Helping with children's New Year's party organisation

This activity happened a few months ago, on 10th January. There is an annual children's New Year/ Christmas party organised in a company "Eslauda", where my mother works. Help is always needed as there are many children coming and somebody has to take care of order and entertainment.

This time, I decided to join the organisation team, which mainly consisted of the head organizer Rima, Santa Claus man and me. There were about 20 children with their parents participating in the event. Thus there were quite much to do. What I did was help with the gift packing: I packed candy bags together with Rima a few days before the event, also helped to choose gifts for children of certain ages. Also, on the day of the event, I coordinated the guests and played with children, engaging them in various games and dances, which were led by the Santa Claus. Finally, I played some chrildren songs with the guitar in the beginning and in the end of the party.

I greatly enjoyed this activity as I love having business with children, as well as I like organizing things and playing the guitar. The activity involved group work, communication and creativity when interacting with the children and required some organization skills. Of course, there were some difficulties in the process as it was at times difficult to manage the children, also it was a little stressful to perform in front of about 40 unknown people the songs that I have just learnt, and it was also challenging but both interesting to find and learn those children songs. I believe this volunteer activity in children's New Year/ Christmas party was both fun and challenge for me and allowed me not only to help with this beautiful event but also to develop my skills and confidence in my abilities.

P.S. 3 CAS hours