Service Learning Reflection

Service to other is helping others solving their needs and wanting nothing in return. There’s many ways someone can serve others, it can be from helping and elder clean their backyard to major projects like running activities to raise money for different causes.
My role in service learning hasn’t been a lot. I have done a few fundraisers for my school to pay for the activities they have planned for us (the students) following orders from others.
When I just joined JROTC at the beginning of the year, there was the opportunity to help the elementary school run their fall festival. To be honest, I first only did it because I needed the hours to get promoted and thought it would be annoying taking care of little kids. We practiced teamwork, leadership and how to follow directions. We had a lot of fun once everything was organized. There I helped running all the games, I hope I get the opportunity to help running another festival soon.
Besides the opportunities JROTC offers for volunteering, there’s many others around our community. For example, I have volunteered at the thrift shop because they always have something they need help with. It can either be putting things in order around the

Every end of the year during Christmas, we would all go to different schools with low resources or orphanages. The school planned most of the activities, all they needed was volunteers. The volunteers would buy a present, for girl or boy, and take it to the place assigned. Members from the school band would also volunteer to play Christmas carols to the kids. Once everyone was ready we went to the school or orphanage, give each kid their present, and spend some time with them while the band played the songs. In this schools there were a lot of kids, so it took hours to get done giving away the presents. There would still be so many presents left, those are the ones we gave to the kids in the