With NJ schools reopening in the beginning of September, students have returned to the busy schedules for the school year. Yet this did not stop youth volunteers at Raritan Valley Branch from continuing their efforts with the overseas spoken English tutoring project. Both the volunteer tutors and tutees have school learning tasks and extracurricular activities throughout the week. On top of the time difference, this has added the difficulty to tutoring session scheduling. Once again, Raritan Valley Branch volunteers showed their determination and commitment to serve others. In order to accommodate tutees’ requests, volunteers offered to teach on weekend evenings when they could have relaxed after a week of work, weekend early mornings when they could have made up for some sleep time, or even weekday early mornings before school started. It is these sacrifices and contributions made by the volunteers that have kept the project going to help more people in need. To the volunteers, it is simply gratifying to be able to overcome obstacles to help others.
Volunteers: Benjamin Hong (9/1/20, 9/2/20, 9/3/20, 9/6/20, 9/7/20, 9/12/20, 9/13/20, 9/19/20, 9/20/20, 9/26/20, 10/3/20, 10/17/20, 10/30/20 – 45 mins each; 9/4/20, 10/10/20, 10/24/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Amy Xu (9/2/20, 9/4/20, 9/5/20, 9/7/20, 9/12/20, 9/14/20, 9/19/20, 9/21/20, 9/26/20, 9/28/20, 10/12/20, 10/16/20, 10/19/20, 10/23/20, 10/26/20, 10/30/20, 10/31/20 – 45 mins each; 10/17/20, 10/24/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Tarun Sivakumar (9/1/20, 9/2/20, 9/3/20, 9/4/20, 9/7/20, 9/12/20, 9/19/20, 10/10/20, 10/17/20, 10/24/20 – 45 mins each), Raymond Hu (9/6/20, 9/18/20, 9/20/20, 10/4/20 – 45 mins each; 9/13/20, 10/2/20, 10/11/20, 10/18/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Dalina C. (9/1/20, 9/4/20, 9/5/20, 9/12/20, 9/19/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20 – 45 mins each; 10/17/20, 1 hr; 10/24/20, 10/31/20 – 1.75 hrs each), Matthew Ding (9/4/20, 9/20/20, 9/27/20, 10/4/20, 10/11/20, 10/18/20, 10/25/20 – 45 mins each), Edwin Zheng (9/6/20, 9/13/20, 9/20/20, 10/4/20, 10/11/20, 10/18/20, 10/24/20, 10/30/20 – 45 mins each), Sam Altman (9/6/20, 9/13/20, 9/20/20, 10/4/20, 10/11/20, 10/18/20 – 45 mins each), Albert He (9/13/20, 9/19/20, 10/3/20, 10/11/20, 10/18/20, 10/25/20 – 45 mins each), Catherine Yang (9/1/20, 9/4/20 – 45 mins each; 9/2/20, 1.5 hrs), Xinning Lucy Liu (10/16/20, 10/23/20, 10/30/20 – 45 mins each), Jonathan Qi (9/12/20, 9/19/20 – 45 mins each), Allan Gao (9/4/20, 45 mins), Kevin Ho (9/4/20, 9/7/20, 9/21/20, 9/24/20, 9/28/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/12/20, 10/15/20, 10/17/20, 10/19/20, 10/22/20, 10/26/20, 10/29/20, 10/31/20 – 45mins each), Kevin Xu (9/4/20, 9/7/20, 9/21/20, 9/24/20, 9/28/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/12/20, 10/15/20, 10/19/20, 10/22/20, 10/26/20, 10/29/20, 10/31/20 – 45mins each), Jessica Hong (9/1/20, 9/5/20, 9/11/20, 9/18/20, 9/19/20, 9/25/20, 10/2/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/16/20, 10/17/20, 10/24/20, 10/30/20, 10/31/20 – 45 mins each; 9/4/20, 1.5 hrs), Alvin Zhang (9/6/20, 9/13/20, 9/20/20, 9/26/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/24/20, 10/30/20 – 45 mins each), Ethan Zhou (9/6/20, 9/13/20, 9/20/20, 9/27/20, 10/4/20, 10/11/20, 10/18/20, 10/25/20 – 45 mins each), Timothy Jiao (9/4/20, 1.5 hrs; 9/19/20, 9/26/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/24/20 – 45 mins each), Alicia Xu (9/5/20, 9/19/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/17/20, 10/24/20, 10/31/20 – 45 mins each), Kyle Xu (9/19/20, 9/26/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/17/20, 10/31/20 – 45 mins each), Chloe Zhou (9/5/20, 9/19/20, 10/3/20, 10/10/20, 10/24/20, 10/31/20 – 45 mins each), Sophie L.(9/4/20, 9/11/20, 9/18/20, 9/25/20, 10/2/20, 10/16/20 – 45 mins each), Summer He (9/5/20, 10/24/20, 10/31/20 – 45 mins each), Jason Liu (10/10/20, 10/26/20, 10/29/20 – 45 mins each), Evie Shen (9/2/20, 9/4/20 – 45 mins each)
