Personal Narrative: My Experience At Dufferin Care Center

The year I spent volunteering at Dufferin care centre really had a great impact on me. At first I was scared because I would be taking care of fragile old people and might make a mistake, but afterwards I found Dufferin like a small town. It was a small town that everyone is happy to see me and greets me, even though they forget my name now and then. I usually leave the boarding house during the weekend to at Dufferins. What I do is push the elders outside for some fresh air and play cards and chess with them. I stay from noon to 3 and in between then, there are 2 snack periods. Me and the other volunteers would grab the elders coffee and snack bars. In between each snack period there would be a game of bingo and what I do is see if the elders

I first got contact with the company as a volunteer for one of their races, and when I went there they said they needed someone who could teach the staff english to communicate with the foreign racers. They immedietly hired me when I spoke to them in english saying I was “fluent” enough.

Afterwards I went to the company 2 times a week to teach them english, later on I learned the process of setting up the scoring tables to record the time. I really like these things that has to do with sports, and i’ve had experience with it before like setting up the scoring machine for basketball and volleyball, this was no different. I was also placed at the job of organising the participants with excel with the tech and media team. In the summer 2015, the company sent me to Shanghai as a manager for the race and a translator for the foreign racers. My job for the race was to make sure the slow riders did not get lapped by the faster riders. If they were lapped, disqualify them from the race. After the first race the mayor of the suburb came to greet my coworker and I, he was a portly middle aged man with little to no hair line. Afterwards my coworker criticized me for not using honorific to the mayor while speaking; something I completely forgot after spending time in Canada. At noon the temperature rose to 39 degrees. Even in a tent the heat was unbearable, let alone the riders of the race. At noon, rain