college essay

Everyone needs the sense of social responsibility. As a teenager grew up in China, it’s really a good time to develop social responsibility right now. So, I always consider doing something for other people who need help and it really teaches me a lot.

Last summer holiday, I got a chance to be a volunteer teaching autistic children in an autistic school in Beijing and I participated without hesitation. The manager of the school was a lady who had an eight year old autistic son. When I got into the school, I saw all the autistic students were ready for classes. My job was to help the teacher teach students to complete physical activities that seemed relatively easy for normal people; however, these tasks, such as jumping and pushing balls, were so much harder for those students. Sometimes it would take them a couple of months to learn a new action. That was really a hard job because when I spoke to them, they could not listen to me and could not concentrate on one thing. So I had to speak to them again and again and be patient.

A boy, who was only six years old, made an impression on me. There wasn’t an elementary school that wanted to accept him because he was autistic. He seemed very happy all the time. When I talked to him, he was laughing and looking all around the classroom. When he was doing the action of pushing balls, his teacher told me that he had been learning this for nearly three months. He was doing a great job. Although it was hard for him, he was trying best to complete his actions and he never gave up.

Helping people is happiness. When those students learned new skills, I felt really warm and happy. As a healthy person living in the world, I will keep trying my best to help people, to develop my social responsibility, no matter whether it is in college or later. These autistic students inspired me so that I will not give up anymore when I face problems. I hope those kids, who will always suffer from autism, will have splendid, happy lives.