Community Service Learning

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My experience with doing my community service hours were very important to me and special for many of different reasons. Throughout this paper I will explain to you why I thought this was important for me and everyone should try this as well. I was truly able to learn a lot and being familiar with the situations I was being put in gave me a bit of an advantage. I also leaned to a good extent how I can apply what I learned through my services to what I do in my everyday life and how I can relate to my studies.
One of the main reasons why I found this experience to be special is because I enjoy working with others. I really didn’t feel like waking up early in the morning on several occasions throughout the week but I ended learning a good amount. After really putting some thought into what I was actually doing I felt bad for complaining and not wanting to help others out. I really take a lot for granted when I think about all the things I have in life and that is probably one of the biggest things I have leaned.
Walking into that classroom of about ten to fifteen kids around the age of twelve I was shocked. I knew the environment I was going into and was prepared, working with children for the past few summers gave me some background. I sat down to help a boy with his history homework to soon find out that he hard time even spacing out his words at the age of twelve. This goes back to really putting some thought into how much we have in life and how we take it for granted.
My experience was overall a great time I actually enjoyed working with others and helping them out. This made me feel good about myself and I think others should give it a chance. When working and helping the children out I felt as if I could relate to my work in school relating to one particular class. This was leadership, a class I am currently taking and am beginning to enjoy. I can relate to this because we talk about the importance of volu...