We have been receiving young person doing Social Service Abroad from Germany since 2005. Those young folks have learned a great deal during a year in Chengdu Waldorf School. We are very appreciate for their contributions. 

A typical jobs for the social serve folks are watching children play during the school section, before and after school. They are expected to do some odd jobs such as assistant teachers for their lesson, teach Germany, work on the garden, prepare for the festivals etc. In General, Children love to inter act with our volunteers. Many children will climb up his schuders and backs. Some time, he will get tied and do not know how to say no to children. Children do not know much about the physical boundary.

We require all volunteers must speak basic Chinese before he come. Our children will not be able to communicate in foreign language yet. All our volunteers do speak Chinese and end up speak very fluently by the end of his service. They did not find it is very hard to manage with the language.

All young people had a hard time to adjust in the first two months living in China. They are homesick and need to overcome the cold weather, hot spicy food and culture shock. Almost all of them want to leave if they can in the first two months. But, they enjoy it after that hardship is over. Our parents of the school are very generous. They often invite our volunteers go out to eat and travel in the weekends.

There are good opportunity for learning to be come a teacher. Some of them got a lot of experience as a teacher after the service. We provide teacher training course to our teachers during the school years and in the holidays. Most of our training are conducted by foreign teachers and teach in English. Our training course has been very popular in China.