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Thursday Think 'n' Share XCIV
Today, all members of my school community will head out to various sites around Providence to do community service. In honor of that work, today's Think 'n' Share will have a community service focus to it. Here's hoping you have more--and more interesting--things to say about it than I do.
Say something about community service.
I can say I'll be doing some today. I can also say that although I think it's a great thing, when left to my own devices I haven't done very much of it.
What community service have you done in the past? Do you do any community service now?
When I was quite a bit younger I worked in soup kitchens through my then-church. We did some other service-related things through church. In college, I helped out with Habitat for Humanity a few times since one of my friends was the founder of the local chapter and because cute girls seemed to volunteer with some regularity. Wow, I guess that's really about it.
Do you see any community service in your future?
Besides my immediate future today, yes. I think once I feel more settled in here in Providence, I would like to start volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. It's a worthy cause and it could also allow me to practice some of the things I learned at The Shelter Institute. As they seem to do a lot of their work on weekends, that will be a lot easier for me next year when my SO and I are both living in Providence instead of driving 2 hours each way to see one another just for the weekend.
A call to arms: no, I'm not asking you to do community service. Actually, I suppose you could call what I'm going to ask for a service to the community. Since I've run out of Ungame cards, I've been making up questions on the fly. Sometimes they come out well, but I realize that sometimes they're mediocre, so I'm asking for your help. If you click on "About me and my blog" on the left, my e-mail address is toward the bottom. Drop me a line with ideas about "getting to know you" questions that you think would work for Thursday Think 'n' Share. Many of you have seen enough of these that you can probably come up with questions at least as well as I can, so help a blogger out. Thank you in advance.
There is a certain virtue to "community service" and everyone should be
prepared to give back
som of their time to the commons. Just remember to make sure that you don't
take too much on because burn out is an ongoing crisis in voluteerism.
Now that I'm living in a co-op and am retired and have time on my hands
there is a tendency to take on too much. This kind of stress can cause 180`
swings in atitude which benefits no one so be very careful about over
commiting yourself.
Back in Ohio, community service was something you were sentenced to by the
court. It was usually work in the city that the city couldn't afford to
pay someone to do. If you wanted something to do to help people and make
you feel like you contributed to their betterment, you "volunteered" or did
"charity work".
I have long been opposed to community service as a punishment. When I
worked in college student affairs I argued with colleagues a lot when they
assigned students to work with groups like Habitat after a drinking
violation or vandalism offense.