So for Sociology classes at school there are no finals but every sociology student is required to do up to ten hours of community service. It seems like a lot to someone who hasn't really spent time doing community service, but it's really not. I like the idea of making a difference for others instead of sitting in a classroom for ninety minutes taking a multiple choice test. When I was in middle school a representative from a summer camp called Summer of Service came to talk about the camp and how much fun it was to help others. For three or four summers I went to S.O.S and it made such an impact on my summer. Every Monday we would give options of the service projects available for each day for the rest of the week and would sign up for what we wanted to do. We would go to nursing homes and have barbeque's, play with kids at Boys and Girls Club, help with gardening centers, etc. On Fridays it was like a normal day camp: water parks, whirley ball, Gameworks, and a lot of other fun places. A lot of the times the service projects were a lot more fun than the field trips because even though we did little things to help, they made great impacts on the people we helped. So hearing that we are doing service projects instead of finals makes me happy to be able to help others =]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Service Projects
So for Sociology classes at school there are no finals but every sociology student is required to do up to ten hours of community service. It seems like a lot to someone who hasn't really spent time doing community service, but it's really not. I like the idea of making a difference for others instead of sitting in a classroom for ninety minutes taking a multiple choice test. When I was in middle school a representative from a summer camp called Summer of Service came to talk about the camp and how much fun it was to help others. For three or four summers I went to S.O.S and it made such an impact on my summer. Every Monday we would give options of the service projects available for each day for the rest of the week and would sign up for what we wanted to do. We would go to nursing homes and have barbeque's, play with kids at Boys and Girls Club, help with gardening centers, etc. On Fridays it was like a normal day camp: water parks, whirley ball, Gameworks, and a lot of other fun places. A lot of the times the service projects were a lot more fun than the field trips because even though we did little things to help, they made great impacts on the people we helped. So hearing that we are doing service projects instead of finals makes me happy to be able to help others =]
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I remember S.O.S!! that was an amazing summer with you =] ... and that creepy girl, britney? i think her name was?. haha
ReplyDeleteWow, that sounds like such a good time and a great experience. At my overnight camp we do alot of stuff with the boys and girls club also! I love the kids from there! its alwys a blast when we visit them or when they come on our campus and we show them around.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a really cool summer. Nice pic too! (I read your email) :-)
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