community service

For Community service I chose to do 3 different things. I worked a booth at the Harvest Festival at Happy Valley Elementry school, was a member of Link Crew for WVHS and also worked on the varsity softball field. Each of these things were entirely different but each of them taught me something meaningful. In the beginning, I wasn't excited about having to do 20 hours of community service, but as I volunteered my time, and now looking back on it, im glad that it was required. It showed me the importance of volunteering and how helping people can truly be rewarding.
The Harvest Festival is an event that i went to when i was younger. It's on Holloween and there are booths, games, prizes, costumes, cake walks, contests and, of course, candy. It's a family event for kids and their parents. I helped Karri Westaby with her booth. It was a volleyball/ basketball booth. I took tickets from the kids and gave them candy. I arrived there early to help set everything up and stayed after to clean up and put everything away. It was cool to see a new generation of kids there because it use to be me and my friends playing the same games and having just as much fun as all of them were.
For my senior year i wanted to be involved in as many extra activities as i could. Me and my friends decided that we wanted to be part of Link Crew and help the incoming freshman. A week before school started, we went in for training. We learned the games that we would play with them and how to talk to them and what to teach them. It was really cool because i remember when i was a freshman and i got to meet my Link Leaders. I looked up to all of them because they were seniors. Now that im a senior, i get to be the one that helps everyone out. I got to meet all different types of freshman that i probably never would have met if i never got involved in Link Crew.
Ive been playing softball since i was a little kid. It's somthing that i love and my life revolves around it. So helping out at the WVHS softball field was more enjoyable for me than anything else. I put up all of the sponsor signes that surround the fence, i dug around the baselines to remove the grass from them. Shortstop has terrible bumps on it, so i leveled that out. I raked by the bleachers and the area we warm up batting. It was a lot of work but when your playing a home game on a field that looks as good as it turned out, your proud to host other schools there. It also makes you appreciate your field more and take better care of it because it's the work that you did.
All of these things taught me lessons that i can carry on with me throughout life. Working at the Harvest Festival taught me how to be dependable. It taught me to be early to things that i am going to and not to leave untill i get the job done. It taught me how to work with the public. Being a member of Link Crew taught me my biggest lessons out of the 3 things. It taught me how to help other people. To be patient with them and to help them without expecting anything in return.Working on the softball field taught me to take care of things that are mine. The softball field is somthing that belongs to our team, and taking care of it makes me realize that i need to to take of the things that i own.

PAKISTAN SCHOOL

People not caring about schoolinPakistan is goingto effect a lot of people. It says most people drop out by 5th grade. How are they ever going to make a living when there older?How will they be able to get a good paying job? They wont, because they'll barley be able to read and write.And thats just boys. Most girls wont even be going to school let alone college. The only people able to go to school are the ones that can afford to send their kid out of the country, which is not that many people.
So i think that in the end, them not really caring about education funds and making school mandatory, is going to screw them over. The kids are the future of this country and if there not getting an education how dumb will their country be? They need to put a little more thought into it.