Service Reflection Paper

I am lucky to have grown up with parents and teachers that instilled in me how important it is to serve others. Ever since I was a young child, I found that nothing was better than the feeling of knowing I made a difference in someone’s life. I consider being raised with empathy and compassion to be one of the greatest blessings I have received. After struggling for such a long time and receiving amazing care and having so many people reach out to me and offer help, I know that I want to do the same. I want to be the person who inspires someone who is suffering to really seek help and to believe they are worthy of it. I want to save lives. The most important thing to me is to become the person that I needed so badly during the worst time of my life; to be person that pulls someone up from rock bottom, instead of letting them drown. I will always strive to be a woman for

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

I've always loved to help people. I want to be able to make a difference in a life of someone. The world of today is full with such hatred and negativity, seems like kindness has completely gone away, that's the difference I want to make. "A smile at a time", a smile with kindness and happiness can really impact a person's life. Being a medical assistant involves interacting with so many kind of people, I want to be that person who people are happy to see, I want to make them feel comfortable and respected because evvmery patient deserve that. I want to have a positive and kind spirit towards everyone, I want to start to make a difference to the world a step at a time. Show people that there's still kindness left to this world. I want to be

I have had the opportunity to volunteer for the All Major Career Fair. I have volunteered many times before, but never had the opportunity to do a career fair. I have found through the experience that I need to volunteer more often. Before I volunteered for this career fair, I have not volunteered in a while. Whenever the Kennesaw State has another career fair I will definitely take the time out to volunteer on my own.

My want to attend a service academy came as a surprise to no one. Both of my parents served in the military and in a traditional kid fashion I wanted to be just like them. But the last thing my parents wanted was for me to enlist. They always told me I was too smart to not get a college education and to enter the military as an officer. I chose the Navy as my first choice after listening to my stepfather’s stories about his time on a fast attack submarine. Now I was set on this path to hopefully one day become a Midshipman and Naval Officer at probably around the age of eight or nine. As I grew up and matured in my academic interests I found that my best subjects as well as those I shared the most interest in were those containing math and

Since I plan on becoming a nurse practitioner, connecting with other students who are striving toward serving God while working in the medical field, will allow me to learn from them. At this point I am most interested in working at a primary care doctor’s office. I really enjoy having conversations with adults and want to work in a context where I can help them understand the tests that they are undergoing for a normal check-up or when they are ill. I feel that I am gifted in talking with and comforting people. These gifts are very useful in the career of nursing and I want to use them to the best of my ability as I care for patients. I want to help patients and their families understand what diseases or ailments they are experiencing and how the doctor wants to treat it. I want to try to get to know the patients on a personal level and show them God’s love through the way that I interact with

Starting out at the American Cancer Society I never thought I would actually look forward to waking up at 6:30am to walk all the way there, but the more I volunteered the more I was looking forward to Thursday mornings and seeing all the wonderful people who work and stay there. Service is an extremely important part of being a leader. A big component of being a leader is connecting with others. Service is a great way to get out there, meet new people, and gain new perspectives. Being a service-oriented leader will help you connect with more people and build relationships within your community. Servant leadership is being able to provide that service, while also being able to reflect on how you are

My Service Learning Project is being done in a Title 1 high school that is terminal for major discipline issues. The students cut class, curse out teachers, smoke, do drugs, walk out of class, pull out electronic items such as cell phones etc. right in the middle of class, and at any time a group of students will run up in a teacher’s class and attack another student at the drop of a dime. As we walk about anywhere on the school grounds, at any time, a big gang brawl may break out. I mean they beat the blood out of one another. There is currently a PBIS program in place; however, discipline at this school is hard to work with because there are so many individuals that need help. I talked to the principal about some of the issues and was told

Finding an organization for service learning is not hard. There are more than a handful in the Wichita area, the hard part is deciding which one to get involved with. I decided to do my service learning in my hometown of Belle Plaine at the annual Tulip Time Festival.

Ever since I began my service learning project I have learned more about myself and social work as a profession. I have also been challenged by being paired with a client that is completely different than me. Dr. Sue Atwood has lived a very different life than me and views the world differently than I do. The diversity between Dr. Sue Atwood and myself is something that I truly enjoy. After realizing how beautiful diversity is, the competency that would best be applied to my service learning project would be engaging diversity and difference in practice. This competency is something that I have had to master since I began my service learning project. Dr. Sue Atwood and her husband Dr. Wesley Atwood lived a wonderful life together. They traveled

I chose to attend the touring session because I had a class from 11:00 am to 12:15 Pm. It was my first time leading a tour, and it was a good experience for me as a first-year college student because from that event I have learned how to lead a group and give a good information about the building/places we been together with the high school students as a group. That even also made me to consider the places I hadn’t been before, but I heard about them. Participating in that event was a very amazing because I was able to make a connection with the high school students. During the event, I felt like I am getting connected with the community I am living in because

Human services are broadly defined as the meeting of basic human needs. This would consist of analyzing an issue working on preventative measures and coming up with a solution to the problem. It consist of improving the quality of life of all clients. “The Human Services profession is one which promotes improved service delivery systems by addressing not only the quality of direct services, but also by seeking to improve accessibility, accountability, and coordination among professionals and agencies in service delivery.” (http://www.nationalhumanservices.org)

In spring 2015, as I was taking C&T 823, I carried out my own designed service learning project in a church called Mustard Seed Church. Before the project, I have been there a couple of times for Sunday services and Alpha course on Tuesday night. This church welcomes everyone regardless of his or her background. The tolerance impressed me and made me feel belonged. Thus, when I was assigned to plan a service learning project, this church came to my mind. My first thought was to serve as a translator for Chinese students who just arrived in the Untied States. However, after talked to the priest, he suggested that I could teach American seniors Chinese because the one of the purposes of this church was to serve international students to help

I have never been more vulnerable than at the end of my Junior year of highschool. I was exhausted not because of my work load, but because my best friend was in love with me and I was, for the first time, in a class that openly talked about race. The English class, taught by a black woman, was predominantly white (as was my school) and not only discussed race, but specifically discussed whiteness. For the first few months of my year, I was closed off despite believing I was participating. While the year went on, I realized I had been cruel to my (white) best friend. I had been completely unaware of the harm I was causing until, in December she told me that I didn’t actually listen when people spoke to me. I apologized in January and her forgiveness was something I had never before experienced. Over the last semester of my Junior year, while she reminded me how deeply important love is, I begun to see myself as white. On the last day of my English class, I thought of how hard I had worked the past few months to accept and express love, how I had come to believe that love was the most important thing in the world to possess, and I wondered why I had never known this before. I realized, suddenly, that whiteness can, and has, prevented me from feeling and receiving real, unconditional, and unracialized love. I began to sob. As my whiteness became visible, so did my deficit of love. I realized the comfort I, a white person, felt in isolation, narcissism and apathy enabled me to

I spent my entire life in school having trouble in understanding the learning in English when I moved to America at around the age of 6. I started to have some troubles with understanding and knowing a different language (English) in this country and also having a problem with communication with other people who speak English. It took me through the process to know and understand English when my mind was focused and understanding my native language Chinese Cantonese. There are some moments that I accidentally pronounced something wrong while I’m trying to learn English. I somehow accidentally mixed some ideas to grammar along with English and Cantonese. My ability to learn and reading at school somehow still become a problem in English. People in special Ed. said that I had a disability. By the word disability, I thought that only a disability only person who handicapped or in a wheelchair. By learning different disabilities, I learned that my disability works and struggles only the part of the brain function. Rather than a physical part than some other people who are disabled.