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By Jill Bobula
When I asked my son, Spencer, what he wanted to do this summer, he told me he wanted to return to China and volunteer at the same orphanage he taught English at the previous year. He set the wheels in motion in what has culminated into an experience of a lifetime for him, my daughter, and three other students from Ottawa.
The Kungfu Orphanage in DengFeng, China was more than pleased to have five Canadian students willing to come teach English to their orphans. They were without an English teacher for a while and were eager to have us there.
Our adventure began in July and it continues as I write these words.
Every night we congregate and discuss how well today’s lesson plan went and what we want to teach the following day. The 100 orphans we teach range in age from four to 17 years old. Once an orphan turns 18, they leave the orphanage. We have become very familiar with split classes: grades 1, 2, 3 are together, as are 4,5, then we have 6, 7 and finally grades 8,9.
The morning is spent teaching English in very small, hot, dimly lit, dirty classrooms. The afternoon is spent playing various games and activities the orphans have never played before: soccer, badminton, hockey, rhythmic gymnastic ribbons and origami.
The children at the orphanage practise kung fu twice a day. Most will join the army or become security guards when they leave at age 18.
When the orphans aren’t studying, they are training in Kungfu martial arts — three intensive hours a day in this stifling 40 C temperature with no air conditioning. Often, we have orphans asleep in our classroom. We don’t have the heart to wake them up because we realize how demanding life is for them. This may be one of the few times they can rest during the day. Because their Kungfu skills are considered a valuable asset, most orphans become guards or join the military when they leave the orphanage. Their life here, however, is one of
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When I asked my son, Spencer, what he wanted to do this summer, he told me he wanted to return to China and volunteer at the same orphanage he taught English at the previous year. He set the wheels in motion in what has culminated into an experience of a lifetime for him, my daughter, and three other students from Ottawa.
The Kungfu Orphanage in DengFeng, China was more than pleased to have five Canadian students willing to come teach English to their orphans. They were without an English teacher for a while and were eager to have us there.
Our adventure began in July and it continues as I write these words.
Every night we congregate and discuss how well today’s lesson plan went and what we want to teach the following day. The 100 orphans we teach range in age from four to 17 years old. Once an orphan turns 18, they leave the orphanage. We have become very familiar with split classes: grades 1, 2, 3 are together, as are 4,5, then we have 6, 7 and finally grades 8,9.
The morning is spent teaching English in very small, hot, dimly lit, dirty classrooms. The afternoon is spent playing various games and activities the orphans have never played before: soccer, badminton, hockey, rhythmic gymnastic ribbons and origami.
The children at the orphanage practise kung fu twice a day. Most will join the army or become security guards when they leave at age 18.
When the orphans aren’t studying, they are training in Kungfu martial arts — three intensive hours a day in this stifling 40 C temperature with no air conditioning. Often, we have orphans asleep in our classroom. We don’t have the heart to wake them up because we realize how demanding life is for them. This may be one of the few times they can rest during the day. Because their Kungfu skills are considered a valuable asset, most orphans become guards or join the military when they leave the orphanage. Their life here, however, is one of
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