Community Service

Community Service as defined is an act done by an individual to benefit the local community. Some people do this by volunteering and others are forced into in because they have someone who is related to them running it. No matter how they get involved, these acts are so helpful. There are so many events that our community puts on for the locals, which need people to donate there time to help run. Such events around Cottonwood are Old Fashion Days and Shasta Section Opening and Closing Contest. There are also little things like asking for Christmas tree donations for needy families that can be used as community service.

One of the things that I did for my twenty hours was help Alexis Hermann's mom with Old Fashion Days. Her mom going through chemo needed a lot of helpers. Old Fashion Days is held the weekend after Thanksgiving on Front Street in Cottonwood. At this particular event, Santa comes and talks to all the little children. I was mainly in charge of making sure the little kids didn't crowd around him. Also I had to make sure that the kids stayed in a line and didn't cut other children. We all know how long the lines to see Santa are. After Santa made his rounds with the children, I went around to the vendors who were out in the sun all day to make sure they had enough water. If they didn't I would go get them some, which was normally the case. Old Fashion Days ended up being an event to remember.

The other things that happened this year that I ended up helping at was the Shasta Section Opening and Closing Contest for FFA. This is were a bunch of schools come from around the northern section of our FFA. They come and compete in the Opening and Closing contest. But to be able to hold this contest, we have to set up the room where they are going to compete in and also a big holding room. In the rooms with the judges we had to make sure there were name tags and places for the other teams to sit and watch. I also had to make sure the judges had enough water and food to keep them comfortable. I also took the teams to the rooms that hey needed to compete in. Not only that but I had to serve pizza and drinks to all of the people that attended. This event took me a very long time to accomplish, however I enjoyed being around everyone.

Another thing that I have done with FFA was going and getting Christmas trees with Jacob to decorate at the December FFA meeting. For this we went around Cottonwood, Anderson, and Redding to see if different tree lots would donate trees for us to decorate and give to needy families. Most of the lots were very helpful and gave us trees, however we understood because of the terrible economy. This took me a lot of time because we had to travel to the different lots and some closed before we could get there so we had to go on a different day.

Doing these kind acts, I learned that people appreciate the work that others do. In today's society people are lazy, so they like it when they don't have to do anything. I learned that I am very responsible and people tend to put jobs on me even if I am over loaded. I have been able to multi task way better and listen to more than one person at a time. It is a very good skill that I learned while doing my community service.

Pakistan Schooling

The schools in pakistan are not really educational anyways. They need to make a school based directly on the educational purposes, not just teaching to koran. When the united states is giving pakistan money to help them out, they need to put it to good use instead of just throwing it away. It would be a good idea for them to invest there money in the litteracy in there countrymen and women. The women need to know how to read and write too, its not right to just let the men have that privelege.