Reflective Essay: Community Service

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing that’s what life’s is all about. The community service that I did is YWCA Daycare. I chose that because I like kids also it makes me a responsible person. Like playing with children and making them laugh because I have a little sister whos 4months and I love spending time with her. My expectation before doing the service were that I wasn’t sure where I was going to do them I went to libraries but, they never called me and that got me worried. I tried not to get worried I was confident that I will find a place where they will accept me. I was calling to different body shops

and they had someone already but I remembered there was a daycare close by my house. I decided to call and ask if I could do my services and they said yes.
In YWCA Daycare I helped out to take care of kids, teach them learn there ABC’s, colors, rules, and animal names. It really helps them to get ready to go to school. I took care of babies and two years old. I would sit in a table and play games with them. I can’t really remember what type of game we played but it comes with four tubes and four different colors like green, orange, red, and yellow. Each children would pick whatever color they like and put them in the small tube by counting the small balls that they put in and would ask them what color was it and how many there was in the tube. Also, I would be in the office cutting white paper because they needed paper to prink out surveys opening doors to the parents since its electrical. I would organized paperwork like for an example attendance , serperate each ages which was a stack, and would give out signing sheets to the parents. I started doing my services on November 3, 2015 and finished it on November 17,2015. I went on Tuesdays because we come out of school early and I get enough time to eat and get ready and get there at 3:30pm and come out at 5:30pm that’s the time they close. I would be with this lady who’s in the office and would tell me on what they needed help on. How it started is I called YWCA Daycare and asked if I could do my services and they said yes and how old was I, I said 17 and she said okay to go before 5pm so she can tell me when should I start. Right afterschool I asked my mom if she can take me to the YWCA daycare so they tell me what day do i start and she said yes once I got there I went in and told them I called earlier about doing my services and she said oh yeah when do you want to start I said Tuesday because I get out of school mostly at 2pm she said okay its fine next Tuesday on November 3 at 3:30-5:30pm and I said thank you. She wrote on her calendar that I was going to be there at that day in case if she’s not there the other person who’s there would know. When it was that day I got there on time before 3:30pm so they could think I’m responsible and not like others that don’t really care and don’t get there on time. They got to know me and were pleasure to meet me and help them out. They started asking me questions like what made me come there and I told them because I love kids and I like playing with them and said you will get along with them. They showed me where the kids are at and there separated by ages like 1years old in one room, 2years old , and 3 years old. I went to there backyard where the playground is. Kids have schedule like they pick which sections they want to be in I mean like being on computers, playing games, reading, drawing ,or being in the kitchen set or outside in the playground. Its really beautiful inside and huge. I got attached by a 2year old which she’s so adorable and nice. On November 17 it was my last day well my 2 hours left, it went pretty good learned a lot from there how like the governor pays the daycare if the parents can’t afford where to leave there child. Im glad there’s something like that because there’s a lot of parents that are working and have nowhere to take them.
It helped the community of YWCA because they needed someone to help them do paperwork, organized stuff , and take care of the kids because they don’t really have that much of helpers.

There like all over the place and they needed someone to be in the office but I was there to help them. Even though I wasn’t able to answer calls because im underage. It also takes money to hire many people to do work, by me volunteering the community saves money that can be saved to spend on important things like supplies for the daycare and etc. It can also make a difference. This helps us better to understand our own competence. Also, volunteering provides valuable community services to spent the money on local improvements. It helps save resources because now for volunteering it’s $15 dollars per hour. Supports families too. What appears to be an issue in our society is that there’s not enough people to help many kids. So each person could pay attention to the kids cause one person can’t take many kids to the bathroom and since there small I’m guessing there going to need help so I recommend to be more people. In this way, they can pay attention on some kids and the other person with the others like team work I’ve experienced it it’s not easy. The only reason I believe this has been an issue in our society because there’s not enough money to pay for a lot of people who are helping out. I know that the government helps but what about other

daycares.
The solution I saw is like I said not enough people to help, be in the office , in a room cutting paper or printing paper. If I was working there I would help them because I know many of my family members and friends that need’s a job and since they also like kids they can help. There will be enough people to help. In different rooms. I would say the governor should know about this issue so he can solved it.
It was worth experience it because I’ve never been in a daycare and I learned so many things in there. Since my friend needs one more year to graduate I recommend her to do the same thing as me it’s not that hard. She also loves taking care of kids I think she will love it. I was thinking of working there in that daycare because it’s my passion and would like to take care of kids to get them ready to go to school. I asked in YWCA if I could work there once I graduate and they said yes I just can’t wait to go back in there and help. It definitely ties with the quote I wrote in the beginning because its true your on your own none to help you and think to yourselve, have to work with people ,and pretty much doing it for free.