Spring semester of 2014  a.k.a second semester at Stockton begun with the celebration of 10th Annual MLK Day. Just like the fall semester, services were offered to the community by the students of Stockton on The Day of Service. The MLK Day was celebrated on 20th January, 2014 and it was organized by the Office of Service Learning.

 Stockton always wants its students to grow socially too. So the services being offered on the Day of Service were not limited to the campus. Four other locations were also offered outside the campus. The event started with motivational speeches by President Saatkamp and other invited guests.

I preferred to stick to the campus for the MLK service Day. Me and my other two friends decided to volunteer for the same service. So, I and Ziwei were signed in with the members of senate by Haleigh. We had to spent the day with girls scouts, touring them around the campus and giving them a glimpse into the college life. We were expecting girls to be 12+ years old, but the girls who came where all younger than five.

As they were all very young we started playing fun games with the girls to keep them engaged and busy. But, then we found out that the girls (all who were five and below) were supposed to be with art club, and a group of older girls (as we had expected) were arriving within next 30 minutes. So, the day of Service started with a little bit of chaos I would say.

After the older girls arrived, we started the program. All the volunteers and girls scouts played games, which even grabbed the attention of the news report who was there to cover the MLK Day celebration. We then toured the girls around the campus and then the senate members presented a presentation on college life. After all that the girls scouts had a service project to do too. They had to make blankets for animals of animal shelter. All the volunteers and the girls scouts members sat around to gather and made the blankets. After that girls scouts left with goodies from Stockton and the volunteers had a reflection session. Everyone agreed that they had a good time.

 It was fun day and fresh start of the semester with two of friends. And also, meeting new people (the senate members) was another plus point of the service.