working full time with IofC we said we need to move out from our comfort-zone. We needed to learn to move out from our fear about money. But I guess working full time with IofC is my comfort-zone.

Second, since April I went to three different primary schools to lead small group. One school I was a co-leader and another two I worked with another friend sharing the leader role. The students’ age from the three schools was all different. Two schools’ students were select from each class who was the most headache student for the class. And the other one those students were mix child, father Taiwanese and mother Vietnamese/Mainland Chinese/Philippine. I went to each school eight to ten times. Each time was around 90 mins. We talked about listening to the inner voice. I told them there is an angel in their heart telling them good things to do. I enjoy my time with them but it was a tiring time as well. I don’t know how much the kids got the message. But I can see they liked the class.

Third, training the senior high school students was and is continue. I spend quite a lot of time with them. The training was twice a month and each of them needed to have a one to one time with me during the school term. This time I run sensitivity training. There were 16 of them and each time we had two to three speakers for our eight times training. Most of them were first time sharing about their family. One student shared at the beginning he didn’t know how to talk about family but after the training he realized it was not that difficult as he thought. And because of needed to share about the family map most of them had an interview to their parents. Before the training they thought only themselves have difficulty with parents. During the training they find out every one had their one issues with family. I was grateful to their openness. From the surface looking their families seem fine but through their sharing there was lots of sadness, unfairness, not been understood and tears. After the training the team became closer and stronger.

Last one, I just finish a 3 days 2 nights camp with 15 senior high school students + 44 primary school students and my father, mother, brother, cousin + one of my friends. This camp we talked about how to be independent. The place for the camp was two and a half hours driving from Tainan city and it is in the mountain. Each small group has 8 kids + 2 senior high school students. We gave each group certain among of money and they need to find their own way to the campus by bus or train and finish lunch during the way. For many of them was their first time buying the ticket by themselves. And the kids enjoy the trip a lot. Three days was tiring but nice to see most of the people enjoy the camp and have learned something through the camp.

Next week I am going to China for a month. There are three camps waiting for us. I will go with my family and other friends.

Stop here~~ best wishes

H.Y

 

第五屆 少年營

    少年營一屆一屆的辦，一下子就到了第五屆。這次少年營我們挑戰出門在外三天兩夜，不知道我是膽子比較大，還是根本就是瘋了，竟然會有這樣的念頭，但是也謝謝身邊大家的支持，讓少年營得以成行在外3天2夜。

    第五屆少年營地點選在南投竹山的迦南美地，很漂亮的一個地方，當我還在苦思地點的時候，偶然在協會信箱裡看到介紹迦南美地的郵件，趁著清明放假時就先跟我弟還有欽婷夫婦前去探勘。一到目的地我超喜歡它那一片綠油油的草地，就這樣少年營的地點決定了。

    這次出隊，Anima的人少得可憐，幸好我老爹老媽有一同前來坐鎮，我還把遠在台北的表妹叫了下來，15個高中志工，加上44位學員。這次少年營的主題是「離家，是學習獨立的第一步」，因此很多的課程設計是為了讓學員們能自行體驗，迦南美地也是921之後才出現的一個地方，所以課程中也插入一些跟地震有關的訊息及認識。

我印象深刻的有什麼?

    每次少年營，我們都有安排靜心的時間，這是我的一個習慣，每次要上台表演前都會要讓自己心靜下來，面對每一個大活動心情的穩定是很重要的，但是以往因為志工們的狀況外，學員的提早出現，或是其它的突發事情，都沒有做到這個部份，這次我特地讓志工們早點集合，事前的準備工作不多，大家集合後事情弄一弄，終於我們有一同靜心的時間，調整自己的心情，迎接3天2夜的挑戰。

    5屆的少年營，每次都是8點~8點半報到，這是第一次學員在8:07就全部集合完畢，是因為要離開台南，怕做不上車吧。各個小組也都有比較充裕的時間做小組的認識及破冰。

    迦南美地的熱跟蚊子令人難以忘記。天氣之熱，佩服那些隊輔們陪著學員一路來到迦南美地，大家抵達時都是濕了一身，汗流浹背的。而蚊子更是絕，小黑蚊超厲害，叮人不眨眼，才短短幾分鐘身上就可以出現好幾個包，很多學員帶回家的伴手禮，都是滿身的紅豆冰。

    高中志工們的表現，也令我印象深刻+佩服。雖然說他們只是高中生，但是我看到在營隊中他們表現的不比大人還差，當然這是指當他們在狀況內的時候，第一天學員興奮，他們也興奮，拿捏不準自己的角色，有時像是隊輔般領導學員、照顧學員，但一下子又回復到小孩的一面，專注在自己身上，一群人自己玩了起來而忘記學員的存在。第一天晚上檢討會，被飆死，但是第二天他們就像是變了個人似的，扮演自己的角色可圈可點，為了學員犧牲自己，為了學員在大太陽底下帶活動奔跑，為了學員沒有空間在晚上好好睡覺，為了學員連飯都沒準時吃到，大家累到不行，還是努力硬撐中最有精神的一面，他們的付出令我欽佩，也讓我深深引以為榮，雖然我在他們面前是死鴨子嘴硬，罵人的話比誇講的多，但這群高中生真的真的很棒。

    學員中好幾個熟面孔，不知道自己這幾年記名字的功力進步了，還是因為一直在處理行政事務的時候接觸到學員的名字，3天的營隊我能比以往輕鬆地將學員的名字與臉連結在一起，很高興見到熟悉的面孔，也很高興見到新面孔，這次當學員的也不輕鬆，他們走很多的路，因為活動營地與住宿區差一段距離，每天早晚他們都要來回的走，再加上身上的行李，真的是苦了大家，當然嘴上抱怨的人還是有，不過大家都撐完這幾趟的路程，真是厲害。

    最後一件印象深刻的是與營主任的合作，跟營主任這樣密切的合作也是這一年的事情，她是一個很好的支持者，也是一個很好的領導者。有她在身邊一起做事，有個伴，不寂寞，有她在，我們這次比較像是兩人扮演同一個角色，所以常常可以分身，這次是營主任的告別營隊，接下來她要去讀書了，祝她一切好運，也希望未來能再合作。

    營隊辦完，爆累，可能是一下子放鬆了，所有的累都出來，我已經昏昏沉沉兩天了，還沒從疲勞中恢復，清醒不到幾個小時，然後又昏睡了，感覺上可以一直睡一直睡，這幾天要好好來休息，下禮拜要出發去中國，那邊還有3個營隊在等著我，青蛙~~加油!!