The summer vacation is the time for club members to brush up on their skills. There are thirty student clubs holding summer training camps and eight going to the countryside to offer community services. President Flora C. I. Chang will be giving the University flag to the community service teams next Tuesday (June 21).

The eight clubs provide a variety of activities in their community services. The Tamkang Chorus will be performing in the Tamshui Library and the Culture Center of Taipei County. The Chinese Music Club will tour Tainan Municipal Social Education Hall, Jiji Village of Nantou County, and Taipei Municipal Tianmu Elementary School. The Environmental Protection team is holding a summer camp at Tamkang. The community service team of the Changhua-area Alumni Association will be working in Lu-fen Elementary School in Changhua County, and the Basic Culture Service team in Sha-keng Elementary School in Hsinchu County. The Tzu Chi Youth will do voluntary work at the Tzu Chi park in Gandau, the Recreational Activity Counseling Group at Sheng-nan Temple, and Fortitude-Simplicity Workers at the Creation Social Welfare Foundation.

The Recreational Activity Counseling Group will be working for the Buddhist camp for third to fifth graders held at Sheng-nan Temple in Shuang-si Village, Taipei County. The Group will spend five days with the children, organizing many games and events every day to give the children an enjoyable time. The leader of the Group, Huang Shin-yao (sophomore, Chinese), said that all the volunteers would have to eat vegetarian meals, six meals a day, which sounds fun. Anyone interested in volunteering may contact her at her mobile number 0952622755 by June 20.

The leader of Fortitude-Simplicity Workers, Chang Chia-hua (senior, Business Administration), called on Tamkang students to do voluntary work for the Creation Social Welfare Foundation.

The clubs holding summer training sessions include: Chinese Martial Arts, Computer Science Research, Film Appreciation, Aikido, Children’s Welfare, Skating, Classical Poetry, Guitar, Torch Welfare, Sign Language, Kendo, Astrology, Dancing Research, Tea Brewing Art, Tai-Chi Chuan, Basic Culture Service, Business Management, Western Fencing, and Standard Dancing.

In addition, there are the basketball summer camp held by the Chinese department, the Little Counselor camp by the Fu-yi Group, the Negotiation and Finance camp by the Business Management Association, the training session of Tamhai Volunteers, harmonica summer camp by the Harmonica Club, and Children’s Environmental Protection camp by the Environmental Protection working team. (~ Han-yu Huang )