Volunteers' smiles warm the cold winter

(BEIJING, January 8) -- The Handball Tournament was the first “Good Luck Beijing” event in 2008. January can be bitterly cold in Beijing, but when you enter the gate of the Olympic Sports Center, volunteers will welcome you to the handball tournament with their smiles. In spite of their red faces due to the cold, their smiles make it feel like the spring is coming.

The volunteers for the handball tournament are university students. They were selected from thousands of applicants. The number of applicants for the “Good Luck Beijing” sport events is much higher than the volunteers required. Therefore, the selection criteria were quite strict. The volunteers have to be healthy and hardworking. According to various posts, they also need responding techniques and skills.

The volunteers’ first impression for the spectators is their smiles. Even if the volunteers have to stand in the freezing outdoors for more than half an hour, they provide services with warm smiles.

Since now it’s the flu high time in Beijing, many students caught a cold but they still keep on the posts. In order to protect those outdoor volunteers, the organizing committee gives a big sweater to them and the volunteers shift posts for about half an hour.

Wang Xianfeng, the volunteers’ manager told the volunteers that, “we are lucky to be together and I believe you have used your own actions to show your cherish for this opportunity. I hope you could keep such attitude in your daily life and use your own actions to win the sincere applause from other people.