Thursday, August 26, 2010
Community Service
I have done community service a few times when I was younger. When I went to a summer camp back a few years ago, we went to a retirement home just to hang out with the elderly. I thought it was going to be boring but it turned out to be pretty fun. I never knew how much fun I could have with the elderly. A lot of them were very funny and still acted like they were young. Being there made me think about how eventually I will become an old man and how I would enjoy the company of younger kids. Another time we went to a forest preserve and picked up the trash. I was really surprised of how much garbage people threw out, it made me think twice about littering and at the end of the day it felt really good knowing I picked up all that trash. I will probably do my community service hours helping out with the special Olympics and the homeless.
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I think it'd be challenging to volunteer at a retirement home because you're forced to interact with people who you usually wouldn't interact with on a daily basis, so I think that's cool that you went there!
ReplyDeleteI don't think it would be challenging. You can learn a lot from older people. I give you lots of respect for volunteering on your own time because not many people would do that. I have volunteered on my own time and it feels good knowing you chose to to do the work.
ReplyDeleteI went to a retirement home too one time with my middle school to sing to them, because I was in the choir. It was enjoying to see all the elderly faces with a smile upon their face. I'm glad you had you had some fun with the elderly, too.
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