之前因为种种原因，没有去willing hearts做义工，但我对这个组织还挺向往，因为这个一个为穷人烹饪的义工组织。网站上是这样介绍的：A secular, non-affiliated charity, Willing Hearts is wholly run by volunteers, apart from a handful of staff. It operates a soup kitchen that prepares, cooks and distributes about 11,000 daily meals to over 70 locations island wide, 365 days a year…
我从小对做饭感兴趣，所以并不排斥这份义工，至少相较于打扫卫生，街边授旗等。
Stage 1: 网上预订。 网上预订时很麻烦，虽然此组织已经清楚介绍了如何register and become a volunteer，但我实际操作起来却处处踩雷。当我输入email，它告诉我我已注册过时，我的内心是崩溃的，因为我绝对没有register过。好不容易登录上后，我又花了老半天研究怎么预订等。最后让人直接放弃的是，当我找到了所谓的time slots准备预订时，它只有三个时段： 5-9am，9am-1pm and 1pm-5pm if I have remembered correctly. 然而，只有早晨五点到九点是可以book的，其他时段基本天天人满为患。我忙活了半天都没找到合适的义工，挺失望。
Stage 2: Find the place. Correct postal code : 425792 ( 1 Lor J Telok Kurao). The next day, me and my mom decided to visit willing hearts, without initial intention to do voluntary work. The website did not update the headquarter’s new location, so we were led to a wrong place. The uncle there told us that the willing hearts had shifted away 6 months ago. I think the old headquarter has transformed into a plantation school for handicapped people. This is because when I reached there and asked workers questions, one woman seemed to be deaf and mute and another woman looked a bit different from normal people. However, after taking bus 13 and sat for three stations, we managed to find “ 愿之心“. It is a giant building, colored white and the only mural on the building is its name and a pair of hands, holding a red heart.
We went inside the yard and started our work immediately after some simple consultations with volunteers there. If you want to collect VIA hours and obtain certificate, you have to scan the QR cord to check in and check out every time. Once you check in, time will be recorded, and it will stop record time when you leave and check out. By the way, to obtain the certificate, you have to at least complete 30 hours of work at willing hearts and send an email with evidence.
Stage 3 : Cutting vegetable. 我被安排到和两个auntie一起切菜，最开始我们切莴苣，可是我的刀法很差，她们就赶紧换一个菜要我切。于是我们就清理好了台面和地板，切起了cabbage娃娃菜。Next, we cut spring onion( 大葱）, celery（ 芹菜）, scallion 等等。一筐接着一筐，根本停不下来，虽然手都快断了，而且肩膀也很酸。最后my finger nails都被染成青黄色，有点恶心，像中了毒。
I had encountered a quite awkward thing. When we were cutting green onion/ spring onion, one of the auntie said the sticky mucus on the interior leaf was very nutritious , she wanted to keep all the leaves. I should say nothing, yet, I said something really silly. I told the aunties that the mucus was called cellulose , which I spelled wrongly before too, I spelled it as cellose. Another auntie used her phone to type down the word, which really made me feel regretful to tell her. It is not cellulose, its name should be cell sap. Indeed, based on my poor biology, cell sap contains all the nutrients.
然后，我们就吃午餐咯，虽然不好吃，菊花枸杞茶也不甜，但这些都是别人donate的，我还没钱donate东西给这么多人吃呢。
最后我一共干了3.71 个 hours， 挺累的，特别是肩膀和手臂。
