William H. Turner Technical Arts High School
Assisting with cheer practice
Each student is required to complete 100 hours of community service with proof of completion. I hadn’t done much community service. In fact, I did nothing to benefit anyone but myself. To me, 100 hours is an enormous amount of time to spend helping others. The 5 hours I have done volunteering so far for me, has been a truly a great experience. It is amazing how my time and effort were appreciated by others.
As cheer practice approached, I was thinking about how I would have to sacrifice my day to go and help a bunch of middle school cheerleaders. I then got ready to go to the school and reality struck hard when I realized that some people aren’t able to get help from an experience cheerleader as myself. That was the moment I started caring about the other cheerleaders and became determined to help them improve in their cheering. I was getting ready to go help the cheerleaders when all of a sudden it started to pour. Rain flooded the roads and wind whipped the trees, but I was determined to complete my task. My dad drove me to the school and from there I help them with a few cheers.
Community service has meant getting to know a number of people who I wouldn’t have met in any other way both volunteers as well as the sponsors. I’ve also learned that community service is the foundation of societies and cultures, It is essential and nothing but a relationship story. You feel emotions you never had, and learn self control and composure. Serving another is nothing but serving ourselves, we are gaining because giving is the truth of all community service.
Community service is the heart of human experience and human relations. It also feels good to know you have helped someone who, that day, may have needed food