Personal Narrative: Feed My Starving Children

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Rusty aluminum ceiling, dirt floor, wooden door and a thin layer of brick wall was the last place I could remember, the place where I called home before moving far away to another country. At the age of six, I was adjusting to a lifestyle of waking up to rooster cries and sleeping to the sound crickets. And to staying outside until nightfall without worries. All that disappear on a September day where I have no memory of except for waking up to another country to be introduce to people I’ve never seen and a language I’ve never heard before. That was when I knew that Minnesota is the place where I will be calling home. Since that, twelve years have passed, and now starting college at Hamline and reaching for big goals. I want to become an …show more content…
My first one was Feed My Starving Children. I learned that I love volunteering and want to help make a difference even though it is the littlest thing. A place where I volunteer at for the longest is a non profit organization. Through that organization I’ve learn to be more confident, believe and respect myself and anyone around me. At first I didn’t want to do anything, but when I start volunteering I did not want to go back to not doing anything. The organization help me to a Youth Advisory Council which plan events for the youths and do fundraising. From helping plan events helps me understand what I am passionate about. I enjoy planning events and getting the teens out to be involved in the community. I want to teens to get out and to not develop bad behaviors or …show more content…
The internship taught me a lot of great things. Something things that it taught me is the values of different cultures, to collaborate in a team and to develop professional skills. When the internship ended, I got involved in school activities to connect and to help improve the school more. Through all the volunteering and work experience I had so far, I enjoy them all. They taught me so many things that a class would not be able to teach me. It is like making a strong bond and connection with the people and things that I have with. It also teaches me that it’s the experience that you make matters. So, what I want to do at Hamline is just to do the best I can in anyway. I want to pass all my classes and to improve on my writing skills. And hopefully by graduation I can be good with what I need to improve on along that way especially on becoming a better

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