My Volunteerwork Changed My Life

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Out of a close knit set of seven friends that all acel in their grades, some better than others, I am the only one invited to try for this honor. I have no idea how this happened. I don’t completely understand why I made a better canadate than some of my other classmen, but my teachers seem to understand it well. When I went to them for the reconmendations sheets the “I knew it” and “I’m so happy you did it” bombarded me. One teacher, bless her, chastised me about not being modist while writing this exact essay, that I really need to sell myself for “all that I’m worth”; when I told her that I couldn’t think of anything that really sold me for this perfect student that I’m competing against and she told me to come to her one day and we could …show more content…

Anyone who knows me is aware of how much I love books. I’ve been reading fantastical stories since I was five and writing them since I was seven. They’ve played an important role in my life and my shaping as a person. Which is why it isn’t hard to believe that I feel comfortable in the library. I volunteered at a library this summer not because I wanted to be prepared to write this (I never even thought this was something in my reach). I didn’t volunteer for the credit. I didn’t volunteer because my parents made me. I volunteered because I like books. The librarian thought I was insane. Every evening on Thursday I would go to the YA section and clean the shelves. When I couldn’t make it on a Thursday then I would be there Friday morning. When I finished all the YA shelves, I went back to the start and cleaned the covers of the books. I cleaned for almost three hours, not counting the times I stopped to look at a book, for every week for two months. Even before I volunteered at Seaford (Island Trees wouldn’t accept me because my only reasoning was that books are neat) I would go to our schools own library for lunch and any given free periods. If I had nothing to do I would ask Mrs. Marshall if there was anything I could help with. I don’t do these things to make myself look good. I do them because it’s something that I want to

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