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One time when we were driving to Florida for some reason, we came across a soup kitchen. Outside of it was a sign that asked for help so we decided to hop in to volunteer. After a while of waiting to check in we were about to leave but, the person running the kitchen called us over and talked about what to do. By the time we started it already felt like a normal job. We served about half the people at the kitchen and my older brother and mom were working with cooking. Me my younger brother and my youngest brother gave the food to everyone and talked with the people a little bit. My dad took the orders and told us were to take what food. We were there for many hours because our hotel wasn’t ready for us yet and we wanted to help as much as we could. …show more content…
One of the things I learned was that anyone can have time to help even if it is not very much. Another thing I learned is that I know how to help many different kinds of people. My final thing I learned is that sometimes in life in order to help yourself, you need to help others

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