{"id":1409,"date":"2016-06-03T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2016-06-03T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:13:25","slug":"volunteering-westminster-mile-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/volunteering-westminster-mile-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering for Westminster Mile 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had an amazing experience\u00a0volunteering\u00a0for Westminster Mile 2016 with Team Westminster. Talking about volunteering, I had arranged\/done quite a lot of\u00a0volunteering work with my University back when I was an undergraduate student, so to me, giving back to the\u00a0community is not just a task that I need to do, but a hobby that I want to invest my time into.<\/p>\n<p>So, Westminster Mile 2016 is a road race for runners, known for its beautiful purpose to raise funds for many charities like Prostate Cancer Research UK, Breast Cancer Care, Breast Cancer Now. And I was told and have read that the number of runners is increasing year after year (it reached over 4,000 runners in 2015). So to me, this was\u00a0huge!<span id=\"more-972\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1000  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/fb_img_1464558270117.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Volunteering international student bloggers\" width=\"707\" height=\"530\" \/>My task when doing this was to de-chip the runners\u2019 shoes, which basically meant cutting two thin metal lines which hold the chip (half the bank card\u2019s size) and putting them\u00a0into two baskets (one for the chip and one for the metal lines). Easy? Yep! Try it with over 300 runners\/day for each volunteer!<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-998  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/20160529_084556-01.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"Volunteering international student bloggers\" width=\"707\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a really really fun opportunity to me. I\u2019ve met many amazing people\u00a0in my team, and also I was deeply touched with my conversations with the runners while I was de-clipping them (sounds creepy! de-chipping humans?). I got to meet with many cute children with their parents, many strong elderly people who are the same age as my parents and late grandparents, and especially one lady who has just been diagnosed\u00a0with a brain tumour (she even tried to de-chip her shoes without asking for my help, which made me so small in front of her). I respect them all!<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1001 \" src=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/img_20160529_090012-01.jpeg?w=1000\" alt=\"Volunteering international student bloggers\" width=\"707\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Westminster Mile 2016 was such an interesting event, which not only let me know about the good deed behind volunteering activities, but also helped me to get to know many interesting individuals and learn so much from them (even from the children), which is weird because you actually think you\u2019re giving back to the community, but in fact you\u2019re investing in yourself also.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilifeijourney.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/30\/volunteering-for-vitality-london-10000-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read this and other posts on Tung&#8217;s personal blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had an amazing experience\u00a0volunteering\u00a0for Westminster Mile 2016 with Team Westminster. Talking about volunteering, I had arranged\/done quite a lot of\u00a0volunteering work with my University back when I was an undergraduate student, so to me, giving back to the\u00a0community&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,14,18],"tags":[654,674,676,683,743,744,757],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","category-favourite-memories","category-london","category-student-experience","tag-student-life-in-london","tag-studying-at-westminster","tag-studying-in-london","tag-supporting-charities","tag-volunteer-work","tag-volunteering","tag-westminster-mile-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}