I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard in my life before our service learning project on Saturday. I never imagined myself actually getting down and dirty. The experience overall was amazing because it was something that I was not used to doing. I felt that the project took me out of my comfort zone in the since that I had never done hard labor like that. Working with my classmates to serve the community was a great experience and I’m glad I got to do it with them. They are a wonderful group to work with and I’m glad we managed to work together. Waking up for our service learning project was so dreadful to me because I had went out previously the night before. I knew in advance that the service learning project was the weekend of Dillard’s
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I had assumed that we were going, but our plans changed so we decided to just go out to eat and call it a night. When I returned to my room around 2 o’clock I decided to not go straight to bed because I wanted to watch a little television. The next time I looked at my phone it was about 4 o’clock and I figured I should try to get some sleep. I set my alarm for 6:45and then fell asleep. It’s now 6:45 in the morning as I begin to get dressed and try to recover from the sleep I had lost do to staying up later than I should have. I finished getting ready and started to make my way to the elevator because I was too tired to walk down the stairs. As I walked to the UC I was completely out of it and I was so upset that I wasn’t well rested. When I walked inside of the UC I was told to sign the roll sheet and grab a snack. I ate my snack and waited for the bus to arrive which was already late. This made me so mad because I figured Icould have slept in a little more, but I didn’t want to miss the …show more content…
My interpretation of 18 inches was nowhere near Tim’s. I thought to myself it’s amazing how people do stuff like this for a living because I was only there for a couple of hours and was getting frustrated. The time and effort that goes into establishing buildings is a lot of work. The fact you must have precise measurements all the way around and the amount of labor from digging you have to do is a lot of work. I think I sort of underestimated construction workers a whole. Knowing that Habitat for Humanity only really used volunteers for work like that was hard to believe. Especially when Tim said the only work the volunteers don’t do is the electrical work. That was such a jaw dropping moment. When it was time for lunch I was so relieved after all the sweat that had dropped down my face and back it was time to just relax. As I sat on the curb to eat my lunch I began to forget that I had come to the service learning project in such a bad mood. I realized a lot about myself during that time. I realized that I am capable of putting aside my problems to help serve others. It also made me see how determined I really am. Every time I took a little break away from digging I came back and put all my effort into it. I don’t think I would have been happy with myself if I didn’t put in as much effort as I
I had assumed that we were going, but our plans changed so we decided to just go out to eat and call it a night. When I returned to my room around 2 o’clock I decided to not go straight to bed because I wanted to watch a little television. The next time I looked at my phone it was about 4 o’clock and I figured I should try to get some sleep. I set my alarm for 6:45and then fell asleep. It’s now 6:45 in the morning as I begin to get dressed and try to recover from the sleep I had lost do to staying up later than I should have. I finished getting ready and started to make my way to the elevator because I was too tired to walk down the stairs. As I walked to the UC I was completely out of it and I was so upset that I wasn’t well rested. When I walked inside of the UC I was told to sign the roll sheet and grab a snack. I ate my snack and waited for the bus to arrive which was already late. This made me so mad because I figured Icould have slept in a little more, but I didn’t want to miss the …show more content…
My interpretation of 18 inches was nowhere near Tim’s. I thought to myself it’s amazing how people do stuff like this for a living because I was only there for a couple of hours and was getting frustrated. The time and effort that goes into establishing buildings is a lot of work. The fact you must have precise measurements all the way around and the amount of labor from digging you have to do is a lot of work. I think I sort of underestimated construction workers a whole. Knowing that Habitat for Humanity only really used volunteers for work like that was hard to believe. Especially when Tim said the only work the volunteers don’t do is the electrical work. That was such a jaw dropping moment. When it was time for lunch I was so relieved after all the sweat that had dropped down my face and back it was time to just relax. As I sat on the curb to eat my lunch I began to forget that I had come to the service learning project in such a bad mood. I realized a lot about myself during that time. I realized that I am capable of putting aside my problems to help serve others. It also made me see how determined I really am. Every time I took a little break away from digging I came back and put all my effort into it. I don’t think I would have been happy with myself if I didn’t put in as much effort as I