alicederp 10 / 56 4 Dec 29, 2012 #1The essay prompt is: Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences in the space below (1000 character maximum).I will appreciate any help and comments. Thank you. (This is really urgent)Local charity organizations serve their purpose well but have led many of the Beijing international community to mistakenly believe that giving and receiving can only be a linear, directional process. In creating the Cultural Interaction Community Project, I wanted interaction between the international and the local to become a symbol of unity and the diversity within the group to become a source of knowledge we can draw from to facilitate even greater achievements.Our group of thirty has become just this. Reaching out to a Chinese high school revealed local knowledge that proved invaluable in creating successful community service events. And as we cleaned up parks, volunteered at charity shops, and established a student exchange program that allows us to gain insight into each other's lives, my dreams were exceeded by the relationships I developed with these local students I would otherwise never have met. Over the years, we became much more than co-workers, we became friends.
