All throughout middle school and high school we were told that if you wanted to get into a good college you had to have a ton of community service hours. Now that I am in college trying to boost my resume for graduate school I find myself looking for opportunities to give back more to the community. I was able to accomplish this through the Day of Service. Having found out during Welcome Week that there was a chance for me to achieve this desire, I jump on it. On September 8th, 2012, I woke up early in the morning ready to make a difference. Since, I found out about the Day of Service late, I had to sign up at the event because I missed the preregistration. Sign up was easy and once that was done I had to walk down the hall to one of the conference rooms to select which assignment I would be working on that day.
I was able to select the Girl Scouts and then went to the event room to await further instructions. Once I got there I met up with friends and realized that I and another friend had the same assignment. Daniel Tome then went up on the stage and thanked us all for being there taking a step towards helping our community. Having him say this really enforced the fact that our town does need us and what we do is really appreciated. Once the thanks were given we were broken up into our groups and told where to go. Hearing all the groups that were available really made me proud to be part of a school that really gives back to the community.
The Girl Scout group met in the conference rooms and again we were further broken down into smaller groups. My friend and I were lucky enough to be in the same group, called the Thanks a Lot group. Once we were broken up into groups, we were assigned a room and then they explained what we were supposed to do. The first room we went into was my favorite out of the three rooms. In this room we had hundreds of sheets of paper listing troops and the sections they were in. We cut the papers by troop, and then placed the list along with the correct number of patches in a Ziploc bag. I found this very relaxing and fun. The next room that we went to was where we had to come up with ideas for the girls to earn their patches. I found this room very creative and I had a lot of fun being able to think outside of the box. The third room was where we organized the bags from the first room into brown bags by what section they were in.
After we broke for lunch and went back, we helped the leaders load the bags into the car. We went back and reflected on the activities we did that day. Some of the things that we talked about were how to better their Day of Service activities. All in all the day was a success, not just for my group but for the whole event. I was talking to a couple of friends who had other assignments and they had said that theirs was a success as well. I know that I will be attending all of the Days of Service that are in the future and I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to get involved and help their community.