Hi everybody!
We have finished our reports regarding the Library-Project! It feels just great 
Today I found a fun link at The Library-Project’s webpage, take a look!
http://www.library-project.org/volunteer.html
I miss China every day, fantastic time.
Love, Jenn
We are working with the books to one of the schools
Hi!
Tarlan and I are very busy righy now. We are going to finish our report this week. A lot of memories is coming back during the writing. Right now I am writing about the books that we found in a school in Baoxing county, the books as the young students had. – The books that was aimed for students in our age.
I hope we will have time to write more in the future.
Love, Jenn
Hi!
We have no pictures from our presentation at the school in Borlänge; No camera.. I can tell you all that the presentation went really good! A big classroom with around 25 students. - A big difference from the classes and classroom in China.
We will visit a couple of more schools after our christmas holiday, I hope we can take some photos then.
Jocelyn send me some picture from our last dinner in Xi’an, enjoy!
I wish you all a Merry Christmas!
Love, Jenn
Our last dinner in Xi'an
Hi, hello!
It is snowing in our town, it is snow everywhere;. – Fantastic! Everything is white, I love it. It’s reminds me of the highest mountains in the Baoxing county.
Tarlan and I have finally finish our Power Point. Tomorrow, we will present it for the students!
I will ask our teacher to take some photos tomorrow, I will upload them in the end of the day.
Hi!
We have been home for more than one month now! It is hard to understand. Every day am I thinking about something related to China and The Library-Project.
On wednesday are we going to visit a school in Borlänge (The town next to Falun). We are going to present our project for students in the age of 15-16 years old! I am really looking forward to it.
I’ve got a great picture in my room of me and a little girl from China. Every time as I look at it; it makes me feel happy. It is in moments like that as I realize what an amazing job we have done!
The last goodbye in the last school.
Time for bed, have a good night.
Love,
Jenn
Hello everyone,
Now I’m at home, but a part of me is still in China and walking around and enjoying the beautiful city Xi’an.
My trip to China has been a wonderful experience of a lifetime that I will never forget. Love anything that has to do with China, the food, culture, people, nature, EVERYTHING.
I went to China to visit an organization that I thought looked interesting. What caught my interest with the organization to The Library Project was that it seemed like such a simple organization. Yes they are a simple organization but the also have a huge impact.
The library-Project has a keyword that is “Knowledge gives you wings” I agree strongly with that. Knowledge gives you access to everything. Knowledge gives you opportunities, access to almost everything, it is the knowledge that The Library-Project donates out. There, you see simple but incredibly good.
I have a very bad acting; I’m not a big fan of reading, I do not like books. I know it is a very bad acting, but I never thought that a book was good or interesting. I remember when we donate/ visit the first school in Baoxing. We’re on the road for about half hour to arrive; once we arrived I walk out of the bus and sees a clayey slope that would lead to the school. The curiosity makes the people from the village to gather around the bus. It is unusually quiet. I take a box of books and starts to walk towards the muddy hill. All of a sudden I hear two boys who laugh, I see the boys running towards us and almost crying of happiness. I am thinking to myself wow the boys here are so happy just to help and carry things up to the school. My eyes filled with tears when I thought how lucky the boys were that they would get a chance to read books. And I don’t even like books.
The Muddy Hill
This trip has made me grow as a person and appreciate my life and my opportunities.
The two boys I told you about, carrying a heavy box of books up the muddy .
The children are happy to receive the books.
Thank you The Library Project for being such a wonderful organization that are improving things in the world. You are an incredibly great role model for other organizations. I hope companies and people see you and helps to support you so you get bigger and bigger so you might one day help schools in lots of different countries. Your organization has a wonderful staff who are incredibly talented dedicated to their work. Thank you for taking care of me and Jennifer. I have had great time with you guys, I know we will meet again!
My future right now is to graduate, to work to collect some money and then go back to Xi’an. I know I will go back to Xi’an, and I miss the day I am back in China.
