Service Learning Papers

Service Learning is a combination of community service and learning. You are giving back to your community while learning interaction and communication skills. Service learning can also be a random act of kindness (ROAK). ROAK is when you do something nice for someone else, usually someone you don’t know and you expect nothing in return. Starting out I was nervous about this project. I have never done community service/volunteer work before and I had no idea where to start. I also thought I was going to move mid semester and it was very hard to find a place that would let me volunteer without continuing for at least six months. When I was talking to a lady named Vickie from work she had mentioned The Crossing Denver rescue mission. Her son
After that I helped a man named Matt fold all of the silverware into napkins. He did not tell me why he was there, but that he had moved to Colorado from California. He said he loved being at the rescue mission and it was a great place to volunteer. Once we were done folding silverware I was asked to go into the kitchen where they kept all of the bread. I was asked to go threw all of the bread and make sure none of it was moldy, hard or smashed. As I was going through all of the bread I noticed that only about one of the baskets out of dozens had a current up to date on them. I asked one of the workers if I should throw the expired bread away; I was in shock with his response. He said most of their food was donated and therefore most of their things were expired. I am a very fortunate person and I have never had to worry about food, this made me sad because I am blinded by my everyday life that I didn't even realize how many people are in
The line started with a group of men, they all came through the line and were very polite asking for what they wanted. Everyone used manners like please, thank you and even some would say God bless you. After about an hour and a half of serving men, families started to come through the kitchen. I noticed at first there were mostly couples and than single moms. The thing that caught my eye was this one family of six. At first I only saw the man a two kids then came a woman with two more kids. I had no idea that they were even all together. They all sat at one table and before any of them touched their plates they all grabbed hands, bowed their heads and started praying. This view touched my heart! I do not know what this family was going through or why they were at the rescue mission, but when they came through the line they were so polite. I think it was awesome of the parents to continue to teach their children how to have faith while going through a hard