another 10h Volunteer experience

There are three fruit stores, two supermarket and three drug stores next to my apartment. They have drastic competition everyday. But there’s only one hardware store next to my apartment. Why? I think because it’s really a good store and other businessmen are afraid to have a store beside it. There are hundreds of things make from metal in it. Their services are really good. No matter what hardware you buy from them, they will come to your house and fix it without any payment. Also, the seller in the hardware store is a high level technician. He can fix almost anything in a house. This helped him to be a successful businessman, I think.
On May 1, 2009; my mom went to the hardware store and buy some locker on doors. The seller came to my house and prepared to set them on the door. I thought this was a good time to have a working experience. So I asked him to teach me how to set the lockers on the doors. This was not easy at all. The locker on door has two parts. One is the handle, the other is a locker. First, the holes on the original door are not suitable for the new locker. So I have to use a drill to bore a bigger hole in it. After that, I have to put the locker at the right place and start to put the screw into it. There were fifteen screws totally.
When I finished the setting for doors, I went into the hardware store to sell things for them. There are hundreds types of pipes in the store. Some are for bathtub, some for toilet and some for coal gas. I cannot remember all the data of the pipe diameter, but I try my best to have a good altitude to customers.
It’s really a good chance to know how to deal with some problem in our life. This can help us a lot when we go to foreign countries in the future.

I had a special experience on March 14th 2009. I met a group of people from Denmark. Ms. Bartell told us they used to in Amity Foundation. They went back to China to have a look again to see the changes in China. Our mission is to take them around NFLS and introduce our school to them. Denmark is one of my favorite countries in the world because there’s another name for it called “bike kingdom”. As a cyclist, I talked a lot about bike with Danish named Hansen. He seems not very excited about bike, but when he saw the beautiful soccer field in our school, he seems really excited. He said that it was one of the best soccer fields he had ever seen. We also have a look around the dorm where NFLS students live. It’s also my first time to see what NFLS dorm looks like. We also saw the new gym and play ping-pong with them. There was a lot of fun. When they went back and say goodbye to us, Hanson gave me a coin which called Krone. I will miss them and try my best to earn money in the future so that I can travel to Denmark!