Love,
Tarlan
Hello everyone, it´s the little Tarlan speaking.
You may be wondering what I and Jen are doing now. The fact is that we are preparing presentations on our project, because on 16 December, we will visit some schools to tell what we have done in China. We will also have a presentation for school
Hopefully we will also have presentations at our local library to tell about our project and of course inform about The Library Project.
So rhis a brief update on our plans for the coming weeks. A post about my experience from China will soon be posted on the blog.
Take care of each other,
Tarlan
Hi again everyone!
Finally I am finished with my own story. The first thing I can tell you is that I am in love with China; Xi’an, the peoples, the children, Baoxing, the food, almost everything. During the last week I have been watching all the pictures from our weeks in China. – I have to say that I am missing everything.
New book!
When we came back from China it was so nice to meet my dear family and friends again, but in the same time is a part of me still in China. I have got one dream since I was a little girl. I have been dreaming about to working as a volunteer. And now, just turned 18, I am back from two fantastic weeks in China from a volunteer job with a great friend. So imagine my feelings when I now am watching myself beside all the children! I wanted to be a volunteer, I was a volunteer, I am a volunteer! What a fantastic feeling!
The two weeks in China went so fast, and it is first now, three weeks after we came back as I start to realize what we have done! I will say that I remember every day and night in China, but there are some special moments that I will never forget;
When we went to the second school, just 45 minutes from Baoxing, the school had already closed, so we packed up all the books with help from only a few students and some older relatives. When we started our way back to Baoxing and our hotel, we realized that the principal/headmaster was following us all the way down to the little village down the school. She invited us for dinner, but since we were late, we said no. She continued to invite us. It may sound like a weird moment to remember but for me it meant so much. If a person became so happy and thankful for some books, then all the works regarding the project felt so worth it. For us in the western world is all these stuff a usual part of our life’s, but for these people, is the books something new. I cannot imagine how hard it must be to teach a bunch of YOUNG students without the right books, or without any books at all!
The headmaster and Jocelyn!
Another special memory is when we one day went to a large Tibetan school. In the same moment as we went out of the car lot of students gathered around. They started to laugh and point at us! I have never been “famous” before, haha!
Tarlan and I, and a lot of students!
All the time we spent together with Jenny and Jocelyn was something very important for me. I have learned a lot from them during our days together. I am so impressed about their choices to work with an important organization; they are travelling around the whole China every year to help children! They told us a lot of interesting facts about China, the people and the culture, they were also two really funny and kind girls, which made my whole trip in China easier.
J,J,J
Jenn, Tarlan, Jenny and Jocelyn at a restaurant, before the train back to Xi'an.
All the time we spent with the young students makes me so happy. To see their smiles when we came and when all of them were carrying the books was great! It is in moments like that I realized how lucky I am in my own life; and how easy it is to give other people happiness!
The two of us with all the young students!
I have now been home for three weeks, but one day won´t pass without me thinking about China. I have grown a lot during these weeks. To know that I am able to travel to the other side of the world with one friend, it feels great. I have been visiting villages and counties where people are living and studying in poor places. I have been traveling on roads that we in Sweden never would be using. I have actually helped so many children during my weeks, together with Tarlan and the team I have helped the children to a better future. I have also been lucky to meet such amazing peoples! Tom, Jenny, Jocelyn, Nicole and Belinda at the Library-Project, Jenny at Grycksbo Paper and people like Lisa and Ivy in Xi’an!
Happy boys, new school.
Happy children:)
These are my experiences from my weeks in China. You will hear from me again!
Love, Jenn
Hello!
I watched the Library-Projects website today and I found a lot of pictures and information from our donations that might be fun for you to see! The Library-Project has also written something about Grycksbo Paper on the blog; fun to read!
To the website, pictures from our time in China: http://library-project.org/libraries/15_library_donations_in_sichuan.html
To the Library-Project blog: http://blog.library-project.org/
Popular girls!
Jenn
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