Among the variety of fraternities, sororities, and clubs that are open to all students of University of California, Riverside, I chose to join Circle K International, a Kiwanis affiliated organization of college and university students which promotes service, leadership and fellowship. Unlike the more well known affiliations within our campus, such as Pi Alpha Phi or Alpha Chi Omega, Circle K of University of California, Riverside does not receive the recognition it deserves, nor the prestige it has earned through service from bettering our community.
I actually came to know about this club’s existence back in high school while participating in Key Club, which is the high school level of Kiwanis. Throughout my years of being in Key Club, my …show more content…
We all rise and recite: “I pledge on my honor, to uphold the objects of Circle K International. To foster compassion and goodwill towards others through service leadership, to develop my abilities and abilities of ALL people, and to dedicate myself to the realization of mankind’s potential.”
“The pledge is important, to remind ourselves why and what we do community service for. Not because it looks good on resumes, but because we enjoy serving our community.”
Another one of the aspects that Circle K International promotes is fellowship. Fellowship has already begun when you join the club, because you share the common interest of enjoying community service as everybody else. As the year progresses, fellowship deepens through getting to know each other during service and fellowship events. “What I like most about our club the most is that we bond easily and …show more content…
In today’s meeting, the bi-weekly Kiwanis Luncheon event was advertised through song. “Hearing the exact time thing over and over again can be boring. In the last board meeting, they thought it would be cool to have James and Kim advertise Kiwanis Luncheon by singing about it with a quick song we came up with...just one of the few things that make our club unique.” After announcements, the meeting concludes with an activity they call “Happy-Sad Change”, where anyone can come up, share about an event that is going on in their life to everyone and donate some spare change which goes to one of our large scale fundraising projects. This week the change was going towards the ELIMINATE project, which raises money for women and children in third world countries who have a disease called maternal neonatal tetanus. During Happy-Sad Change is when we learn more about each other by sharing more personal events, such as your current mood, how school is going, or anything in
I actually came to know about this club’s existence back in high school while participating in Key Club, which is the high school level of Kiwanis. Throughout my years of being in Key Club, my …show more content…
We all rise and recite: “I pledge on my honor, to uphold the objects of Circle K International. To foster compassion and goodwill towards others through service leadership, to develop my abilities and abilities of ALL people, and to dedicate myself to the realization of mankind’s potential.”
“The pledge is important, to remind ourselves why and what we do community service for. Not because it looks good on resumes, but because we enjoy serving our community.”
Another one of the aspects that Circle K International promotes is fellowship. Fellowship has already begun when you join the club, because you share the common interest of enjoying community service as everybody else. As the year progresses, fellowship deepens through getting to know each other during service and fellowship events. “What I like most about our club the most is that we bond easily and …show more content…
In today’s meeting, the bi-weekly Kiwanis Luncheon event was advertised through song. “Hearing the exact time thing over and over again can be boring. In the last board meeting, they thought it would be cool to have James and Kim advertise Kiwanis Luncheon by singing about it with a quick song we came up with...just one of the few things that make our club unique.” After announcements, the meeting concludes with an activity they call “Happy-Sad Change”, where anyone can come up, share about an event that is going on in their life to everyone and donate some spare change which goes to one of our large scale fundraising projects. This week the change was going towards the ELIMINATE project, which raises money for women and children in third world countries who have a disease called maternal neonatal tetanus. During Happy-Sad Change is when we learn more about each other by sharing more personal events, such as your current mood, how school is going, or anything in