Hangzhou Wisdom Tree Cafe is always slow, but no matter how impatient guests are, they never complain.

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Not long ago, the world was moved by a coffee shop in Japan where the waiters were all grandmothers with Alzheimer's syndrome and always served the wrong food, but no one ever complained.

In fact, there is also such a coffee shop in Hangzhou that makes coffee and delivers meals much slower than ordinary coffee shops, and occasionally orders the wrong order, but customers who come to the store will not complain no matter how impatient they are.

This shop is called "Wisdom Tree". It is a group of special children who work in this shop.

Medium milk is mistakenly ordered into a large cup.

The guest smiled and said: it doesn't matter.

This is a storefront at No. 3 Yaojiang Road, a silver store with the words "Wisdom Tree" written on it. Push open the glass door and enter an open space of about 200 square meters, with colored floors, wooden tables and chairs, overall rendering of goose-yellow warm tones, and draped villains and dream catchers hanging everywhere. In the freezer by the bar, there are all kinds of cakes and desserts, and the shop smells like coffee.

We went there in the afternoon and there were not many people in the shop. There were two boys standing behind the cash register, receiving guests-a mother with a child, ordering medium milk, but the price of a large glass of milk popped up from the cash register. If you take a closer look, it turns out that the boy chose the wrong cup.

"it doesn't matter." Mom smiled and said she paid to leave the cashier.

It's our turn. The two boys looked serious, their shoulders taut nervously, their eyes fixed on the screen of the cash register and said nothing.

We ordered a cup of American coffee, and one of the two boys whispered a reminder of "American style, American style". After thinking for a long time, the other finally selected it on the screen and pressed it cautiously.

"how long have you worked here?" I asked as I paid. The two boys avoided our eyes, bowed their heads and walked away.

After ordering the order, paying for it, and waiting at the bar for nearly ten minutes, the coffee was ready. We took it away, found a seat and sat down, the cashier was empty, and the expressions of the boys relaxed.

"the guests who come to our store are all very patient." Teacher Zhu Jiawei told us.

He is a teacher at Yang Ayako School and is currently the main director of the "Tree of Wisdom" project-the Wisdom Tree Cafe, which was founded by Yang Ayako School in conjunction with the disabled Persons' Federation of Shangcheng District and the Shangcheng District Civil Affairs Bureau. the aim is to provide these children with an opportunity for practice and a platform for demonstration.

Hangzhou Yang Ayaki School is a school for intellectual education.

She used to be reluctant to look up and talk.

Now start to take the initiative to chat with guests.

In the three shops in the Wisdom Tree Cafe, each child has his own story-some children need to take their father or mother to work, and some children are reluctant to look up at first. But they are serious about this job in the coffee shop and try their best to finish it.

"I like my job." Feifei told us word for word and smiled shyly.

Feifei is the cake maker of the "Wisdom Tree". He wears a short-sleeved white shirt and black apron, two rows of buttons are meticulously buttoned, wears a mask, does not take it off even when talking to us, and keeps his eyes wandering and does not look at us.

However, when he made the cake, he relaxed. He would lean over and squeeze the cream into the paper cup carefully. The amount of cream in each paper cup is well mastered, the gesture is steady, patient and careful. After squeezing a plate, pick it up and put it in the oven and put it neatly.

He loved baking cakes in the kitchen and was overjoyed when he heard that he had to go to work. " Feifei's father said.

"what I like most is the cashier." Xiaozu is a cashier at the third store of the Tree of Wisdom. She is a sophomore at Yang Ayako School.

After graduating from an ordinary junior high school, she entered Yang Ayako School to study. At the beginning of the internship, when the guests asked which drink tasted good, she would bow her head and did not know how to answer it, but now she would take the initiative to walk up to the guests when she was not busy and said shyly, "can you talk to me?"

The Miaozi next to Xiao Yi used a blender to concentrate on dispensing the milk lid and drew five petals of flowers with syrup.

The teacher said that Miao Zi at first resisted the close communication between Yang Ayaki and her classmates, but after two years of study and training, now she will express her opinions loudly, saying to the tutor next to her, "I don't think it looks good to draw flowers in this way." she will also encourage her to "draw a butterfly" when she makes a mistake.

The knowledge that children have learned hard at school

I hope to get more applications after graduation.

The word "pity" appears most frequently when Zhu Jiawei talks to us.

At present, "Smart Tree" has three stores, namely, the first shop at No. 3-1 Shuiting site in Shangcheng District, the second shop at No. 7 Yuanbao Street, and the third shop close to Yang Ayako School. The staff of the store are all students from Yang Ayaki Vocational High School. The first shop and the second shop are set up for graduates, while the third shop provides internship positions for students.

"We mainly recruit students who are competent, have employment potential and study in regular classes. It is hoped that learning can help them master a skill and enter the society smoothly. " Teacher Zhu said that after a detailed understanding of the children's situation, about 20 students will be able to attend school every year.

Of course, the teaching process is not easy, the same skills, they need to spend 3 times more time and energy than ordinary students to master. For example, the simplest hospitality phrase, "Please take your time, thank you for coming". Some students have to repeat it five times before they can repeat it completely.

However, it is a pity for Zhu Jiawei that the knowledge that students have learned hard cannot be well applied after graduation.

"in fact, most of our students are not poor in their ability to work, but like ordinary students, when they go to society, they will not adapt to it, but most children will adjust themselves. It is very difficult for our students to do so. " Teacher Zhu said, "but if the child has been out of work to stay at home, it will gradually degrade the originally trained ability, which is a pity."

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Teacher Zhu told us that at present, the career guidance systems for special groups of students in Taiwan and Guangzhou are relatively developed. After children graduate from special schools, there will be social workers from relevant institutions to follow up on their social career transformation. But at present, this part of the work is still blank in Hangzhou.

The "Wisdom Tree" project plans to do more expansion in the future, hoping to provide students and graduates with more diversified career guidance to help them better complete the transformation of their social roles and adapt to the changes in the professional environment. It can also show more of the real state of these special students, so that the "wisdom tree" becomes a window for more people to understand and pay attention to them.

Unfortunately, at present, the work of graduates from the "wisdom tree" to society is in its infancy, and there is no precedent for success.

(the names of the students in the article are all aliases.)