Independent Service Experience

June 2, 2008


Independent Service Experience

My Independent Service was a fun and learning experience. Being though a lot of my family members have businesses, jobs that I can volunteer at or are block captains of their blocks this was very easy and at the same time fun. My first 3 hours came from helping Mrs. Klose clean her classroom. During this time I just went around her classroom and pick up trash off the tables and floors. The 8 hours came from babysitting my cousin's children went she had her baby. This was a very unforgettable experience because I was there when her water broke and I aided her until the ambulance arrived. About 5 days after my cousin baby she had a spring-clean up on her block, being though she is block captain. I decided that this would be another great opportunity for me to get service learning hours, so I helped clean up with her and her neighbors. At this cleaning day, I was in charge of getting all they trash up and bagging it. This one experience was especially good because I felt as though I was keeping the community safe and clean. this also gave me 4 hours of community service hours. Overall this experience was a fun and unforgettable.

may 28th Meeting

During this meeting we watched a documentary that Mrs. Klose had made. The documentary was of the pictures she took while in New Orleans. She put it together to have something to Ballards Spahr to get them to print the papers for us. Furthermore, the documentary itself was good. She put music that was reflective of the New Orleans environment. The documentary was just good.

MAY 28th + JUNE 5th Meetings

At these meetings I plan to continue to find printing companies. I also plan to call these companies and ask if they will print out the banner or flyers for us. After that is done I want to call places like The Zoo to see if we could set up a station in there to for people to make the funderd bills. By setting up the stations this would get the Project starting point. Another thing I would like to get done is to find the places that is willing to donate the oil and the oil containers. We need those things in order to run the tank that is supposed to pick up the bills.

May 15th meeting Continued .

At this meeting I continued to design my banner. This time I constructed my own funderd dollar bill to show an example of what one really looked like. On the banner I put the basic info about the funderd project, who was involed in it, and what we plan to do it the project. After the construction of my banner, I gather a list of local printing companies that might be able to print out a banner for us or other papers that need to be printed.

May 15th meeting

At this meeting i plan to finish the banner. I also plan to help the other people in my group finish their assignments, so that we could start the BIG parts of the project sooner.

5th Meeting

At this meeting we all were assigned different jobs for the group. Some people were assigned to call some printer companies, banner companies, and other places that benefit the group. I was assigned to design a possible banner that could be used for the groups logo. I started the banner but it just isn't finished.

4th meeting

At this meeting we started to write letters to places were we could set up at or if we could use there printers. Some of us wrote wrote letters to people asking for oil or oil containers. At this meeting we barely got anything done.

May 1st Meeting

At this meeting I plan to get more information on where to get the oil and something to hold the oil in.

3rd Meeting

At this meeting we came down to the IMC and some of us looked up local restaurants that we could get the oil from, made a power point presentation on the topic, and email other places like the Zoo, to ask them if we could set up a spots in thier for people to create the bills.

Second Meeting

This meeting was a little better than the last one. At this meeting Mrs. Klose told us that we needed to get oil from local restaurants to full the truck to come and get the fundred dollar bills. She told us that we had to do go out to restaurants and get the oil. But the other things was that we had to get something to put the oil in. So now we have two things to do; one get the oil from the restaurants and two get something to put the oil in.

FIRST MEETING

Last Friday was our first service learning meeting. The meeting went kind of good.
Mrs. Klose Announced the objective for the group. Which is to make ONE MILLION dollars for the Hurricane Katrina soil. Then she showed us some pictures she took when she was in New Orleans. Then she showed us a video that explained exactly what the Million dollars was going to. In the video it showed some soil that couldn't produce any flowers of plants. They inserted some special crops that could eat away the bad soil and form new good soil. They explained that the crops cost a lot of money. AND that's were we come in. By creating art work on the "Funderd Dollar Bills" and selling them for one dollar, we could rise money to help support the cost of the special crops.

My service learning

Service Learning is a way that students can provide service in the community on a voluntary basis to public, nonprofit agencies, civic, charitable and governmental organizations. Being though this is my first time doing service learning I have no experience with it. This year for service learning I plan to help out at a hospital, recreation center, library or school. I plan to do mines in these fields because these are the areas were I have experience in. I have already started looking for places in which I could start giving my services. Which includes Chop, Local Elementary Schools, and Local Libraries.