What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?
Use the following information to produce a 500 words essay:
Three months after leaving Germany, I returned to the European continent - this time to Warsaw, Poland’s Ukrainian refugee camps. After befriending Anna, a Ukrainian student at my German school whose family lost their home to Russian tanks early in the war, I could not tolerate commonplace Chinese descriptions of sloppy Ukrainian anarchists who vainly fought Russian dominion.  

I thus volunteered with the PTAK Humanitarian Aid Center, eager to support the tenacious Ukrainian people. In between washing dishes and folding laundry, I immersed myself within their communities, joining them in firelit refrains of “Oh Marico” while painting wooden pysanka eggs. To document my experience and demonstrate this people’s kindness to Chinese peers, I crafted a five-episode mini-series on these refugees on my Youtube social media account. Interspersing recorded interviews from Ukrainian parents with clips of children playing Bling Cat challenged mainstream China’s myopic views of Ukraine and showcased the latter people sympathetically.

Although I only remained in Poland for two weeks, I began finding opportunities to celebrate cultural diversity – German, Ukrainian, and otherwise – at home in China. Thus, I interviewed my neighbors in Guangzhou about their understanding of key modern political issues – particularly the Russian-Ukrainian War, whose destruction I had seen too clearly, and the China-Taiwan Conflict plastered across Chinese media. I dismayed at how frequently interviewees mentioned only hearing the official Chinese stance on such political events. 

Thus, I produced a political essay presenting “undesirable” Ukrainian and Taiwanese communities’ struggles and needs. While explicitly refuting government viewpoints terrified me, I channeled my inner “German confidence” by sharing arguments on these global crises from non-Chinese scholars and political analysts. I felt proud knowing presenting alternative viewpoints would increase my countrymen’s empathy towards foreign peoples. 





Three months after leaving Germany, I returned to the European continent - this time to Warsaw, Poland’s Ukrainian refugee camps. After befriending Anna, a Ukrainian student at my German school whose family lost their home to Russian tanks early in the war, I could not tolerate commonplace Chinese descriptions of sloppy Ukrainian anarchists who vainly fought Russian dominion.  

I thus volunteered with the PTAK Humanitarian Aid Center, eager to support the tenacious Ukrainian people. In between washing dishes and folding laundry, I immersed myself within their communities, joining them in firelit refrains of “Oh Marico” while painting wooden pysanka eggs. To document my experience and demonstrate this people’s kindness to Chinese peers, I crafted a five-episode mini-series on these refugees on my Youtube social media account. Interspersing recorded interviews from Ukrainian parents with clips of children playing Bling Cat challenged mainstream China’s myopic views of Ukraine and showcased the latter people sympathetically.

Although I only remained in Poland for two weeks, I began finding opportunities to celebrate cultural diversity – German, Ukrainian, and otherwise – at home in China. Thus, I interviewed my neighbors in Guangzhou about their understanding of key modern political issues – particularly the Russian-Ukrainian War, whose destruction I had seen too clearly, and the China-Taiwan Conflict plastered across Chinese media. I dismayed at how frequently interviewees mentioned only hearing the official Chinese stance on such political events. 

Thus, I produced a political essay presenting “undesirable” Ukrainian and Taiwanese communities’ struggles and needs. While explicitly refuting government viewpoints terrified me, I channeled my inner “German confidence” by sharing arguments on these global crises from non-Chinese scholars and political analysts. I felt proud knowing presenting alternative viewpoints would increase my countrymen’s empathy towards foreign peoples.