Preparing
This pottery exhibition has a lot of John’s pottery works, he accumulated hundreds of works, because he didn’t have any experience of opening a pottery exhibition, he chose one hundred and eighty works to prepare the exhibition. Also, he asked a photographer to photo the works, to make an album. Because the division chief of Kaohsiung municipal cultural center, Cho-Hau Lin, came to John’s home, to find a cover photo for the lottery. He saw a lot of pottery works. He Proposed to help John open an exhibition of John's life pottery, so prepared to let John hold a pottery exhibition.
John puts one's own pottery works in order
Welcome!!!
John’s Pottery exhibition smoothly ended, he needs to thank pottery maker Hsou-Sung Thei, because she helped him the most. On year 2001, February, third, John’s pottery exhibition started, with the mass media. On the day when the pottery started, came in hundreds of people. The visitors is as much as a stream in an endless flow, some zeal people went to shake hands with John, and to and give him their regards. When John faces so many people's encouragement and appreciation, he feels grateful in his heart. A reporter from Dong-Cen TV station, asks John to mold a pottery work the reporters require Hsou-Sung Thei, to do a pottery with John, but she needs to muffle her eyes. The theme was peacock spreads its tail, the two people begins to mold the clay, and show the skill live. They only sees John mold a soil strip, and start molding the complicated model peacock with skillfully in flexible hands. relatively, teacher Thei seem flurried endlessly right away. When teacher Thei still was molding the wings of the peacock, John has already held both hands high, that means he has already finished a lovely, peacock model. The people surrounding them clapped enthusiastically.
John's pottery exhibition is exhibited formally
The President Comes
When John’s life pottery exhibition was preparing, send a invitation letter to the presidential palace, he invited president Chen to present, president Chen sent a message of congratulation to John, and wished John's exhibition to success too. On the third exhibitionone day such as pottery art, John obtain Kaohsiung municipal government notice, news of chief, tell Chen that the president will go down south in Kaohsiung on February 7, visit John's pottery art exhibition.
Kiwi orchestra spring breeze, A happy one sail, Double pillow, world first-class with peach blossom dance outside field the same day, wait for four melodies to welcome such a group traveling together as president Chen, etc. Wait until John plays and is over, President Chen can't help bending and embracing him.
President Chen says: ' this time has an opportunity once again and John this " life warrior " meet, really make me very moved. Because see as John does, bad on competent, both hands wither crooked both feet, the person having difficulty getting about, can establish orchestra, can also create potter's clay art, these whether tragic experience of life mould the achievement happenning.John does not give up oneself, his parents and family have not given up him either, can be said to be and created and was born in the glory with supreme life.In my mind, I do not think John has any obstacle, it is really in he, to the kind, to American, to sex,he the getting more sound than that of any, have meaning of life.'.
President Chen's cordial words and sincere encouragement, another John feels very warm, heart is extremely exited.
President Chen Shui-bian visits the exhibition
A Touching Conversation
During exhibition, a lot of people appreciate John's works, will express the deep feeling in their heart to John in person.
Among them, a gentleman is finishing appreciating John's work, say to John sighing with deep feeling very much: ' John, if your pottery art exhibition is held earlier, perhaps can rescue the lives of two young people.'John was confused. Explain by this gentleman, John knew, this gentleman had a friend, that had twin boys originally, because feared to serve in the army, jumped out of the building and committed suicide in pairs unexpectedly. 'If they came to see your pottery art exhibition, see though you live so arduously, such brave, splendor that but can live and get. I think, they would not do such a foolish thing.' After John heard it, he sighed with all sorts of feeling in the heart, for that moment he didn’t know what to say.
He thought: ' if my pottery artistic skill leaves such great encouragement function to people, the life that I should be poor and limited, to the limit limitless devotion.'.
old gentleman and blue John talk
Donating the Income
John had a good score on the rummage sale in John’s pottery exhibition. He has made 183 potteries with his jerked hands and sold 98 potteries. It made John really happy. He told his parents that he is going to donate all of the three hundred and twenty five thousand, six hundred dollars that he got. His father was touched by John’s wish of helping weak and feeble people, so John’s father chipped in some money and makes it total three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. This money was donated to the Kiwi Orchestra, the TAASchool, the dactylology association, the infantile autism association, the ichthyosis association and the Kaohsiung Concert Group. What people think of handicapped people is that they need help. For John, he felt that he has done something worthy in his life by using the income of selling his potteries to help people.
John sell for charity income donate all