车尾箱卖物会——为农家女亲子家园筹款活动
文/北京顺义国际学校——Jolie Ho
西方的〝车尾箱卖物会〞(Car Boot Sales) 是类似中国的乡村市集或墟市，供附近村民、小商贩买卖交换日常生活用品的场所。
上周六〝北京顺义国际学校〞在校内停车场内举办了一次〝车尾箱卖物会〞，吸引了大批学生和家长参加。参加者把需要出售的物品(一般都是家中闲置不用但功能仍然良好的旧家电、日常用品、玩具书本、衣服及家具等)，放在车中行李箱内，把车子直接开到学校停车场内，供购买者选购。由于都是非常实用的日常生活用品，加上售价廉宜，所以吸引了大批外地民工、附近村民及学校家长员工等来购买。
我与同学决定利用这次卖物会替农家女亲子家园筹款。我们向邻居、朋友和同学们收集了一些闲置日常用品，拿到买物会出售。结果全部售出，共筹得人民币二千元。可以为亲子家园孩子们添购一些所需物品。
我觉得此次活动非常有意义。除了亲子家园的孩子能直接受益外，来卖物会购买的民工们又能以低廉的价钱买到实用的物品，向我们捐出旧物品的家庭又能把家中的闲置物品给有需要的人循环使用。加上当天学校把收来的车位出租费用，都捐助给国内的贫病孤儿。对我来说更是一次难忘的经历，有着很大的满足感。
2013年四月
Car Boot Sale
A “car boot sale” in Western culture can be compared to a Chinese village market, where the villagers gather with their old belongings and sell them to each other. Last Saturday, the International School of Beijing held its own car boot sale, which many students and parents participated in. The sellers sold unwanted items in good condition, such as unused home appliances, old books and toys, clothes, and furniture, etc. The sellers brought the items to school and then displayed them in their opened car trunks for sale. Since only typical household items were sold, everything was very cheap. The low prices attracted many workers and villagers from outside the school as well as students and school staff to make purchases.
My classmate and I decided to use the opportunity of the car boot sale to raise funds for the Children’s House of Rural Woman (农家女亲子家园). Along with our neighbors, families, and friends, we collected belongings that we could sell. We managed to sell everything that we brought to the car boot sale, and raised a total of RMB 2000. These funds will go towards the Children’s House of Rural Woman (农家女亲子家园).
I feel like the car boot sale was extremely meaningful. Apart from raising funds for the Children’s House, buyers could get what they wanted at low cost. Those families who donated unused items to us could recycle their useful but unwanted items that might have been thrown away. Also the ISB Car Boot Sales itself was a fund raising event for medical support to poor and orphaned children in China. This was certainly a memorable experience with great satisfaction.
Jolie Ho
International School of Beijing
April 2013.