Diary as a Volunteer-- Day #3

It was the same schedule. And I thought I'd get used to it. First days might be challenging, but once I know how things work, I thought I'd get the hang of it. It will be like clockwork. You know, doing the same things everyday, just repeating them. There's nothing new for you to look out, and so prepared to get bored. I WAS WRONG! Very wrong.

Tick tock...

Day#3:  4 March 2013- Wellness Center

     Yes, you didn't see wrong. Nor did I forget to change the title. It IS the Wellness Center, again. Well, this was what that had happened... 

     This was the third day. I knew I will be sent to a different place this day, and I looked forward to it. In fact, I was wondering about that the previous night and was still wondering about it when I knocked the door expectantly that morning. I opened the door... to find the person in charge wasn't in. She was on leave. Oh God! What do I do now? Thankfully, another person working there saw me. After making some confirmation, he placed me back to the place I went the day before- Wellness Center. Oh. ><  Turns out that I was wrong after all. 

     I trudged back to the Wellness Center. Everything seems so familiar, and welcoming. After all, I spent at least four whole hours there last week! The people there were surprised to see me again. [P.s. They actually  looked happy to see me back. After all, who doesn't want someone to help them lighten their work? And that person is volunteering too! (In this case, it's me ><)] 

     Anyhow, I started my day by helping one of them to tidy up the store room. Well actually I didn't do much tidying. The lady did most of it. Talking about this, the store room wasn't so untidy either. She just moved a few boxes into place and I counted some items. I saw the baby dolls and towels I labelled the last time I came here. (And that was what I was supposed to count.) Hmm... =)

     I learnt something new today. Today, I learnt how to use a photostat machine! Yippie! Okay, you might think "So what? I use a photostat machine every other day". Ah well, I never get the chance to learn... until now. Hoho~ The lady there taught me how to use the photostat machine. It goes without second thoughts that her aim was to let me photostat brochures for her. LOTS and lots of brochures. Pink ones, blue ones, yellow ones, green ones... I don't really mind that. It was fun! ^^ Besides having to photocopy them, I was also requested to fold them (as shown in the picture below). 

An example of the size of brochures I did

     It was my first time using the photostat machine after all. I wasn't sure whether I had to replace the stack of pink papers in the machine with white ones when I finished using them. Just as I was wondering about this,  a man who worked there came over and photocopied some documents... and they turned out PINK! He screeched! HAHAHA~ No no no, that was bad of me to laugh. (Small whisper: But it was really funny.)  I didn't do that on purpose. He should have checked. I do admit it was my fault though. Sorry. Thank goodness it wasn't some important documents, or else. Full stop.

     Besides that, I was helped to tidy one of their shelves. A shelf full of messy brochures. @@ Brochures, brochures, brochures. Brochures EVERYWHERE! While I was tidying, dust flew everywhere. The worst part is a tiny little SPIDER actually ran out and hid back again in the midst of brochures. OMG! It was still very satisfying when I finished my job-- everything looked really tidy. =)

     After lunch (this time I had to queue up T-T... there were lots of people there...), I started on my next and last task. I think the lady I was helping had started to trust me now. That's nice. =) She asked me to key in something and to double-check some details while she was out for lunch. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish all of them by the time she came back. There were too much after all.

     I left the hospital early today, hoping to be on time to catch a bus home. Luck wasn't with me that day. I was forced to wait 40 minutes for the bus to come. Geez. It was really baking hot that day and I was sweltering. What's more, a man came and stood a short distance away, SMOKING! Okay, I'll move. Then came a big-sized man who accidentally stepped on my shoe AND settled down next to me. I won't mind if he just kept quiet and waited for the bus. However, he started blabbering and asked me many personal things. I was on caution immediately. Suspicious stranger!!! Red alert!!! I was hoping and praying for the bus to come at once... which it did not. T_T You can't imagine my relief when I saw the bus rumbling up around 10 minutes later (it seemed like one hour to me). The bus was very very full and I sensed the stranger just behind me, waiting to get on the bus. I gave up at once and sat back to wait for the next bus. The bus was just closing the door and started to move when another EMPTY bus came up. Yay! A place to sit and bye bye stranger! Hahaha~

     This was my first time taking this bus. I wasn't sure of its destination and I simply hopped up. How blur of me. I realized it later and immediately went to confirm. Thank goodness it was heading towards my destination. If not... (Blank). Here's an interesting thing that had happened on the bus. There was a girl who boarded the bus and sat next to me. It was quite a long journey and we started to talk. Guess what I found out. She was actually the same age as me AND she was actually a classmate of my friend! WOW! That was really a coincidence! =]

     Life is interesting. Things pop up when you don't expect them the most. Life is full of surprises and challenges. Nothing is ever boring. Cheers~ ^^