Service-Learning Experience

I have a lot of past community service experience, volunteering through Hands On Charlotte, a local community service organization, my church as well as some of my friends’, through school clubs such as Interact and Girl Power, and other random local functions that I happened to hear about. This is my first time volunteering as part of a course though. I chose to volunteer because of the feeling you get after you do it. The actual service portion is generally hard work but then once you realize you’ve put all of that effort and time into helping maybe even just one other person out, the feeling is indescribable. I probably don’t even fully realize how truly lucky I am to lead the life I do but I can fathom it to some extent. The fact that my life is so fortunate motivates me to ease the hardships of others’ lives. The two biggest passions in my life are animals and little kids. I love everything about them and interacting with them is close to my favorite thing in the entire world. So naturally, anything I can do to ease their albatrosses, eases mine.