Learning BY experiencing!!! How this lesson was taught AND learned, from the Newspapers, translated…
The Six Schools Started Setting Up the Teams Three Years Ago, to Collect the Donated Items to be Send to the Distant Regions, in the Winters Carried the Loads, Walked for Thirty Kilometers by Foot, or, in the Heat, to the Point of Having Heatstroke, as They’d Arrived, They’d Cried Out of Joy………
This was, a “Civics Lesson on the Roads”! The Shijien University, the Taiwan Teachers’ University, the Kao-Yuen Technical University, the Fu-Ying Technical University, Yi-Shou University and the Kun-Shan Technical University, the students from all six schools, started setting up the teams from three years ago, two days ago, the teams of students met up at Hualien, from Kaohsiung and Taipei, and early yesterday morn, they’d delivered the materials in forms of school supplies to the distant schools, the thirty college students planned to walk for a total of 120 kilometers in six days seven nights, to deliver the materials to the distant regions.
The nursing student from Fu-Ying Technical University, Yao took a simple first aid kit out with the group, she was responsible for the health, the blisters of the teammates, in charge of overseeing their health conditions on this trip; the French student from Yi-Shou University heard the professor told about this volunteer opportunity, believed it was, meaningful to be a part of, he’d gone on the trip with his older sister. The professor who’d started this project from Shi-Jien University, Fang stated, that he’d hoped, that the students from the universities can help add more heat to the society through this experience, to understand, the great things that are received, from helping someone else out.
“The Civics Lesson on the Roads” started back at the second semester of 2014, when Professor Fang started discussing the uneven distribution of resources of the students from the eastern and western Taiwan, and, in the discussions, he’d realized, that all of his students had that heart to help out, but, they’d not, held the correct values. And so, the professor and students agreed, that they would, raise the needed resources, then, walk to deliver the goods to the children in the desolate areas who are going to school.
The very first year, the professor worried, that this group of student couldn’t withstand the heat of the summer, and decided to go for the deliveries in the winters, but, as the students, set out, carrying everything on their backs, walked for thirty kilometers a day, they were still, overheated, to the point, of almost having heat strokes. In the five-day-four-nights’ trip, the group walked over 150 kilometers total, and, they’d, finally, made it to Dawu Middle School in Taidong, and, as they’d accomplished their missions, everybody raised their arms in celebration, and started crying from the joys.
here’s the video for it…from Youtube…
On the trip, Professor Fang observed how the students “changed” along the way, every single evening, they’d gathered, to discuss the topics in the society, and, they’d, gained the experience of helping people out, that they wouldn’t normally have the chance to experience during their regular class hours.
The second year, the walking troupe rode the trains to Dawu, Taidong, from the location the students arrived at during the first year of this program, other than having the continuation, it’d also, allowed the students who are not a part of the university to get involved, and received sponsorships from enterprises too. But, on the trip this year, the group met up with a “Super-Scale Cold Front”, and, almost having to stay on the streets through the nights had, given the professors and students, enough hardships, but gladly, they were able to get help from the town of Chenggong, Taidong, and the local police too, they were able, to get into a shelter.
The graduate from Shijien University, Lin, had a total of eleven blisters on her feet, she was, the “record for having the most blisters” from years before, and yesterday, she’d arrived in Hualien, to urge her younger schoolmates on.
So, this, is how helping became, a tradition, and, this activity also challenges the students, to TEST their own limits, and, they’d, learned about what they’re capable of, and, destroyed the belief, that this younger generations are all, easily broken, because they showed, that they are able to do all of this, walking by foot, for a very long distance, to deliver the goods, to people who are needing it, this, is a GREAT program for the students, because, the students NEED to experience something like this, to help them gain that sense of empathy that the society is lacking right now.