The international Horticultural Exposition 2014 has been opened since 25, April. During the whole summer vocation, 51 volunteers from UPC conducted volunteering services for the event, who have got various cultural experiences and new friends over the time.
Volunteers are checking tickets.
Volunteers are communicating with tourists.
The volunteer team of UPC.
The International Horticultural Exposition 2014 will be held in Qingdao from 25, April to 25, October. To ensure the quality of service for the Expo, eighteen universities and organizations are authorized to be volunteer stations and will be responsible for volunteering work. UPC become one for them and offer volunteer service for the Expo.The selection of volunteers in UPC starts in June, through which 51 students were chose as a team. They are qualified with basic knowledge and skills, such as foreign language proficiency. The volunteers received pre-job training, which enabled them to understand their duties and responsibilities, including ticket check, security check, news reports, exhibition management, volunteer management, etc.
Not only did they complete their own work, volunteers also designed routines for tourists, which got much praise from visitors. “For the first time standing on the post, I felt unfamiliar with almost everything, and I would be tongue –tied when someone asked.” Truly it is hard to get to know the 240-hektare-site well, for example one of the volunteers in the school of economics and management named Xiao Yuhan met with some trouble in the very beginning. However, she didn’t give up and learned a lot from the voluntary manual as well as communicating with other stuff. So that she gradually obtained the ability to direct tourists accurately.”Xiao would always brush up on the EXPO information. For now, she is the most post-friendly tiny pinto beans” her team leader Xia Boqiang commented.
Movable guiding post is a highly demanding one. Four volunteers on this post are students from the English major and Russian major, so that they muast master many kinds of languages such as Korean, Russian, Japanese, etc. During their duty, they provided guiding service for foreigner tourists. Some students made use of their hobbies. For example,Jiang Shaozhuang and Zhu Zichao like photographing, so they shot pictures for others. Li Kuo and Hao Ping who have the experience of news reporting, have published more than ten pieces of news on the EXPO official website and other media.
The work has made volunteers stronger and tougher, who had to work in the heat. They got a lot from the volunteering work, such as the meaning of responbility, the communicating skills and friendship.
Text: Liu Liyun
Photo: Zhu Zichao, Hao Ping
Editor: Bu Lingduo
Source: UPC News Center
