Thursday, February 14, 2008

Serving

I've really enjoyed doing the service projects that I've done so far in my life. I just really get this weird high out of helping people, which is weird, but true. For example, my youth group went down to a site recked by Katrina and we found all kinds of belongings from the people who live in the house before it became rubble. it was so cool to be able to help out by doing some manual labor for a day. In addition, I've been able to paint houses in the bad part of Charleston South Carolina, racked leaves from the entire camp ground of Phantom Ranch camp, and taught English to kids in Peru. I'm pretty excited about being able to serve people in Chicago this semester. I'm hoping to do some soup kitchens and feed the homeless.
To some extent, i feel like i shouldn't be talking about what I've done to serve other people, but i guess you guys might just need to know where I'm coming from in order to understand. I think it's ok to enjoy community service if your helping people. i mean, if you had a really bad attitude about what you were doing, the people you were serving would be able to tell and they wouldn't want your help as much because they would feel like they were just being a chore. Anyways, just my ideas on the subject of enjoying service work a little too much. ha.

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