A Reflection Of Community Service As A Community

Community service is something I have grown up doing. Throughout my life I have volunteered a lot of my time to organizations within my community. I have served at the community soup kitchen, helped young Monett Water Thrasher Swim Team members improve their strokes, and volunteered as a table worker at Monett High School and Monett Youth Club wrestling tournaments. I have always been very involved in helping individuals within my community. I feel as though performing community service as a child and young adult has shaped me into the person I am today. Over the past few weeks I have volunteered seven hours of my personal time to Kerri Cloud from Central Park Elementary School in Monett, Missouri. Through this service, I was able to directly help one of the teachers at this elementary school. This process was very rewarding and eye opening for me. I was able to learn new things that have to do with my future career. I was also able to gain a new appreciation for teaching and …show more content…
I gained an understanding of how stressful and time consuming her job can be, and because of my volunteer work I was able to improve her situation. She was so appreciative of the time I spent working with her and I could tell that, even though the work I did was not very “high skill,” I alleviated a lot of her stress and made her life a little easier. I believe community service is very important and should be done by every citizen at least once. It teaches you to appreciate the things that you have as well as the lives of other people. Throughout my life I plan to volunteer in my community whenever it is possible. The thing I love about community service is how rewarding it is. It feels great to know that by doing certain, sometimes insignificant, tasks, you are improving the lives of others in your community. I plan to continue to help the individuals in my community throughout the rest of my