Social Work Personal Statement

The decision of study social work is never a flash in my mind but the deposition of my experience in past twenty-four years of my life. As an unfortunate and auspicious child, I have parents who together, from nothing, established a successful enterprise with considerable income, but they divorced when I was ten. My mum chose the custody of me and my younger brother over any ownership of enterprise. Three years after the divorce, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It has never been easy for a teenage to acknowledge her mum has only the chance of fifty percent to survive over five years. Almost a medical miracle, another ten years have past by since then, in September 2016 Shanghai, my mum with her co-workers together hosted the 6th Global

Differ from any of my classmates, I was the only one who didn’t go to a landscape firm and I chose a position as a retail designer in a cosmetics brand. I learnt how to collaborate with teammates, communicate with clients and the scrupulous way of working in an international corporation. Besides involving in retail industry, I was never intend to constrain myself in a single path. Like I had taken some social science, arts electives in college, I took online courses of different subjects such as computer science, social works and art history, trying to establish my direction of

When I was contemplating about my direction, I retrospected the journeys I have went through and eventually there was an answer emerged. My first official volunteer experience was the one month I spent in Ghana, Africa with a group of university volunteers. Completely contrary from my innocent intention to help people in the third world, I felt myself was the one who was really receiving assistance. When we arrived the local school for teaching the students, we found the method of education in Ghana is very different from the one in China. There were few alternations we, the outsiders from the other side of the earth, can do but try to infuse the knowledge to the local student with the instruction from local teachers. It was a challenge for me to maintain the order of students without the present of a local teacher. The smile was my the most valuable reward for all of my efforts. After the teaching in the school, our next task was to build a public toilet for the community in a rural village. When we arrive the village we realize that we, as a group of eggheads from a well-known university, were so incapable facing the cement, lime, shovels or anything related to construction. There was mere anything we can do besides easy works such as carrying bricks, delivering supply and watching the local labors doing all the heavy construction works. Did my present really improve the life of the local community