Useful Activity and Practicing English

Today, I supposed to have my first aid training in Red Cross, but because of do not have enough member, the class was postponed. So this morning I changed my plan, and I went to the Nan Tien Temple in Unanderra for volunteering. This will become my weekly activity, do some volunteering job. I am helping in the division of Pagoda . Here, I need to give a candle to the visitor, the symbol of our condolence to the victim of China earthquake, and if they want to try to write some calligraphy I need to write some example then they could followed me. There is a lot of visitor in this Sunday, some of them are local people, some of them are from Thailand, India, Japanese or Europe. When I talked with the visitor, I can learn a lot. I tried my best to remember the word and the sentence that they used, I copied it and tried to practice it. Today I also meet a Australia man, who may be is more than 50 years old also a volunteer. When we had our lunch, I really surprised that he known a lot about Buddhism, may be he knows more than me. At the evening, I have a Sunday relax class, teacher teach us how to do Tai Chi and meditation. This is good way to practice concentration, patience and tolerance. I am the youngest in this class, most of the student is local people who are more than 40 years old. Even that they are not Chinese or Buddhist, but they like and appreciate this culture. I really glad that all of us learn together, learn how to tolerance, have a more patient, and share our metta ( love and kindness). I really happy that I have a chance to experience all of this where I can spent my time doing something useful for other, also learn and practice English.